Curriculum vitae

• Volker Mueller (born September 12, 1959)
• Diploma (Biology), University of  Göttingen, 1985
• Ph.D. Thesis in Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, University of Göttingen, 1987
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Microbiology, University of Göttingen, 1987-88
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Yale University, 1989-90
• Assistant, Institute of Microbiology, University of Göttingen, 1991-94
• Habilitation (Microbiology), University of Göttingen, 1994
• Heisenberg-Fellow, German Science Foundation (DFG), 1995-97
• Associate Professor (C3), Institute of Microbiology, Maximilians University Munich, 1997-2002
• Full Professor (C4), Institute of Molecular Biosciences (formerly Institute of Microbiology), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, since 2003

Honors and awards

• Ph. D. thesis award, German Society for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM), 1988
• Postdoctoral fellowship, German Science Foundation (DFG), 1989
• Young Investigator Award (Förderpreis), German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM), 1995
• Heisenberg Fellowship, German Science Foundation, 1996

Research Interests

• Physiology of anaerobic acetogenic bacteria and methanogenic archaea: Bioenergetics of acetogenesis  and methanogenesis; Structure, function and evolution of ATP synthases; Biochemistry of caffeate respiration; Regulation of carbon and electron flow in acetogenic bacteria
• Molecular basis of saltadaptation in halotolerant and halophilic microorganisms: Transport and biosynthesis of compatible solutes; Ion homoeostasis; Signalperception and signal transduction chains; Gene activation; Functional genome analyses
• Role of chloride in microorganisms: Chloride, a new signal molecule for microbes; Identification of chloride induced genes and proteins; Analyses of the chloride regulon

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