Dirk Benndorf

Dirk Benndorf
Personal Facts
Date of Birth: 14 October 1972
Place of Birth: Leipzig, Germany
Nationality: German
University Education
1991 - 1996 Diploma in biochemistry at University of Leipzig
Scientific Career
1996 - 2000 PhD (biochemistry) at University of Leipzig / UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Environmental Microbiology
2000 - 2006 PostDoc at UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Environmental Microbiology
2006 - 2007 PostDoc at UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Proteomics
since 2007 Scientist and coordinator for the study course biosystems engineering at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, chair of bioprocess engineering
since 2019 Deputy professorship in Microbiology at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
- microbial communities in natural environments (human gut, soil) and technical systems (anaerobic digesters, wastewater treatmene plants)
- metaproteomics, mass spectrometry and bioinformatics
- microbial metabolisms
- Santos, P. M., Benndorf, D. and Sá-Correia, I. (2004). A proteomic analysis of the responses to phenol-induced stress in Pseudomonas putida KT2440. Proteomics 4, 2640-2652.
- Benndorf, D., Balcke, G.U., Harms, H. and von Bergen, M. (2007). Functional metaproteome analysis of protein extracts from contaminated soil and groundwater. The ISME Journal 1, 224-234.
- Heyer, R., Benndorf, D., Kohrs, F., De Vrieze, J., Boon, N., Hoffmann, M., Rapp, E.,Schlüter, A., Sczyrba, A., Reichl, U. (2016) Proteotyping of biogas plant microbiomes separates biogas plants according to process temperature and reactor type. Biotechnol Biofuels 9,155.
- Koch, S., Benndorf, D., Fronk, K., Reichl, U., Klamt, S. (2016) Predicting compositions of microbial communities from stoichiometric models with applications for the biogas process. Biotechnol Biofuels 9,17.
- Heyer, R., Schallert, K., Zoun, R., Becher, B., Saake, G., Benndorf, D. (2017) Challenges and perspectives of metaproteomic data analysis. Journal of Biotechnology 261, 24-26.
- Scoma, A., Heyer, R., Benndorf, D., Dandyk, C., Rifai, R., Boon, N., Kerckhof, F.-M., Marshall, I., Marietou, A., Malmos, K., Vosegaard, T., Boschker, E., Meysman, F., Vermeir, P., Banat, I. (2019). Reduced TCA cycle rates at high hydrostatic pressure hinder hydrocarbon degradation and obligate oil degraders in deep-sea microbial communities. The ISME Journal 13, 1004–1018.
- Heyer, R., Schallert, K., Siewert, C., Kohrs, F., Greve, J., Maus, I., Klang, J., Klocke, M., Heiermann, M., Hoffmann, M., Püttker, S., Calusinska, M., Zoun, R., Saake, G., Benndorf, D., Reichl, U. (2019). Metaproteome analysis reveals that syntrophy, competition, and phage-host interaction shape microbial communities in biogas plants. Microbiome 7, 69.
- Lehmann, T., Schallert, K., Vilchez-Vargas, R., Benndorf, D., Püttker, S., Sydor, S., Schulz, C., Bechmann, L., Canbay, A., Heidrich, B., Reichl, U., Link, A., Heyer, R. (2019). Journal of Proteomics 201, 93-103.
- Heyer, R., Schallert, K., Büdel. A., Zoun, R., Dorl, S., Behne, A, Kohrs, F., Püttker, S., Siewert, C., Muth, T., Saake, G, Reichl, U., Benndorf, D. (2019). A robust and universal metaproteomics workflow for research studies and routine diagnostics within 24 h using phenol extraction, FASP digest, and the MetaProteomeAnalyzer. Front. Microbiol., fmicb.2019.01883.