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Dr. Janosch Schirmack
Technische Universität Berlin
Hardenbergstraße 36A
10623 Berlin, Germany
Room ER 126
j.schirmack@tu-berlin.de
Tel.: +4930 314-79484
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I am biologist by training (diploma) and have a Ph.D. in microbiology, both obtained at the University of Potsdam and the Alfred-Wegner-Institute in Potsdam, respectively. Since late 2014 I am a member of the Research Group Astrobiology at TU Berlin. My main interests are in microbial survivability and activity under stress conditions like desiccation, low temperature and high salt concentrations, and what astrobiological implications they provide when compared to conditions which for instance can be found on recent Mars or other planetary bodies of our solar system.
Publications
Jacob Heinz, Janosch Schirmack, Alessandro Airo, Samuel P. Kounaves and Dirk Schulze-Makuch. (2018) Enhanced Microbial Survivability in Subzero Brines. Astrobiology, 18, 9. DOI 10.1089/ast.2017.1805
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Dirk Wagner, Samuel P. Kounaves, […], Janosch Schirmack, [45 co-authors in total]. (2018) Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert. PNAS, 115 (11) 2670-2675. DOI 10.1073/pnas.1714341115
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Alessandro Airo and Janosch Schirmack. (2017) The Adaptability of Life on Earth and the Diversity of Planetary Habitats. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8: 2011. DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02011
Janosch Schirmack, Marcel Fiebrandt, Katharina Stapelmann and Dirk Schulze-Makuch. (2016) Effects of Low-Temperature Plasma-Sterilization on Mars Analog Soil Samples mixed with Deinococcus radiodurans. Life, 6, 22. DOI 10.3390/life6020022
Janosch Schirmack, Mashal Alawi and Dirk Wagner. (2015) Influence of Martian regolith analogs on the activity and growth of methanogenic archaea, with special regard to long-term desiccation. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6: 210. DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00210
Lars Ganzert, Janosch Schirmack, Mashal Alawi, Kai Mangelsdorf, Wolfgang Sand, Alexandra Hillebrand-Voiculescu and Dirk Wagner. (2014) Methanosarcina spelaei sp. nov., a methanogenic archaeon isolated from a floating biofilm of a subsurface sulphurous lake. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 64, 3478–3484. DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.064956-0
Janosch Schirmack, Kai Mangelsdorf, Lars Ganzert, Wolfgang Sand, Alexandra Hillebrand-Voiculescu and Dirk Wagner. (2104) Methanobacterium movilense sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic, secondary-alcohol-utilizing methanogen from the anoxic sediment of a subsurface lake. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 64, 522–527. DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.057224-0
Janosch Schirmack, Michael Böhm, Chris Brauer, Hans-Gerd Löhmannsröben, Jean-Pierre de Vera, Diedrich Möhlmann and Dirk Wagner. (2013) Laser spectroscopic real time measurements of methanogenic activity under simulated Martian subsurface analog conditions. Planetary and Space Science, 98, 198–204. DOI 10.1016/j.pss.2013.08.019
Dirk Wagner, Janosch Schirmack, Lars Ganzert, Daria Morozova and Kai Mangelsdorf. (2013) Methanosarcina soligelidi sp. nov., a desiccation- and freeze-thaw-resistant methanogenic archaeon from a Siberian permafrost-affected soil. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 63, 2986–2991. DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.046565-0