Postdoc

Dr. Pamela Espíndola-Hernández

Research Area

Pamela has been working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at COMI since July 2023. Her work is framed into the EU project MICROBE, MICRObiome Biobanking (RI) Enabler, which aim to develop strategies for the establishment of innovative microbiome biobanking infrastructure. Pamela is using bioinformatic tools to identify “microbial keystone taxa” from complex environmental samples, based on novel ecological concepts these relevant taxa can be targeted for isolation to assemble representative synthetic consortia.

CV

2023

Postdoc at Research Unit Comparative Microbiome Analysis, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

2023

Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Germany

2023

PhD, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany

2016

Master in Biological Sciences. Universidad de Chile, Chile

2014

Biologist with a major in Environment. Universidad de Chile, Chile

Publications

Biol. Fertil. Soils 62, 641–648 (2026)

Geydirici, I. ; Martinez-Cuesta, R. ; Bibinger, S. ; Espíndola-Hernández, P. ; Gschwendtner, S. ; Rodríguez-Berbel, N. ; Schulz, S. ; Schloter, M.

Digging deeper into soil metagenomics: Opportunities and limitations for studying the genomic potential of soil bacteria and archaea.
Cell Rep. Sustain. 3:100615 (2026)

Espíndola-Hernández, P. ; Banerjee, S. ; Abdulmalik, A.O. ; Andrade Linares, D.R. ; Baldi, G. ; Berg, G. ; Brearley, F.Q. ; Flocco, C.G. ; Galgani, L. ; Gegeckienė, L. ; Gschwendtner, S. ; Hensen, T. ; Kostić, T. ; Ledesma-Amaro, R. ; Maier, L. ; Marciniak, A. ; Ohan, J. ; Overmann, J. ; Rito, T. ; Ryan, M.J. ; Schulz, S. ; Vieira, S. ; Schloter, M.

A trait-based framework to identify microbial keystone taxa for microbiome engineering.
BMC Plant Biol. 25:715 (2025)

Benning, S. ; Mahmoud, F.M. ; Espíndola-Hernández, P. ; Liu, B. ; Pritsch, K. ; Radl, V. ; Winkler, J.B. ; Winkelmann, T. ; Beerhues, L. ; Schloter, M.

Inoculation of apple plantlets with Rhodococcus pseudokoreensis R79T enhances diversity and modulates the structure of bacterial rhizosphere communities in soil affected by apple replant disease.
Mob. DNA 15:10 (2024)

Peona, V. ; Martelossi, J. ; Almojil, D. ; Bocharkina, J. ; Brännström, I. ; Brown, M. ; Cang, A. ; Carrasco-Valenzuela, T. ; deVries, J.H. ; Doellman, M. ; Elsner, D. ; Espíndola-Hernández, P. ; Montoya, G.F. ; Gaspar, B. ; Zagorski, D. ; Hałakuc, P. ; Ivanovska, B. ; Laumer, C. ; Lehmann, R. ; Boštjančić, L.L. ; Mashoodh, R. ; Mazzoleni, S. ; Mouton, A. ; Nilsson, M.A. ; Pei, Y. ; Potente, G. ; Provataris, P. ; Pardos-Blas, J.R. ; Raut, R. ; Sbaffi, T. ; Schwarz, F. ; Stapley, J. ; Stevens, L. ; Sultana, N. ; Symonova, R. ; Tahami, M.S. ; Urzì, A. ; Yang, H. ; Yusuf, A. ; Pecoraro, C. ; Suh, A.

Teaching transposon classification as a means to crowd source the curation of repeat annotation - a tardigrade perspective.

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