Irene Wagner-Döbler is a German microbiologist and associate professor of biology at the Institute of Microbiology,

Technical University of Braunschweig TU Braunschweig (, unofficially ''University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology'') is the oldest ' (comparable to an institute of technology in the American system) in Germany. It was founded in 1745 as Collegium Carolinum and is a membe ...

Career

Irene Wagner-Döbler studied biology at the

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

in Munich and obtained her PhD in 1984 with a thesis in aquatic ecology. In 2001, she obtained her

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

at the

. Her habilitation dealt with the detoxification of mercury-containing wastewater using a newly discovered ''

Pseudomonas putida ''Pseudomonas putida'' is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, saprophytic soil bacterium. It has a versatile metabolism and is amenable to genetic manipulation, making it a common organism used in research, bioremediation, and synthesis of chemicals and ...

strain'' and a

bioreactor A bioreactor is any manufactured device or system that supports a biologically active environment. In one case, a bioreactor is a vessel in which a chemical reaction, chemical process is carried out which involves organisms or biochemistry, biochem ...

specifically developed for this purpose. For this work she received the "Stifterverband Science Award - Erwin-Schrödinger Preis" of the Helmholtz-Association of German Research Centers in 2001. As a research group leader at the

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) is a publicly funded research institute based in Braunschweig, Germany. HZI is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, the largest non-university scientific organisation i ...

(2004-2018) and associate professor at the Technical University Braunschweig (from 2007) AG Wagner-Döbler, she focused on microbial communication, in particular

quorum sensing In biology, quorum sensing or quorum signaling (QS) is the process of cell-to-cell communication that allows bacteria to detect and respond to cell population density by gene regulation, typically as a means of acclimating to environmental disadv ...

and algal-bacterial interactions in the ocean (Roseobacter Transregio). She is the author of more than 150 scientific papers,''Scopus.com Wagner-Döbler, Irene.''
In: ''scopus.com.'' Retrieved September 15, 2022.] with publications including ''de novo'' sequencing of the algal symbiont ''Dinoroseobacter shibae'' and its dinoflagellate host ''Prorocentrum cordatum.''

Publications (selected)

* H. von Canstein, Y. Li, K. N. Timmis, W.-D. Deckwer and I. Wagner-Döbler: ''Removal of mercury from chloralkali electrolysis wastewater by a mercury-resistant Pseudomonas putida strain''. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 65(12), 5279-5284, 1999. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.65.12.5279-5284.1999 * I. Wagner-Döbler, H. von Canstein, Y. Li, K. N. Timmis, and W.-D. Deckwer: ''Removal of mercury from chemical wastewater by microoganisms in technical scale''. Environmental Science & Technology, 34(21), 4628-4634, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1021/es0000652 * I. Wagner-Döbler and 36 co-authors: ''The complete genome sequence of the algal symbiont Dinoroseobacter shibae: a hitchhiker's guide to life in the sea''. The ISME Journal, 4(1), 61-77, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2009.94 * H. Sztajer, S. P. Szafranski, J. Tomasch, M. Reck, M. Nimtz, M. Rohde and I. Wagner-Döbler: ''Cross-feeding and interkingdom communication in dual-species biofilms of Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans''. The ISME Journal, 8(11), 2256-2271, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2014.73 * K. E. Dougan, Z. Deng, L. Wöhlbrand, C. Reuse, B. Bunk, Y. Chen, J. Hartlich, K.Hiller, U. John, J. Kalvelage, J. Mansky, M. Neumann-Schaal, J. Overmann, J. Petersen, S. Sanchez-Garcia, K. Schmidt-Hohagen, S. Shah, C. Spröer, H. Sztajer, H. Wang, D. Bhattacharya, R. Rabus, D. Jahn, C. Xin Chan, and I. Wagner-Döbler: ''Multi-omics analysis reveals the molecular response to heat stress in a “red tide” dinoflagellate''. BioRxiv 2022, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.25.501386

References

External links

Irene Wagner-Döbler
on the website of

* Living people German women scientists German microbiologists German women microbiologists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Improve categories, date=July 2023