Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde
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Verona Vandieken

Adresse:
Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung
Seestrasse 15
D-18119 Rostock
Telefon:
+49 381 5197 3479
Fax:
+49 381 5197 211
E-Mail:
verona.vandieken@io-warnemuende.de

Research

PostDoc in DFG-Project MOCA: Microbial Oceanography of ChemolithoAutotrophic Planktonic Communities

Research Experience

10/2008-8/2010    PostDoc, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

5/2006-8/2008      PostDoc, NASA Ames Research Center, Exobiology Branch, Moffett Field, USA

8/2005- 4/2006     PostDoc, Department Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

1/2001-7/2005      Ph D student, Thesis: “Microbiological and biogeochemical studies of microbial Mn(IV) and Fe(III) reduction in Arctic sediments (Svalbard)“, Department Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Publications

  1. Holmkvist L, Arning E, Küster-Heins K, Vandieken V, Peckmann J, Zabel M, Jørgensen BB (2010). Phosphate geochemistry, mineralization processes, and Thioploca distribution in shelf sediments off central Chile. Marine Geology, 277, 61-72
  2. Hubert C, Arnosti C, Brüchert V, Loy A, Vandieken V, Jørgensen BB (2010). Thermophilic anerobes in Arctic marine sediments induced to mineralize complex organic matter at high temperature. Environmental Microbiology, 12, 1089-1104.
  3. Hubert C, Loy A, Nickel M, Arnosti C, Baranyi C, Brüchert V, Ferdelman T, Finster K, Christensen FM, de Rezende JR, Vandieken V, Jørgensen BB (2009). A constant flux of diverse thermophilic bacteria into the cold Arctic seabed. Science, 325, 1541-1544
  4. Nickel M, Vandieken V, Brüchert V, Jørgensen BB (2008). Microbial Mn(IV) and Fe(III) reduction in northern Barents Sea sediments under different conditions of ice cover and organic carbon deposition. Deep Sea Research II, 55, 2390-2398.
  5. Finke N, Vandieken V, Jørgensen BB (2007). Acetate, lactate, propionate, and isobutyrate as electron donors for iron and sulfate reduction in Arctic marine sediments, Svalbard. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 59, 10-22.
  6. Vandieken V, Finke N, Jørgensen BB (2006). Pathways of carbon oxidation in an Arctic fjord sediment (Svalbard) and isolation of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant Fe(III)-reducing bacteria. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 322, 29-41. 
  7. Vandieken V, Nickel M, Jørgensen BB (2006). Carbon mineralization in Arctic sediments northeast of Svalbard: Mn(IV) and Fe(III) reduction as principal anaerobic respiratory pathways. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 322, 15-27. 
  8. Vandieken V, Knoblauch C, Jørgensen BB (2006). Desulfovibrio frigidus sp. nov. and Desulfovibrio ferrireducens sp. nov., two psychrotolerant bacteria isolated from Arctic fjord sediments (Svalbard) with the ability to reduce Fe(III). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 56, 681-685. 
  9. Vandieken V, Knoblauch C, Jørgensen BB (2006). Desulfotomaculum arcticum sp. nov., a new spore-forming, moderately thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a permanently cold fjord sediment of Svalbard. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 56, 687-690. 
  10. Vandieken V, Mußmann M, Niemann H, Jørgensen BB (2006). Desulfuromonas svalbardensis sp. nov. and Desulfuromusa ferrireducens sp. nov., psychrophilic Fe(III)-reducing bacteria isolated from Arctic sediments, Svalbard. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 56, 1133-1139.
  11. Felske A, Vandieken V, Pauling BW, von Canstein HF, Wagner-Döbler I (2003). Molecular quantification of genes encoding for green-fluorescent proteins. Journal of Microbiological Methods 52, 297-304. 
  12. Nübel U, Bateson MM, Vandieken V, Wieland A, Kühl M, Ward DM (2002). Microscopic examination of distribution and phenotypic properties of phylogenetic diverse Chloroflexus-related bacteria in hot spring microbial mats. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68, 4593-4603.