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Ralf Conrad (born 1949)
Diplom (Biology), University of Göttingen, 1973
Dr. rer.nat. (Microbiology), University of Göttingen, 1976
Postdoc (Air chemistry), Max-Planck-Institut Mainz, 1978-1985
Postdoc (Microbiology), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1983
Habilitation (Microbiology), University of Mainz, 1985
Professor (Microbiology), University of Konstanz, 1986-1990
Adjunct Professor (Microbiology), Philipps-University Marburg, since 1993
Director and Head of the Department of Biogeochemistry at the MPI Marburg, since 1991
Chief Editor (until 2005) FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Contact
Prof. Dr. Ralf Conrad
MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie
Karl-von-Frisch-Straße
D-35043 Marburg / Germany
Phone: +49 6421 178801
Fax: +49 6421 178809
Email: conrad@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Research Group Leader at the Department
Prof. Dr. Andeas Brune

Group Leaders at the Department
Dr. Gesche Braker
Prof. Dr. Peter Frenzel
PD Dr. Werner Liesack


Members of the Research Group
Group leader: Prof. Ralf Conrad
Secretary: Carmen Stubner
Postdoctoral fellows: Dr. Martin Blaser, Dr. Marc Dumont, Soumitra Paul Chowdhury, Dr. Frederic Guerin, Zhongjun Jia, Dr. Ulrike Ohms-Bredemann
PhD/Diploma students: Roey Angel, Kathrin Botsch, Dennis Gövert, Minita Shrestha, Yanli Yuan
Technical assistants: Peter Claus, Markus Drescher, Melanie Klose

Research Area: Structure and Function of Soil Microbial Communities
We want to learn which groups of soil microorganisms are responsible for particular biogeochemical processes and to understand the reason why. For this purpose we investigate biogeochemical processes involved in the exchange of climatically relevant trace gases (CH₄, N₂O, H₂) between soil and atmosphere. A particular focus is on processes in flooded rice fields, which we have used during the last twenty years as a model system for studying biogeochemistry and ecology of soil microbes. [more]

Recent Publications
Shrestha, M., Abraham, W. R., Shrestha, P. M., Noll, M., and Conrad, R. (2008) Activity and composition of methanotrophic bacterial communities in planted rice soil studied by flux measurements, analyses of pmoA gene and stable isotope probing of phospholipid fatty acids. Environ. Microbiol. 10, 400-412.

Guo, R. and Conrad, R. (2008) Extraction and characterization of soil hydrogenases oxidizing atmospheric hydrogen. Soil Biol. Biochem., in press.

Conrad, R., Klose, M., Noll, M., Kemnitz, D., and Bodelier, P. L. E. (2008) Soil type links microbial colonization of rice roots to methane emission. Global Change Biology, 14, 657-669.

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