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Overview

Kirsten Küsel is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany and focuses primarily on Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics of Küsel's work include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Küsel has worked extensively with several frequent co-authors, such as:

  • Martin Taubert
  • Will A. Overholt
  • Martina Herrmann
  • Kai Uwe Totsche
  • Susan Trumbore

Publications by Küsel have appeared repeatedly in certain venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), BIOspektrum, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, and Microbiology Resource Announcements.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Küsel are:

  • "Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "The economical lifestyle of CPR bacteria in groundwater allows little preference for environmental drivers" (2021) published in Environmental Microbiome
  • "Carbon fixation rates in groundwater similar to those in oligotrophic marine systems" (2022) published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Inclusion of Oxford Nanopore long reads improves all microbial and viral metagenome-assembled genomes from a complex aquifer system" (2020) published in Environmental Microbiology
  • "Rates of dark CO2 fixation are driven by microbial biomass in a temperate forest soil" (2020) published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Best Publications

  • Where less may be more: How the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings

    Alexandre Jousset;Christina Bienhold;Antonis Chatzinotas;Laure Gallien

  • Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research.

    Carlos A. Guerra;Anna Heintz-Buschart;Johannes Sikorski;Antonis Chatzinotas

  • Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis by moderately acid-tolerant methanogens of a methane-emitting acidic peat.

    Marcus A. Horn;Carola Matthies;Kirsten Küsel;Andreas Schramm

  • Microbial reduction of Fe(III) in acidic sediments: isolation of Acidiphilium cryptum JF-5 capable of coupling the reduction of Fe(III) to the oxidation of glucose.

    Kirsten Küsel;Tanja Dorsch;Georg Acker;Erko Stackebrandt

  • Predominance of Cand. Patescibacteria in Groundwater Is Caused by Their Preferential Mobilization From Soils and Flourishing Under Oligotrophic Conditions.

    Martina Herrmann;Carl-Eric Wegner;Martin Taubert;Patricia Geesink

  • Microarray and Functional Gene Analyses of Sulfate-Reducing Prokaryotes in Low-Sulfate, Acidic Fens Reveal Cooccurrence of Recognized Genera and Novel Lineages

    Alexander Loy;Kirsten Küsel;Angelika Lehner;Harold L. Drake

  • Electron flow in an iron‐rich acidic sediment—evidence for an acidity‐driven iron cycle

    Ariane Peine;Andrea Tritschler;Kirsten Küsel;Stefan Peiffer

  • Ecophysiology of Fe-Cycling Bacteria in Acidic Sediments

    Shipeng Lu;Stefan Gischkat;Marco Reiche;Denise M. Akob

  • How Deep Can Surface Signals Be Traced in the Critical Zone? Merging Biodiversity with Biogeochemistry Research in a Central German Muschelkalk Landscape

    Kirsten Küsel;Kai U. Totsche;Susan E. Trumbore;Robert Lehmann

  • Ecological consequences of the phylogenetic and physiological diversities of acetogens.

    Harold L. Drake;Kirsten Küsel;Carola Matthies

  • Effects of environmental parameters on the formation and turnover of acetate by forest soils.

    Kirsten Küsel;Harold L. Drake

  • Acetogenic and sulfate-reducing bacteria inhabiting the rhizoplane and deep cortex cells of the sea grass Halodule wrightii.

    Kirsten Küsel;Holly C. Pinkart;Harold L. Drake;Richard Devereux

  • Calcite Biomineralization by Bacterial Isolates from the Recently Discovered Pristine Karstic Herrenberg Cave

    Anna Rusznyák;Denise M. Akob;Sándor Nietzsche;Karin Eusterhues

  • Reduction of ferrihydrite with adsorbed and coprecipitated organic matter: microbial reduction by Geobacter bremensis vs. abiotic reduction by Na-dithionite

    K. Eusterhues;A. Hädrich;J. Neidhardt;K. Küsel

  • Biodegradation of ferrihydrite-associated organic matter

    Karin Eusterhues;Julia Neidhardt;Anke Hädrich;Kirsten Küsel

  • Functional diversity and electron donor dependence of microbial populations capable of U(VI) reduction in radionuclide-contaminated subsurface sediments.

    Denise M. Akob;Heath J. Mills;Thomas M. Gihring;Lee Kerkhof

  • Clostridium scatologenes strain SL1 isolated as an acetogenic bacterium from acidic sediments

    Kirsten Küsel;Tanja Dorsch;Georg Acker;Erko Stackebrandt

  • Tolerance and metabolic response of acetogenic bacteria toward oxygen.

    Arno Karnholz;Kirsten Küsel;Anita S. Gößner;Andreas Schramm

  • ACETOGENIC BACTERIA : WHAT ARE THE IN SITU CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR DIVERSE METABOLIC VERSATILITIES?

    Harold L. Drake;Steven L. Daniel;Kirsten Küsel;Carola Matthies

  • Community composition and abundance of bacterial, archaeal and nitrifying populations in savanna soils on contrasting bedrock material in Kruger National Park, South Africa

    Saskia Rughöft;Martina Herrmann;Cassandre S. Lazar;Simone Cesarz

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Uwe Totsche
Kai Uwe Totsche Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Harold L. Drake
Harold L. Drake University of Bayreuth
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jürgen Popp
Jürgen Popp Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Gerd Gleixner
Gerd Gleixner Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Petra Rösch
Petra Rösch Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Joel E. Kostka
Joel E. Kostka Georgia Institute of Technology
Georg Pohnert
Georg Pohnert Friedrich Schiller University Jena
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Thomas R. Neu
Thomas R. Neu Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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