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Werner Liesack

Werner Liesack

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Microbiology

D-Index
78
Citations
23921
World Ranking
1270
National Ranking
85

Overview

Werner Liesack is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has a research focus primarily in Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several interrelated subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Soil Science.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide spectrum with notable emphasis on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production, Microbial Metabolism and Enzyme Function, and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal.

Werner Liesack has contributed to multiple academic publications, with recent papers including these:

  • Genome-Resolved Metagenomics Reveals Distinct Phosphorus Acquisition Strategies between Soil Microbiomes (2022, mSystems)
  • Metagenomic insights into nitrogen and phosphorus cycling at the soil aggregate scale driven by organic material amendments (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Harnessing biological nitrogen fixation in plant leaves (2023, Trends in Plant Science)
  • Deciphering microbial mechanisms underlying soil organic carbon storage in a wheat-maize rotation system (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Unexpected metabolic versatility among type II methanotrophs in the Alphaproteobacteria (2020, Biological Chemistry)

Werner Liesack frequently publishes in several key scientific venues, including:

  • mSystems
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microbiome
  • ISME Communications
  • Soil Ecology Letters

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, among them:

  • Jingjing Peng
  • Xingjie Wu
  • Zhenling Cui
  • Fusuo Zhang
  • Qicheng Bei

Best Publications

  • The ammonia monooxygenase structural gene amoA as a functional marker: molecular fine-scale analysis of natural ammonia-oxidizing populations.

    Jan Henrich Rotthauwe;Karl Paul Witzel;Werner Liesack

  • Diversity and structure of the methanogenic community in anoxic rice paddy soil microcosms as examined by cultivation and direct 16S rRNA gene sequence retrieval.

    Regine Großkopf;Peter H. Janssen;Werner Liesack

  • Methane oxidation by an extremely acidophilic bacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobia

    Peter F. Dunfield;Anton Yuryev;Pavel Senin;Pavel Senin;Angela V. Smirnova

  • Microbiology of flooded rice paddies

    Werner Liesack;Sylvia Schnell;Niels Peter Revsbech

  • Occurrence of novel groups of the domain Bacteria as revealed by analysis of genetic material isolated from an Australian terrestrial environment.

    W Liesack;E Stackebrandt

  • Methylocella palustris gen. nov., sp. nov., a new methane-oxidizing acidophilic bacterium from peat bogs, representing a novel subtype of serine-pathway methanotrophs.

    Svetlana N. Dedysh;Werner Liesack;Valentina N. Khmelenina;Natalia E. Suzina

  • Potential risks of gene amplification by PCR as determined by 16S rDNA analysis of a mixed-culture of strict barophilic bacteria.

    Werner Liesack;H. Weyland;Erko Stackebrandt

  • Use of the T‐RFLP technique to assess spatial and temporal changes in the bacterial community structure within an agricultural soil planted with transgenic and non‐transgenic potato plants

    Thomas Lukow;Peter F Dunfield;Werner Liesack

  • Novel euryarchaeotal lineages detected on rice roots and in the anoxic bulk soil of flooded rice microcosms

    Regine Großkopf;Stephan Stubner;Werner Liesack

  • Succession of bacterial community structure and diversity in a paddy soil oxygen gradient.

    Matthias Noll;Diethart Matthies;Peter Frenzel;Manigee Derakshani

  • Effects of temperature and fertilizer on activity and community structure of soil ammonia oxidizers.

    Sharon Avrahami;Werner Liesack;Ralf Conrad

  • Phylogenetic analysis and in situ identification of bacteria community composition in an acidic Sphagnum peat bog.

    Svetlana N. Dedysh;Timofei A. Pankratov;Svetlana E. Belova;Irina S. Kulichevskaya

  • Bacterial diversity in a soil sample from a subtropical Australian environment as determined by 16S rDNA analysis

    E Stackebrandt;W Liesack;B M Goebel

  • Spatial changes in the bacterial community structure along a vertical oxygen gradient in flooded paddy soil cores.

    Heiner Lüdemann;Inko Arth;Werner Liesack

  • Elemental Sulfur and Thiosulfate Disproportionation by Desulfocapsa sulfoexigens sp. nov., a New Anaerobic Bacterium Isolated from Marine Surface Sediment

    Kai Finster;Werner Liesack;Bo Thamdrup

  • Two isozymes of particulate methane monooxygenase with different methane oxidation kinetics are found in Methylocystis sp. strain SC2

    Mohamed Baani;Werner Liesack

  • Bacterial populations and environmental factors controlling cellulose degradation in an acidic Sphagnum peat

    Timofey A. Pankratov;Anastasia O. Ivanova;Svetlana N. Dedysh;Werner Liesack

  • Methylocapsa acidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel methane-oxidizing and dinitrogen-fixing acidophilic bacterium from Sphagnum bog.

    Svetlana N Dedysh;Valentina N Khmelenina;Natalia E Suzina;Yuri A Trotsenko

  • Detection of methanotroph diversity on roots of submerged rice plants by molecular retrieval of pmoA, mmoX, mxaF, and 16S rRNA and ribosomal DNA, including pmoA-based terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism profiling.

    Hans-Peter Horz;Merlin Tchawa Yimga;Werner Liesack

  • Methyloferula stellata gen. nov., sp. nov., an acidophilic, obligately methanotrophic bacterium that possesses only a soluble methane monooxygenase.

    Alexey V. Vorobev;Mohamed Baani;Nina V. Doronina;Allyson L. Brady

  • Genome of Rice Cluster I archaea--the key methane producers in the rice rhizosphere.

    Christoph Erkel;Michael Kube;Richard Reinhardt;Werner Liesack

Frequent Co-Authors

Svetlana N. Dedysh
Svetlana N. Dedysh Russian Academy of Sciences
Peter F. Dunfield
Peter F. Dunfield University of Calgary
Michael Kube
Michael Kube Max Planck Society
Richard Reinhardt
Richard Reinhardt Max Planck Society
Erko Stackebrandt
Erko Stackebrandt Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
Ralf Conrad
Ralf Conrad Max Planck Society
Yuri A. Trotsenko
Yuri A. Trotsenko Russian Academy of Sciences
Maqsudul Alam
Maqsudul Alam University of Hawaii at Manoa
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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