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Martin W. Hahn is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, contributing significantly to both fields.

The scientist's work extensively covers the subfields of ecology, molecular biology, plant science, clinical biochemistry, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. Key research topics include microbial community ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, protist diversity and phylogeny, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, bacterial identification and susceptibility testing, and lichen and fungal ecology.

Frequent coauthors of Martin W. Hahn include Alexandra Pitt, Johanna Schmidt, Ulrike Koll, Matthias Hoetzinger, and Meina Neumann-Schaal. These collaborations highlight an active engagement with multiple researchers in related fields.

The scientist has published numerous papers in the following venues:

  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Archives of Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • The ISME Journal
  • Genome Biology and Evolution

Some recent publications include:

  • "Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities" (2020, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY)
  • "Continental-Scale Gene Flow Prevents Allopatric Divergence of Pelagic Freshwater Bacteria" (2021, Genome Biology and Evolution)
  • "Ecological Differentiation in Two Major Freshwater Bacterial Taxa Along Environmental Gradients" (2020, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • "Aquiluna borgnonia gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of a Microbacteriaceae lineage of freshwater bacteria with small genome sizes" (2021, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY)
  • "Opening a next-generation black box: Ecological trends for hundreds of species-like taxa uncovered within a single bacterial >99% 16S rRNA operational taxonomic unit" (2021, Molecular Ecology Resources)

Best Publications

  • Grazing of protozoa and its effect on populations of aquatic bacteria.

    Martin W. Hahn;Manfred G. Höfle

  • Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities

    David W Waite;David W Waite;Maria Chuvochina;Claus Pelikan;Donovan H Parks

  • Bacterioplankton Community Composition along a Salinity Gradient of Sixteen High-Mountain Lakes Located on the Tibetan Plateau, China

    Qinglong L. Wu;Qinglong L. Wu;Gabriel Zwart;Michael Schauer;Miranda P. Kamst-van Agterveld

  • Isolation of novel ultramicrobacteria classified as actinobacteria from five freshwater habitats in Europe and Asia.

    Martin W. Hahn;Heinrich Lünsdorf;Qinglong Wu;Qinglong Wu;Michael Schauer

  • Bacterial Filament Formation, a Defense Mechanism against Flagellate Grazing, Is Growth Rate Controlled in Bacteria of Different Phyla

    Martin W. Hahn;Edward R. B. Moore;Manfred G. Höfle

  • The filtration-acclimatization method for isolation of an important fraction of the not readily cultivable bacteria.

    Martin W Hahn;Peter Stadler;Qinglong L Wu;Qinglong L Wu;Matthias Pöckl

  • Isolation of Strains Belonging to the Cosmopolitan Polynucleobacter necessarius Cluster from Freshwater Habitats Located in Three Climatic Zones

    Martin W. Hahn

  • Flagellate predation on a bacterial model community: interplay of size-selective grazing, specific bacterial cell size, and bacterial community composition.

    Martin W. Hahn;Manfred G. Höfle

  • The microbial diversity of inland waters.

    Martin W Hahn

  • The diversity of the Limnohabitans genus, an important group of freshwater bacterioplankton, by characterization of 35 isolated strains.

    Vojtěch Kasalický;Jan Jezbera;Martin W. Hahn;Karel Šimek

  • Submersed macrophytes play a key role in structuring bacterioplankton community composition in the large, shallow, subtropical Taihu Lake, China.

    Qinglong L. Wu;Qinglong L. Wu;Gabriel Zwart;Jianfeng Wu;Miranda P. Kamst-van Agterveld

  • Maximum growth rates and possible life strategies of different bacterioplankton groups in relation to phosphorus availability in a freshwater reservoir

    Karel Šimek;Karel Šimek;Karel Horňák;Karel Horňák;Jan Jezbera;Jan Jezbera;Jiří Nedoma

  • Do patterns of bacterial diversity along salinity gradients differ from those observed for macroorganisms

    Jianjun Wang;Dongmei Yang;Yong Zhang;Yong Zhang;Ji Shen

  • Differences in structure and dynamics of Polynucleobacter communities in a temperate and a subtropical lake, revealed at three phylogenetic levels

    Qinglong L. Wu;Qinglong L. Wu;Martin W. Hahn

  • Differing Daphnia magna assimilation efficiencies for terrestrial, bacterial, and algal carbon and fatty acids

    Sami J. Taipale;Michael T. Brett;Martin W. Hahn;Dominik Martin-Creuzburg

  • Grazing Pressure by a Bacterivorous Flagellate Reverses the Relative Abundance of Comamonas acidovorans PX54 and Vibrio Strain CB5 in Chemostat Cocultures

    Martin W. Hahn;Manfred G. Höfle

  • Actinorhodopsin genes discovered in diverse freshwater habitats and among cultivated freshwater Actinobacteria

    Adrian K Sharma;Katrin Sommerfeld;George S Bullerjahn;Audrey R Matteson

  • Complete ecological isolation and cryptic diversity in Polynucleobacter bacteria not resolved by 16S rRNA gene sequences

    Martin W Hahn;Jitka Jezberová;Ulrike Koll;Tanja Saueressig-Beck

  • Description of seven candidate species affiliated with the phylum Actinobacteria, representing planktonic freshwater bacteria.

    Martin W. Hahn

  • Limnohabitans curvus gen. nov., sp. nov., a planktonic bacterium isolated from a freshwater lake.

    Martin W. Hahn;Vojtěch Kasalický;Jan Jezbera;Jan Jezbera;Ulrike Brandt

Frequent Co-Authors

Qinglong L. Wu
Qinglong L. Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Karel Šimek
Karel Šimek Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Manfred G. Höfle
Manfred G. Höfle Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Sami J. Taipale
Sami J. Taipale University of Jyväskylä
Heinrich Lünsdorf
Heinrich Lünsdorf Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
William B. Whitman
William B. Whitman University of Georgia
Tanja Woyke
Tanja Woyke Joint Genome Institute
Naoki Kamo
Naoki Kamo Hokkaido University
W. Ford Doolittle
W. Ford Doolittle Dalhousie University
David Bruce
David Bruce Pebble Labs

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