Ing. Marco Antonio Lopez Marin, Ph.D.

Education

• Bc. Biotechnology, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Mexico
• M.Sc. Environmental Technology and Engineering , IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Netherlands; University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic; Ghent University, Belgium
• Ph.D. Microbiology, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic

Projects

• Arg Tech (removal of antibiotic resistance genes, Covid in wastewater)
• REPARES

Another area of interest

• Cultivation and Characterization of novel bacterial taxa
• Extremophile organisms
• Music

Publications

• Karmann, C., Navratilova, K., Behner, A., Noor, T., Danner, S., Majchrzak, A., Šantrůček, J., Podzimek, T., Lopez Marin, M.A., Hajšlová, J., Bartáček, J., Lipovová, P. and Kouba, V.  2025.  Mechanisms of Anammox Adaptation to High Temperatures: Increased Cyclization of Ladderane Lipids and Proteomic Insights. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering accepted.
• Karmann, C., Čadková, D., Behner, A., Šantrůček, J., Podzimek, T., Cenjar, P., Lopez Marin, M.A., Hajšlová, J., Lipovová, P., Bartáček, J. and Kouba, V.  2024.  Outstanding enrichment of ladderane lipids in anammox bacteria: overlooked effect of pH. Journal of Environmental Management accepted.
• Branysova, T., N. Petru, M. A. Lopez Marin, M. Solcova, K. Demnerova and H. Stiborova Uncovering the microbial diversity of Czech Republic archives: A study of metabolically active airborne microbes. Heliyon, 2024/04/15/ 2024, 10(7), e27930.
• Zdenkova, K., J. Jiresova, E. Lokajova, M. Klenivskyi, J. Julak, M. A. L. Marin, P. Ticha, M. Domonkos, P. Demo and V. Scholtz Modeling the growth of Aspergillus brasiliensis affected by a nonthermal plasma. Journal of Applied Microbiology,  2024a, 135(5).
• Zdenkova, K., S. Mukherjee, M. A. L. Marin, P. Horka, V. Kyrova, M. Potuckova and E. Cermmakova Interlaboratory study on real-time PCR detection and quantification of the European anglerfish, pike, and seabream parvalbumin gene. European Food Research and Technology, 2024/05/21 2024b.
• Lopez Marin, M. A., Strejcek, M., & Uhlik, O. (2023). Joining the bacterial conversation: increasing the cultivation efficiency of soil bacteria with acyl-homoserine lactones and cAMP. Microbiology Spectrum, 11(6), e01860-23.
• Andreides, D., M. A. Lopez Marin and J. Zabranska (2024). "Selective syngas fermentation to acetate under acidic and psychrophilic conditions using mixed anaerobic culture." Bioresource Technology 394: 130235.
• Dostálková, A., Zdeňková, K., Bartáčková, J., Čermáková, E., Kapisheva, M., Lopez Marin, M., Kouba, V., Sýkora, P., Chmel, M., Bartoš, O., Dresler, J., Demnerová, K., Rumlová, M. and Bartáček, J. (2024) Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Prague wastewater determined by nanopore-based sequencing. Chemosphere accepted.
• Bartackova, J., Kouba, V., Dostalkova, A., Čermáková, E., Lopez Marin, M.A., Chmel, M., Milanová, M., Demnerová, K., Rumlová, M., Sýkora, P., Bartáček, J. and Zdeňková, K.  2023.  Monitoring of monkeypox viral DNA in Prague wastewater. Sci. Total Environ. accepted.
• Kapinusova, G., Lopez Marin, M. A. & Uhlik, O. (2023). Reaching unreachables: Obstacles and successes of microbial cultivation and their reasons. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14.
• Lopez Marin, M. A., Zdenkova, K., Bartackova, J., Cermakova, E., Dostalkova, A., Demnerova, K., Vavruskova, L., Novakova, Z., Sykora, P., Rumlova, M. & Bartacek, J. (2023). Monitoring COVID-19 spread in selected Prague's schools based on the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater. Science of The Total Environment, 871 161935.
• M. A. Lopez Marin,  J. Suman, K. Jani, P. Ulbrich, T. Cajthaml, A. Filipova, P. Pajer, M. Neumann-Schaal, M. Strejcek, O. Uhlik: Solicola gregarius gen. nov., sp. nov., a soil actinobacterium isolated after enhanced cultivation with Micrococcus luteus culture supernatant. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 73,  (2023).
• Lopez Marin, M. A., J. Suman, K. Jani, P. Ulbrich, T. Cajthaml, P. Pajer, J. Wolf, M. Neumann-Schaal, M. Strejcek and O. Uhlik (2022). "Pedomonas mirosovicensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from soil with the aid of Micrococcus luteus culture supernatant containing resuscitation-promoting factor." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 72(8).
• Zdenkova, K., J. Bartackova, E. Cermakova, K. Demnerova, A. Dostalkova, V. Janda, J. Jarkovsky, M. A. Lopez Marin, Z. Novakova, M. Rumlova, J. R. Ambrozova, K. Skodakova, I. Swierczkova, P. Sykora, D. Vejmelkova, J. Wanner and J. Bartacek (2022). "Monitoring COVID-19 spread in Prague local neighborhoods based on the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater collected throughout the sewer network." Water Research 216: 118343.
• LOPEZ MARIN, M. A., STREJCEK, M., JUNKOVA, P., SUMAN, J., SANTRUCEK, J. & UHLIK, O. 2021. Exploring the Potential of Micrococcus luteus Culture Supernatant With Resuscitation-Promoting Factor for Enhancing the Culturability of Soil Bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12.
• KOUBA, V., GERLEIN, J. C., BENAKOVA, A., LOPEZ MARIN, M. A., RYSAVA, E., VEJMELKOVA, D. & BARTACEK, J. 2021. Adaptation of flocculent anammox culture to low temperature by cold shock: long-term response of the microbial population. Environmental Technology, 1-8.