Education

10/2014 - Beginning of PhD, part of the graduate school “Future Water”

10/2013 - Master of Science in “Water Science”, Thesis topic: “Copper disinfection mechanisms for MS2 as model virus”, Wetsus centre for excellence and sustainable water technology, Leeuwarden, NL

09/2011 - Bachelor of Science in “Water Science”, Thesis topic: „Detection of viruses in drinking - and surface water”, Department for hygiene, social- and environmental medicine , Ruhr Universität Bochum

06/2008 - Allg. Hochschulreife

Research Focus

• Occurrence of viruses in aquatic environments
• Detection of enteric viruses in aquatic biofilms
• Incorporation, persistence and release of enteric viruses in and from biofilms
• Visualization of viral particles

Publications

Mackowiak, M., Leifels, M., Hamza, I.A., Jurzik, L., Wingender, J., (2018). Distribution of Escherichia coli, coliphages and enteric viruses in water, epilithic biofilms and sediments of an urban river in Germany. Sci Total Environ 626 650-659

Leifels, M., I. A. Hamza, M. Krieger, M. Wilhelm, M. Mackowiak and L. Jurzik (2016). From Lab to Lake - Evaluation of Current Molecular Methods for the Detection of Infectious Enteric Viruses in Complex Water Matrices in an Urban Area. PloS one 11(11): e0167105.

Conference Presentations

Mackowiak, M., Fate of coliphages in surface water environments in the presence of Escherichia coli - Surrogates for human enteric viruses?, Water Microbiology 2017 / HRWM-Symposium, 15.-19.05.2017), Chapel Hill (USA) 

Mackowiak, M., Leifels, M., Jurzik, L., Wingender, J.: Coliphages accumulate in surface water biofilms and sediments. Biofilms7, Porto, Portugal, 26.-28.06.2016, ISBN: 978-989-97478-7-6

Mackowiak, M., Leifels, M., Jurzik, L., Wingender, J.: Viren in Biofilmen, IFAT 2016, 30.05.-03.06.2016, München, Deutschland

Mackowiak, M., Leifels, M., Jurzik, L., Wingender, J.: Sedimente und epilithische Biofilme in Oberflächengewässern: Reservoir für Coliphagen und enterale Viren. 9. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Umweltmedizin, Hygiene und Präventivmedizin (GHUP), 24.-25.05.2016, Köln, Deutschland

Mackowiak, M., Leifels, M., Jurzik, L., Wingender, J.: Sedimente und epilithische Biofilme in Oberflächengewässern: Reservoir für Coliphagen und enterale Viren. Tagungsband zur Jahrestagung der wasserchemischen Gesellschaft, Bamberg, Deutschland, 02.05.-04.05.2016, ISBN: 978-3-936028-94-2, S. 512-516.

Mackowiak, M., Leifels, M., Jurzik, L., Wingender, J.: Sediments and epilithic biofilms in surface waters are reservoirs for coliphages. VAAM-Jahrestagung, Jena, Deutschland, 13.-16.03.2016, ISSN: 0947-0867

Mackowiak, M., Vorstellung Promotionsprojekt “Viren in Biofilmen”, Fachgruppensitzung „Viren und Parasiten“ der wasserchemischen Gesellschaft, 06.02.2017, Frankfurt am Main

Mackowiak, M., Viruses in aquatic biofilms, FutureWater PhD Seminar Helsinki, 01.04.2016, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finnland