Miriam Agler-Rosenbaum

Prof. Dr. Miriam Agler-Rosenbaum

Bio Pilot Plant · Head of Department +49 3641 532-1120 miriam.rosenbaum@leibniz-hki.de

Curriculum vitae

Main Research Areas
  • Bioelectrochemical Systems
  • Defined Microbial Mixed Cultures
  • Droplet Microfluidics for Microbial Applications
Professional Career
Since 2017 Chair of Synthetic Biotechnology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Head of Bio Pilot Plant, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, (HKI) Jena
2011-2017 Junior professor in the field of Microbiology of Defined Mixed Cultures, Institute of Applied Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2009-2011 Research Associate/Sub-Group Leader Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 
2007-2008 Post-Doc, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
2004-2006 PhD Studies, University of Greifswald, Germany
1999-2004 Diploma Studies in Biochemistry University of Greifswald
Awards · Appointments · Scientific Activities
Since 2021 Ombudsperson at the HKI
2019 ERC Consolidator Grant “e-Microbe“
2017 f-Cell Award for innovative fuel cell technology for the BMBF-funded project TexKoMBZ
Since 2014 Representative of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology, ISMET
2004-2006 Fellowship of the Fond der Chemischen Industrie

Publications

Schmitz S, Nies S, Wierckx N, Blank LM, Rosenbaum MA (2015) Engineering mediator-based electroactivity in the obligate aerobic bacterium Pseudomonas putida KT2440. Front Microbiol 6, 284.
Rosenbaum MA, Franks AE (2014) Microbial catalysis in bioelectrochemical technologies: status quo, challenges and perspectives. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 98(2), 509-518.
Rosenbaum MA, Henrich AW (2014) Engineering microbial electrocatalysis for chemical and fuel production. Curr Opin Biotechnol 29, 93-98.
TerAvest MA, Rosenbaum MA, Kotloski NJ, Gralnick JA, Angenent LT (2014) Oxygen allows Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 to overcome mediator washout in a continuously fed bioelectrochemical system Biotechnology 111(4), 692-699.
Venkataraman A, Rosenbaum MA, Werner JJ, Winans SC, Angenent LT (2014) Metabolite transfer with the fermentation product 2,3-butanediol enhances virulence by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. ISME J 8(6), 1210-1220.
Angenent LT, Rosenbaum M (2013) Microbial electrocatalysis to guide biofuel and biochemical bioprocessing Biofuels 4(2), 131-134.
Friedman ES, Rosenbaum MA, Lee AW, Lipson DA, Land BR, Angenent LT (2012) A cost-effective and field-ready potentiostat that poises subsurface electrodes to monitor bacterial respiration. Biosens Bioelectron 32(1), 309-313.
Li Z, Venkataraman A, Rosenbaum MA, Angenent LT (2012) A laminar-flow microfluidic device for quantitative analysis of microbial electrochemical activity. ChemSusChem 5(6), 1119-1123.
Rosenbaum MA, Bar HY, Beg QK, Segrè D, Booth J, Cotta MA, Angenent LT (2012) Transcriptional analysis of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 with an electrode compared to Fe(III)citrate or oxygen as terminal electron acceptor. PLOS One 7(2), e30827.
Rosenbaum MA, Bar HY, Beg QK, Segrè D, Booth J, Cotta MA, Angenent LT (2011) Shewanella oneidensis in a lactate-fed pure-culture and a glucose-fed co-culture with Lactococcus lactis with an electrode as electron acceptor. Bioresour Technol 102(3), 2623-2628.