Principal Investigator, Steering Committee

Prof. Dr. Ruth Anne Schmitz-Streit

Institution

Kiel University
Institute for General Microbiology
Molecular Biology of Microorganisms Lab
Vita

Education/Training

2001
Habilitation in Microbiology and Genetics (Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gottschalk), Georg August-University of Göttingen

1990 – 1992
Doctoral student, Microbiology, Philipps-University Marburg (Prof. Dr. RK Thauer); Doctorate in Biology-Microbiology (summa cum laude)

1984 – 1989
Study of Biology, Philipps-University Marburg; Diploma in Biology

Research Experience/Academic Appointments

Since 2004
Professor (C4) „Allgemeine Mikrobiologie“ at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel

2017
Science price city of Kiel

11/2015
Offer chair of the Institute of Microbiology and the center of archaea at the University in Regensburg (declined 8/2016)

2002 – 2005
Faculty member of the international MSc/PhD program “Molecular Biology”, Göttingen

1996 – 2004
Group leader, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg August-University of Göttingen

1994 – 1996
Post-doctoral Fellow (Liebig-Fellowship, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie), Dept. of Plant and Mol. Biology University of California Berkeley, USA

1992 – 1993
Post-Doc, Philipps-University Marburg

Important Scientific Prizes/Functions

Since 2017
President of the German Society of Microbiology (VAAM)

Since 2016
Speaker of the DFG priority program SPP2002 (small proteins in Prokaryotes, an unknown world)

Since 2012
Vice chair of the DFG Review-Panel 204-01

Since 2008
Elected referee of the DFG Review-Panel 204-01 (Microbiology, Virology, Immunology)

Since 2007
Deputy-coordinator of the SFB 754, ‘Climate-biogeochemistry interaction in the tropical ocean’

Since 2007
Member (executive board) of the Excellence cluster ‘Future Ocean’, Kiel

Since 2007
Member (executive board) of ‘School of Ocean Sciences’, (ISOS), Kiel

Since 2006
Member of the Program committee of the network ‘Industrial Biotechnology North’

2013/2015
Vice-chair (2013) and Chair (2015) of the Gordon Research Conference ‘Archaea, Ecology, Metabolism and Molecular Biology’

2012-2016
Vice chair of the DFG Review-Panel 204-01

2008-2016
Elected referee of the DFG Review-Panel 204-01 (Microbiology, Virology, Immunology)

2002 – 2005
Member of the “Program committee of the MSc/PhD Program Molecular Biology”, Göttingen

2001 – 2004
Heisenberg-Fellowship (DFG)

1995
Ph.D. award (Philipps-University of Marburg)

1994 – 1996
Liebig Fellowship (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie)

1994
Ph.D. award (Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie VAAM)

1986 – 1989
Fellowship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

Contact

rschmitz@ifam.uni-kiel.de
http://www.academia-net.org/profil/prof-ruth-anne-schmitz-streit/1134204 https://www.mikrobio.uni-kiel.de/de/ag-schmitz-streit https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/person/1343252

Associated Research Groups

Prof. Dr. Ruth Anne Schmitz-Streit
Publications

Publications

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2024
B1

Shaping tiny worlds: Paternal microbiota manipulation influences offspring microbial colonization and development in a sex role-reversed pipefish

Wagner, K. S., Salasc, F., Marten, S. M., & Roth, O. (2024). bioRxiv, 2024-10. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.09.617486

2024
C4

The archaeome in metaorganism research, with a focus on marine models and their bacteria–archaea interactions

von Hoyningen-Huene, A. J., Bang, C., Rausch, P., Rühlemann, M., Fokt, H., He, J., Jensen, N., Knop, M., Petersen, C., Schmittmann, L., Zimmer, T., Baines, J. F., Bosch, T. C. G., Hentschel, U., Reusch, T. B. H., Roeder, T., Franke, A., Schulenburg, H., Stukenbrock, E., & Schmitz, R. A. (2024). Frontiers in Microbiology, 15, 1347422. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1347422

2023
B2

Four novel Caudoviricetes bacteriophages isolated from Baltic Sea water infect colonizers of Aurelia aurita

Stante M, Weiland-Bräuer N, Repnik U, Werner A, Bramkamp M, Chibani CM, Schmitz RA (2023) Four novel Caudoviricetes bacteriophages isolated from Baltic Sea water infect colonizers of Aurelia aurita. Viruses. 2023; 15(7):1525. doi: 10.3390/v1507152
2023
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Comparative genomics of novel Bacteroides acidifaciens isolates reveals candidates for adaptation to host subspecies in house mice

Hanna Fokt, Shauni Doms, Malte C. Rühlemann, Maxime Godfroid, Ruth A. Schmitz, Britt M. Hermes, John F. Baines (2023) Comparative genomics of novel Bacteroides acidifaciens isolates reveals candidates for adaptation to host subspecies in house mice BioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.31.526425

 

2023
B2

Antimicrobial peptides originating from expression libraries of Aurelia aurita and Mnemiopsis leidyi prevent biofilm formation of opportunistic pathogens

Ladewig L, Gloy L, Langfeldt D, Pinnow N, Weiland-Bräuer N, Schmitz RA (2023) Antimicrobial peptides originating from expression libraries of Aurelia aurita and Mnemiopsis leidyi prevent biofilm formation of opportunistic pathogens. Microorganisms, 11(9), 2184. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11092184

2023
B2

First insights into the Aurelia aurita transcriptome response upon manipulation of its microbiome

Weiland-Bräuer N, Koutsouveli V, Langfeldt D, Schmitz RA (2023) First insights into the Aurelia aurita transcriptome response upon manipulation of its microbiome. Front. Microbiol. 14:1183627. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1183627

2023
B2

The Life Cycle of Aurelia aurita Depends on the Presence of a Microbiome in Polyps Prior to Onset of Strobilation

Jensen N, Weiland-Bräuer N, Joel S, Chibani CM, Schmitz RA (2023)  The Life Cycle of Aurelia aurita Depends on the Presence of a Microbiome in Polyps Prior to Onset of Strobilation. Microbiology Spectrum, 11(4), e00262-23. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00262-23

2023
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Closely related Bacteroides of the murine intestinal microbiota affect each other’s growth positively or negatively

Hanna Fokt, Gabija Sakalyte, Rahul Unni, Mohammad Abukhalaf, Liam Cassidy, Georgios Marinos, Maxime Godfroid, Birhanu M Kinfu, Ruth A Schmitz, Christoph Kaleta, Andreas Tholey, John F Baines, Tal Dagan, Daniel Unterweger (2023) BioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.05.530569
2023
A1
B1
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Z2

Sequential host-bacteria and bacteria-bacteria interactions determine the microbiome establishment of Nematostella vectensis

Domin H, Zimmermann J, Taubenheim J, Fuentes Reyes G, Saueressig L, Prasse D, Höppner M, Schmitz RA, Hentschel U, Kaleta C, Fraune S (2023) Sequential host-bacteria and bacteria-bacteria interactions determine the microbiome establishment of Nematostella vectensis. Microbiome doi:10.1186/s40168-023-01701-z

 

 

 

 

2022
A2
B4
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Bacteroides muris sp. nov. isolated from the cecum of wild-derived house mice.

Hanna Fokt, Rahul Unni, Urska Repnik, Ruth A. Schmitz, Marc Bramkamp, John F. Baines, Daniel Unterweger. Archives of Microbiology 204:546.
doi: 10.1007/s00203-022-03148-6

2020
B2

The native microbiome is crucial for offspring generation and fitness of Aurelia aurita

Weiland-Bräuer N, Pinnow N, Langfeldt D, Roik A, Güllert S, Chibani CM, Reusch TBH, Schmitz RA (2020) mBio. 11(6) e02336-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02336-20

2020
B2

B-vitamin nutrition in the pea aphid-Buchnera symbiosis

Blow F, Bueno E, Clark N, Zhu TD, Chung SH, Güllert S, Schmitz RA, Douglas AE (2020) Journal of Insect Physiology. 126:104092. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2020.104092

2020
B2
Z2

Cultivable microbiota associated with Aurelia aurita and Mnemiopsis leidyi

Weiland-Bräuer N, Prasse D, Brauer A, Jaspers C, Reusch TBH, Schmitz RA (2020) MicrobiologyOpen. 9(9):e1094 doi: 10.1002/mbo3.1094  

2020
A2
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Differences in the microbiota of native and non-indigenous gelatinous zooplankton organisms in a low saline environment

Jaspers C, Weiland-Bräuer N, Rühlemann MC, Baines JF, Schmitz RA, Reusch TBH (2020) Sci Total Environ. 734:139471. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139471

2019
B2

Microbiota differences of the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi in native and invasive sub-populations

Jaspers C, Weiland-Bräuer N, Fischer M, Künzel S, Schmitz RA, Reusch TBH (2019) Front. Mar. Sci. 6: 635. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00635

2019
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Comparative analysis of amplicon and metagenomic sequencing methods reveals key features in the evolution of animal metaorganisms

Rausch P, Rühlemann M, Hermes BM, Doms S, Dagan T, Dierking K, Domin H, Fraune S, von Frieling J, Hentschel U, Heinsen F-A, Höppner M, Jahn MT, Jaspers C, Kissoyan KAB, Langfeldt D, Rehman A, Reusch TBH, Roeder T, Schmitz RA, Schulenburg H, Soluch R, Sommer F, Stukenbrock E, Weiland-Bräuer N, Rosenstiel P, Franke A, Bosch T, Baines JF (2019) Microbiome, doi: 10.1186/s40168-019-0743-1

2019
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Neutrality in the metaorganism

Sieber M, Pita L, Weiland-Bräuer N, Dirksen P, Wang J, Mortzfeld B, Franzenburg S, Schmitz RA, Baines JF, Fraune S, Hentschel U, Schulenburg H, Bosch TCG, Traulsen A (2019) PLoS Biol., DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000298

2019
B2

Potential role of host-derived quorum quenching in modulating bacterial colonization in the moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita

Weiland-Bräuer N, Pinnow N, Fischer MA, Schmitz RA (2019) Scientific Reports, 9(1), 34. DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-37321-z

2018
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Metaorganisms in extreme environments: do microbes play a role in organismal adaptation?

Bang C, Dagan T, Deines P, Dubilier N, Duschl W J, Fraune S, Hentschel U, Hirt H, Hülter N, Lachnit T, Picazo D, Galan P L, Pogoreutz C, Rädecker N, Saad M M, Schmitz R A, Schulenburg H, Voolstra C R, Weiland-Bräuer N, Ziegler M, Bosch T C G (2018); Zoology, doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2018.02.004

2016
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Combination of Bottom-up 2D-LC-MS and Semi-top-down GelFree-LC-MS Enhances Coverage of Proteome and Low Molecular Weight Short Open Reading Frame Encoded Peptides of the Archaeon Methanosarcina mazei.

Cassidy L, Prasse D, Linke D, Schmitz R A, Tholey A (2016)
J Proteome Res., 15(10):3773-3783. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00569

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