Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Anna A. Gorbushina
Anna A. Gorbushina is Full Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin & Head of Department 4 »Materials and the Environment« at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin.
Based on an initial training in biophysics and mycology, she worked in geomicrobiology and cultural heritage protection in Oldenburg and St. Petersburg (Russia) and habilitated in geomicrobiology at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. For almost a decade she has been teaching microbiology for restorers at the Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences (CICS).
Supported by the research scholarships of the Swiss Research Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she developed a laboratory model for the imitation of long-term interactions between microorganisms and materials at the University of Geneva.
Her research in Berlin focuses on understanding the geochemical and molecular mechanisms by which microorganisms, especially fungi, succeed in colonisation and alteration of air-exposed material surfaces.
Her lab concentrates on black fungi – organisms that are specialists in (i) material colonisation and weathering, (ii) biofilm formation, and (iii) stress tolerance. Since 2010 her research group has implemented forward and reverse genetics methods for an environmental black fungus. Elucidation of material changes that are induced by fungal biofilms can now proceed with the help of the genetically amenable fungus Knufia petricola!
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
Unter den Eichen 87
12205 Berlin
Articles
Stohl, L., Manninger, T., von Werder, J., Dehn, F., Gorbushina, A., Meng, B. 2023. »Bioreceptivity of concrete: A review.« Journal of Building Engineering, 76: 107201.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.107201
Breitenbach, R., Gerrits, R., Dementyeva, P., Knabe, N., Schumacher, J., Feldmann, I., Radnik, J., Ryo, M., Gorbushina, A. A. 2022. »The role of extracellular polymeric substances of fungal biofilms in mineral attachment and weathering.« npj Materials Degradation, 6 (1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41529-022-00253-1
Erdmann, E. A., Nitsche, S., Gorbushina, A. A., Schumacher, J. 2022. »Genetic Engineering of the Rock Inhabitant Knufia petricola Provides Insight Into the Biology of Extremotolerant Black Fungi.« Frontiers in Fungal Biology, 3
https://doi.org/10.3389/ffunb.2022.862429
Schumacher, J., Gorbushina, A. A. 2021. »Schwarze Pilze — Wüstenbesiedler finden neue Lebensräume.« BIOspektrum, 27 (6): 665-666.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-021-1646-9
Gerrits, R., Pokharel, R., Breitenbach, R., Radnik, J., Feldmann, I., Schuessler, J., von Blanckenburg, F., Gorbushina, A., Schott, J. 2020. »How the rock-inhabiting fungus K. petricola A95 enhances olivine dissolution through attachment.« Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 282: 76-97.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.05.010
Koester, M., Stock, S. C., Nájera, F., Abdallah, K., Gorbushina, A., Prietzel, J., Matus, F., Klysubun, W., Boy, J., Kuzyakov, Y., Dippold, M. A., Spielvogel, S. 2020. »From rock eating to vegetarian ecosystems — Disentangling processes of phosphorus acquisition across biomes.« Geoderma, 388: 114827.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114827
Voigt, O., Knabe, N., Nitsche, S., Erdmann, E. A., Schumacher, J., Gorbushina, A. A. 2020. »An advanced genetic toolkit for exploring the biology of the rock-inhabiting black fungus Knufia petricola.« Scientific Reports, 10 (1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79120-5
Teixeira, M., Moreno, L., Stielow, B., Muszewska, A., Hainaut, M., Gonzaga, L., Abouelleil, A., Patané, J., Priest, M., Souza, R., Young, S., Ferreira, K., Zeng, Q., da Cunha, M., Gladki, A., Barker, B., Vicente, V., de Souza, E., Almeida, S., Henrissat, B., Vasconcelos, A., Deng, S., Voglmayr, H., Moussa, T., Gorbushina, A., Felipe, M., Cuomo, C., de Hoog, G. S. 2017. »Exploring the genomic diversity of black yeasts and relatives (Chaetothyriales, Ascomycota).« Studies in Mycology, 86 (1): 1-28.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simyco.2017.01.001
Shirakawa, M. A., Zilles, R., Mocelin, A., Gaylarde, C. C., Gorbushina, A., Heidrich, G., Giudice, M. C., Del Negro, G. M., John, V. M. 2015. »Microbial colonization affects the efficiency of photovoltaic panels in a tropical environment.« Journal of Environmental Management, 157: 160-167.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.03.050
Gorbushina, A. A. 2007. »Life on the rocks.« Environmental Microbiology, 9 (7): 1613-1631.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01301.x