Dr. Astrid Collingro
Fascinated by the interactions between intracellular bacteria and their eukaryotic host cells, Astrid started working on bacteria-protist symbioses at the Technical University Munich (Germany), eventually joining the University of Vienna in 2003. She currently works mainly with chlamydial symbionts. By using infection experiments, comparative ‘omics and phylogenetic methods, she explores how bacteria evolved from symbionts of protists to pathogens of animals and humans. Her work often focuses on yet unexplored chlamydial lineages using ‘omics methods, together with different cultivation approaches. Recently, the impact of chlamydial symbionts on ecosystem processes and microbial community composition have gathered her interest.
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Horn, A., Poppert, S., Heinz, E., Schmitz-Esser, S., Essig, A., Schweikert, M., Wagner, M., & Horn, M. (2005). Recovery of an environmental chlamydia strain from activated sludge by co-cultivation with Acanthamoeba sp. Microbiology, 151(1), 301-309. https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27406-0
Haferkamp, I., Schmitz-Esser, S., Linka, N., Urbany, C., Horn, A., Wagner, M., Horn, M., & Neuhaus, H. E. (2004). A candidate NAD+ transporter in an intracellular bacterial symbiont related to Chlamydiae. Nature, 432(7017), 622-625. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03131
Schmitz-Esser, S., Linka, N., Horn, A., Beier, C. L., Neuhaus, H. E., Wagner, M., & Horn, M. (2004). ATP/ADP Translocases: A Common Feature of Obligate Intracellular Amoebal Symbionts Related to Chlamydiae and Rickettsiae. Journal of Bacteriology, 186(3), 683-691. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.186.3.683-691.2004
Horn, A., Walochnik, J., Baranyi, C., Michel, R., Wagner, M., Horn, M., & Aspöck, H. (2004). Chlamydial endocytobionts of free-living amoebae differentially affect the growth rate of their hosts. European Journal of Protistology, 40(1), 57-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2003.10.002
Horn, A., Horn, M., & Wagner, M. (2004). Die Evolution der Chlamydien - Einblicke in die Entwicklungsgeschichte bedeutender bakterieller Krankheitserreger aus einer genomischen Perspektive. GenomXPress, 13-14.
Horn, M., Horn, A., Schmitz-Esser, S., Beier, C. L., Purkhold, U., Fartmann, B., Brandt, P., Nyakatura, G., Droege, M., Frishman, D. I., Rattei, T., Mewes, H. W., & Wagner, M. (2004). Illuminating the Evolutionary History of Chlamydiae. Science, 304(5671), 728-730. http://www.scopus.com/scopus/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-2342423344&partner@&rel=R5.0.4