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FELBECK, HORST

Professor of Marine Biology

Degrees:

• Diploma, Westfaelische Wilhelms Universitaet
• Dr. rer. nat., Westfaelische Wilhelms Universitaet

Research Interests:

• Physiology of hydrothermal vent community animals
• Interactions between invertebrates and chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts
• Molecular approaches to study the metabolism of bacterial symbionts

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO181: Marine Biochemistry
• SIO281: Envir Phy&Biochem/Mar Organism
• SIO296: Special Topics/Marine Biology
• SIO297: Marine Biology Seminar

Honors and Awards:

• Training Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Research Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Invited Professor at the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France

Mentoring:

• Robidart, Julie (Graduate; 2000-2006)
• Dufour, Suzanne (Graduate; 1998-2003)
• Duplessis, Melinda (Graduate; 1995-2002)
• Pospesel, Mark (Masters; 1995-1998)
• Millikan, Deborah (Graduate; 1993-1999)
• Hentschel, Ute (Graduate; 1988-1994)
• Pino, Jospehine (Masters; 1986-1989)
• Stein, Jeffrey (Graduate; 1985-1991)
• Cary, Stephen (Graduate; 1983-1989)
• Distel, Daniel (Graduate; 1981-1987)

Felbeck, H. and J. Jarchow: Carbon transfer between symbionts and host in the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila, Physiol. Zool. 71, 294 - 302 (1998)

Pospesel, M., Hentschel, U., and H. Felbeck: Determination of nitrate in the blood of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila using a bacterial nitrate reduction assay, Deep Sea Res. 45, 2189 - 2200 (1998)

Arndt, C., Schiedek, D., and H. Felbeck: Metabolic responses of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila to severe hypoxia, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 174, 151 - 158 (1998)

Felbeck, H. and J. Jarchow: Carbon transfer from the bacterial symbionts to the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila, Cah. Biol. Mar. 39, 279 - 282 (1998)

Arndt, C., Schiedek, D., and H. Felbeck: Metabolic reactions of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila to an hypoxic environment, Cah. Biol. Mar. 39, 271 - 273 (1998)

Hentschel, U., Pospesel, M. A., and H. Felbeck: Evidence for a nitrate uptake mechanism in the hydrothermal vent tube-worm Riftia pachyptila, Cah. Biol. Mar. 39, 301 - 304. (1998)

Hughes, D. S., Felbeck, H., and J. L. Stein: Signal transduction and motility genes from the bacterial endosymbionts of Riftia pachyptila, Cah. Biol. Mar. 39, 305 - 308 (1998)

Maxwell, B. and H. Felbeck: An abundant heme protein in Riftia pachyptila symbionts is a nitrite reductase, Cah. Biol. Mar. 39, 317 - 320 (1998)

Hentschel, U., Berger, E.C., Bright, M., Felbeck, H., and J. A. Ott: Metabolism of nitrogen and sulfur in ectosymbiotic bacteria of marine nematodes (Nematoda, Stilbonematinae), Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 183, 149 - 158 (1999)

Gros, O., Duplessis, M.R., and H. Felbeck: Embryonic development and endosymbiont transmission mode in the symbiotic clam Lucinoma aequizonata (Bivalvia : Lucinidae), Inv. Reprod. Development, 36, 93 - 103 (1999)

Millikan, D.S., Felbeck, H., and J.L. Stein: Identification and characterization of a flagellin gene from the endosymbiont of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila, Appl. Env. Microbiol. 65, 3129 - 3133 (1999)

Hentschel, U., Millikan, D., Arndt, C., Cary, S.C., and H. Felbeck: Phenotypic variations in the gills of the symbiont-containing bivalve Lucinoma aequizonata, Mar. Biol, 136, 633 - 643 (2000)

Girguis, P.R., Lee, R.W., Desaulniers, N., Childress, J.J., Pospesel, M., Felbeck, H., and F. Zal: Fate of nitrate acquired by the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila, Appl. Env. Microbiol. 66, 2783 - 2790 (2000)

Gros, O., Frenkiel, L., Durand, P., and H. Felbeck: Sulfur-oxidizing endosymbiosis in Divaricella quadrisulcata (Bivalvia: Lucinidae): morphological, ultrastructural, and phylogenetic analysis. Symbiosis 29, 293 - 317 (2000)

Arndt, C., Gaill, F., and H. Felbeck: Anaerobic sulfur metabolism in thiotrophic symbioses. J. exp. Biol. 204, 741 - 750 (2001)

Garcia-Esquivel, Z.; Bricelj, V. M., and H. Felbeck:. Metabolic depression and whole-body response to enforced starvation by Crassostrea gigas postlarvae. Comp. Biochem. Physiol.133A, 63 - 77 (2002)

Gros, O., Liberge, M., and H. Felbeck: Interspecific infection of aposymbiotic juveniles of Codakia orbicularis by various tropical lucinid gill-endosymbionts. Marine Biology. 142, 57 - 66 (2003)

Bright, M., Arndt, C., Keckeis, H. and H. Felbeck: A temperature-tolerant interstitial worm with associated epibiotic bacteria from the shallow water fumaroles of Deception Island, Antarctica. Deep-Sea Res., Prt II, 50, 1859 – 1871 (2003)

Gros, O., Liberge, M., Heddi, A., Khatchadourian, C. and H. Felbeck:. Detection of the free-living forms of sulfide-oxidizing gill endosymbionts in the lucinid habitat (Thalassia testudinum environment). Appl. Env. Microbiol. 69, 6264 - 6267 (2003)

Dufour, SC. and H. Felbeck: Sulphide mining by the superextensile foot of symbiotic thyasirid bivalves. Nature 426, 65 - 67 (2003)

Felbeck, H., Arndt, C., Hentschel, U. and J.J. Childress: Experimental application of vascular and coelomic catheterization to identify vascular transport mechanisms for inorganic carbon in the vent tubeworm, Riftia pachyptila, Deep-Sea Res., Prt I, 51: 401-411 (2004)

Duplessis, M.R., Dufour, S.C., Blankenship, L.E., Felbeck, H. and A.A. Yayanos: Anatomical and experimental evidence for particulate feeding in Lucinoma aequizonata and Parvilucina tenuisculpta (Bivalvia : Lucinidae) from the Santa Barbara Basin. Marine Biology. 145(3): 551-561, 2004

Duplessis, M. R., Ziebis, W., Gros, O., Caro, A., Robidart, J. and H. Felbeck: Respiration strategies utilized by the gill endosymbiont from the host lucinid Codakia orbicularis (Bivalvia: Lucinidae). Appl. Env. Microbiol. 70(7): 4144-4150, 2004

Childress, J. J., Fisher, C. R, Felbeck, H. and P. Girguis, On the Edge of a Deep Biosphere: Real Animals in Extreme Environments, In: The Subseafloor Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges. William S.D. Wilcock, Edward F. Delong, Deborah S. Kelley, John A. Baross, S. Craig Cary, Editors, Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 144, 408 pages, 2004

Hahlbeck, E., Pospesel, M., Zal, F., Childress, J.J. and H. Felbeck: Proposed nitrate binding by hemoglobin in Riftia pachyptila blood. Deep- Sea Res. I, 52: 1885-1895, 2005

Dufour S. C. and H. Felbeck: Symbiont abundance in thyasirids (Bivalvia) is related to particulate food and sulphide availability. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 320: 185-194, 2006

Felbeck, H. and D. Bartlett: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Hydrothermal Vent and Seep Biology, La Jolla, September 2005, Editors, Cahiers de Biologie Marine 47, 4, 343 – 490, 2006

Markert, S., Arndt, C., Felbeck, H., Becher, D., Sievert, S., Hügler, M., Albrecht, D., Robidart, J., Bench, S., Feldman, R.A., Hecker,, M., and T. Schweder:: Approaching the uncultured endosymbiont of Riftia pachyptila by physiological proteomics, Science 315, 247-250, 2007

Felbeck, H. and D. Bartlett: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Hydrothermal Vent and Seep Biology, La Jolla, September 2005, Editors, Cah. Biol. Mar., 47 (2006) (23 peer-reviewed manuscripts from various authors, total of about 400 manuscript pages)

Felbeck, H. and D. Bartlett: 3rd International Symposium on Hydrothermal Vent and Seep Biology - Foreword. Cah. Biol. Mar. 47: 337 (2006)

Robidart, J., Bench, S., Feldman, R., Allen, E., Novoradovsky, A., Podell, S., Gaasterland, T. and H. Felbeck: Metabolic versatility of the Riftia pachyptila endosymbiont revealed through metagenomics. Env. Microbiol.: 10: 727-736 (2007) (plus supplementary material)

Levin, L.A., Barry, J.P., Felbeck, H., Smith, C.R., and C.M. Young: Advances in vent, seep, whale- and wood-fall biology. Mar. Ecol. 28:1-3, 2007

Arndt-Sullivan, C., Lechaire, J.P. and H. Felbeck: Extreme anoxia tolerance in the Lucinoma aequizonata symbiosis. J. Shellfish Res. 27: 119-127, 2008

Garcia-Esquivel, Z. and H. Felbeck: Comparative performance of juvenile red abalone, Haliotis rufescens, reared in laboratory with fresh kelp and balanced diets. Aquaculture Nutrition, in press