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Wolfgang Streit
Wolfgang R. Streit (* 1964) is a German microbiologist and university professor at the Universität Hamburg, Germany

Career
Wolfgang Streit completed a biology degree at the Philipps-Universität Marburg until 1989, where in 1993 he was awarded the doctorate for his work on the microbiology of rhizobia. In 1994 he worked as a postdoc at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and at the University of California, Davis, USA (from 1995 to 1997). From 1997 to 1998, he conducted research at the Universität Bielefeld and then led until 2004 a work group at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, where he habilitated in July 2002 in the field of microbiology with Wolfgang Liebl. From 2004 to 2006 he was Professor of Enzyme Technology at the Universität Duisburg-Essen in the Department of Chemistry. Since 2006, Wolfgang Streit heads the Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology at the Universität Hamburg as a professor in the MIN faculty.

Research interests
Wolfgang Streit and his group are pursuing several main research areas: First, metagenomics is in the focus and the utilization of the previously uncultivated microorganisms for biotechnology. The group is interested in the identification of new enzymes and valuable biomolecules. These include, for example, lipases, glycosyltransferases and also enzymes for plastic degradation. On the other hand, the group is investigating the molecular processes that lead to the formation of microbial biofilms in order to derive strategies to inhibit biofilm growth. In addition, the team of Wolfgang Streit is very much interested in bacterial cell-cell communication as well as topics of biotechnology.

Awards, memberships and other activities

 * 1995–1997 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
 * 1997–1998 Habilitation scholarship of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
 * Coordinator of the EraNet networks "MetaCat" and "MarBioTech"
 * Memberships: Association for General and Applied Microbiology, DECHEMA, American Society for Microbiology, Hamburg School of Food Science
 * Editorial Board: Applied Environmental Microbiology, Frontiers of Microbiology, Journal of Molecular Biotechnology and co-publisher of RÖMPP online (2009-2015)

Selected publications

 * W. R. Streit, R. Daniel, K. E. Jaeger: Prospecting for biocatalysts and drugs in the genomes of non-cultured microorganisms. In: Current Opinion in Biotechnology. Volume 15, number 4, August 2004, page 285–290, doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2004.05.006, PMID 15296926 (Review).
 * W. R. Streit, R. A. Schmitz: Metagenomics–the key to the uncultured microbes. In: Current Opinion in Microbiology. Volume 7, number 5, October 2004, page 492–498, doi:10.1016/j.mib.2004.08.002, PMID 15451504 (Review).
 * C. Schmeisser, H. Liesegang, D. Krysciak, N. Bakkou, A. Le Quéré, A. Wollherr, I. Heinemeyer, B. Morgenstern, A. Pommerening-Röser, M. Flores, R. Palacios, S. Brenner, G. Gottschalk, R. A. Schmitz, W. J. Broughton, X. Perret, A. W. Strittmatter, W. R. Streit: Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234 possesses a remarkable number of secretion systems. In: Applied and environmental microbiology. Volume 75, number 12, June 2009, page 4035–4045, doi:10.1128/AEM.00515-09, PMID 19376903, PMC 2698369 (free full text)
 * A. Spang, R. Hatzenpichler, C. Brochier-Armanet, T. Rattei, P. Tischler, E. Spieck, W. Streit, D. A. Stahl, M. Wagner, C. Schleper: Distinct gene set in two different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea supports the phylum Thaumarchaeota. In: Trends in Microbiology. Volume 18, number 8, August 2010, page 331–340, doi:10.1016/j.tim.2010.06.003, PMID 20598889.
 * R. Gao, D. Krysciak, K. Petersen, C. Utpatel, A. Knapp, C. Schmeisser, R. Daniel, S. Voget, K. E. Jaeger, W. R. Streit: Genome-wide RNA sequencing analysis of quorum sensing-controlled regulons in the plant-associated Burkholderia glumae PG1 strain. In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Volume 81, number 23, December 2015, page 7993–8007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01043-15, PMID 26362987, PMC 4651095 (free full text).
 * F. S. Haack, A. Poehlein, C. Kröger, C. A. Voigt, M. Piepenbring, H. B. Bode, R. Daniel, W. Schäfer, W. R. Streit: Molecular Keys to the and spp. Interaction with the Plant Pathogen. In: Frontiers in Microbiology. Volume 7, 2016, page 1668, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01668, PMID 27833590, PMC 5080296 (free full text).
 * R. Wohlgemuth, A. Liese, W. Streit: Biocatalytic Phosphorylations of Metabolites: Past, Present, and Future. In: Trends in Biotechnology. Volume 35, number 5, May 2017, page 452–465, doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.01.005, PMID 28256275 (Review).
 * D. Danso, C. Schmeisser, J. Chow, W. Zimmermann, R. Wei, C. Leggewie, X. Li, T. Hazen, W. R. Streit: New Insights into the Function and Global Distribution of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)-Degrading Bacteria and Enzymes in Marine and Terrestrial Metagenomes. In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Volume 84, number 8, April 2018, doi:10.1128/AEM.02773-17, PMID 29427431, PMC 5881046 (free full text).
 * J. Chow, D. Danso, M. Ferrer, W. R. Streit: The Thaumarchaeon N. gargensis carries functional bioABD genes and has a promiscuous E. coli ΔbioH-complementing esterase EstN1. In: Scientific Reports.Volume 8, number 1, September 2018, page 13823, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-32059-0, PMID 30218044, PMC 6138646 (free full text).