Environmental Health Center
Comparative Microbiome Analysis
We are living in a microbial world … It is our aim to use the enormous functional power of microbiomes to improve planetary health.
We are living in a microbial world … It is our aim to use the enormous functional power of microbiomes to improve planetary health.
About our Research
The human microbiome is a key component for our health. It is strongly influenced by environmental microbiota, which interact with the microbiome of barrier organs like skin or respiratory system. As a consequence, the reduced microbial diversity in the environment, resulting from climate- and global change, strongly impacts human – environment interactions, resulting in an increase in environmental diseases and infections. According to the planetary health concept the prevention of such diseases requires strategies which increase biodiversity in the environment.
We identify key microbiota from the environment, which trigger our health, develop strategies to promote the abundance of those microbiota in urban and indoor environments and analyze consequences for our health.
Scientists at COMI
Head of the Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis
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Deputy Head of the Research Unit & Head of the working group “Environmental Microbiomes”
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Video: How our microbiome helps to protect us from allergies
Publications
Streb, L.-M. ; Assane, I.M. ; Souza, G.F.P.d. ; Pilarski, F. ; Queiroga, A.P. ; Kublik, S. ; Rath, S. ; Schloter, M.
Conventional diversity metrics underestimate gut microbiome disruption under florfenicol exposure in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus).Orth, N. ; Siefen, N. ; Staudt, J. ; Mahmoud, F.M. ; Benning, S. ; Gschwendtner, S. ; Pielhop, T.P. ; Hauschild, K. ; Schloter, M. ; Schmitz, M. ; Winkelmann, T.
Linking microbial community composition of three rootstock genotypes to apple replant disease susceptibility.Gschwendtner, S. ; Maison, N. ; Illi, S. ; von Mutius, E. ; Rosenboom, I. ; Tümmler, B. ; Dittrich, A. ; Weckmann, M. ; Abdo, M. ; Waschki, B. ; Kopp, M.V. ; Hansen, G. ; Brinkmann, F. ; Rabe, K. ; Schaub, B. ; Schloter, M.
Fragmented microbial networks and moraxella-driven airway clustering characterize preschool wheezers across the gut – airways axis.Schmalenberger, A. ; Tian, J. ; Forrestal, P. ; Fox, A. ; Bending, G.D. ; Vijayakumar, G. ; Lillywhite, R. ; Hussain, M. ; Guinan, K.J. ; Schulz, S. ; Thaqi, S.K. ; Schloter, M.
From inputs to interactions: Soil stoichiometry and microbiomes as drivers of crop nutrient use efficiency.Sáiz, H. ; Neuenkamp, L. ; Penone, C. ; Birkhofer, K. ; Blüthgen, N. ; Boch, S. ; Bonkowski, M. ; Buscot, F. ; Felipe‐Lucia, M.R. ; Fiore‐Donno, A.M. ; Fischer, M. ; Freitag, M. ; Godoy, O. ; Goldmann, K. ; Goßner, M.M. ; Hamer, U. ; Hölzel, N. ; Jung, K. ; Kandeler, E. ; Klaus, V.H. ; Kleinebecker, T. ; Leimer, S. ; Marhan, S. ; Oelmann, Y. ; Overmann, J. ; Prati, D. ; Renner, S.C. ; Rillig, M.C. ; Seibold, S. ; Schloter, M. ; Schoening, I. ; Sikorski, J. ; Socher, S.A. ; Solly, E.F. ; Steffan‐Dewenter, I. ; Stempfhuber, B. ; Westphal, C. ; Wilcke, W. ; Wubet, T. ; Wurst, S. ; Allan, E.
Land use intensification results in abrupt transitions between extensively and intensively managed grasslands.CARVALHO, A. ; Gschwendtner, S. ; Schloter, M. ; Gil, A.M. ; Marques, C.R.
Stool microbiota variations along the adenoma-colorectal carcinoma sequence — robustness of disease-associated microbial features.Abdelbari, H. ; Rodríguez-Berbel, N. ; Ortega, R. ; Miralles, I. ; Mahdad, Y.M. ; Gaouar, S.B.S.
Unveiling the bacterial community structure and soil properties in bulk and rhizospheric compartments of Tamarix gallica from an arid Algerian saline ecosystem.Schulz, S. ; Schloter, M.
Cities cannot go green without soil microorganisms.Brandt, L. ; Abrahão, A. ; Wicht, A.-C. ; Schulz, S. ; Schloter, M. ; Schweizer, S. ; Marhan, S. ; Kandeler, E.
Reciprocal transport of carbon and nitrogen between plants and the hyphosphere microbiome in a temperate grassland.Somehsarei, N.N. ; Hadi, J.L. ; Khan Mirzaei, M. ; Deng, L. ; Gigl, M. ; Dawid, C. ; Schmitt-Kopplin, P. ; Geydirici, I. ; Schloter, M. ; Gschwendtner, S.
In vitro metabolic signaling in two intestinal bacterial isolates: Glutamate-driven transcriptional and functional reprogramming in Clostridium butyricum and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.Thaqi, S.K. ; Schloter, M. ; Schulz, S.
Phosphatfreisetzung durch Bacillus: gleiche Funktion, andere Wege.Afrasiabian, Y. ; Andrade Linares, D.R. ; Schulz, S. ; Schloter, M. ; Cleemput, E.V. ; Egerer, M. ; Yu, K.
Drone-measured canopy spectra can be a complementary predictor of belowground arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi variations in urban community gardens.Martinez-Cuesta, R. ; Craighero, A. ; Walch, S. ; Helmreich, B. ; Schloter, M. ; Schulz, S.
Urban green roofs host intrinsic resistomes shaped by management but not dominated by pathogenic resistance.Lang, F. ; Prietzel, J. ; Hagedorn, F. ; Kaiser, K. ; Schulz, S. ; Mayer, M. ; Vesterdal, L. ; Bauhus, J. ; Bergmann, M. ; Bibinger, S. ; Bidartondo, M.I. ; Chen, J.O. ; de Jong, P. ; Doan, T.H. ; Haberstroh, S. ; Hahn, J. ; Hartmann, P. ; Khokon, A.M. ; Kohler, M. ; Suz, L.M. ; Meier, I.C. ; Neumann, R. ; Paulsen, H. ; Puhlmann, H. ; Schack-Kirchner, H. ; Scheu, S. ; Schilling, L. ; Schleppi, P. ; Schloter, M. ; Schwärzel, K. ; Stutz, K.P. ; Villalba, G. ; Wannenmacher, M. ; Weiler, M. ; Wellbrock, N. ; Werner, C. ; Niederberger, J.
Temperate forest floors: Ecosystem hubs in transition?Schloter, M. ; Schulz, S. ; Nannipieri, P.
Data first: Making soil microbiome sequencing truly reusable.Pagani, G. ; Loss, G. ; Pechlivanis, S. ; Depner, M. ; Müller, C. ; Ru, J. ; Strunz-Lehner, C. ; Humphrey, G. ; Ackermann, G. ; Amir, A. ; Melnik, A. ; Garg, N. ; Knight, R. ; Dorrestein, P.C. ; Schmitt-Kopplin, P. ; Deng, L. ; Schloter, M. ; Divaret-Chauveau, A. ; Roduit, C. ; Karvonen, A.M. ; Genuneit, J. ; von Mutius, E. ; Ege, M.J.
Gram-positive bacteria and the inverse association between farm exposure and childhood asthma.Kepp, J. ; Kiese, R. ; Klaus, V.H. ; Kleinebecker, T. ; Pacay-Barrientos, N.L. ; Schäufele, R. ; Schloter, M. ; Schöning, I. ; Schrumpf, M. ; Schulz, S. ; Schwärzler, T. ; Schweizer, S.A. ; Dannenmann, M.
Management rather than climate and biodiversity shapes long-term δ15N dynamics in grassland soils.Sommer, A. ; Bagheri, S. ; Dey, S. ; Knappe, C. ; Wenig, M. ; Heuschmann, C. ; Kublik, S. ; Stempfl, T. ; Schloter, M. ; Vlot, A.C.
Pseudomonas simiae-induced resistance in barley is subject to pathogen-dependent gene expression regulation and not associated with major changes in the phyllosphere microbiome.Zhu, Y.C. ; Wan, L. ; Xia, L. ; Butterbach‐Bahl, K. ; Dannenmann, M. ; Scheer, C. ; Ruehr, N.K. ; Wolf, B. ; Yan, X. ; Wei, Z. ; Reich, P.B. ; Luo, Y. ; Smith, P. ; Peñuelas, J. ; Schloter, M. ; Schulz, S. ; Kiese, R.
Elevated CO2 and warming intensify plant reliance on soil nitrogen reserves despite intensive fertilization.Koch, H. ; Clavel, T. ; Mayr, C. ; Coltman, B.L. ; Schloter, M. ; Vorholt, J.A. ; Sanz, Y. ; Cernava, T. ; Beattie, G.A. ; Lange, L. ; Chaillou, S. ; Kovács, A.T. ; Smidt, H. ; Pieterse, C.M.J. ; Kostic, T. ; Finkel, O.M. ; Lawson, C.E. ; Cocolin, L. ; Mercado-Blanco, J. ; Finn, R.D. ; Papadopoulou, K.K. ; Ryan, M. ; Candela, M. ; Cotter, P.D. ; Berg, G. ; O'Sullivan, O. ; Delgado-Baquerizo, M. ; Trivedi, P. ; Charles, T.C. ; Singh, B.K. ; Brader, G. ; Marian, M. ; Sessitsch, A.
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