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
Publications
Read more2024 Scientific Article in Pathogens
Genomic analysis of Aeromonas salmonicida ssp. salmonicida isolates collected during multiple clinical outbreaks supports association with a Single epidemiological unit.
2024 Scientific Article in Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Detection and analysis of florfenicol residues and metabolites in nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) tissues post-oral administration in tropical waters.
2024 Scientific Article in Science of the Total Environment, The
Monitoring of indicators and bacterial succession in organic-amended technosols for the restoration of semiarid ecosystems.
2024 Scientific Article in Biology and Fertility of Soils
Land use drives prokaryotic community composition of directly adjacent grasslands.
2024 Editorial in Microbial Ecology
Special collection on pollution, bioremediation, and the environment.
2024 Scientific Article in Microbial Biotechnology
Concepts and criteria defining emerging microbiome applications.
2024 Scientific Article in Journal of Chromatography
Quantification of florfenicol and its metabolites in fillets of Nile tilapia: Synthesis of metabolites and validation of an on-line solid-phase extraction-ultra high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method.
2024 Scientific Article in Physiologia Plantarum
A salicylic acid-associated plant-microbe interaction attracts beneficial Flavobacterium sp. to the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere.
2024 Scientific Article in Microbiology Spectrum
Genomic and functional divergence of Staphylococcus aureus strains from atopic dermatitis patients and healthy individuals: Insights from global and local scales.
2024 Scientific Article in Environment International
Pinewood VOC emissions protect from oxazolone-induced inflammation and dysbiosis in a mouse model of atopic dermatitis.
2024 Scientific Article in Plants People Planet
Effects of multiple microplastic types on growth of winter wheat and soil properties vary in different agricultural soils.
2024 Scientific Article in Basic and Applied Ecology
The multiple-mechanisms hypothesis of biodiversity-stability relationships.
2024 Scientific Article in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Comparing a real and pseudo chronosequence of mining soil reclamation using free-living nematodes to characterize the food web and C and N dynamics.
2024 Scientific Article in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Improving ecosystem services of urban soils – how to manage the microbiome of Technosols?
2024 Scientific Article in Mobile DNA
Teaching transposon classification as a means to crowd source the curation of repeat annotation - a tardigrade perspective.
2024 Scientific Article in Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
Medium-chain carboxylates production from plant waste: Kinetic study and effect of an enriched microbiome.
2024 Scientific Article in Microbiology Spectrum