Cur­riculum Vitae

Group leader

Research Group Metabolic Interactions

Dr. Manuel Liebeke

MPI for Marine Microbiology
Celsiusstr. 1
D-28359 Bremen
Germany

Room: 

3244

Phone: 

+49 421 2028-8220

Dr. Manuel Liebeke

Academic career

since 4/2023

Full Professor for Metabolomics, Kiel Uni­versity

2021/2022

Visiting Professor (Otto Monstedt Found­a­tion) at DTU Copen­ha­gen (CEM­IST)
since 07/2018

In­de­pend­ent Research Group Leader Metabolic Interactions at Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Dept. of Sym­bi­osis (HoD N. Du­bilier)

01/2014 Of­fer Juniorprofessur Chemische Biologie at Uni­versity of Mar­burg - de­clined
11/2013-07/2018

Research associate at Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Bre­men, Dept. of Sym­bi­osis, main top­ics: De­vel­op­ment of meth­ods for ul­tra-high res­ol­u­tion mass spec­tral ima­ging of meta­bol­ites and pro­teins in host-mi­crobe in­ter­ac­tions

2013-2015

Hon­or­ary re­search as­so­ci­ate at Im­per­ial Col­lege Lon­don, Dept. of Sur­gery and Can­cer, Fac­ulty of Medi­cine, Com­pu­ta­tional and Sys­tems Medi­cine

06/2010-10/2013 Research associate at Im­per­ial Col­lege Lon­don, Dept. of Sur­gery and
Can­cer, Fac­ulty of Medi­cine, Bio­molecu­lar Medi­cine, HoD Pro­fessor Jeremy Nich­olson, group of Dr. Jake Bundy
Main topic: en­vir­on­mental meta­bolo­m­ics, meta­bolic pro­fil­ing on in­ver­teb­rates, ana­lyt­ical method de­vel­op­ment, mass spec­tral ima­ging of meta­bol­ites in an­imal and plant tis­sue
11/2010

Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in phar­ma­ceut­ical bio­logy with ,summa cum laude’
Thesis: “Establishment and application of techniques for microbial metabolomics”, Ad­visor: Pro­fessor Dr. Mi­chael Lalk

12/2006-05/2010 Ph.D. student at the In­sti­tute of Phar­macy, Dept. of Phar­ma­ceut­ical Bio­logy,
Uni­versity of Gre­if­swald, Ger­many
12/2006 Ap­prob­a­tion as phar­macist
06/2006-11/2006

Stu­dent ap­pren­tice (as part of Ap­prob­a­tion) in a phar­macy, Gre­if­swald, Ger­many

11/2005-05/2006

Diploma student at the In­sti­tute of Phar­macy, Dept. of Medi­cinal and Phar­ma­ceut­ical Chem­istry, Uni­versity of Gre­if­swald
Thesis: “Correlations between the cytotoxicity of anticancer drugs, especially platinum(IV) complexes and the enzymatic status in different human cancer cell lines”, Ad­visor: Pro­fessor PJ. Bed­narski

Education

2001-2005 Stud­ies in phar­macy at the Uni­versity of Gre­if­swald, Ger­many
 

Main fields: phar­ma­ceut­ical chem­istry, bio­logy, tech­no­logy and phar­ma­co­logy

Publications

                           >60 peer-re­viewed pub­lic­a­tions (12 cor­res­pond­ing au­thor­ships, 16 first-/​shared-first au­thor­ships), 1 book chapter
 

(for full list see List of publications or GoogleScholar)

Funding

2021-2024            

Search­ing for solu­tions for Car­bon-se­quest­ra­tion in coastal eco­sys­tems: sea4so­Ci­ety (total: 5Mio. €, own work­ing pack­age as PI: 400.000 €)

Scholarships

2021 Otto Monstedt guest pro­fess­or­ship to visit Dan­ish Tech­nical Uni­versity Copen­ha­gen (sti­pend, 140.000 DKK)
2009-2010 Al­fried-Krupp von Bo­hlen and Hal­bach PhD schol­ar­ship “A Func­tional Ge­n­om­ics Ap­proach to In­fec­tion Bio­logy” (30.000 €)
2005-2006         

“Apo­theker-Paul-Mar­shall” schol­ar­ship for dip­loma thesis (12.000 €)

Awards

2022

New­comb Clev­e­land Prize of the Amer­ican As­so­ci­ation for the Ad­vance­ment of Sci­ence (AAAS) for Brein­linger et al. 2021 Sci­ence pa­per Science News

2018

Mass Spec­tro­metry Ima­ging Award 2018 by Ima­Bi­otech for cor­rel­at­ive ima­ging pipeline, awar­ded to PhD stu­dent B. Geier (5 000 $)

2012 Travel fel­low­ship from “Fonds der chemischen In­dus­trie”
2010 Travel award re­ceived for present­a­tion at “meta­bolo­m­ics so­ci­ety con­fer­ence”, Ed­mon­ton, Canada
2008                     Poster award “in­nov­at­ive method” at “20th nat­ural products con­fer­ence”, Irsee, Ger­many

Invited Talks

2022 Gor­don Re­search Con­fer­ence “Mar­ine Nat­ural Products”
  Gor­don Re­search Con­fer­ence “Mo­lecu­lar Basis of Mi­cro­bial One-Car­bon Meta­bol­ism”
2021

Sem­inar Series: Re­cent Pro­gress in In­fec­tion Bio­logy, Uni­versity of Basel
Taking a Microscale Look at Host-Microbe Interactions: Visualising Cells and Chemicals in One Picture

 

Key­note lec­ture “Nat­ural Products” at Mi­Comm, Jena

 

Otto Mønsted guest pro­fessor lec­ture, DTU Copen­ha­gen
A microscale look at host-microbe interactions & visualize cells and their chemicals in one picture.

 

„2nd work­shop on Meta­bolo­m­ics in Chronic In­flam­mat­ory Bar­rier Dis­eases”, CAU Kiel

 

mSys­tems think­ing series ‘Tech­no­lo­gies in sys­tems mi­cro­bi­o­logy’ – on­line talk (400 par­ti­cipants)

Spatial Metabolomics of in Situ Host–microbe Interactions at the Micrometre Scale

2019

In­ter­na­tional con­fer­ence Mi­cro­bial sec­ond­ary meta­bol­ites in mi­cro­bi­o­mes, Copen­ha­gen, Den­mark

Chemical detection and visualization of microbial secondary metabolites -Spatial metabolomics of in situ, host-microbe interactions

2018

In­ter­na­tional Ima­ging Mass Spec­tro­metry Con­fer­ence OurCon VI, Char­le­ston, USA

High resolution mapping of microbes and metabolites exposes a network of beneficial metabolic interactions

8th nanoSIMS user meet­ing, Bre­men, Ger­many

Spatial mapping of metabolites in host-microbe interactions

2017

Mass Spec­tro­metry Sem­inar of the Med­ical Fac­ulty at the Uni­versity of Mün­ster, Ger­many

FISHing for molecules - probing metabolic signatures of intracellular bacteria with mass spectrometry imaging

2016

In­vited speaker and ses­sion con­vener at ISME Montreal

FISHing for Molecules - Probing metabolic signatures of intracellular symbiotic bacteria with mass-spectrometry imaging

2016

In­vited talk at the Mi­cro­bi­o­logy and In­fec­tious Dis­ease Col­loquium of the Uni­versity of Gre­if­swald, Ger­many

Spatial mapping of metabolites and proteins in host-microbe interactions at the micrometer scale

2015

In­vited speaker at OurCon Ima­ging Mass Spec­tro­metry Con­fer­ence, Pisa, Italy

Opening a new can of worms with high resolution multimodality imaging?

In­vited speaker - In­ternal Sem­inar at Dept. of BioS­cience, Uni­versity of Aar­hus, Den­mark

Spatial mapping of metabolites and proteins in host-microbe interactions

In­vited speaker - Mi­cro­bial Eco­logy Lec­ture Series, Uni­versity of Vi­enna, Aus­tria

Mass spectral imaging of metabolites and proteins in host-microbe interactions

2014                   

In­vited speaker - DFG Core Fa­cil­ity work­shop "MALDI-MULTI", Bre­men, Ger­many

Diving deep – Mass spectral imaging in marine and terrestrial invertebrates

Teaching and Outreach

2014-2019

Mem­ber of the fac­ulty of the In­ter­na­tional Max Planck Re­search School for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy (MarMic) - Teach­ing in MSc pro­gram ‘Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy’ prac­tical and sem­inars “Sym­bi­osis”

2015

Fea­tured on the Ger­man and French TV show Arte Xenius “Der Re­gen­wurm: Der König der Bo­den­tiere”

2013 Teach­ing as­sist­ant “Tox­ic­o­logy and Phar­ma­cokin­et­ics”, sem­inars
2008-2010 Teach­ing as­sist­ant “phar­ma­ceut­ical bio­logy”, prac­tical course and sem­inars
2008-2010                 

As­sist­ant in in­struc­tion for dip­loma stu­dents in “phar­ma­ceut­ical bio­logy”

Supervision

Cur­rently su­per­vised stu­dents:

  • Patric Borceau –supervisor for PhD thesis (since 2 years),
  • Grace D’Angelo - supervisor for PhD thesis (1 year)

Past: of­fi­cial su­per­visor 

  • 2021 - Dr. D. Michellod
  • 2020 - Dr. B. Geier
  • 5 Master theses (D. Jakob, P. Bourceau, M. Janda, D. Michellod, B. Geier),
  • 2 Bachelor theses, planning and supervision of four internships for lab technician job (1 year each)

Academic Service and Societies

Ed­itor for Journ­als:

  • mSystems (ASM Press)

 Ad-hoc Re­viewer:

  • Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Biochemistry, Analyst, Biointerphases, Chemosphere, Current Biology, Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Processes, Frontiers in Microbiology, Metabolomics, Metabolites, Metallomics, mSystems, Nature Microbiology, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Ecology and Evolution, PloS One, New Biotechnology, Journal of Proteome Research

 Mem­ber of So­ci­et­ies:

  • Biochemical Society, Metabolomics Society, Mass spectrometry Imaging Society, German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG), VAAM
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