Curriculum vitae
| since 2017 | Technical University Munich, Institute for Microbiology (Prof. Liebl), Research Group for Microbial Biotechnology (Lab Zverlov). Doctoral thesis: “Isolation and characterization of key organisms of cellulolytic degradation in biogas plants”. Scientific assistant: “Biology of the hydrolysis of renewable raw materials in the biogas process” in the collaborative research project MODISTO: “Modelling the dynamic of the metabolism of intermediates in the biogas process” |
| 2017 | Technical University Munich, Institute for Microbiology (Prof. Liebl), Research Group for Microbial Biotechnology, Master’s thesis on: “Identification of key organisms of cellulolytic degradation in mesophilic biogas plants.” |
Publications:
Rettenmaier, R., Kowollik, M.-L., Klingl, A., Liebl, W., Zverlov, V.V. (2021) Ruminiclostridium herbifermentans sp. nov., a mesophilic and moderately thermophilic cellulolytic and xylanolytic bacterium isolated from a lab-scale biogas fermenter fed with maize silage. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (in press).
Koeck, D., Rettenmaier, R., Schwarz, W.H., Zverlov, V.V., Liebl, W. Genus Herbinix. Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (in press).
Rettenmaier, R., Lo, Y.K., Schmidt L., Munk, B., Lagkouvardos, I., Neuhaus, K., Schwarz, W., Liebl, W., Zverlov, V.V. (2020) A novel primer mixture for GH48 genes: Quantification and identification of truly cellulolytic bacteria in biogas fermenters. Microorganisms 8: 1297. doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8091297
Rettenmaier, R., Schneider, M., Munk, B., Lebuhn, M., Jünemann, S., Sczyba, A., Maus, I., Zverlov, V.V., Liebl, W. (2020) Importance of Defluviitalea raffinosedens for hydrolytic biomass degradation in co-culture with Hungateiclostridium thermocellum. Microorganisms 8: 915. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8060915
Rettenmaier, R., Liebl, W., Zverlov, V.V. (2020) Anaerosphaera multitolerans sp. nov., a salt-tolerant member of the family Peptoniphilaceae isolated from a mesophilically-operated biogas fermenter fed with maize silage. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70:1217-1223. doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003903
Rettenmaier, R., Gerbaulet, M., Liebl, W., Zverlov, V.V. (2019) Hungateiclostridium mesophilum sp. nov., a mesophilic, cellulolytic and spore-forming bacterium isolated from a biogas fermenter fed with maize silage. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 69:3567-3573. doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003663
Rettenmaier, R., Duerr, C., Neuhaus, K., Liebl, W., Zverlov, V.V. (2019) Comparison of sampling techniques and different media for the enrichment and isolation of cellulolytic organisms from biogas fermenters. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 42:481-487. doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2019.05.002
Rettenmaier R, Neuhaus K, Liebl W, Zverlov VV. 2019. Draft genome sequence of Anaerosphaera sp. strain GS7-6-2, a coccal bacterium isolated from a biogas-related environment. Microbiol Resour Announc 8:e00205-19. doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00205-19
Rettenmaier R, Liebl W. and Zverlov V.V. Isolation and characterization of mesophilic, cellulolytic organisms. Biogas Science 2018 (Oral), Turin, Italy.
Rettenmaier R, Liebl W. and Zverlov V.V. Development of a molecular marker tool for the identification and quantification of true cellulolytic organisms. Clostridia Conference 2018 (Poster), Freising, Germany.
Rettenmaier R, Duerr C, Liebl W. and Zverlov V.V. The medium makes the difference: Next-Generation-Sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA amplicons to compare different media and sampling techniques for the enrichment of cellulolytic key players in a thermophilically operated biogas plant fed with maize silage. Clostridia Conference 2018 (Poster), Freising, Germany.