Dr. rer. nat. Christian Wurzbacher

2024

Journal Articles

• Cristina J. Saravia , Peter Pütz , Christian Wurzbacher , Anna Uchaikina , Jörg E. Drewes , Ulrike Braun , Claus Gerhard Bannick and Nathan Obermaier: Wastewater-based epidemiology: deriving a SARS-CoV-2 data validation method to assess data quality and to improve trend recognition. Frontiers in Public Health, 2024 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2023

Journal Articles

• Sperle, P.; Khan, M.S.; Skibinski, B.; Wurzbacher, C.; Drewes, J.E.: Optimizing UVC-disinfection using LEDs as an energy efficient pre-treatment for biofouling control in spiral-wound membrane systems. Desalination 557, 2023, 116589 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Uchaikina, Anna; Mitranescu, Alexander; Kau, Anna‐Sonia; Kluge, Mariana; Stange, Claudia; Ho, Johannes; Tiehm, Andreas; Wurzbacher, Christian; Drewes, Jörg E.: Abwasserepidemiologie für SARS‐CoV‐2‐Biomarker: tageszeitliche Schwankungen der Biomarker in Abhängigkeit von der Gemeindegröße. Vom Wasser 121 (3), 2023, 86-88 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Wilhelm, Alexander; Schoth, Jens; Meinert-Berning, Christina; Bastian, Daniel; Blum, Helmut; Elsinga, Goffe; Graf, Alexander; Heijnen, Leo; Ho, Johannes; Kluge, Mariana; Krebs, Stefan; Stange, Claudia; Uchaikina, Anna; Dolny, Regina; Wurzbacher, Christian; Drewes, Jörg E.; Medema, Gertjan; Tiehm, Andreas; Ciesek, Sandra; Teichgräber, Burkhard; Wintgens, Thomas; Weber, Frank-Andreas; Widera, Marek: Interlaboratory comparison using inactivated SARS-CoV-2 variants as a feasible tool for quality control in COVID-19 wastewater monitoring. Science of The Total Environment 903, 2023, 166540 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2022

Journal Articles

• Abarenkov, Kessy; Kristiansson, Erik; Ryberg, Martin; Nogal-Prata, Sandra; Gómez-Martínez, Daniela; Stüer-Patowsky, Katrin; Jansson, Tobias; Põlme, Sergei; Ghobad-Nejhad, Masoomeh; Corcoll, Natàlia; Scharn, Ruud; Sánchez-García, Marisol; Khomich, Maryia; Wurzbacher, Christian; Nilsson, R. Henrik: The curse of the uncultured fungus. MycoKeys 86, 2022, 177-194 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Cao, Lijia; Wolff, David; Liguori, Renato; Wurzbacher, Christian; Wick, Arne: Microbial Biomass, Composition, and Functions Are Responsible for the Differential Removal of Trace Organic Chemicals in Biofiltration Systems: A Batch Study. Frontiers in Water 4, 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Hiller, Christian X.; Schwaller, Christoph; Wurzbacher, Christian; Drewes, Jörg E.: Removal of antibiotic microbial resistance by micro- and ultrafiltration of secondary wastewater effluents at pilot scale. Science of The Total Environment 838, 2022, 156052 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Hübner, Uwe; Wurzbacher, Christian; Helbling, Damian E.; Drewes, Jörg E.: Engineering of managed aquifer recharge systems to optimize biotransformation of trace organic chemicals. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health 27, 2022, 100343 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Mitranescu, Alexander; Uchaikina, Anna; Kau, Anna-Sonia; Stange, Claudia; Ho, Johannes; Tiehm, Andreas; Wurzbacher, Christian; Drewes, Jörg E.: Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2 Biomarkers: Evaluation of Normalization Methods in Small and Large Communities in Southern Germany. ACS ES&T Water 2 (12), 2022, 2460-2470 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Mitranescu, Alexander; Uchaikina, Anna; Kau, Anna-Sonia; Stange, Claudia; Ho, Johannes; Tiehm, Andreas; Wurzbacher, Christian; Drewes, Jörg E.: Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2 Biomarkers: Evaluation of Normalization Methods in Small and Large Communities in Southern Germany. ACS ES&T Water, 2022 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2021

Journal Articles

• Heeger, Felix; Bourne, Elizabeth C.; Wurzbacher, Christian; Funke, Elisabeth; Lipzen, Anna; He, Guifen; Ng, Vivian; Grigoriev, Igor V.; Schlosser, Dietmar; Monaghan, Michael T.: Evidence for Lignocellulose-Decomposing Enzymes in the Genome and Transcriptome of the Aquatic Hyphomycete Clavariopsis aquatica. Journal of Fungi 7 (10), 2021, 854 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Ho, Johannes; Stange, Claudia; Suhrborg, Rabea; Wurzbacher, Christian; Drewes, Joerg E.; Tiehm Andreas: SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance in Germany: Long-term RT-digital droplet PCR monitoring, suitability of primer/probe combinations and biomarker stability. Water Research, 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Kluge, Mariana; Wauthy, Maxime; Clemmensen, Karina Engelbrecht; Wurzbacher, Christian; Hawkes, Jeffrey A.; Einarsdottir, Karolina; Rautio, Milla; Stenlid, Jan; Peura, Sari: Declining fungal diversity in Arctic freshwaters along a permafrost thaw gradient. Global Change Biology 27 (22), 2021, 5889-5906 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Kluge, Mariana; Wurzbacher, Christian; Wauthy, Maxime; Clemmensen, Karina Engelbrecht; Hawkes, Jeffrey Alistair; Einarsdottir, Karolina; Stenlid, Jan; Peura, Sari: Community composition of aquatic fungi across the thawing Arctic. Scientific Data 8 (1), 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Liguori, Renato; Rommel, Steffen H; Bengtsson-Palme, Johan; Helmreich, Brigitte; Wurzbacher, Christian: Microbial retention and resistances in stormwater quality improvement devices treating road runoff. FEMS Microbes 2, 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Rossmann, Katalyn; Clasen, Rüttger; Münch, Manuel; Wurzbacher, Christian; Tiehm, Andreas; Drewes, Jörg E.: SARS-CoV-2 Crisis Management With a Wastewater Early-Warning System in the Bavarian District of Berchtesgadener Land, Germany. Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Roßmann, K.; Großmann, G.; Frangoulidis, D.; Clasen, R.; Münch, M.; Hasenknopf, M.; Wurzbacher, C.; Tiehm, A.; Stange, C.; Ho, J.; Woermann, M.: Innovative SARS-CoV-2 crisis management in the public health sector: Corona dashboard and wastewater surveillance using the example of Berchtesgadener Land, Germany. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz, 2021 more… BibTeX
• Roßmann, Katalyn; Großmann, Gerd; Frangoulidis, Dimitrios; Clasen, Rüttger; Münch, Manuel; Hasenknopf, Manfred; Wurzbacher, Christian; Tiehm, Andreas; Stange, Claudia; Ho, Johannes; Woermann, Marion; Drewes, Jörg E.: Innovatives SARS-CoV-2-Krisenmanagement im öffentlichen Gesundheitswesen: Corona-Dashboard und Abwasserfrühwarnsystem am Beispiel Berchtesgadener Land. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz 65 (3), 2021, 367-377 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Roßmann, Katalyn; Großmann, Gerd; Frangoulidis, Dimitrios; Clasen, Rüttger; Münch, Manuel; Hasenknopf, Manfred; Wurzbacher, Christian; Tiehm, Andreas; Stange, Claudia; Ho, Johannes; Woermann, Marion; Drewes, Jörg E.: Innovatives SARS-CoV-2-Krisenmanagement im öffentlichen Gesundheitswesen: Corona-Dashboard und Abwasserfrühwarnsystem am Beispiel Berchtesgadener Land. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Roßmann, Katalyn; Großmann, Gerd; Frangoulidis, Dimitrios; Clasen, Rüttger; Münch, Manuel; Hasenknopf, Manfred; Wurzbacher, Christian; Tiehm, Andreas; Stange, Claudia; Ho, Johannes; Woermann, Marion; Drewes, Jörg E.: Innovatives SARS-CoV-2-Krisenmanagement im öffentlichen Gesundheitswesen: Corona-Dashboard und Abwasserfrühwarnsystem am Beispiel Berchtesgadener Land. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Strassert, Jürgen F. H.; Wurzbacher, Christian; Hervé, Vincent; Antany, Taraha; Brune, Andreas; Radek, Renate: Long rDNA amplicon sequencing of insect-infecting nephridiophagids reveals their affiliation to the Chytridiomycota and a potential to switch between hosts. Scientific Reports 11 (1), 2021 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Voigt, Kerstin; James, Timothy Y.; Kirk, Paul M.; Santiago, André L. C. M. de A.; Waldman, Bruce; Griffith, Gareth W.; Fu, Minjie; Radek, Renate; Strassert, Jürgen F. H.; Wurzbacher, Christian; Jerônimo, Gustavo Henrique; Simmons, David R.; Seto, Kensuke; Gentekaki, Eleni; Hurdeal, Vedprakash G.; Hyde, Kevin D.; Nguyen, Thuong T. T.; Lee, Hyang Burm: Early-diverging fungal phyla: taxonomy, species concept, ecology, distribution, anthropogenic impact, and novel phylogenetic proposals. Fungal Diversity 109 (1), 2021, 59-98 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

Conference Papers / Poster

• Drewes, J.E., Tiehm, A., Wurzbacher, C., Stange, C., Ho, J., Mitranescu, A., Uchaikina, A., Kau, S., Thronicker, O., Hasenknopf, M.: BMBF Biomarker Cov2 Verbundvorhaben. EU Vorhaben ESI-CorA. Begleitkreistreffen. 26. November 2021, 2021 more… BibTeX
• Nawaz, A.; Wurzbacher, C.: Back to the Future: Exploration and Identification of Aquatic Fungi. Symposium for European Freshwater Science. July 2021, online, 2021 more… BibTeX
• Sperle, P.; Drewes, J.; Wurzbacher, C.; Skibinski, B.: UVC-LED based pretreatment for biofouling control in desalination processes with thin-film composite membranes. International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications. April 2022, online, 2021 more… BibTeX
• Stüer-Patowsky, K.; Gega, E.; Wurzbacher, C.: Progressive Succession of Fungi in Biofilms of Down-flow Hanging Sponge Reactors. World Microbe Forum. June 2021, poster online, 2021 more… BibTeX
• Wurzbacher, C. und Drewes, J.E.: Etablierung eines Früh- und Entwarnsystems mittels Corona-Abwassermonitoring. Unterrichtung des Landrats und der Bürgermeister im Landkreis Passau. 26. November 2021 (online), 2021 more… BibTeX

2020

Books / Contributions to Collections

• Duarte, S.; Wurzbacher, C.; Seena, S.: Metabarcoding of litter-associated fungi and bacteria. In: Methods to Study Litter Decomposition. Springer, 2020, 339-346 more… BibTeX
• Seena, S.; Duarte, S.; Wurzbacher, C.: A bioinformatics primer for the analysis of illumina MiSeq data of litter-associated fungi and bacteria. In: Methods to Study Litter Decomposition. Springer, 2020, 573-582 more… BibTeX

Journal Articles

• Juottonen, Heli; Fontaine, Laurent; Wurzbacher, Christian; Drakare, Stina; Peura, Sari; Eiler, Alexander: Archaea in boreal Swedish lakes are diverse, dominated by Woesearchaeota and follow deterministic community assembly. Environmental Microbiology 22 (8), 2020, 3158-3171 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Kagami, Maiko; Seto, Kensuke; Nozaki, Daiki; Nakamura, Takaki; Wakana, Hirano; Wurzbacher, Christian: Single dominant diatom can host diverse parasitic fungi with different degree of host specificity. Limnology and Oceanography 66 (3), 2020, 667-677 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Sperle, Philipp; Wurzbacher, Christian; Drewes, Jörg E.; Skibinski, Bertram: Reducing the Impacts of Biofouling in RO Membrane Systems through In Situ Low Fluence Irradiation Employing UVC-LEDs. Membranes 10 (12), 2020, 415 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Wurzbacher, Christian; Kreiling, Agnes-Katharina; Svantesson, Sten; Van den Wyngaert, Silke; Larsson, Ellen; Heeger, Felix; Nilsson, Henrik R.; Pálsson, Snæbjörn: Fungal communities in groundwater springs along the volcanic zone of Iceland. Inland Waters 10 (3), 2020, 418-427 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

Conference Papers / Poster

• Sperle P.; Wurzbacher C.; Skibinski B.; Drewes J.E.: Reducing the impacts of biofouling in reverse osmosis membrane systems through low fluence pretreatment employing UVC-LED irradiation. IWA Biofilms Virtual Conference – Emerging Trends and Developments in Biofilm Processes, 2020, 2020 more… BibTeX

Misc.

• Duarte, S.; Wurzbacher, C.; Seena, S.: Metabarcoding of Litter-Associated Fungi and Bacteria. Methods to Study Litter Decomposition ((pp. 339-346). Springer, Cham.), 2020 more… BibTeX
• Seena, S.; Duarte, S.; Wurzbacher, C.: A Bioinformatics Primer for the Analysis of Illumina MiSeq Data of Litter-Associated Fungi and Bacteria. Methods to Study Litter Decomposition ((pp. 573-582). Springer, Cham.), 2020 more… BibTeX

2019

Journal Articles

• Grossart, Hans-Peter; Van den Wyngaert, Silke; Kagami, Maiko; Wurzbacher, Christian; Cunliffe, Michael; Rojas-Jimenez, Keilor: Fungi in aquatic ecosystems. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Heeger, Felix; Wurzbacher, Christian; Bourne, Elizabeth C.; Mazzoni, Camila J.; Monaghan, Michael T.: Combining the 5.8S and ITS2 to improve classification of fungi. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10 (10), 2019, 1702-1711 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Rojas-Jimenez, Keilor; Rieck, Angelika; Wurzbacher, Christian; Jürgens, Klaus; Labrenz, Matthias; Grossart, Hans-Peter: A Salinity Threshold Separating Fungal Communities in the Baltic Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

Conference Papers / Poster

• Fajnorova, S.; Hübner, U.; Wurzbacher, C.; Wanner, J.; Drewes, J.E.: Fate of antibiotic microbial resistance during ozonation of wastewater treatment plant effluent. 11th International Water and Health Seminar, 2019 more… BibTeX
• Kluge, M.; Wurzbacher, C.; Stenlid J.; Peura, S.: Acessing poorly studied fungi from a thermokarst site in Abisko, Sweden, by culture and isolation. SAME 16 – 16th Symposium of aquatic microbial ecology, 2019 more… BibTeX

2018

Journal Articles

• Anslan, Sten; Nilsson, R. Henrik; Wurzbacher, Christian; Baldrian, Petr; Tedersoo, Leho; Bahram, Mohammad: Great differences in performance and outcome of high-throughput sequencing data analysis platforms for fungal metabarcoding. MycoKeys 39, 2018, 29-40 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Bengtsson-Palme, Johan; Richardson, Rodney T; Meola, Marco; Wurzbacher, Christian; Tremblay, Émilie D; Thorell, Kaisa; Kanger, Kärt; Eriksson, K Martin; Bilodeau, Guillaume J; Johnson, Reed M; Hartmann, Martin; Nilsson, R Henrik: Metaxa2 Database Builder: enabling taxonomic identification from metagenomic or metabarcoding data using any genetic marker. Bioinformatics, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Nilsson, R. Henrik; Anslan, Sten; Bahram, Mohammad; Wurzbacher, Christian; Baldrian, Petr; Tedersoo, Leho: Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Wurzbacher, Christian; Larsson, Ellen; Bengtsson-Palme, Johan; Van den Wyngaert, Silke; Svantesson, Sten; Kristiansson, Erik; Kagami, Maiko; Nilsson, R. Henrik: Introducing ribosomal tandem repeat barcoding for fungi. Molecular Ecology Resources, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
• Wurzbacher, Christian; Larsson, Ellen; Bengtsson‐Palme, Johan; Van den Wyngaert, Silke; Svantesson, Sten; Kristiansson, Erik; Kagami, Maiko; Nilsson, R. Henrik: Introducing ribosomal tandem repeat barcoding for fungi. Molecular Ecology Resources 19 (1), 2018, 118-127 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

Conference Papers / Poster

• Kluge, M.; Wurzbacher, C.; Rautio, M.; Wauthy, M.; Peura, S.: Exploring the fungal communities of Arctic ponds from continous and discontinous permafrost areas. ISME 17, 2018 more… BibTeX
• Wurzbacher, C.: Poorly known fungi in natural and engineered biofilms. 5th Biofilm Workshop 2018: Omic approaches in biofilm research: advances in ecology and ecotoxicology, 2018 more… BibTeX