Faculty
4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Thuwal 23955-6900
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ulrich Stingl
Assistant Professor, Marine Science, Bioscience
Red Sea Research CenterPh.D. Microbiology, University of Konstanz, Germany, 2004
M.S. Limnology and Microbiology, University of Konstanz, Germany, 2001
B.S. Biology, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 1998
Research Interests
- Molecular Evolution of Oceanic and Freshwater Bacterioplankton
- Cultivation of Oligotrophic Marine Bacterioplankton
- Environmental Genomics and Comparative Genomics
- Symbiosis and Invertebrate Intestinal Microbiota
- Microbially Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery
- Plant-growth promoting bacteria
- Microbial Biofuels
Selected Publications
- Weinitschke S, Sharma PI, Stingl U, Cook AM, Smits TM, "Gene clusters involved in isethionate degradation in terrestrial and marine bacteria", Appl Envrion Microiol 76(2): 618-21 , 2010.
- Fuhrman JA Schwalbach MS, Stingl U, "Proteorhodopsins: an array of physiological roles", Nature Rev Microbiol " 6:488-494, 2008.
- Giovannoni SJ*, Hayakawa DH*, Tripp HJ*, Stingl U*, Given S, Cho J-C, Oh H-M. Kitner JB, Vergin KL, Rappe MS (*the first four authors contributed equally), "The small genome of an abundant coastal ocean methylotroph". Environ Microb 10 (7): 1771-1782, 2008.
- Muller N, Griffin BJ, Stingl U, Schink B, "Dominant sugar utilizers in sediment of lake Constance depend on syntrophic cooperation with methanogenic partner organisms". Environ Microb 10 (6): 1501-1511, 2008.
- Kohler T, Stingl U, Mueser K, Brune A, "Noval lineages of Planctomycetes densely colonize the alkaline gut of soil-feeding termites", (Cubitermes spp.) Environ Microbiol 10 (5): 1260-1270, 2008.