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Employee information:

Name: Claudia Zell
Department: Marine Organic Biogeochemistry (BGC)
Email: Claudia.Zell(at)nioz.nl
Telephone: +31 (0)222 369 462

About:

Education

 

Since September 2009

PhD, Marine Organic Biogeochemistry group with Prof. J.S. Sinninghe Damsté, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research/Utrecht University, Netherlands

February – August 2009

Master Thesis, practical phase partially carried out at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, Institute for Organic Chemistry, Thesis: Secondary metabolites in Roseobacter

October 2007 – August 2009

Master of Science in Microbiology, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment University of Oldenburg, Germany

 

Publications

Zell C., Kim J.-H., Abril G., Sobrinho R., Dorhout D., Moreira-Turcq P. and Sinninghe Damsté S.J. Impact of seasonal hydrological variation on the distributions of tetraether lipids along the Amazon River in the central Amazon basin: Implications for the MBT/CBT paleothermometer and the BIT index. Front. Microbiol. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00228 http://www.frontiersin.org/Terrestrial_Microbiology/10.3389/fmicb.2013.00228/abstract

Zell C., Kim J.-H., Moreira-Turcq P., Abril G., Hopmans E.C., Bonnet M.-P., Lima Sobrinho R. and Sinninghe Damsté S.J., Disentangling the origins of branched tetraether lipids and crenarchaeol in the lower Amazon River: Implications for GDGT-based proxies. Limnol. Oceanogr. (2013) 58(1), 343–353. doi:10.4319/lo.2013.58.1.0343 http://aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_58/issue_1/0343.html

Hahnke S., Brock N.L., Zell C., Simon M., Dickschat J.S. and Brinkhoff T. Physiological diversity of Roseobacter clade bacteria co-occurring during a phytoplankton bloom in the North Sea. Syst Appl. Microbiol. (2013) 36(1), 39-48. doi: 10.1016/j.syapm.2012.09.004. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23265193

Brock N.L., Citron C.A., Zell C., Berger M., Wagner-Döbler I., Petersen J., Brinkhoff T., Meinhard, Simon M. and Dickschat J.S. Isotopically labeled sulfur compounds and synthetic selenium and tellurium analogues to study sulfur metabolism in marine bacteria.Beilstein J. Org. Chem. (2013) 9, 942–950. doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.108 http://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/single/articleFullText.htm?publicId=1860-5397-9-108

Kim J.-H., Zell C., Moreira-Turcq P., A.P. Pérez M.A.P., Abril G., Mortillaro J.-M., Weijers J.W.H., Meziane T., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Tracing soil organic carbon in the lower Amazon River and its tributaries using GDGT distributions and bulk organic matter properties. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2012) 90, 163–180 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.05.014 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012GeCoA..90..163K

Dickschat J.S., Zell C. and Brock N.L. Pathways and substrate specificity of DMSP catabolism in marine bacteria of the Roseobacter clade. Chembiochem. (2010) 15;11(3), 417-25. doi: 10.1002/cbic.200900668. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.200900668/abstract

 

Conference contributions

2013

Oral presentation, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 07-12 April

2012

Poster presentation, Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, Holderness, NH (USA), 29 July - 3 August

2011

Poster presentation, 25th IMOG Interlaken , Switzerland 18-23 September

2010

Poster presentation, AGU Meeting of Americas Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 8-12 August

 

Field campaigns

 

2011

Pacemaker project, R/V Pelagia, Tagus and Douro River fan, Portugal

2010

AmazonPaleo project, R/V Knorr, Amazon fan Brazil

2009

River basin sampling of the Amazon River