Recent publications:
Alawi, M., Lipski, A., Sanders, T., Pfeiffer, E.-M., Spieck, E. (2007). Cultivation of a novel cold-adapted nitrite oxidizing betaproteobacterium from the Siberian Arctic. ISME J 1: 256-264.
Hatzenpichler, R., Lebedeva, E.V., Spieck, E., Stoecker, K., Richter, A., Daims, H., Wagner, M. A (2008) Moderately Thermophilic Ammonia-Oxidizing Crenarchaeote from a Hot Spring. PNAS 105: 2135-2139.
Alawi, M., Off, S., Kaya, M., and Spieck, E. (2009). Temperature influences the population structure of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in activated sludge. Environ. Microbiol. Reports 1, 184-190.
Off S, Alawi M & Spieck E. (2010) Enrichment and physiological characterization of a novel Nitrospira-like bacterium obtained from a marine sponge. Appl Environ Microbiol 76: 4640-4646.
A. Spang, R. Hatzenpichler, C. Brochier-Armanet, T. Rattei, P. Tischler, E. Spieck, W. Streit, D. A. Stahl, M. Wagner, C. Schleper. (2010) Distinct gene set in two different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea supports the phylum Thaumarchaeota. Trends in Microbiology 18(8): 331-40.
Lücker, S., Wagner, M., Maixner, F., Pelletier, E., Koch, H., Vacherie, B., Rattei, T., Sinninghe Damstè, J. S., Spieck, E., Le Paslier, D., and Daims, H. (2010). A Nitrospira metagenome illuminates the physiology and evolution of globally important nitrite-oxidizing bacteria. PNAS 107: 13479-13484.
Keuter, S., Kruse, M., Lipski, A., and Spieck, E. (2011) Relevance of Nitrospira for nitrite oxidation in a marine recirculation aquaculture system and physiological features of a Nitrospira marina-like isolate. Environ Microbiol 13: 2536-2547.
Lebedeva, E. V., Off, S., Zumbrägel, S., Kruse, M., Shagzhina, A., Lücker, S., Maixner, F., Lipski, A., Daims, H., and Spieck, E. (2011). Isolation and characterization of a moderately thermophilic nitrite-oxidizing bacterium from a geothermal spring. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 75 (2): 195-204
Book Chapters:
Starkenburg, S. R., Spieck, E., and Bottomley, P. J. (2010). Metabolism and genomics of nitrite oxidizing bacteria: emphasis on pure culture studies and Nitrobacter species. In Ward, B., Arp, D.J., and Klotz, M.G. (eds.), Nitrification, ASM press, Washington, D.C. ISBN978-1-55581-481-6, pp 267-293.
Spieck E. & Lipski A. Cultivation, growth physiology and chemotaxonomy of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (2011). In Methods of enzymology, Vol. 486, Part A, Microbial Nitrification and related Processes (Klotz MG ed.), Oxford: Academic Press/Elsevier Inc. pp 109-130.