Education

Ph.D. in Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Saale, Germany, 2014

Current position

Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Saale, Germany

Publications (since 2008)

1. Fischer, M. and Sawers, R. G. (2013). A universally applicable and rapid method for measuring the growth of streptomyces and other filamentous microorganisms by methylene blue adsorption-desorption. Appl Environ Microbiol 79(14): 4499-4502.
   
2. Fischer, M., Falke, D. and Sawers, R. G. (2013). A respiratory nitrate reductase active exclusively in resting spores of the obligate aerobe Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). Mol Microbiol 89(6): 1259-1273.
   
3. Fischer, M., Schmidt, C., Falke, D. and Sawers, R. G. (2012). Terminal reduction reactions of nitrate and sulfate assimilation in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2): identification of genes encoding nitrite and sulfite reductases. Res Microbiol 163(5): 340-348.
   
4. Fischer, M., Alderson, J., van Keulen, G., White, J. and Sawers, R. G. (2010). The obligate aerobe Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) synthesizes three active respiratory nitrate reductases. Microbiology 156(Pt 10): 3166-3179.
   
5. Bunge, M., Wagner, A., Fischer, M., Andreesen, J. R. and Lechner, U. (2008). Enrichment of a dioxin-dehalogenating Dehalococcoides species in two-liquid phase cultures. Environ Microbiol 10(10): 2670-2683.