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 more2025 Scientific Article in BMC Plant Biology
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.
2025 Scientific Article in Genome Biology
Microbial inoculants modulate the rhizosphere microbiome, alleviate plant stress responses, and enhance maize growth at field scale.
2025 Scientific Article in Phytobiomes Journal
Impact of growing conditions and potato cultivars on the diversity of endophytic microbial communities.
Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie
Assoziationen mikrobieller Strukturen im Fruchtwasser bei Frühgeburt mit schweren akuten Komplikationen und Langzeitfolgen der Frühgeburt.
2025 Scientific Article in Journal of Visualized Experiments
JenaTron - An experimental approach to study the effects of plant history and soil history on grassland ecosystem functioning.
2025 Scientific Article in Journal of Vegetation Science
Exploring priority and year effects on plant diversity, productivity and vertical root distribution: First insights from a Grassland field experiment.
2025 Scientific Article in Animal Microbiome
Age matters: Exploring differential effects of antimicrobial treatment on gut microbiota of adult and juvenile brown trout (Salmo trutta).
2025 Scientific Article in Science Advances
Key role of Desulfobacteraceae in C/S cycles of marine sediments is based on congeneric catabolic-regulatory networks.
2025 Scientific Article in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Effects of novel P fertilizers on microbial abundance related to N and P cycling in two on-farm systems.
2025 Scientific Article in Journal of Environmental Management
Grapevines and trees: A biodiversity study of microbiomes in an established temperate agroforestry system.
2025 Scientific Article in Journal of Environmental Management
Restoring soil quality in semi-arid mining-degraded soils: Effects of different combinations of organic amendments on microbial nutrient cycling after 40 months of application.
2025 Scientific Article in New Phytologist
Plant species richness promotes the decoupling of leaf and root defence traits while species-specific responses in physical and chemical defences are rare.
2025 Scientific Article in Chemosphere
Toxicological and genotoxicological assessment of water extracts of sewage sludge and other biogenic wastes: A piece of the SLURP jigsaw puzzle.
2025 Review in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Converting infiltration swales to sustainable urban drainage systems can improve water management and biodiversity.
2025 Scientific Article in Frontiers in Microbiology
Direct and indirect effects of land use on microbiomes of trap-nesting solitary bee larvae and nests.
2025 Scientific Article in Ecology Letters
Plant species richness and the root economics space drive soil fungal communities.
2024 Scientific Article in Plant and Soil
Linking soil characteristics, rhizosphere microbiome composition, and plant defence reaction to apple replant disease severity.
2024 Review in Frontiers in Medicine