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Klaus Herburger

Klaus Herburger

Personal Details
Name : Klaus Herburger
Email address : klaus.herburger@ed.ac.uk
Nationality : Austrian
Position : Postdoctoral research associate

Qualifications

  • BSc. (Biology) Faculty of Biology, University of Innsbruck, Austria (2008-2012)
  • MSc. (Botany) Faculty of Biology, Institute of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria (2012-2013)
  • PhD. (Botany) Faculty of Biology, Institute of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria (2014-2016)

Research and funding

  • Significance of hetero-trans-β-glucanase (HTG) in cell wall metabolism of horsetails and genetically engineered cereals
    Research funding: BBSRC (November 2016-December 2018)

Previous Research Interests

  • Modulation of algal cell walls in response to environmental stress
  • Photophysiology of green algae

Publications

  • Karsten U, Herburger K, Holzinger A: Photosynthetic plasticity in the green algal species Klebsormidium flaccidum (Streptophyta) from a terrestrial and a freshwater habitat. 2016 (in press).
  • Herburger K, Remias D, Holzinger A: The green alga Zygogonium ericetorum (Zygnematophyceae, Charophyta) shows high iron and aluminium tolerance: Protection mechanisms and photosynthetic performance. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 92, 2016. doi: doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiw103.
  • Stancheva R, Herburger K, Sheath RG, Holzinger A: Conjugation morphology of Zygogonium ericetorum (Zygnematophyceae, Charophyta) from a high alpine habitat. J Phycol 52: 131-134, 2016.
  • Karsten U, Herburger K, Holzinger A: Living in biological soil crust communities of African deserts—Physiological traits of green algal Klebsormidium species (Streptophyta) to cope with desiccation, light and temperature gradients. Plant Physiol 194: 2-12, 2016.
  • Herburger K, Karsten U, Holzinger A: Entransia and Hormidiella, sister lineages of Klebsormidium (Streptophyta), respond differently to light, temperature, and desiccation stress. Protoplasma 253: 1309-1323, 2016.
  • Herburger K, Holzinger A: Localization and quantification of callose in the streptophyte green algae Zygnema and Klebsormidium: correlation with desiccation tolerance. Plant Cell Physiol 56: 2259-2270, 2015.
  • Holzinger A, Herburger K, Kaplan F, Lewis LA: Desiccation tolerance in the chlorophyte green alga Ulva compressa: Does cell wall architecture contribute to ecological success? Planta 242: 477-492. 2015.
  • Herburger K, Lewis LA, Holzinger A: Photosynthetic efficiency, desiccation tolerance and ultrastructure in two phylogenetically distinct alpine Zygnema sp. (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta): Role of pre-akinete formation. Protoplasma 252: 571–589. 2015.
  • Karsten U, Herburger K, Holzinger A: Desiccation, temperature and light tolerance in members of the aeroterrestrial green algal genus Interfilum (Streptophyta) from biogeographically different temperate soils. J Phycol 50: 804–816. 2014.
  • Stancheva R, Hall JD, Herburger K, Lewis LA, McCourt RM, Sheath RG, Holzinger A : Phylogenetic position of Zygogonium ericetorum Kütz. (Zygnematophyceae, Charophyta) from a high alpine habitat and ultrastructural characterization of unusual aplanospores. J Phycol 50: 790–803. 2014.
  • Kaplan F, Lewis LA, Herburger K, Holzinger A: Osmotic stress in the arctic and antarctic green alga Zygnema sp. (Zygnemtales, Streptophyta): Effects on photosynthesis and ultrastructure. Micron 44: 317-330. 2013.
Book chapters, protocols
  • Herburger K, Holzinger A: Aniline blue and calcofluor white staining of callose and cellulose in the streptophyte green algae Zygnema and Klebsormidium. Bioprotocol 6: e1969, 2016. oi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.1969.
  • Celler K, Fujita M, Kawamura E, Ambrose C, Herburger K, Holzinger A, Wasteneys GO: Microtubules in plant cells: Strategies and methods for immunofluorescence, transmission electron microscopy, and live cell imaging. Meth Mol Biol 1365: 155-184, 2016.

Conferences

Oral presentations

  • Herburger K, Remias D, Holzinger A: Zygogonium ericetorum (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) is well adapted to iron and aluminum rich habitats: Photosynthetic performance of strains from Scotland and Austria (21st Meeting of Austrian Society of Plant Biology (ATSPB), Bertesgaden, Germany, 26.-28.5.2016)
  • Herburger K, Remias D, Holzinger A: Zygogonium ericetorum (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) shows a high iron and aluminium tolerance: Photosynthetic performance of strains from Scotland and Austria (16th Scientific Conference of the Phycology Section of the German Botanical Society, Leipzig, Germany, 6.-9.3. 2016)
  • Holzinger A, Pichrtová M, Herburger K: Multiple roles of cell walls during desiccation stress in green algae (7th International workshop on desiccation sensitivity and tolerance across life forms (Deswork 2016), Cape Town, South Africa, 11.-15.01.2016)
  • Herburger K, Schagerl M. Holzinger A: Callose acts against desiccation-induced forces in filamentous streptophyte green algae from alpine regions (6th International Conference on Polar and Alpine Microbiology (PAM2015), České Budějovice, Czech Republic, 6.-10.9.2015)
  • Hall J, Stancheva R, Herburger K, Lewis LA, McCourt R, Sheath R, Holzinger A: A review of Zygogonium: Its morphology, ecology and occurrence in North America. (54th Annual Meeting of NEAS, Syracuse, NY, 17.-19.4.2015)
  • Herburger K, Holzinger A: Cell wall components and ecophysiological performance in the streptophyte green algae Klebsormidium and Zygnema. (20th Meeting of the Austrian Society of Plant Biology (ATSPB), Lunz am See, Austria, 19.-21.6.2014)
  • Holzinger A, Kaplan F, Herburger K, Blaas K, Komsic-Buchmann K, Becker B: Desiccation stress in the aeroterrestrial green alga Klebsormidium crenulatum: Physiological consequences, cell wall flexibility and transcirptome analysis. (New Frontiers in Anhydrobiosis, Pornichet, France, 24.-27.3.2014
  • Holzinger A, Herburger K, Karsten U: Adaptation strategies of terrestrial streptophycean green algae to desiccation and UV in arctic-alpine habitats. Phycologia 52: 45. (10th International Phycological Congress, Orlando, FL, USA, 4.-10.8.2013)

Poster presentations

  • Herburger K, Aigner S, Rott E, Holzinger A: Pseudoscytonema sp., a calcite-precipitating cyanobacterium forming macroscopic stromatolites in a seepage spring in the Alps. Part 1: Ecophysiology and cell biology. (20th IAC Cyanophyte/Cyanobacteria Research Symposium, Innsbruck, Austria, 28.8.-2.9.2016)
  • Aigner S, Herburger K, Holzinger A, Rott E: Photosynthetic performances and related UV-photoprotectants from epilithic stream algae of the genus Chamaesiphon sp. (20th IAC Cyanophyte/Cyanobacteria Research Symposium, Innsbruck, Austria, 28.8.-2.9.2016)
  • Herburger K, Zoë A. Popper, Holzinger A: Cell age changes target specificity and activity of xyloglucan endotransglucosylases/hydrolases in late and early diverging charophytes (Zygnema, Klebsormidium) (XIV. Cell Wall Meeting, Chania, Crete, Greece, 12.-17.6.2016)
  • Herburger K, Schagerl M, Holzinger A: The role of callose in avoiding desiccation-induced injury in filamentous streptophyte green algae (6th European Phycological Congress (EPC6), London, UK, 23.-28.8. 2015)

Languages

  • German (native), English (fluent), Italian (basic)

Hobbies

  • Literature, philosophy, drawing, movies.


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