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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Mino, S., Nakagawa, S., Makita, H., Toki, T., Miyazaki, J., Sievert, S. M., Polz, M. F., Inagaki, F., Godfroy, A., Kato, S., Watanabe, H., Nunoura, T., Nakamura, K., Imachi, H., Watsuji, T.-O., Kojima, S., Takai, K., & Sawabe, T. (2017). Endemicity of the cosmopolitan mesophilic chemolithoautotroph Sulfurimonas at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. The ISME Journal, 11(4), 909-919. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.178
Bruto, M., James, A., Petton, B., Labreuche, Y., Chenivesse, S., Alunno-Bruscia, M., Polz, M. F., & Le Roux, F. (2017). Vibrio crassostreae, a benign oyster colonizer turned into a pathogen after plasmid acquisition. The ISME Journal, 11(4), 1043-1052. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.162
Starnawski, P., Bataillon, T., Ettema, T. J. G., Jochum, L. M., Schreiber, L., Chen, X., Lever, M. A., Polz, M. F., Jørgensen, B. B., Schramm, A., & Kjeldsen, K. U. (2017). Microbial community assembly and evolution in subseafloor sediment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(11), 2940-2945. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614190114
Cermak, N., Becker, J. W., Knudsen, S. M., Chisholm, S. W., Manalis, S. R., & Polz, M. F. (2017). Direct single-cell biomass estimates for marine bacteria via Archimedes' principle. The ISME Journal, 11(3), 825-828. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.161
Alcamán, M. E., Alcorta, J., Bergman, B., Vásquez, M., Polz, M., & Díez, B. (2017). Physiological and gene expression responses to nitrogen regimes and temperatures in Mastigocladus sp. strain CHP1, a predominant thermotolerant cyanobacterium of hot springs. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 40(2), 102-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2016.11.007
Chu, N. D., Clarke, S. A., Timberlake, S., Polz, M. F., Grossman, A. D., & Alm, E. J. (2017). A Mobile Element in mutS Drives Hypermutation in a Marine Vibrio. mBio, 8(1), Article e02045-16. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02045-16