Doctoral Students

Borrero, J., Rivas-Sánchez, D. F., Wright, D. S., Bacquet, C. N., Montgomery, S. H., Keller, A., & Merrill, R. M. "Sexual dimorphism in pollen foraging and sensory traits in Heliconius butterflies." Behavioral Ecology. 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arag014

Schrott, S., Marafelli, I., Gerle, C., Bibinger, S., Bertgen, L., Marino, G., Schwenkert, S., Rathberger, R., Herrmann, J., Osman, C. Mrx6 binds the Lon protease Pim1 N-terminal domain to confer selective substrate specificity and regulate mtDNA copy number. Nucelic Acids Research 54(2): gkaf1390. https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/54/2/gkaf1390/8425365

Thoma, F., Hagen, J., Rathberger, R., Padovani, F., Hörl, D., Schmoller, K., Osman, C. Local mitochondrial physiology defined by mtDNA quality guides purifying selection. PLOS Genetics 22(1): e1011836. https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011836

• Schreiner A, Heim A, Pletschacher L, Alznauer LM, Schwenkert S, Wolff F, Zanin E, Mikeladze-Dvali T. PCMD-1 stabilizes the PCM scaffold and facilitates centriole separation. Journal of Cell Biology (2025) 224 (12): e202411107 https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202411107
• Jéhan Le Cadre, Jörg U. Hammel, Roland R. Melzer, Megan Short and Sofia I. Arce. When opposites attract: a syninclusion of extinct mites and a bradytelic bristly millipede in Baltic amber. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00369-2
• André P. Amaral, Art Borkent, Viktor A. Baranov, Carolin Haug, Joachim T. Haug. First fossil mosquito larva in 99-million-year-old amber with a modern type of morphology sheds light on the evolutionary history of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X25003004#f0030
• Jéhan Le Cadre, J., Huang, D., Müller, P., Haug, C., & Haug, J. T. (2025). Bristly millipedes (Polyxenida) in Deep-Time Highlight Their Conserved Life Habits for 100 Million Years. Arthropoda, 3(4), 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/arthropoda3040017
• Jéhan Le Cadre, Joshua Gauweiler , Joachim T. Haug, Sofía I. Arce , Viktor Baranov, Jörg U. Hammel , Carolin Haug , Uwe Kaulfuss , Christine Kiesmüller, Ryan C. McKellar , Patrick Müller , Marie K. Hörnig and Ana Zippel.
  New Amber Fossils Indicate That Larvae of Dermestidae Had Longer Defensive Structures in the Past.
  MDPI insects 2025 https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16/7/710
• Priego-Cubero S, Eva Knoch, Zhidan Wang, Saleh Alseekh, Karl-Heinz Braun, Philipp Chapman, Alisdair R. Fernie, Chang Liu and Claude Becker. Subfunctionalization and epigenetic regulation of a biosynthetic gene cluster in Solanaceae. PNAS (2025) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420164122
• Priego-Cubero S, Youming Liu, Tomonobu Toyomasu, Michael Gigl, Yuto Hasegawa, Hideaki Nojiri, Corinna Dawid, Kazunori Okada, Claude Becker. "Evolution and diversification of the momilactone biosynthetic gene cluster in the genus Oryza"
  New Phytologist (2025) https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20416

• JÉHAN LE CADRE , ROLAND R. MELZER, PATRICK MÜLLER, CAROLIN HAUG & JOACHIM T. HAUG, Three new lithobiomorphan centipede specimens from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber, a clue on the geological record of Lithobiomorpha. https://mapress.com/mz/article/view/mesozoic.1.4.7
• Pasch V, .... Rühle T. Synergistic role of Rubisco inhibitor release and degradation in photosynthesis. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20317
• Li X, Bachem K, ..... Gompel N. Regulatory evolution tuning pigmentation intensity quantitatively in Drosophila. Science Advances 2024. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adl2616?af=R
• Kitashova A , Martin Lehmann , Serena Schwenkert , Maximilian Müunch, Dario Leister and Thomas Nägele. "Insights into physiological roles of flavonoids in plant cold acclimation".The Plant Journal (2024) 120, 2269–2285
• Borrero, J., Mogollon-Perez, E., Wright, D. S., Lozano-Urrego, D., Rueda-Muñoz, G., Pardo-Diaz, C., Salazar, C., Montgomery, S.H., Merrill, R. M. "Weighting of sensory cues reflect changing patterns of visual investment during ecological divergence in Heliconius butterflies." Biology Letters. 2024.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0377
• Rodaria Roussou, Dirk Metzler, Francesco Padovani, Felix Thoma, Rebecca Schwarz, Boris Shraiman, Kurt M Schmoller and Christof Osman. Real-time assessment of mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy dynamics at the single-cell level. EMBO J (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-024-00183-5
• Jéhan Le Cadre, Finn Luca Klemp, Miklós Bálint, Stefan Scheu, Ina Schaefer. Applicability and perspectives for DNA barcoding of soil invertebrates. https://peerj.com/articles/17709/
• Schumacher, K., Braun, D., Kleigrewe K., Jung, K.Motility-activating mutations upstream of flhDC reduce acid shock survival of Escherichia coli. Microbiology Spectrum April 2024

• Ullrich S, Leidescher S, Feodorova Y, Thanisch K, Fini JB, Kaspers B, Weber F, Markova B, Fuehrer D, Romitti M, Krebs S, Blum H, Leonhardt H, Costagliola S, Heuer H and Solovei I (2023). The highly and perpetually upregulated thyroglobulin gene is a hallmark of functional thyrocytes. Front. Cell Dev. Biol., 11, 1265407.
• Penzler, J. F., Kleine, T., & Leister, D. COG1 - A master transcription factor regulating photosynthesis. Molecular plant Dec 2023
• Cheng AP, Kwon S, Adeshara T, Göhre V, Feldbrügge M, Weiberg A. Extracellular RNAs released by plant-associated fungi: from fundamental mechanisms to biotechnological applications. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 107(19):5935-5945. (2023 Aug 12)
• Cheng AP, Lederer B*, Oberkofler L*, Huang L, Johnson NR, Platten F, Dunker F, Tisserant C, Weiberg A. A fungal RNA-dependent RNA polymerase is a novel player in plant infection and cross-kingdom RNA interference. PLOS Pathogens. 19(12): e1011885. (2023 Dec 20)
• Genge, M. G., Chowdhury, S. R., Dohnálek, V., Yunoki, K., Hirashima, T., Endo, T., & Mokranjac, D. (2023). Two domains of Tim50 coordinate translocation of proteins across the two mitochondrial membranes. Life Science Alliance, 6(12)".
• Borrero, J., Wright, D. S., Bacquet, C. N., Merrill, R. M. "Oviposition behavior is not affected by ultraviolet light in a butterfly with sexually-dimorphic expression of a UV-sensitive opsin”. Ecology & Evolution. 04 Jul 2023.https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10243
• Hernandez, J.S., Dziubek, D., Schröder, L., Seydel, C., Kitashova, A., Brodsky, V., & Nägele, T. "Natural variation of temperature acclimation of Arabidopsis thaliana". Physiologica Plantarum. 2023 Dec 15.
• Schumacher, K., Gelhausen, R., Kion-Crosby, W., Barquist, L., Backofen, R. & Jung, K. "Ribosome profiling reveals the fine-tuned response of Escherichia coli to mild and severe acid stress". mSystems. 2023 Nov 01.
• Kitashova, A., Brodsky, V., Chaturvedi, P., Pierides, I., Ghatak, A., Weckwerth, W. & Nägele, T. "Quantifying the impact of dynamic plant-environment interactions on metabolic regulation". Journal of Plant Physiology. 2023 Oct 07.
• Schumacher, K., Brameyer, S. & Jung, K. "Bacterial acid stress response: from cellular changes to antibiotic tolerance and phenotypic heterogeneity". Current Opinion in Microbiology. 2023 Aug 23.
• Khan, A., Cheng, J., Kitashova, A., Fürtauer, L., Nägele, T., Picco, C., Scholz-Starke, J., Keller, I., Ekkehard Neuhaus, H., Pommerrenig, B. "Vacuolar sugar transporter EARLY RESPONSE TO DEHYDRATION 6-LIKE4 affects fructose signaling and plant growth". Plant Physiology. 2023 Jul 10.
• Vicente, A.M., Manavski, N., Rohn, P., Schmid, L.M., Garcia-Molina, A., Leister, D., Seydel, C., Bellin, L., Möhlmann, T., Ammann, G., Kaiser, S. & Meurer, J. "The plant cytosolic m6A RNA methylome stabilizes photosynthesis in the cold". Plant Communications. 2023 Jun 07.
• Valifard, M., Fernie, A.R., Kitashova, A., Nägele, T., Schröder, R., Meinert, M., Pommerrenig, B., Mehner-Breitfeld, D., Witte, C.P., Brüser, T., Keller, I. & Neuhaus, H.E. "The novel chloroplast glucose transporter pGlcT2 affects adaptation to extended light periods". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2023 Apr 23.

• Penzler, J. F., Marino, G., Reiter, B., Kleine, T., Naranjo, B., & Leister, D. Commonalities and specialties in photosynthetic functions of PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION5 variants in Arabidopsis. Plant physiology Oct 2022
• Hernandez, J.S. & Nägele, T. "The trade-off function of photorespiration in a changing environment". in silico Plants. 2022 Dec 26.
• Kitashova, A., Adler, S.O., Richter, A.S., Eberlein, S., Dziubek, D., Klipp, E. & Nägele, T. "Limitation of sucrose biosynthesis shapes carbon partitioning during plant cold acclimation". Plant, Cell & Environment. 2022 Nov 03.
• Zirngibl, M., Araguirang, G.E., Kitashova, A., Jahnke, K., Rolka, T., Kühn, C., Nägele, T. & Richter, A.S. "Triosephosphate export from chloroplasts and cellular sugar content regulate anthocyanin biosynthesis during high light acclimation". Plant Communications. 2022. Aug 11.
• Schwarz, J., Schumacher, K., Brameyer, S. & Jung, K. "Bacterial battle against acidity". FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 2022. Jul 29.
• Müller, F., Ecobar, L., Xu, F., Wegrzyn, E., Nainyte, M., Tynchtyk, A., Chan, C.Y., Pichler, A. & Carell, T. "A prebiotically plausible scenario of an RNA-peptide world." Nature. 2022 May 11.
• Brameyer, S., Schumacher, K., Kuppermann, S. & Jung, K. "Division of labor and collective functionality in Escherichia coli under acid stress." Communications Biology. 2022 Apr 07.
• Weigert Munoz, A., Hoyer, E., Schumacher, K., Grognot, M., Taute, K. M., Hacker, S.M., Sieber, S.A. & Jung, K. "Eukaryotic catecholamine hormones influence the chemotactic control of Vibrio campbellii by binding to the coupling protein CheW." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022 Mar 01.
• Seydel, C., Biener, J., Brodsky, V., Eberlein, S. & Nägele, T. "Predicting plant growth response under fluctuating temperature by carbon balance modelling." Communications Biology. 2022 Feb 24.
• Bunk, D., Moriasy, J., Thoma, F., Jakubke, C., Osman, C. & Hörl, D. "YeastMate: neural network-assisted segmentation of mating and budding events in Saccharomyces cerevisiae." Bioimage informatics. 2022 Feb 18.
• Sharma, N., & Osman, C. “Yme2, a putative RNA recognition motif and AAA+ domain containing protein, genetically interacts with the mitochondrial protein export machinery.” Biological Chemistry. 2022 Jan 31.
• Crosbie, D. B., Mahmoudi, M., Radl, V., Brachmann, A., Schloter, M., Kemen, E., & Marín, M. (2022). Microbiome profiling reveals that Pseudomonas antagonises parasitic nodule colonisation of cheater rhizobia in Lotus. New Phytologist, 234(1), 242-255. 2022 Jan 24.

• Marino, G., Naranjo, B., Wang, J., Penzler, J. F., Kleine, T., & Leister, D. Relationship of GUN1 to FUG1 in chloroplast protein homeostasis. The Plant journal Aug 2019
• Naranjo, B., Penzler, J. F., Rühle, T., & Leister, D. NTRC Effects on Non-Photochemical Quenching Depends on PGR5. Antioxidants Jun 2021
• Rühle, T., Dann, M., Reiter, B., Schünemann, D., Naranjo, B., Penzler, J. F., Kleine, T., & Leister, D. PGRL2 triggers degradation of PGR5 in the absence of PGRL1. Nature communications Jun 2021
• Bellin, L., Scherer, V., Dörfer, E., Lau, A., Vicente, A. M., Meurer, J., Hickl, D. & Möhlmann, T. „Cytosolic CTP Production Limits the Establishment of Photosynthesis in Arabidopsis.” Frontiers in plant science. 2021 Nov 30
• Seydel, C., Kitashova, A., Fürtauer, L. & Nägele T. "Temperature-induced dynamics of plant carbohydrate metabolism." Physiologia Plantarum. 2021 Nov 21.
• Ramnarine, T. J., Grath, S., & Parsch, J. “Natural variation in the transcriptional response of Drosophila melanogaster to oxidative stress.” G3, 12(1), 2021 Oct. 25.
• Schäfer, K., Engstler, C., Dischinger, K., & Carrie, C. “Assessment of Mitochondrial Protein Topology and Membrane Insertion.” Plant Mitochondria.2021 Sep 21
• Krantz, M., Zimmer, D., Adler, S.O., Kitashova, A., Klipp, E., Mühlhaus, T. & Nägele, T. "Data Management and Modeling in Plant Biology". Front. Plant Sci. 2021 Sep 3.
• Jakubke, C., Roussou, R., Maiser, A., Schug, C., Thoma, F., Bunk. D., Hörl, D., Leonhardt, H., Walter, P., Klecker, T. and Osman, C. “Cristae-dependent quality control of the mitochondrial genome.” Sci. Adv. 2021 Sep 1.
• Glaser-Schmitt, A., Wittmann, M. J., Ramnarine, T. J., & Parsch, J. „Sexual antagonism, temporally fluctuating selection, and variable dominance affect a regulatory polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster.” Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(11), 2021 Jul. 21.
• Manavski, N., Vicente, A. M., Chi, W., & Meurer, J. “The chloroplast epitranscriptome: Factors, sites, regulation, and detection methods.” Genes. 2021 Jul.
• Schneid, S., Wolff, F., Buchner, K., Bertram, N., Baygün, S.,Barbosa, P., Mangal, S. and Zanin, E.“ The BRCT domains of ECT2 have distinct functions during cytokinesis .” Cell Reports. 2021 Mar 2
• Pavlou, M., Schön, C., Occelli, L. M., Rossi, A., Meumann, N., Boyd, R. F., Bartoe, T. J., Siedlecki, J., Gerhardt, M. J., Babutzka, S., Bogedein, J., Wagner, J. E., Priglinger, S. G., Biel, M., Petersen-Jones, S. M., Büning, H., & Michalakis, S. “Novel AAV capsids for intravitreal gene therapy of photoreceptor disorders.” EMBO molecular medicine. 2021 Feb 22
• Luo, Z., Morey, J. R., Deplazes, E., Motygullina, A., Tan, A., Ganio, K., Neville, L. S., Eleftheriadis, N., Isselstein, M., Pederick, V. G., Paton, J. C., Cordes, T., Harmer, J. R., Kobe, B. & McDevitt, C. A. “A Trap-Door Mechanism for Zinc Acquisition by Streptococcus pneumoniae AdcA.” Mbio. 2021, Feb, 2.
• Montgomery, S., H., Rossi, M., McMillan W., O., & Merrill, R., M. “Neural divergence and hybrid disruption between ecologically isolated Heliconius butterflies.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021 Feb 9
• Rollins, R.E., Mouchet, A., Margos, G., Fingerle, V., Becker, N. S. and Dingemanse, N.J “Repeatable differences in exploratory behaviour predict tick infestation probability in wild great tits.” Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 2021 Feb 08
• Dunker, F., Lederer, B., & Weiberg, A. “Plant ARGONAUTE protein immunopurification for pathogen cross kingdom small RNA analysis.” Bio-protocol. 2021 Feb 5
• Dunker, F., Oberkofler, L., Lederer, B., Trutzenberg, A., & Weiberg, A. „An Arabidopsis downy mildew non-RxLR effector suppresses induced plant cell death to promote biotroph infection.” Journal of experimental botany. 2021 Feb 2
• Murenu, E., Pavlou, M., Richter, L., Rapti, K., Just, S., Cehajic-Kapetanovic, J., Tafrishi, N., Hayes, A., Scholey, R., Lucas, R.,Büning, H., Grimm, D., & Michalakis, S. “A universal protocol for isolating retinal ON bipolar cells across species via fluorescence-activated cell sorting.” Molecular Therapy-Methods & Clinical Development. 2021 Jan 25
• Rackles, E., Witting, M., Forné, I., Zhang, X., Zacherl, J., Schrott, S., Fischer, C., Ewbank, J. J., Osman, O., Imhof, I. & Rolland, S. G. "Impaired peroxisomal import triggers a peroxisomal retrograde
  signaling." Cell Reports. 2021 Jan 19
• Rollins R.E., Schaper S., Kahlhofer C., Frangoulidis D., Strauß A.F.T., Cardinale M., Springer A., Strube C., Bakkes D.K., Becker N.S. and Chitimia-Dobler L. “Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on birds migrating to the island of Ponza, Italy, and the tick-borne pathogens they carry.” Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2021 Jan
• Rollins R.E., Yeyin Z., Wyczanska M., Alig N., Hepner S., Fingerle V., Margos G. and Becker N.S. “Spatial variability in prevalence and genospecies distributions of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato from ixodid ticks collected in southern Germany.” Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2021 Jan

• Kitashova, A., Scheider, K., Fürtauer, L., Scheibenbogen, T., Fürtauer, S. & Nägele T. "Impaired chloroplast positioning affects photosynthetic capacity and regulation of the central carbohydrate metabolism during cold acclimation." Photosynthesis research. 2020 Nov 19
  
• Chen, C-C., Krogsaeter, E. K., Butz, E. S., Li, Y., Puertollano, R., Wahl-Schott, C., Biel, M., & Grimm, C. "TRPML2 is an osmo/mechanosensitive cation channel in endolysosomal organelles." Science Advances, 6, eabb5064. 2020 Nov 11
• Neubacher, N., Tobias, N. J., Huber, M., Cai, X., Glatter, T., Pidot, S. J., Stinear, T.P, Lütticke, A. L., Papenfort, K. & Bode, H. B. ”Symbiosis, virulence and natural-product biosynthesis in entomopathogenic bacteria are regulated by a small RNA.” Nature Microbiology. 2020 Nov 02
• Rossi M, Hausmann AE, Thurman TJ, Montgomery SH, Papa R, Jiggins CD, McMillan WO, Merrill RM. "Visual mate preference evolution during butterfly speciation is linked to neural processing genes." Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 4763 (2020)
• Becker N.S., Rollins R.E., Nosenko K., Paulus A., Martin S., Krebs S., Takano A., Sato K., Kovalev S.Y., Kawabata H., Fingerle V. and Margos G. ”High conservation combined with high plasticity: genomics and evolution of Borrelia bavariensis.” BMC Genomics. 2020 Oct 8
• Hoyos, M., Huber, M., Förstner, K. U., & Papenfort, K. “Gene autoregulation by 3’UTR-derived bacterial small RNAs.” Elife. 2020 Aug 03
• Lauria, T., Slator, C., McKee, V., Müller, M., Stazzoni, S., Crisp, A., Carell, T. & Kellett, A. (2020). A Click Chemistry Approach to Developing Molecularly Targeted DNA Scissors. Chemistry–A European Journal. 2020 July 24
• Zielińska, A., Savietto, A., de Sousa Borges, A., Martinez, D., Berbon, M., Roelofsen, J. R., Habenstein, B., Hartman, A. M., de Boer, R., Van der Klei, I. J., Hirsch A. H.K., Bramkamp, M. & Scheffers, D.J. “Flotillin-mediated membrane fluidity controls peptidoglycan synthesis and MreB movement.” Elife, 2020 Jul 14
• Carell, T., Nainytė, M., Müller, F., Ganazzoli, G., Chan, C. Y., Crisp, A., & Globisch, D. (2020). Amino Acid Modified RNA Bases as Building Blocks of an Early Earth RNA-Peptide World. Chemistry. 2020 June 23
• van der Wal, S., & Haug, J. T. (2020). Shape of attachment structures in parasitic isopodan crustaceans: the influence of attachment site and ontogeny. PeerJ. 2020 June 18
• Jaslan, D., Böck, J., Krogsaeter, E. K., & Grimm, C. "Evolutionary Aspects of TRPMLs and TPCs." Int. J. Mol. Sci., 21(11), 4181. 2020 Jun 11
• Gerndt, S., Krogsaeter, E. K., Patel, S., Bracher, F., & Grimm, C. "Discovery of lipophilic two-pore channel agonists." The FEBS Journal. 2020 Jun 1
• Okeyo M., Hepner S., Rollins R.E., Hartberger C., Straubinger R.K., Marosevic D., Bannister S.A., Bormane A., Donaghy M., Sing A., Fingerle V. and Margos G. “Longitudinal study of prevalence and spatio-temporal distribution of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in ticks from three defined habitats in Latvia” Environ Microbiol. 2020 May 25
• Dunker, F., Trutzenberg, A., Rothenpieler, J. S., Kuhn, S., Pröls, R., Schreiber, T., Tissier, A., Kemen, A., Kemen, E., Hückelhoven. R., & Weiberg, A. “Oomycete small RNAs bind to the plant RNA-induced
  silencing complex for virulence.” ELife. 2020 May 22
• Isselstein, M., Zhang, L., Glembockyte, V., Brix, O., Cosa, G., Tinnefeld, P., & Cordes, T. „Self-healing Dyes—Keeping the Promise?” The journal of physical chemistry letters.2020 May 13.
• Gerndt, S., Chen, C-C., Chao, Y-K., Burgstaller, S., Scotto Rosato, A., Krogsaeter, E. K., Urban, N., Jacob, K., Nguyen, O. N. P., Miller, M. T., Keller, M., Vollmar, A. M., Gudermann, T., Zierler, S., Schredelseker, J., Schaefer, M., Biel, M., Malli, R., Wahl-Schott, C., Bracher, F., Patel, S., & Grimm, C. "Agonist-mediated switching of ion selectivity in TPC2 differentially promotes lysosomal function." eLife, 9, e54712. 2020 Mar 13
• Wirtz, L., Eder, M., Schipper, K., Rohrer, S., & Jung, H. “Transport and kinase activities of cbrA of Pseudomonas putida KT2440.” Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-12. 2020 Mar 25
• Huber, M., Fröhlich, K. S., Radmer, J., & Papenfort, K. “Switching fatty acid metabolism by an RNA-controlled feed forward loop.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020 Mar 19
• Venado, R. E., Liang, J., & Marín, M. “Chapter Four - Rhizobia infection, a journey to the inside of plant cells.” Adv Bot Res, 94, 97-118. 2020
• Schäfer K., Künzler P., Schneider K., Klingl A., Eubel H., & Carrie C. “The Plant Mitochondrial TAT Pathway Is Essential for Complex III Biogenesis.” Current Biology. 2020 Feb 20
• Hoecker, N., Honke, A., Frey, K., Leister, D. & Schneider, A. “Homologous Proteins of the Manganese Transporter PAM71 Are Localized in the Golgi Apparatus and Endoplasmic Reticulum.” Plants. 2020 Feb 13
• Hepner S., Fingerle V., Duscher G.G., Felsberger G., Marosevic D., Rollins R.E., Okeyo M., Sing A. and Margos G. “Population structure of Borrelia turcica from Greece and Turkey.” Infect Genet Evol. 2020 Jan

2019

• Eisa A, Bölter B, Schwenkert S. "The ACT domain in chloroplast precursor-phosphorylating STY kinases binds metabolites and allosterically regulates kinase activity." J Biol Chem. 2019 Oct 8
• Liang J, Klingl A, Lin Y, Boul E, Thomas-Oates J, Marín M. (2019). A subcompatible Rhizobium strain reveals infection duality in Lotus, J Exp Bot, 70, 1903–1913,
• Becker, S., Feldman, J., Wiedemann, S., Okamura, H., Schneider, C., Iwan, K., Crisp, A., Rossa, M., Amatov, T., Carell, T. " Unified prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine and purine RNA ribonucleotides". Science. 2019 Oct 4
• Okamura, H.*, Crisp, A.*, Hübner, S., Becker, S., Rovó, P., Carell, T. "proto-Urea-RNA (Wöhler RNA) containing unusually stable urea nucleosides". Angew. Chem. 2019 Oct 1
• Toro‐Nahuelpan, M., Corrales‐Guerrero, L., Zwiener, T., Osorio‐Valeriano, M., Müller, F. D., Plitzko, J. M., Bamkamp M., Thanbichler M. & Schüler, D."A gradient‐forming MipZ protein mediating the control of cell division in the magnetotactic bacterium Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense." Molecular microbiology 2019 Aug 16
• Peschek, N., Hoyos, M., Herzog, R., Förstner, K. U., & Papenfort, K. "A conserved RNA seed‐pairing domain directs small RNA‐mediated stress resistance in enterobacteria." The EMBO journal. 2019 Aug 15
• Espinoza-Corral R, Heinz S, Klingl A, Jahns P, Lehmann M, Meurer J, Nickelsen J, Soll J, Schwenkert S. "Plastoglobular protein 18 is involved in chloroplast function and thylakoid formation." J Exp Bot. 2019 Aug 7
• Mitterreiter MJ, Bosch FA, Brylok T, Schwenkert S. "The ER luminal C-terminus of AtSec62 is critical for male fertility and plant growth in Arabidopsis thaliana." Plant J. 2019 Jul 29.
• Toro-Nahuelpan M, Giacomelli G, Raschdorf O, Borg S, Plitzko JM, Bramkamp M, Schüler D and Müller, FD "MamY is a membrane-bound protein that aligns magnetosomes and the motility axis of helical magnetotactic bacteria." Nature microbiology 2019 Jul 29
• Guan L, Denkert N, Eisa A, Lehmann M, Sjuts I, Weiberg A, Soll J, Meinecke M, Schwenkert S. "JASSY, a chloroplast outer membrane protein required for jasmonate biosynthesis." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 May 21
• Van der Wal, S., Smit, N. J., and Hadfield, A.K. "Review of the fish parasitic genus Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of three new species." ZooKeys. 2019 Apr 23
• Erpf AC, Stenzel L, Memar N, Antoniolli M, Osepashvili M, Schnabel R, Conradt B, Mikeladze-Dvali T. " PCMD-1 organizes centrosome matrix assembly in C. elegans". Current Biology. 2019 Ap 22
• Schädel, M., Pazinato, P. G., van der Wal, S., & Haug, J. T. "A fossil tanaidacean crustacean from the Middle Jurassic of southern Germany." Palaeodiversity. 2019 Apr 12
• Pfeiffer, D., Toro-Nahuelpan, M., Bramkamp, M., Plitzko, J. M., & Schüler, D. "The Polar Organizing Protein PopZ Is Fundamental for Proper Cell Division and Segregation of Cellular Content in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense." mBio. 2019 Mar 12
• van der Wal, S., and Haug, J. T. "Letter to the editor referencing “The apparent kleptoparasitism in fish-parasitic gnathiid isopods” Parasitology research. 2019 Feb 27
• Ramnarine, TJS., Glaser-Schmitt, A., Catalán, A., & Parsch, J. “Population Genetic and Functional Analysis of a cis-Regulatory Polymorphism in the Drosophila melanogaster Metallothionein A gene.” Genes. 2019; 10(2):147. 2019 Feb 14
• Mechela A, Schwenkert S, Soll J. "A brief history of thylakoid biogenesis." Open Biol. 2019 Jan 31
• Herzog R, Peschek N, Fröhlich KS, Schumacher K, Papenfort K. "Three autoinducer molecules act in concert to control virulence gene expression in Vibrio cholerae." Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jan 15.

2018

• Mishra, N., Wei, H., & Conradt, B. “Caenorhabditis elegans ced-3 Caspase Is Required for Asymmetric Divisions That Generate Cells Programmed To Die.” Genetics. 2018 Nov 4.
• Liang J*, Hoffrichter A*, Brachmann A, Marín M (2018). Complete genome of Rhizobium leguminosarum Norway, an ineffective Lotus micro-symbiont, Stand Genomic Sci, 13:36
• Herzog R, Papenfort K. "Transcriptomic Approaches for Studying Quorum Sensing in Vibrio cholerae." Methods Enzymol. 2018 Oct 24.
• Becker S, Schneider C, Crisp A, Carell T. "Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life." Nat Commun 2018 Dec 12.
• Villella VR, Venerando A, Cozza G, Esposito S, Ferrari E, Monzani R, Spinella MC, Oikonomou V, Renga G, Tosco A, Rossin F, Guido S, Silano M, Garaci E, Chao YK, Grimm C, Luciani A, Romani L, Piacentini M, Raia V, Kroemer G, Maiuri L. "A pathogenic role for cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator in celiac disease." EMBO J. 2018 Nov 29.
• Kolli R, Soll J, Carrie C. "OXA2b is crucial for proper membrane insertion of COX2 during biogenesis of complex IV in plant mitochondria." Plant Physiol. 2018 Nov 28.
• Plesch E, Chen CC, Butz E, Scotto Rosato A, Krogsaeter EK, Yinan H, Bartel K, Keller M, Robaa D, Teupser D, Holdt LM, Vollmar AM, Sippl W, Puertollano R, Medina D, Biel M, Wahl-Schott C, Bracher F, Grimm C. "Selective agonist of TRPML2 reveals direct role in chemokine release from innate immune cells." Elife. 2018 Nov 27;7.
• Schmid LM, Ohler L, Möhlmann T, Brachmann A, Muiño JM, Leister D, Meurer J, Manavski N. "PUMPKIN, the sole Plastid UMP Kinase, Associates with Group II Introns and Alters Their Metabolism." Plant Physiol. 2018 Nov 8.
• Krogsaeter EK, Biel M, Wahl-Schott C, Grimm C. "The protein interaction networks of mucolipins and two-pore channels." Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res. 2018 Nov 2.
• Patil M, Seifert S, Seiler F, Soll J, Schwenkert S. "FZL is primarily localized to the inner chloroplast membrane however influences thylakoid maintenance." Plant Mol Biol. 2018 Jul;97
• Crisp A, Carell T. "Rethinking the tools of the RNA world." Elife. 2018 Jun 15;7.
• Manavski, N., Schmid, L.M., and Meurer, J. "RNA-stabilization factors in chloroplasts of vascular plants." Essays Biochem. 2018 Apr 13;62(1):51-64.
• Schneider C, Becker S, Okamura H, Crisp A, Amatov T, Stadlmeier M, Carell T. "Noncanonical RNA Nucleosides as Molecular Fossils of an Early Earth-Generation by Prebiotic Methylations and Carbamoylations." Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2018 Mar 13;57(1):1-5.
• Kolli R, Soll J, Carrie C. "Plant Mitochondrial Inner Membrane Protein Insertion." Int J Mol Sci. 2018 Feb 24;19(2).
• Nickel C, Horneff R, Heermann R, Neumann B, Jung K, Soll J, Schwenkert S. "Phosphorylation of the outer membrane mitochondrial protein OM64 influences protein import into mitochondria." Mitochondrion. 2018 Jan 27.
• Mickoleit, F., Borkner, C. B., Toro-Nahuelpan, M., Herold, H. M., Maier, D. S., Plitzko, J. M., Scheibel, T. & Schüler, D. "In vivo coating of bacterial magnetic nanoparticles by magnetosome expression of spider silk-inspired peptides." Biomacromolecules. 2018 Jan 22
• Becker S, Schneider C, Okamura H, Crisp A, Amatov T, Dejmek M, Carell T. "Wet-dry cycles enable the parallel origin of canonical and non-canonical nucleosides by continuous synthesis." Nat Commun. 2018 Jan 11;9(1):163.

2017

• Chao YK, Schludi V, Chen CC, Butz E, Nguyen ONP, Müller M, Krüger J, Kammerbauer C, Ben-Johny M, Vollmar AM, Berking C, Biel M, Wahl-Schott CA, Grimm C. "TPC2 polymorphisms associated with a hair pigmentation phenotype in humans result in gain of channel function by independent mechanisms." PNAS. 2017 Oct 10;114(41):E8595-E8602.
• Meurer J, Schmid LM, Stoppel R, Leister D, Brachmann A, Manavski N. "PALE CRESS binds to plastid RNAs and facilitates the biogenesis of the 50S ribosomal subunit." Plant J. 2017 Aug 14.
• Bach JN, Giacomelli G, Bramkamp M. "Sample Preparation and Choice of Fluorophores for Single and Dual Color Photo-Activated Localization Microscopy (PALM) with Bacterial Cells." Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1563:129-141.
• Chen CC, Cang C, Fenske S, Butz E, Chao YK, Biel M, Ren D, Wahl-Schott C, Grimm C. "Patch-clamp technique to characterize ion channels in enlarged individual endolysosomes." Nat Protoc. 2017 Aug;12(8):1639-1658.
• Chen CC, Butz ES, Chao YK, Grishchuk Y, Becker L, Heller S, Slaugenhaupt SA, Biel M, Wahl-Schott C, Grimm C. "Small Molecules for Early Endosome-Specific Patch Clamping." Cell Chem Biol. 2017 Jul 20;24(7):907-916.
• Zahn C, Keller K, Toro-Nahuelpan M, Dorscht P, Gross W, Laumann M, Gekle S, Zimmermann W, Schüler D, Kress H. "Measurement of the magnetic moment of single Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense cells by magnetic tweezers." Sci Rep. 2017 Jun 15;7(1):3558.
• Böhm K, Meyer F, Rhomberg A, Kalinowski J, Donovan C, Bramkamp M. "Novel Chromosome Organization Pattern in Actinomycetales-Overlapping Replication Cycles Combined with Diploidy." MBio. 2017 Jun 6;8(3).
• Böhm S, Riedmayr LM, Nguyen ONP, Gießl A, Liebscher T, Butz ES, Schön C, Michalakis S, Wahl-Schott C, Biel M, Becirovic E. "Peripherin-2 and Rom-1 have opposing effects on rod outer segment targeting of retinitis pigmentosa-linked peripherin-2 mutants." Sci Rep. 2017 May 24;7(1):2321.
• Christina Nagler, Joachim T. Haug, Henrik Glenner, John Buckeridge. "Litholepas klausreschi gen. et sp. nov., a new neolepadine barnacle (Cirripedia, Thoracica) on a sponge from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestone’s of southern Germany." Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen. 2017 Apr;284: 29–42.
• Nguyen ON*, Grimm C*, Schneider LS, Chao YK, Atzberger C, Bartel K, Watermann A, Ulrich M, Mayr D, Wahl-Schott C, Biel M, Vollmar AM. "Two-Pore Channel Function Is Crucial for the Migration of Invasive Cancer Cells." Cancer Res. 2017 Mar 15;77(6):1427-1438.
• Nagler C, Hyžný M, Haug JT. "168 million years old "marine lice" and the evolution of parasitism within isopods." BMC Evol Biol. 2017 Mar 9;17(1):76. Micro-computed tomography of the fossil isopod Urda rostrata. Source: C. Nagler, LMU
• J.M. Starck, A. Neul, V. Schmidt, T. Kolb, S. Franz-Guess, D. Balcecean, M. Pees. "Morphology and Morphometry of the Lung in Corn Snakes (Pantherophis guttatus) Infected with Three Different Strains of Ferlavirus." J Comp Pathol. 2017 Mar 8 (in press)
• Sjuts I, Soll J and Bölter B. "Import of Soluble Proteins into Chloroplasts and Potential Regulatory Mechanisms." Front. Plant Sci. 2017 Feb 8;8:168. (Review article)
• Schubert K, Sieger B, Meyer F, Giacomelli G, Böhm K, Rieblinger A, Lindenthal L, Sachs N, Wanner G, Bramkamp M. "The Antituberculosis Drug Ethambutol Selectively Blocks Apical Growth in CMN Group Bacteria." MBio. 2017 Feb 7;8(1). pii: e02213-16

2016

• Toro-Nahuelpan M, Müller FD, Klumpp S, Plitzko JM, Bramkamp M, and Schüler D. "Segregation of prokaryotic magnetosomes organelles is driven by treadmilling of a dynamic actin-like MamK filament." BMC Biol. 2016 Oct 12;14(1):88.
• Sandra Franz-Guess, J. Matthias Starck. "Histological and ultrastructural analysis of the respiratory tracheae of Galeodes granti (Chelicerata: Solifugae)." Arthropod Struct Dev. 2016 Sep;45(5):452-461.
• Sandra Franz-Guess, Bastian-Jesper Klußmann-Fricke, Christian S. Wirkner, Lorenzo Prendini, J. Matthias Starck. "Morphology of the tracheal system of camel spiders (Chelicerata: Solifugae) based on micro-CT and 3D-reconstruction in exemplar species from three families." Arthropod Struct Dev. 2016 Sep;45(5):440-451.
• Beck S, Henß L, Weidner T, Herrmann J, Müller R, Chao YK, Grimm C, Weber C, Sliva K, Schnierle BS. "Identification of entry inhibitors of Ebola virus pseudotyped vectors from a myxobacterial compound library." Antiviral Res. 2016 Aug;132:85-91.
• Christina Nagler, Joachim T. Haug. "Functional morphology of parasitic isopods: understanding morphological adaptations of attachment and feeding structures in Nerocila as a pre-requisite for reconstructing the evolution of Cymothoidae." PeerJ. 2016 Jul 5;4:e2188.
• Becirovic E, Böhm S, Nguyen ON, Riedmayr LM, Hammelmann V, Schön C, Butz ES, Wahl-Schott C, Biel M, Michalakis S. "AAV Vectors for FRET-Based Analysis of Protein-Protein Interactions in Photoreceptor Outer Segments." Front Neurosci. 2016 Jul 28;10:356.
• Nguyen ON, Böhm S, Gießl A, Butz ES, Wolfrum U, Brandstätter JH, Wahl-Schott C, Biel M, Becirovic E. "Peripherin-2 differentially interacts with cone opsins in outer segments of cone photoreceptors." Hum Mol Genet. 2016 Jun 15;25(12):2367-2377.
• Lorenz N, Reiger M, Toro-Nahuelpan M, Brachmann A, Poettinger L, Plener L, Lassak J and Jung K. "Identification and Initial Characterization of Prophages in Vibrio campbellii." PLoS One. 2016 May 23;11(5):e0156010.
• Pimprikar P, Carbonnel S, Paries M, Katzer K, Klingl V, Bohmer MJ, Karl L, Floss DS, Harrison MJ, Parniske M,
  Gutjahr C. "A CCaMK-CYCLOPS-DELLA Complex Activates Transcription of RAM1 to Regulate Arbuscule Branching." Curr Biol. 2016 Apr 25;26(8):987-98.
• Fenske S, Pröbstle R, Auer F, Hassan S, Marks V, Pauza DH, Biel M, Wahl-Schott C. "Comprehensive multilevel in vivo and in vitro analysis of heart rate fluctuations in mice by ECG telemetry and electrophysiology." Nat Protoc. 2016 Jan;11(1):61-86.
• Maria Serrano-Sánchez, Christina Nagler, Carolin Haug, Joachim T. Haug, Elena Centeno-García & Francisco J. Vega. "The first fossil record of larval stages of parasitic isopods: cryptoniscus larvae preserved in Miocene amber." Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen. 2016 Jan;279:97–106.
• Christina Nagler, Carolin Haug, Udo Resch, Jürgen Kriwet, Joachim T. Haug. "A 150 million year old „very hungry caterpillar“: first fossil record of cymothoid isopods parasiting on fishes." Bulletin of Geosciences. 2016;91:1-12.

2015

• Christina Nagler, Joachim T. Haug. "From Fossil Parasitoids to Vectors: Insects as Parasites and Hosts." Adv Parasitol. 2015 Nov;90:137-200.
• Tomer J. Czaczkes, Sandra Franz, Volker Witte, Jürgen Heinze. "Perception of collective path use affects path selection in ants." Animal Behaviour. 2015 Jan;99:15-24.

2014

• Renate Matzke-Karasz, Christina Nagler, Simon Hofmann. "The ostracod springtail – camera recordings of a previously undescribed high-speed escape jump in the genus Tanycypris (Cypridoidea, Ostracoda)." Crustaceana. 2014;87(8-9):1072-1094.
  
• Christina Nagler, Renate Metzke-Karasz, Juergen Geist. "Revision of the genus Tanycypris (Ostracoda, Cypricercinae) with the description of a new species and a dichotomous key of the genus." Zootaxa. 2014 Jun 24;3821(4):401-24.