(2015)
Engineering mediator-based electroactivity in the obligate aerobic bacterium Pseudomonas putida KT2440.
Front Microbiol 6,
284.

Prof. Dr. Miriam Agler-Rosenbaum
Bio Pilot Plant · Head of Department +49 3641 532-1120 miriam.rosenbaum@leibniz-hki.deCurriculum 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
(2014)
Microbial catalysis in bioelectrochemical technologies: status quo, challenges and perspectives.
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 98(2),
509-518.
(2014)
Engineering microbial electrocatalysis for chemical and fuel production.
Curr Opin Biotechnol 29,
93-98.
(2014)
Oxygen allows Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 to overcome mediator washout in a continuously fed bioelectrochemical system
Biotechnology 111(4),
692-699.
(2014)
Metabolite transfer with the fermentation product 2,3-butanediol enhances virulence by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
ISME J 8(6),
1210-1220.
(2013)
Microbial electrocatalysis to guide biofuel and biochemical bioprocessing
Biofuels 4(2),
131-134.
(2012)
A cost-effective and field-ready potentiostat that poises subsurface electrodes to monitor bacterial respiration.
Biosens Bioelectron 32(1),
309-313.
(2012)
A laminar-flow microfluidic device for quantitative analysis of microbial electrochemical activity.
ChemSusChem 5(6),
1119-1123.
(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.
(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.