Department Environmental Microbiology
Microbial Systems Ecology
Research areas
The focus of our research group is on basic questions of the ecology and evolution of bacteria: on biological diversity at the level of individual bacterial cells, on interactions within and between species, and on how bacteria cope with ever-changing environments. We often work at the level of single cells and ask how this perspective provides insights that could not be obtained by population experiments.
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Selected Publications
D’Souza, G.; Ebrahimi, A.; Stubbusch, A.; Daniels, M.; Keegstra, J.; Stocker, R.; Cordero, O.; Ackermann, M. (2023) Cell aggregation is associated with enzyme secretion strategies in marine polysaccharide-degrading bacteria, ISME Journal, 17, 703-711, doi:10.1038/s41396-023-01385-1, Institutional Repository
Daniels, M.; van Vliet, S.; Ackermann, M. (2023) Changes in interactions over ecological time scales influence single-cell growth dynamics in a metabolically coupled marine microbial community, ISME Journal, 17(3), 406-416, doi:10.1038/s41396-022-01312-w, Institutional Repository
Hockenberry, A. M.; Micali, G.; Takács, G.; Weng, J.; Hardt, W. D.; Ackermann, M. (2021) Microbiota-derived metabolites inhibit Salmonella virulent subpopulation development by acting on single-cell behaviors, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS, 118(31), e2103027118 (7 pp.), doi:10.1073/pnas.2103027118, Institutional Repository
Dal Co, A.; van Vliet, S.; Kiviet, D. J.; Schlegel, S.; Ackermann, M. (2020) Short-range interactions govern the dynamics and functions of microbial communities, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4, 366-375, doi:10.1038/s41559-019-1080-2, Institutional Repository