TY - CONF A1 - Gorbushina, Anna T1 - Life on the rocks: in nature and in the lab T2 - BioClub der Freien Universität Berlin CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2009-07-14 PY - 2009 AN - OPUS4-19980 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gorbushina, Anna T1 - Life on the rocks: in nature and in the lab T2 - Bio-Geo-Kolloquium CY - Jena, Germany DA - 2009-06-09 PY - 2009 AN - OPUS4-19979 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Krumbein, W.E. A1 - Gorbushina, Anna ED - Timmis, K.N. T1 - Global relations between the Redox cycles of carbon, iron, and sulfur N2 - Solar energy has been transformed into useful redox differences or disequilibria within the Earth´s crust since the onset of anoxygenic and oxygenic photosynthesis in the Precambrian. Inorganic oxidized carbon is transformed into reduced carbon compounds by capturing and storing solar energy. During this process, many different organic compounds are formed including carbohydrates, proteins, hydrocarbons, and various other complex organic metabolic products and their diagenetic polymerization products (melanin, humic substances, petroleum, coal, and kerogen). Many of these solar energy-enriched compounds, however, are oxidized immediately or during the diagenetic transformation of sediments. The oxidation agents are oxygen, sulfate, iron, and other oxidized compounds, which in turn are partly enriched with the original solar energy. On a global biogeochemical scale, however, sulfur and iron are the most important elements. Geological evidence shows that biogeochemical cycles tend to yield stable ratios between the most oxidized forms of carbon (carbon dioxide and calcium/magnesium carbonate) and the most reduced forms (diamond, coal, methane, and hydrocarbons). Throughout the Earth’s history and evolution, this equilibrium ratio is around 1:4, maximally 1:5. When too much carbon is stored in the crust in the form of reduced compounds or vice versa, climatic and biogeomorphogenetic consequences upset the equilibrium. The biosphere reacts in a way to return to the optimal ratio. Excellent examples for this fluctuating equilibrium are the Carboniferous (too much organic carbon stored), the Permian (too little organic carbon stored), and the Tertiary with a generally equivalent production of hydrocarbons and carbonates. At present, we are in a period in which there is a global biogeochemical need to oxidize reduced carbon compounds as fast as possible in order to avoid even more dramatic global climate shifts. The highly evolved human genome seems to be the tool for this shift. Enormous amounts of reduced carbon are turned into the oxidized form as carbon dioxide, which by various biogeochemical pathways is quickly transformed into carbonate, another oxidized form of carbon that can be stabilized and stored in the sedimentary record. Fast recycling of excessively stored solar energy may enable the survival of a global biosphere under highly stressed conditions. KW - Geochemistry KW - Biologically influenced mineral fluxes PY - 2010 SN - 978-3-540-77584-3 SN - 978-3-540-77587-4 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77587-4_10 IS - Chapter 10 SP - 157 EP - 169 PB - Springer CY - Berlin Heidelberg AN - OPUS4-21983 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Krumbein, W. A1 - Gorbushina, Anna ED - Watt, J. ED - Tidblad, J. ED - Kucera, V. ED - Hamilton, R. T1 - Some aspects of biological weathering and air pollution KW - Cyanobacteria KW - Geobiology KW - Microcolonial fungi KW - Rock inhabiting fungi-phototroph symbioses KW - Soil formation KW - Subaerial biofilms KW - Weathering PY - 2009 SN - 978-0-387-84892-1 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84893-8_5 IS - Chapter 5 SP - 127 EP - 145 PB - Springer Science + Business Media AN - OPUS4-20886 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gorbushina, Anna T1 - Idealbiofilm als neues Testsystem: Laborsimulation von Umwelteinflüssen und biologischer Einwirkung auf Materialien T2 - 39. Jahrestagung der GUS Gesellschaft für Umweltsimulation e. V. CY - Stutensee, Germany DA - 2010-03-19 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-21103 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gorbushina, Anna T1 - Mikrobiologische Perspektiven der Materialkunde T2 - Kolloquium der AG Photobiophysik am Institut für Physik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2010-11-08 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-22353 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gorbushina, Anna T1 - Mikrobiologische Perspektiven der Materialkunde T2 - 12. Mitgliedstreffen des Berliner Kreises der GUS Gesellschaft für Umweltsimulation e. V. CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2010-10-19 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-22159 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Pirskawetz, Stephan A1 - Weise, Frank A1 - Gorbushina, Anna T1 - Entwicklung und Überprüfung von Einhausungssystemen für außenexponierte Marmorobjekte - Schlossbrückenfigur, Unter den Linden in Berlin T2 - Abschlusskolloquium des DBU-Projekts "Entwicklung und Überprüfung von Einhausungssystemen zur Reduzierung umweltbedingter Schädigungen von außenexponierten Marmorobjekten" CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2010-10-29 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-22483 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gorbushina, Anna T1 - Idealbiofilme als neues Testsystem: Laborsimulation der Gesteins- und Materialverwitterung T2 - Kolloquium des Instituts für Geologische Wissenschaften an der FU Berlin CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2010-12-09 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-22751 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gorbushina, Anna T1 - Mikrobiologische Perspektiven der Materialkunde T2 - Fraunhofer-Kolloquium am Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik IWM CY - Halle (Saale), Germany DA - 2011-03-22 PY - 2011 AN - OPUS4-23459 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beckmann, S. A1 - Krüger, M. A1 - Engelen, B. A1 - Gorbushina, Anna A1 - Cypionka, H. T1 - Role of bacteria, archaea and fungi involved in methane realease in abandoned coal mines N2 - Worldwide, abandoned coal mines release substantial amounts of methane, which is largely of biogenic origin. The aim of this study was to understand the microbial processes involved in mine-gas formation. Therefore, coal and timber samples and anaerobic enrichments from two abandoned coal mines in Germany were subjected to DGGE analyses and quantitative PCR. The primers used were specific for Bacteria, Archaea, Fungi, and the key functional genes for sulfate reduction (dsrA) and methanogenesis (mcrA). A broad spectrum of facultative anaerobic bacteria and acetogens belonging to all five groups (α-ε) of the Proteobacteria, as well as the Bacteroidetes, Tenericutes, Actinobacteria, Chlorobi and Chloroflexi were detected. Archaea were represented by acetoclastic Methanosarcinales and Crenarchaeota with an unknown metabolism. Fungi formed thick biofilms particularly on timber, and were identified as typical wood degraders belonging to the Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes. The community analysis as well as the environmental conditions and the metabolites detected in a previous study are consistent with the following scenario of methane release: Weathering of coal and timber is initiated by wood-degrading Fungi and Bacteria under a suboxic atmosphere. In the lower, oxygen-depleted layers Fungi and Bacteria perform incomplete oxidation and release reduced substrates which can be channeled into methanogenesis. Acetate appeared to be the main precursor of the biogenic methane in the investigated coal mines. KW - Mine gas KW - Community analysis or microbial diversity KW - Quantitative PCR KW - DGGE KW - Acetoclastic methanogenesis KW - Fermentative bacteria KW - Methanosarcinales PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2010.503258 SN - 0149-0451 VL - 28 IS - 4 SP - 347 EP - 358 PB - Crane, Russak & Co. CY - New York, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-23841 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -