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
Institute: Scientists at COMI
Publications
Read more2024 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
Distinct prophage gene profiles of Staphylococcus aureus strains from atopic dermatitis patients and healthy individuals.
2024 Scientific Article in Microbiology Spectrum
Comparative genomic analysis of strain Priestia megaterium B1 reveals conserved potential for adaptation to endophytism and plant growth promotion.
2024 Scientific Article in Plants People Planet
Shifts in plant functional trait dynamics in relation to soil microbiome in modern and wild barley.
2024 Scientific Article in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
The rhizosphere microbiome of 51 potato cultivars with diverse plant growth characteristics.
2024 Scientific Article in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Rhizosphere competent inoculants modulate the apple root-associated microbiome and plant phytoalexins.
2024 Scientific Article in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
The effect of successive summer drought periods on bacterial diversity along a plant species richness gradient.
2024 Scientific Article in Allergy
The impact of high-salt diet on asthma in humans and mice: Effect on specific T-cell signatures and microbiome.
2024 Scientific Article in Nature Communications
Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi.
2024 Scientific Article in Global Change Biology
Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem.
2024 Review in Biology and Fertility of Soils
How to adequately represent biological processes in modeling multifunctionality of arable soils.
2024 Scientific Article in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Fungal traits help to understand the decomposition of simple and complex plant litter.
2024 Scientific Article in Microbiology Spectrum
(Pan)genomic analysis of two Rhodococcus isolates and their role in phenolic compound degradation.
2024 Scientific Article in Microorganisms
Comparative metagenomic analysis of bacteriophages and prophages in gnotobiotic mouse models.
2024 Scientific Article in Geoderma
Rapid loss of organic carbon and soil structure in mountainous grassland topsoils induced by simulated climate change.
2024 Scientific Article in Neurogastroenterology and motility