Dr. rer. nat. Katrina Funkner
Scientist
Department for Microbial Physiology and Molecular Biology
Felix-Hausdorff-Straße 8 - room-nr.: 1.55
17489 Greifswald
phone: +49 (0)3834 420 5904
fax: +49 (0)3834 420 5902
email: funknerk(at)uni-greifswald(dot)de
| 04/2025 - | PostDoc in the excellence research in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern founded project Alg4Nut, in the working group of Prof. Tim Urich, Institute of Microbiology, University Greifswald, Germany |
| 02/2020 – 03/2024 | Doctoral candidate in the selenium metabolism of the methanogen Methanococcus maripaludis in the working group of Prof. Michael Rother at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
| 10/2016 – 07/2019 | M. Sc. in Molecular Life Sciences: Microbiology, Biotechnology and Biochemistry at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The master thesis was written in the group of Prof. Rolf Daniel. |
| 20/2012 – 09/2016 | B. Sc. in Biology with focus on molecular biosciences at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The bachelor thesis was written in the group of Prof. Rolf Daniel. |
Methanogenic archaea
Influence of algae to the methane production in cattle
Cattle microbiome
K. Funkner, A. Poehlein, N. Jehmlich, R. Egelkamp, R. Daniel, M. von Bergen, M. Rother, Proteomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Selenium Utilization in Methanococcus Maripaludis, mSystems 9, 5 (2024), DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01338-23
G.A. Castillo Villamizar*, K. Funkner*, H. Nacke, K. Foerster, R. Daniel, Functional Metagenomics Reveals a New Catalytic Domain, the Metallo-Beta-Lactamase Superfamily Domain, Associated with Phytase Activity. mSphere. 4, 1-13 (2019), DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00167-19 *Shared first authorship
G.A. Castillo Villamizar, N. Heiko, L. Griese, L. Tabernero, K. Funkner, R. Daniel, Characteristics of the first protein tyrosine phosphatase with phytase activity from a soil metagenome. Genes (Basel). 10 (2019), DOI: 10.3390/genes10020101
A. Poehlein, K. Funkner, M.A. Schüler, R. Daniel, First Insights into the Genome Sequence of the Cellulolytic Bacterium Clostridium hungatei DSM 14427. Am. Soc. Microbiol. 5, e00363-17 (2017), DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00363-17