The fluorescent dye DAPI is commonly used to stain the DNA in the nuclei of Caenorhabditis elegans body cells, thus visualizing the nematode’s anatomy.

Photo courtesy:
Hinrich Schulenburg

Pathogenic Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria marked by Red Fluorescent Protein have infected and overgrown the body of a Caenorhabditis elegans nematode.

Photo courtesy:
Andrei Papkou, Schulenburg lab

Confocal laser scanning microscopy image of the fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici (in green) during the infection of a wheat leaf. The hyphae of Z. tritici is visible in green.

Photo courtesy:
J. Haueisen, Stukenbrock lab

The brood pouch of a pregnant pipefish male (Syngnathus typhle) filled with embryos that are connected to a placenta-like structure.

Photo courtesy:
Olivia Roth

A wheat leaf infested with the fungus Zymoseptoria tritici shows the typical signs of so-called leaf drought, which can lead to drastic crop failures.

Photo courtesy:
J. Haueisen, Stukenbrock lab

Confocal microscopic image of the infection of a wheat plant: the fungus penetrates the stomata of the leaves and can spread between the plant cells.

Photo courtesy:
J. Haueisen, Stukenbrock lab

Two pipefish females of the species Syngnathus typhle.

Photo courtesy:
Olivia Roth

Publications

2020

Haensel MC, Schmidt JO, Stiasny MH, Stoven M., Voss R & Quaas MF (2020):
Ocean warming and acidification may drag down the commercial Arctic cod fishery by 2100.
PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231589.

Hassani MA, Özkurt E, Franzenburg S, Stukenbrock EH (2020):
Ecological assembly processes of the bacterial and fungal microbiota of wild and domesticated wheat species.
Phytobiomes Journal

Heckwolf MJ, Meyer BS, Häsler R et al. (2020):
Two different epigenetic information channels in wild three-spined sticklebacks are involved in salinity adaptation.
Science Advances 6:eaaz1138.

Köster FW, Huwer B , Kraus G et al. (2020):
Egg production methods applied to Eastern Baltic cod provide indices of spawning stock dynamics.
Fisheries Research 227:105553.

Olivia Roth O, Hongrø Solbakken M, Tørresen OK et al. (2020):
Evolution of male pregnancy associated with remodeling of canonical vertebrate immunity in seahorses and pipefishes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 117 (17) 9431-9439.

Seybold H, Demetrowitsch TJ, Hassani MA et al. (2020):
A fungal pathogen induces systemic susceptibility and systemic shifts in wheat metabolome and microbiome composition.
Nature Communications 11, 1910.

Szymczak S, Dose J, Torres GG, et al. (2020):
DNA methylation QTL analysis identifies new regulators of human longevity.
Human Molecular Genetics, ddaa033.

2019

Barbosa C*, Roemhild R*, Rosenstiel P, Schulenburg H (2019):
Evolutionary stability of collateral sensitivity to antibiotics in the model pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
eLife 8:e51481. *Shared first or senior authorship.

Fabian A, Stegner S, Miarka L et al. (2019):
Metastasis of pancreatic cancer: An uninflamed liver micromilieu controls cell growth and cancer stem cell properties by oxidative phosphorylation in pancreatic ductal epithelial cells.
Cancer Letters 453:95-106.

Metcalf CJE, Roth O, Graham AL (2019):
Why leveraging sex differences in immune trade-offs may illuminate the evolution of senescence.
Functional Ecology 34, 129-140.

Opasic L, Zhou D, Werner B, Dingli D, Traulsen A (2019):
How many samples are needed to infer truly clonal mutations from heterogenous tumours?
BMC Cancer 19, 403.

Quaas MF and Tahvonen O (2019):
Strategic Harvesting of Age-Structured Populations.
Marine Resource Economics 34(4): 291-309.

Stiasny MH, Sswat M, Mittermayer FH et al. (2019):
Divergent responses of Atlantic cod to ocean acidification and food limitation.
Global Change Biology 25:839-849.

Tueffers L, Barbosa C, Bobis I et al. (2019):
Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations in the cystic fibrosis lung lose sensitivity to newly applied ß-lactam antibiotics within less than three days.
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 74:2916-2925.

Wein T, Hülter NF, Mizrahi I, Dagan T (2019):
Emergence of plasmid stability under non-selective conditions maintains antibiotic resistance.
Nature Communications 10, 2595.

Zhou D, Luo Y, Dingli D, Traulsen A (2019):
The invasion of de-differentiating cancer cells into hierarchical tissues.
PLoS Computational Biology 15(7):e1007167.

2018

Höft N, Dally N, Hasler M, Jung C (2018):
Haplotype variation of flowering time genes of sugar beet and its wild relatives and the impact on life cycle regimes.
Frontiers in Plant Science 8 (2211).

Kupczok A, Neve H. Huang KD et al. (2018):
Rates of mutation and recombination in Siphoviridae phage genome evolution over three decades.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 35(5), 1147–1159.

Merker M, Barbier M, Cox H et al. (2018):
Compensatory evolution drives multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Central Asia.
eLife 30;7. pii: e38200.

2017

Ammerpohl O, Hattermann K, Held-Feindt J et al. (2017):
Dormancy: an evolutionary key phenomenon in cancer development.
In “Ecology and evolution of cancer”, ISBN: 978-0-12-804310-3

Beemelmanns A & Roth O (2017):
Grandparental immune priming in the pipefish Syngnathus typhle.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 17, 44.

Flachsbart F, Dose J, Gentschew L et al. (2017):
Identification and characterization of two functional variants in the human longevity gene FOXO3.
Nature Communications 8, 2063.

van Ingen J, Kohl TA, Kranzer K et al. (2017):
Global outbreak of severe Mycobacterium chimaera disease after cardiac surgery: a molecular epidemiological study.
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 17(10):1033-1041. *equal contribution

2016

Stiasny MH, Mittermayer FH, Sswat M et al. (2016):
Ocean Acidification Effects on Atlantic Cod Larval Survival and Recruitment to the Fished Population.
PLoS One 11:e0155448.