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Gerhard Herndl , Head of Department Department of Marine Biology University of Vienna Althanstrasse 14 1090 Vienna Austria |
+43(0)1-427757101
+43(0)1-42779571Research Interests
- Marine Microbial Ecology with emphasis on structure and function relationships in microbial communities (particularly viruses, bacteria, archaea)
- Production and transformation of dissolved organic matter in the sea
- Microbial Oceanography (linking the thermohaline circulation to the biogeography of prokaryotes and to biogeochemical cycling of organic matter particularly in the meso- and bathypelagic realm)
Professional Experience
| 1983-1994 | Research Biologist | University of Vienna, Austria |
| 1994-199 | Assistant Professor | University of Vienna, Austria |
| 1997-2008 | Department Head | Royal Netherlands Inst. for Sea Research, The Netherlands |
| 1999-2008 | Professor | University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 2009-present | Adjunct Senior Researcher | Royal Netherlands Inst. for Sea Research, The Netherlands |
| 2009-present | Professor | University of Vienna, Austria |
| 2009-present | Chair of Marine Biology | University of Vienna, Austria |
Academic and Professional Honors
| 2011 | Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Science Fund |
| 2011 | Recipient of an European Research Council: Advanced Grant |
| 2008-2014 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Sea at the University of Oldenburg, Germany |
| 2008-present | Vice-Director of the Faculty Center of Ecology, University of Vienna |
| 2009-2013 | Director of the PhD program of the Faculty of Life Sciences |
| 2010-2012 | Member of the Nomination Committee of the American Society of Limnology & Oceanography |
| 2011-present | Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 2006 | 2006EurOceans Roland Wollast Awards for Scientific Achievements |
| 2001-present | Editor of Marine Ecology |
| 2002-present | Editor of Aquatic Microbial Ecology |
| 2003-present | Editor of Limnology & Oceanography:Methods |
| 2009-present | Editor of Biogeosciences |
| 2011-2014 | Editorial Board of The ISME Journal |
| 2011-2014 | Editorial Board of Frontiers in Microbiology |
Synergistic activities:
| 2010 | Coordinator of the ESF-EuroCores project MOCA |
| 2009 | Session Chair at the ASLO meeting at Nice, France |
| 2008 | Co-organizer with Dennis Hansell of the First IMBER-IMBIZO workshop on the Bathypelagic realm in Miami, FL, USA |
| 2008 | Main Organizer of the Euroceans workshop on ‘Meso- and bathypelagic waters and global change: current knowledge and future perspectives on the link between deep-water circulation, biogeochemistry and plankton’. |
| 2006 | Co-organizer of the Annual Meeting of the International Census of Marine Microorganisms, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands |
Manuscript reviewer in 2010-2011
Among others for: Nature, Science, Nature Reviews Microbiology, PNAS, The ISME J, Environ. Microbiol., Biogeosciences, Limnol. Oceanogr., Molecular Ecology, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., Aquat. Microb. Ecol.
Grant reviewer in 2010-2011
Among others for: NSF Biological Oceanography, ESF, NERC, DFG, ERC,
Selected Publications
- Herndl, G. J., H. Agogué, F. Baltar, T. Reinthaler, E. Sintes and M. M. Varela. 2008. Regulation of aquatic microbial processes: the 'microbial loop' of the sunlit surface waters and the dark ocean dissected. Contribution to the SAME-10 Special Issue. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 53: 59-68.
- Gasol, J.M., J. Pinhassi, L. Alonso-Sáez, H. Ducklow, G.J. Herndl, M. Koblizek, M. Labrenz, Y. Luo, X.A.G. Moran, T. Reinthaler, M. Simon. 2008. Towards a better understanding of the microbial carbon flux in the sea. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 53:21-38
- Varela, M.M., H.M. van Aken, G.J. Herndl, 2008: Abundance and activity of Chloroflexi-type SAR202 bacterioplankton in the meso- and bathypelagic waters of the (sub)tropical Atlantic. Environ. Microbiol., 10: 1903-1911
- Reinthaler, T., E. Sintes, G.J. Herndl, 2008: Dissolved organic matter and bacterial production and respiration in the sea-surface microlayer of the open Atlantic and the western Mediterranean Sea. Limnol. Oceanogr., 53: 122-136
- Varela, M.M., H.M. van Aken, E. Sintes, G.J. Herndl, 2008: Latitudinal trends of Crenarchaeota and Bacteria in the meso- and bathypelagic water masses of the North Atlantic. Environ. Microbiol., 10: 110-124
- Baltar, F., J. Aristegui, J.M. Gasol, S. Hernandez-Leon, G.J. Herndl, 2007: Strong coast – ocean and surface – depth gradients in prokaryotic assemblage structure and activity in a coastal transition zone region. Aquat. Microb. Ecol., 50: 63-74
- Parada, V., E. Sintes, H.M. van Aken, M.G. Weinbauer, G.J. Herndl, 2007: Viral abundance, decay and diversity in the meso- and bathypelagic waters of the North Atlantic. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 73: 4429-4438
- Sintes, E., G.J. Herndl, 2006: Quantifying substrate uptake of individual cells of marine bacterioplankton by catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization combined with microautoradiography. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 72: 7022-7028
- Wuchter, C., B. Abbas, M.J.L. Coolen, L. Herfort, J. van Bleijswijk, P. Timmers, M. Strous, E. Teira, G.J. Herndl, J.J. Middelburg, S. Schouten, J.S. Sinninghe Damsté, 2006: Archaeal nitrification in the ocean. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.USA, 103: 12317-12322
- Sogin, M.L., H.G. Morrison, J.A. Huber, D.M. Welch, S.M. Huse, J.M. Arrieta, G.J. Herndl, 2006: Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the under-explored “rare biosphere”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103: 12115-12120
- Teira, E., P. Lebaron, H. v. Aken, G.J. Herndl, 2006: Distribution and activity of Bacteria and Archaea in the deep water masses of the North Atlantic. Limnol. Oceanogr., 51: 2131-2144
- Reinthaler, T., H. van Aken, C. Veth, P. leB Williams, J. Aristegui, C. Robinson, P. Lebaron, G.J. Herndl, 2006 : Prokaryotic respiration and production in the meso- and bathypelagic realm of the eastern and western North Atlantic basin. Limnol. Oceanogr., 51: 1262-1273
- Teira, E., H. v. Aken, C. Veth, G.J. Herndl, 2006: Archaeal uptake of enantiomeric amino acids in the meso- and bathypelagic waters of the North Atlantic. Limnol. Oceanogr., 51: 60-69
- Winter, C., A. Smit, T. Szöke-Dénes, G.J. Herndl, M.G. Weinbauer, 2005: Modelling viral impact on bacterioplankton in the North Sea using artificial neural networks. Environ. Microbiol., 7: 881-893
- Herndl, G.J., T. Reinthaler, E. Teira, H. van Aken, C. Veth, A. Pernthaler, J. Pernthaler, 2005: Contribution of Archaea to total prokaryotic production in the deep Atlantic Ocean. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 71: 2303-2309
- Reinthaler, T., C. Winter, G.J. Herndl, 2005: Relation between bacterioplankton richness, respiration, and production in the southern North Sea. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 71: 2260-2266
- Reinthaler, T., G.J. Herndl, 2005: Seasonal dynamics of bacterial growth efficiencies in relation to phytoplankton in the Southern North Sea. Aquat. Microb. Ecol., 39: 7-16
- Winter, C., A. Smit, G.J. Herndl, M.G. Weinbauer, 2005: Linking prokaryotic richness with viral abundance and prokaryotic activity. Limnol. Oceanogr., 50: 968-977
- Moeseneder, M.M., J.M. Arrieta, G.J. Herndl, 2005: A comparison of DNA- and RNA-based clone libraries from the same marine bacterioplankton community. FEMS Microb. Ecol., 51: 341-352