Dr. Petra Pjevac

 

 

 

 

 

Senior Scientist at the Joint Microbiome Facility
Group Leader

☎ +43 1 4277 91233

✉ petra.pjevac@univie.ac.at

Sequencing-based methods are currently the most widely applied techniques in microbiome research, both in clinical and environmental studies. As a staff scientist in the Joint Microbiome Facility, Petra supports researchers in all steps of sequencing-based microbiome analysis, from study design and data generation to analysis and interpretation of results. In her own research, she investigates factors that shape microbial communities and drive niche differentiation between microorganisms. Besides sequencing-based approaches, she uses physiological experiments and biogeochemical data to address these questions. Petra is particularly interested in chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms in complex environments like soils and sediments – mainly those involved in nitrogen, sulfur and metal cycling.

Current Projects

Nitrogen (N) is essential for all life on Earth and the most abundant element in the atmosphere, where it mainly occurs as dinitrogen gas (N2)....
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Nitrification is a key process of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle and wastewater treatment. Our current knowledge on the involved organisms –...
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 Publications

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Čačković, A., Kajan, K., Selak, L., Marković, T., Brozičević, A., Pjevac, P., & Orlić, S. (2023). Hydrochemical and Seasonally Conditioned Changes of Microbial Communities in the Tufa-Forming Freshwater Network Ecosystem. mSphere, 8(3), Article e0060222. https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00602-22
Bartosik, T. J., Campion, N. J., Freisl, K., Liu, D. T., Gangl, K., Stanek, V., Tu, A., Pjevac, P., Hausmann, B., Eckl-Dorna, J., & Schneider, S. (2023). The nasal microbiome in patients suffering from non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs-exacerbated respiratory disease in absence of corticosteroids. Frontiers in Immunology, 14, Article 1112345. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1112345
Graffius, S., Garzón, J. F. G., Zehl, M., Pjevac, P., Kirkegaard, R., Flieder, M., Loy, A., Rattei, T., Ostrovsky, A., & Zotchev, S. B. (2023). Secondary Metabolite Production Potential in a Microbiome of the Freshwater Sponge Spongilla lacustris. Microbiology Spectrum, 11(2), Article e04353-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.04353-22, https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.04353-22
Lemberger, U., Pjevac, P., Hausmann, B., Berry, D., Moser, D., Jahrreis, V., Özsoy, M., Shariat, S. F., & Veser, J. (2023). The microbiome of kidney stones and urine of patients with nephrolithiasis. Urolithiasis : official journal of the International Urolithiasis Society, 51(1), Article 27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00240-022-01403-5
Effenberger, M., Widjaja, A. A., Grabherr, F., Schaefer, B., Grander, C., Mayr, L., Schwaerzler, J., Enrich, B., Moser, P., Fink, J., Pedrini, A., Jaschke, N., Kirchmair, A., Pfister, A., Hausmann, B., Bale, R., Putzer, D., Zoller, H., Schafer, S., ... Tilg, H. (2023). Interleukin-11 drives human and mouse alcohol-related liver disease. Gut, 72(1), 168-179. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2021-326076
Tocino Márquez, I., Zehl, M., Pjevac, P., Kirkegaard, R., Flieder, M., Loy, A., Rattei, T., & Zotchev, S. (2022). Developing co-cultures of bacterial isolates from the bryozoan Cristatella mucedo for the discovery of novel secondary metabolites. Planta Medica, 88(15), 1438-1438.