Sabrina Beckmann

Sabrina Beckmann's environmental microbiology team investigates the impact of microbes and microbial interactions on diverse biogeochemical processes, particularly the methane cycle (methane formation and oxidation), to employ microbes for enhanced alternative energy production, anaerobic digestion, and sustainable biotechnologies. Research portfolios focus on microbial communities in agricultural soils, saline environments, terrestrial soil, waste, oil, marine and freshwater systems. We are exploring the enrichment and isolation of relevant bacteria and archaea, and investigate their biochemistry, molecular biology (genome, transcriptome) and physiology.

Research Interests:

1) Novel pathways of methane oxidation in deep-sea carbonates.
2) Anaerobe isoprene degradation.
3) Enhancing microbial methane production from food-waste ("OrangeEarthPower).
4) Methane cycling in saline environments.


Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Methane Cycling, Archaea, Anaerobe culturing, Anaerobe Methane Oxidation, Methanogenesis, Sustainability and Microbes, Microbial Energy Generation, Isoprene Degradation, Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer (DIET), Extremophiles, Agricultural Soil Health, Bioinformatics and Metagenomics, Metabolomics