COMI

Our Mission
Using the power of microbes for improving human- and environmental health

Our Mission
Using the power of microbes for improving human- and environmental health

Our Mission
Using the power of microbes for improving human- and environmental health

Our Mission
Using the power of microbes for improving human- and environmental health

Our Mission
Using the power of microbes for improving human- and environmental health

Our Mission
Using the power of microbes for improving human- and environmental health

Our Mission
Using the power of microbes for improving human- and environmental health

Research Focus

The Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analyses is embedded in the research environment of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the Campus Neuherberg. Our mission is to develop strategies for the sustainable use of genetic resources of microbes to improve human, animal and plant health. Therefore, we are using high-end sequencing technologies in combination with cultivation depending enrichment techniques, gene quantification methods, localization of microbes in their respective habitats as well as stable isotope probing.

Research Groups

Service

Core Facility Microbiome Analysis

Welcome

Benoit Renaud Martins PhD student - Research Group "Plant Microbiome" AG Schröder
Sophia Hecht (Voluntary ecological year) - Research Group "Plant Microbiome" AG Schröder
Sanjay Jaiswal Scientist - Research Group "Soil Microbiome" AG Schulz
Zhongjie Wang PhD student - Research Group "Human Microbiome" AG Fösel
Sarah Benning PhD student - Research Group "Plant Microbiome" AG Schröder
Oluwaseun Ishola PhD student - Research Group "Human Microbiome" AG Fösel

News

The Research Unit "Biotic Interactions, Community Assembly, and Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics as Drivers of Long-Term Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning Relationships" will be funded by DFG starting in January 2020. We are happy to be involved with "Plant microbiomes and biotic stress" with TUM
26.09.19 - Nicole Treichel defended successfully her thesis entitled "The response of the gut microflora to exercise and diet" and obtained the degree “Dr. rer.nat.” at the Faculty of Life Sciences at TUM
Interessanter Podcast zum Thema "Altlasten - Das Risiko in der Erde" mit Michael Schloter
New DFG-funded project NIFROCLIM together with Michael Dannenmann (KIT, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research): Soil nitrogen turnover and nitrous oxide emissions in continuous permafrost landscapes of Northern China in a changing climate
New DFG-funded project POEM together with Vicky Martine Temperton (Ecosystem Functioning & Services, University of Lüneburg) about PriOrity Effect Mechanisms

Core Publications

Recent Publications

Gschwendtner, S. ; Kang, H. ; Thiering, E. ; Kublik, S. ; Fösel, B. ; Schulz, H. ; Krauss-Etschmann, S. ; Heinrich, J. ; Schöler, A. ; Schloter, M. ; Standl, M. Early life determinants induce sustainable changes in the gut microbiome of six-year-old children. Sci. Rep. 9:12675 (2019)

Bernat, P. ; Nesme, J. ; Paraszkiewicz, K. ; Schloter, M. ; Plaza, G. Characterization of extracellular biosurfactants expressed by a Pseudomonas putida strain isolated from the interior of healthy roots from Sida hermaphrodita grown in a heavy metal contaminated soil. Curr. Microbiol. 76, 1320-1329 (2019)

Schröder, P.; Sauvetre, A.; Gnädinger, F.; Pesaresi, P.; Chmeliková, L.; Doğan, N.; Gerl, G.; Gökçe, A.; Hamel, C.; Millan, R.; Persson, T.; Ravnskov, S.; Rutkowska, B.; Schmid, T.; Szulc, W.; Teodosiu, C.; Terzi, V. Discussion paper: Sustainable increase of crop production through improved technical strategies, breeding and adapted management - A European perspective. Sci. Total Environ. 678, 146-161 (2019)

Liu, S.; Schloter, M.; Hu, R.; Vereecken, H.; Brüggemann, N. Hydroxylamine contributes more to abiotic N2O production in soils than nitrite. Front. Env. Sci. 7:47 (2019)

Pihlap, E.; Vuko, M.; Lucas, M.; Steffens, M.; Schloter, M.; Vetterlein, D.; Endenich, M.; Kögel-Knabner, I. Initial soil formation in an agriculturally reclaimed open-cast mining area - the role of management and loess parent material. Soil Tillage Res. 191, 224-237 (2019)

Cania, B.; Vestergaard, G.; Krauss, M.; Fliessbach, A.; Schloter, M.; Schulz, S. A long-term field experiment demonstrates the influence of tillage on the bacterial potential to produce soil structure-stabilizing agents such as exopolysaccharides and lipopolysaccharides. Stand. Genomic Sci. 14:1 (2019)

Kölbl, A.; Bucka, F.; Marschner, P.; Mosley, L.; Fitzpatrick, R.; Schulz, S.; Lueders, T.; Kögel-Knabner, I. Consumption and alteration of different organic matter sources during remediation of a sandy sulfuric soil. Geoderma 347, 220-232 (2019)

Millan, R.; Schröder, P.; Saebo, A. Editorial: Options for transition of land towards intensive and sustainable agricultural systems. Front. Plant Sci. 10:346 (2019)

Amar, Y.; Bleuel, R.; Silva, R.I.; Fösel, B.; Schöler, A.; Schloter, M.; Graf, E.; Strom, T.M.; Lagkouvardos, I.; Neuhaus, K.; Biedermann, T.; Köberle, M. Skin microbiome diversity and transcriptome profiling in patients with atopic dermatitis. Exp. Dermatol. 28, E8-E9 (2019)

Degrune, F.; Dumack, K.; Fiore-Donno, A.M.; Bonkowski, M.; Sosa-Hernández, M.A.; Schloter, M.; Kautz, T.; Fischer, D.; Rillig, M.C. Distinct communities of Cercozoa at different soil depths in a temperate agricultural field. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 95:fiz041 (2019)

Fösel, B.; Pfeiffer, S.; Raj, A.C.D.; Krauss-Etschmann, S.; Schloter, M. Application of ecological theories in lung microbiome research - lessons learned from microbial ecology and evolution? In: The Lung Microbiome. 2019. 50-66 (ERS Monograph)

Pedrazzani, R.; Bertanza, G.; Brnardić, I.; Cetecioglu, Z.; Dries, J.; Dvarionienė, J.; García-Fernández, A.J.; Langenhoff, A.; Libralato, G.; Lofrano, G.; Škrbić, B.; Martínez-López, E.; Meriç, S.; Mutavdžić Pavlović, D.; Papa, M.; Schröder, P.; Tsagarakis, K.P.; Vogelsang, C. Opinion paper about organic trace pollutants in wastewater: Toxicity assessment in a European perspective (vol 651, pg 3202, 2019). Sci. Total Environ. 669, 1062-1062 (2019)

Hammerl, V.; Kastl, E.-M.; Schloter, M.; Kublik, S.; Schmidt, H.; Welzl, G.; Jentsch, A.; Beierkuhnlein, C.; Gschwendtner, S. Influence of rewetting on microbial communities involved in nitrification and denitrification in a grassland soil after a prolonged drought period. Sci. Rep. 9:2280 (2019)

Cania, B.; Vestergaard, G.; Kublik, S.; Köhne, J.M.; Fischer, T.; Albert, A.; Winkler, B.; Schloter, M.; Schulz, S. Biological Soil Crusts from Different Soil Substrates Harbor Distinct Bacterial Groups with the Potential to Produce Exopolysaccharides and Lipopolysaccharides. Microb. Ecol. (2019)

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