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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Laboratory Assistant -- Funded by the BMBF (www.bonares.de; project: µPlastic)
Video: How our microbiome helps to protect us from allergies
Publications
Pianta, M. ; Calbi, M. ; Cerabolini, B.E.L. ; Poschlod, P. ; Schloter, M. ; Roccotiello, E.
How substrate depth shapes spontaneous plant colonisation on Mediterranean green roofs: A case study.Mwanake, R.M. ; Gettel, G.M. ; Wangari, E.G. ; Macharia, G.W. ; Martinez-Cuesta, R. ; Schulz, S. ; Schloter, M. ; Butterbach-Bahl, K. ; Kiese, R.
Elevated in-stream CO2 concentration stimulates net-N2O production from global fluvial ecosystems.Mahmoud, F.M. ; Edelmann, H. ; Si, Y. ; Endrejat, L. ; Pritsch, K. ; Gutjahr, C. ; Ehrenreich, A. ; Winkelmann, T. ; Winkler, J.B. ; Schnitzler, J.-P. ; Schloter, M.
Transient colonization by Priestia megaterium B1L5 alters the structure of the rhizosphere microbiome towards potential plant beneficial bacterial groups in apple plantlets.Paponov, I.A. ; Schulz, S. ; Schloter, M. ; Conesa, A. ; Leshem, Y.
Extracellular vesicles in the rhizosphere: Targets to improve nutrient use efficiency of crops?Fox, A. ; Schulz, S. ; Brennan, F. ; Gschwend, F. ; Barreiro, A. ; Widmer, F. ; Schloter, M. ; Huguenin-Elie, O. ; Lüscher, A.
Long-term mineral fertilization shaped aboveground plant and belowground bacterial and fungal communities more than cutting frequency in a temperate grassland.Thaqi, S.K. ; Hensel, N. ; Vitow, N. ; Baum, C. ; Streb, L.-M. ; Kublik, S. ; Leinweber, P. ; Panten, K. ; Schloter, M. ; Schulz, S.
Non-rhizobial endophyte recruitment and diversity in Pisum sativum are strongly shaped by phosphorus fertilizer form.Staude, B. ; Gschwendtner, S. ; Frodermann, T. ; Oehmke, F. ; Kohl, T. ; Walch, S. ; Schloter, M. ; Ehrhardt, H.
Association of specific microbiota taxa in the amniotic fluid at birth with severe acute and longer-term outcomes of very preterm infants: A prospective observational study.Botsidou, P. ; Schloter, M. ; Maraci, Ö. ; Gschwendtner, S. ; Nagel, R. ; Forcada, J. ; Hoffman, J.I.
Skin, but not gut, microbial communities vary with social density in Antarctic fur seals.Kampouris, I.D. ; Kuhl-Nagel, T. ; Behr, J.H. ; Sommermann, L. ; Babin, D. ; Francioli, D. ; Zrenner, R. ; Kublik, S. ; Schloter, M. ; Ludewig, U. ; Smalla, K. ; Neumann, G. ; Grosch, R. ; Geistlinger, J.
Selective recruitment of beneficial microbes in the rhizosphere of maize affected by microbial inoculants, farming practice, and seasonal variations.Kasmanas, J.C. ; Magnúsdóttir, S. ; Zhang, J. ; Smalla, K. ; Schloter, M. ; Stadler, P.F. ; de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, A.C.P. ; Rocha, U.
Integrating comparative genomics and risk classification by assessing virulence, antimicrobial resistance, and plasmid spread in microbial communities with gSpreadComp.Knoke, T. ; Paul, C. ; Gosling, E. ; Reith, E. ; Annighöfer, P. ; Asseng, S. ; Bingham, L. ; Chmeliková, L. ; Frick, F. ; Hafner, B.D. ; Leonhardt, S.D. ; Menapace, L. ; Menzel, A. ; Sauer, J. ; Schloter, M. ; Yu, K. ; Zarebanadkouki, M. ; Kollmann, J. ; von Lützow, M.
When considering uncertainty, agroforestry can reduce trade-offs between economic and ecological benefits.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.Francioli, D. ; Kampouris, I.D. ; Kuhl-Nagel, T. ; Babin, D. ; Sommermann, L. ; Behr, J.H. ; Chowdhury, S.P. ; Zrenner, R. ; Moradtalab, N. ; Schloter, M. ; Geistlinger, J. ; Ludewig, U. ; Neumann, G. ; Smalla, K. ; Grosch, R.
Microbial inoculants modulate the rhizosphere microbiome, alleviate plant stress responses, and enhance maize growth at field scale.Nepal, J. ; Guyoneaud, R. ; Guedea, F. ; Zhao, T. ; Vink, S.N. ; Jia, X. ; Treder, K. ; Michałowska, D. ; Pawłowska, A. ; Schloter, M. ; Radl, V. ; Salles, J.F. ; Attard, E.
Impact of growing conditions and potato cultivars on the diversity of endophytic microbial communities.Staude, B. ; Gschwendtner, S. ; Frodermann, T. ; Oehmke, F. ; Kohl, T. ; Kublik, S. ; Schloter, M. ; Ehrhardt, H.
Assoziationen mikrobieller Strukturen im Fruchtwasser bei Frühgeburt mit schweren akuten Komplikationen und Langzeitfolgen der Frühgeburt.Madaj, A.M. ; Huang, Y. ; Ebeling, A. ; Ertel, L. ; Gebler, A. ; Gleixner, G. ; Hines, J. ; Roscher, C. ; Weigelt, A. ; Albracht, C. ; Amyntas, A. ; Bassi, L. ; Bonato Asato, A.E. ; Bonkowski, M. ; Bröcher, M. ; Buscot, F. ; De Giorgi, F. ; Pinheiro Alves de Souza, Y. ; Doan, V.C. ; Durka, W. ; Heintz-Buschart, A. ; Hennecke, J. ; Lange, M. ; Medina-van Berkum, P. ; Meyer, S.T. ; Krawczyk, S. ; Rai, A. ; Reitz, T. ; Ristok, C. ; Scheu, S. ; Schloter, M. ; Schulz, S. ; Solbach, M.D. ; Unsicker, S.B. ; Eisenhauer, N.
JenaTron - An experimental approach to study the effects of plant history and soil history on grassland ecosystem functioning.Alonso-Crespo, I.M. ; Temperton, V.M. ; Fichtner, A. ; Niemeyer, T. ; Schloter, M. ; Delory, B.M.
Exploring priority and year effects on plant diversity, productivity and vertical root distribution: First insights from a Grassland field experiment.Streb, L.-M. ; Cholewińska, P. ; Gschwendtner, S. ; Geist, J. ; Rath, S. ; Schloter, M.
Age matters: Exploring differential effects of antimicrobial treatment on gut microbiota of adult and juvenile brown trout (Salmo trutta).Wöhlbrand, L. ; Dörries, M. ; Siani, R. ; Medrano-Soto, A. ; Schnaars, V. ; Schumacher, J. ; Hilbers, C. ; Thies, D. ; Kube, M. ; Reinhardt, R. ; Schloter, M. ; Saier, M.H. ; Winklhofer, M. ; Rabus, R.
Key role of Desulfobacteraceae in C/S cycles of marine sediments is based on congeneric catabolic-regulatory networks.Thaqi, S.K. ; Siani, R. ; Chiba, A. ; Vitow, N. ; Baum, C. ; Leinweber, P. ; Panten, K. ; Schloter, M. ; Schulz, S.
Effects of novel P fertilizers on microbial abundance related to N and P cycling in two on-farm systems.
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