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., Tischler, P., Weinmaier, T., Penz, T., Heinz, E., Brunham, R. C., Read, T. D., Bavoil, P. M., Sachse, K., Kahane, S., Friedman, M. G., Rattei, T., Myers, G., & Horn, M. (2011). Unity in Variety - The Pan-Genome of the Chlamydiae. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(12), 3253-3270. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msr161
Haider, S., Horn, A., Walochnik, J., Wagner, M., & Horn, M. (2008). Chlamydia-like bacteria in respiratory samples of community-acquired pneumonia patients. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 281, 198-202.
Strous, M., Pelletier, E., Mangenot, S., Rattei, T., Lehner, A., Taylor, M. W., Horn, M., Daims, H., Bartol-Mavel, D., Wincker, P., Barbe, V., Fonknechten, N., Vallenet, D., Segurens, B., Schenowitz-Truong, C., Medigue, C., Horn, A., Snel, B., Dutilh, B. E., ... Le Paslier, D. L. (2006). Deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium from a community genome. Nature, 440(7085), 790-794. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04647
Horn, M., Horn, A., Schmitz-Esser, S., & Wagner, M. (2006). Environmental chlamydia genomics. In Chlamydia: genomics and pathogenesis (pp. 25-44). Horizon Bioscience.
Horn, A., Tönshoff, E., Taylor, M. W., Fritsche, T. R., Wagner, M., & Horn, M. (2005). 'Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila', an endosymbiont of Acanthamoeba spp. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 55(5), 1863-1866. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63572-0