Dr. Ben Roller
Ben Roller
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science
✉ benjamin.robert.roller(at)univie.ac.at
Publications
Breyer E, Stix C, Kilker S, Roller BRK, Panagou F, Doebke C et al. The contribution of pelagic fungi to ocean biomass. Cell. 2025 Jul 24;188(15):3992-4002. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.004
Keegstra JM, Landry ZC, Zweifel ST, Roller BRK, Baumgartner DA, Carrara F et al. Risk-reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria. Nature Microbiology. 2025 May 26;10(6):1393-1403. doi: 10.1038/s41564-025-01997-7
Schmider T, Hestnes AG, Brzykcy J, Schmidt H, Schintlmeister A, Roller BRK et al. Physiological basis for atmospheric methane oxidation and methanotrophic growth on air. Nature Communications. 2024 Dec;15(1):4151. Epub 2024 May 16. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48197-1
Miettinen TP, Gomez A, Wu Y, Wu W, Usherwood TR, Hwang Y et al. Cell size, density, and nutrient dependency of unicellular algal gravitational sinking velocities. Science Advances. 2024 Jul 5;10(27):adn8356. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adn8356
Roller BRK, Hellerschmied C, Wu Y, Miettinen TP, Gomez AL, Manalis SR et al. Single-cell mass distributions reveal simple rules for achieving steady-state growth. mBio. 2023 Oct;14(5):e0158523. Epub 2023 Sept 6. doi: 10.1128/mbio.01585-23