Ruth Schmitz-Streit has been conducting research and teaching at the Institute for General Microbiology at Kiel University, which she heads, since 2004. Her research work ranges from the regulation of the nitrogen metabolism in bacteria and archaea, the nitrogen cycle and the identification of new substances from the ocean and includes studies with host microorganism interactions. Within the "Cluster of Excellence" she works on the identification of new enzymes and substances from the sea for biotechnological and medical applications.
Ruth Schmitz-Streit has been conducting research and teaching at the Institute for General Microbiology at Kiel University, which she heads, since 2004. Her research work ranges from the regulation of the nitrogen metabolism in bacteria and archaea, the nitrogen cycle and the identification of new substances from the ocean and includes studies with host microorganism interactions. Within the "Cluster of Excellence" she works on the identification of new enzymes and substances from the sea for biotechnological and medical applications.
She is active in various bodies and research associations at Kiel University, within the marine sciences in the Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean" as well as in the Collaborative Research Centre 754 "Climate-Biogeochemical interactions in the tropical ocean" and in the steering group of the university research focus area Kiel Marine Science (KMS). In addition to her research, she is committed to education and support of early career scientists in both of these areas. For more than ten years, she has been in the steering committee of the Integrated School of Ocean Science (ISOS), the network for PhD candidates of the Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean". Furthermore, Schmitz-Streit is the spokesperson of the priority program (SPP) 2002 "Prokaryotic Small Proteins: an Unknown World". Like the Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean", the SPP 2002 is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Moreover, she is the first woman to be named president of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM), one of the largest and most important German-speaking expert associations in the area of Life Sciences.
Further information
www.uni-kiel.de/pressemeldungen/?pmid=2017-082-wissenschaftspreis-schmitzstreit (Link to the press release of Kiel University)
http://www.mikrobio.uni-kiel.de/de/ag-schmitz-streit (personal website of Ruth Schmitz-Streit)
www.kms.uni-kiel.de/de/personen/mitglieder/ruth-schmitz-streit (Research profile within the university research focal area Kiel Marine Science, KMS)
www.futureocean.org/de/isos/ (Integrated School of Ocean Science)
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