Dr. Markus Schmid
Senior Scientist at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science
In the beginning of his career at the Technical University Munich and later at the University of Nijmegen, Markus worked mostly on the detection of microorganisms involved in different parts of the nitrogen cycle. This included ammonia oxidizing bacteria, anaerobic ammonium oxidizers (ANAMMOX) and denitrifying eukaryotes in many different environments, including wastewater, soil, freshwater and marine systems. Since joining the University of Vienna in 2008, he has continued to work with microscopic techniques, and is now responsible for several aspects of microscopy at CeMESS, including epifluorescence and confocal laser scanning microscopy as well as laser microdissection and Raman spectroscopy.
Publications
Dutilh BE, Jurgelenaite R, Szklarczyk R, van Hijum SAF, Harhangi HR, Schmid MC et al. FACIL: Fast and Accurate Genetic Code Inference and Logo. Bioinformatics. 2011;27(14):1929-1933. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr316
Leisch N, Dirks U, Gruber-Vodicka H, Schmid MC, Sterrer W, Ott J. Microanatomy of the trophosome region of Paracatenula cf. polyhymnia (Catenulida, Platyhelminthes) and its intracellular symbionts. Zoomorphology: an international journal of comparative and functional morphology. 2011;130(4):261-271. doi: 10.1007/s00435-011-0135-y
Eichinger I, Klepal W, Schmid MC, Bright M. Organization and Microanatomy of the Sclerolinum contortum Trophosome (Polychaeta, Siboglinidae). Biological Bulletin. 2011;220(2):140-153.
Haider S, Wagner M, Schmid MC, Sixt BS, Christian JG, Häcker G et al. Raman microspectroscopy reveals long-term extracellular activity of chlamydiae. Molecular Microbiology. 2010;77(3):687-700. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07241.x
Pavlekovic M, Schmid MC, Schmider-Poignee N, Spring S, Pilhofer M, Gaul T et al. Optimization of three FISH procedures for in situ detection of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria in biological wastewater treatment. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 2009;78(2):119-126. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2009.04.003