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Overview

Matthias Labrenz is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with extensive work in Pollution, Ecology, Oceanography, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Molecular Biology as subfields.

The scientist's published work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies

Frequent co-authors contributing to their research include:

  • Dieter Fischer
  • Franziska Fischer
  • Robin Lenz
  • Kristina Enders
  • Josef Brandt

Labrenz has published in several key venues with multiple contributions in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Microorganisms
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Recent papers include:

  • Agricultural application of microplastic-rich sewage sludge leads to further uncontrolled contamination, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • When every particle matters: A QuEChERS approach to extract microplastics from environmental samples, 2020, MethodsX
  • Ecosystem-wide metagenomic binning enables prediction of ecological niches from genomes, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Vibrio Colonization Is Highly Dynamic in Early Microplastic-Associated Biofilms as Well as on Field-Collected Microplastics, 2020, Microorganisms
  • Genomic and proteomic profiles of biofilms on microplastics are decoupled from artificial surface properties, 2021, Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Transitions in bacterial communities along the 2000 km salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea

    Daniel Pr Herlemann;Matthias Labrenz;Klaus Jürgens;Stefan Bertilsson

  • Analysis of environmental microplastics by vibrational microspectroscopy: FTIR, Raman or both?

    Andrea Käppler;Andrea Käppler;Dieter Fischer;Sonja Oberbeckmann;Gerald Schernewski

  • Formation of sphalerite (ZnS) deposits in natural biofilms of sulfate-reducing bacteria.

    Matthias Labrenz;Gregory K. Druschel;Tamara Thomsen-Ebert;Benjamin Gilbert

  • Environmental Factors Support the Formation of Specific Bacterial Assemblages on Microplastics.

    Sonja Oberbeckmann;Bernd Kreikemeyer;Matthias Labrenz

  • Marine microplastic-associated biofilms - a review

    Sonja Oberbeckmann;Martin G. J. Löder;Matthias Labrenz

  • Marine Microbial Assemblages on Microplastics: Diversity, Adaptation, and Role in Degradation.

    Sonja Oberbeckmann;Matthias Labrenz

  • Identification of microplastics by FTIR and Raman microscopy: a novel silicon filter substrate opens the important spectral range below 1300 cm−1 for FTIR transmission measurements

    Andrea Käppler;Andrea Käppler;Frank Windrich;Frank Windrich;Martin G. J. Löder;Mikhail Malanin

  • Comparison of μ-ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and py-GCMS as identification tools for microplastic particles and fibers isolated from river sediments

    Andrea Käppler;Andrea Käppler;Marten Fischer;Barbara M. Scholz-Böttcher;Sonja Oberbeckmann

  • Microplastics alter composition of fungal communities in aquatic ecosystems

    Marie Therese Kettner;Keilor Rojas-Jimenez;Sonja Oberbeckmann;Matthias Labrenz

  • Cultivation and functional characterization of 79 planctomycetes uncovers their unique biology

    Sandra Wiegand;Mareike Jogler;Christian Boedeker;Daniela Pinto

  • Genome and physiology of a model Epsilonproteobacterium responsible for sulfide detoxification in marine oxygen depletion zones

    Jana Grote;Thomas Schott;Christian G. Bruckner;Frank Oliver Glöckner

  • Epsilonproteobacteria represent the major portion of chemoautotrophic bacteria in sulfidic waters of pelagic redoxclines of the Baltic and Black Seas.

    Jana Grote;Günter Jost;Matthias Labrenz;Gerhard J. Herndl

  • Spatial Environmental Heterogeneity Determines Young Biofilm Assemblages on Microplastics in Baltic Sea Mesocosms.

    Katharina Kesy;Sonja Oberbeckmann;Bernd Kreikemeyer;Matthias Labrenz

  • Tracing microplastics in aquatic environments based on sediment analogies.

    Kristina Enders;Andrea Käppler;Oliver Biniasch;Peter Feldens

  • Active nitrogen-fixing heterotrophic bacteria at and below the chemocline of the central Baltic Sea

    Hanna Farnelid;Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia;Anders F Andersson;Stefan Bertilsson

  • The Eukaryotic Life on Microplastics in Brackish Ecosystems.

    Marie Therese Kettner;Sonja Oberbeckmann;Matthias Labrenz;Hans-Peter Grossart;Hans-Peter Grossart

  • Relevance of a crenarchaeotal subcluster related to Candidatus Nitrosopumilus maritimus to ammonia oxidation in the suboxic zone of the central Baltic Sea.

    Matthias Labrenz;Eva Sintes;Falko Toetzke;Anita Zumsteg

  • Widespread distribution of proteorhodopsins in freshwater and brackish ecosystems

    Nof Atamna-Ismaeel;Gazalah Sabehi;Itai Sharon;Karl-Paul Witzel

  • Metagenomic de novo assembly of an aquatic representative of the verrucomicrobial class Spartobacteria.

    Daniel P. R. Herlemann;Daniel Lundin;Matthias Labrenz;Klaus Jürgens

  • 13C‐isotope analyses reveal that chemolithoautotrophic Gamma‐ and Epsilonproteobacteria feed a microbial food web in a pelagic redoxcline of the central Baltic Sea

    Sabine Glaubitz;Tillmann Lueders;Wolf-Rainer Abraham;Günter Jost

  • Distribution of abundant prokaryotic organisms in the water column of the central Baltic Sea with an oxic-anoxic interface

    Matthias Labrenz;Günter Jost;Klaus Jürgens

  • Sulfurimonas gotlandica sp. nov., a chemoautotrophic and psychrotolerant epsilonproteobacterium isolated from a pelagic redoxcline, and an emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas

    Matthias Labrenz;Jana Grote;Kerstin Mammitzsch;Henricus T. S. Boschker

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Jürgens
Klaus Jürgens Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Bernd Kreikemeyer
Bernd Kreikemeyer University of Rostock
Gerhard J. Herndl
Gerhard J. Herndl University of Vienna
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Anders F. Andersson
Anders F. Andersson Royal Institute of Technology
Gregor Rehder
Gregor Rehder Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Brigitte Voit
Brigitte Voit Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.
Lasse Riemann
Lasse Riemann University of Copenhagen
Klaus-Jochen Eichhorn
Klaus-Jochen Eichhorn Leibniz Association
Manfred G. Höfle
Manfred G. Höfle Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

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