Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Polz

 

 

 

 

 

Professor at the Division of Microbial Ecology

☎ +43 1 4277 91207

✉ martin.f.polz@univie.ac.at

Microbes are the most abundant and diverse organisms on the planet. Yet how this diversity is structured in the environment remains poorly understood. Martin’s group is broadly interested in structure-function relationships within microbial communities. How do gene flow, environmental interactions, and selection structure populations? How does viral predation drive the ecology and evolution of microbes? How fast do microbes grow in environmental samples?

The group addresses these questions by a combination of in situ molecular approaches, environmental genomics, traditional physiological and genetic techniques, and modelling. They study patterns of diversity among co-occurring microbes from the level of the entire community to the individual genome and gene. Their model systems include marine microbes as well as animal microbiomes. Their latest projects focus on microbe-virus interactions and on growth dynamics under environmental conditions.

Research Topics

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Teaching

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Group Members

 Publications

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Bruto, M., Labreuche, Y., James, A., Piel, D., Chenivesse, S., Petton, B., Polz, M. F., & Le Roux, F. (2018). Ancestral gene acquisition as the key to virulence potential in environmental Vibrio populations. The ISME Journal, 12(12), 2954-2966. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0245-3
Datta, M. S., Almada, A. A., Baumgartner, M. F., Mincer, T. J., Tarrant, A. M., & Polz, M. F. (2018). Inter-individual variability in copepod microbiomes reveals bacterial networks linked to host physiology. The ISME Journal, 12(9), 2103-2113. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0182-1
Corzett, C. H., Elsherbini, J., Chien, D. M., Hehemann, J.-H., Henschel, A., Preheim, S. P., Yu, X., Alm, E. J., & Polz, M. F. (2018). Evolution of a Vegetarian Vibrio: Metabolic Specialization of Vibrio breoganii to Macroalgal Substrates. Journal of Bacteriology, 200(15), Article e00020-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00020-18
Kauffman, K. M., Brown, J. M., Sharma, R. S., VanInsberghe, D., Elsherbini, J., Polz, M., & Kelly, L. (2018). Viruses of the Nahant Collection, characterization of 251 marine Vibrionaceae viruses. Scientific Data, 5, Article 180114. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.114
Castillo, D., Kauffman, K., Hussain, F., Kalatzis, P., Rørbo, N., Polz, M. F., & Middelboe, M. (2018). Widespread distribution of prophage-encoded virulence factors in marine Vibrio communities. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 9973. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-28326-9
Louca, S., Polz, M. F., Mazel, F., Albright, M. B. N., Huber, J. A., O'Connor, M. I., Ackermann, M., Hahn, A. S., Srivastava, D. S., Crowe, S. A., Doebeli, M., & Parfrey, L. W. (2018). Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(6), 936-943. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0519-1