Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Biol. Dr. Christa Schleper
Winter term 2025
290605 VO Climate Change and Climate Crisis - Towards the Eco-Sociological Transformation
300119 SE Functional Ecology - Masterseminar MEC-9 / Alternatives Masterseminar MBO 7
300122 VO Biology and Evolution of Archaea - Archaea evolution, genetics, cell biology, ecology and biotechnology
Summer term 2025
300119 SE Evolutionary Ecology - Masterseminar MEC-9
300140 UE Extremophilic and marine Microorganisms - Expedition and Basic course in environmental molecular microbiology
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Ghatak A, Kanellopoulos AE, López-Hidalgo C, Malits A, Meng Y, Schindler F et al. Natural variation of the wheat root exudate metabolome and its influence on biological nitrification inhibition activity. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2025 Nov;23(11):4755-4772. Epub 2025 Jul 21. doi: 10.1111/pbi.70248


Burns A, Kerou M, Zak D, Schleper C, Urich T, Wang H. Ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria respond dynamically to drought in rewetted fen peatlands. Applied Soil Ecology. 2025 Oct;214:106395. doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106395

Prokofeva MI, Karaseva AI, Tulenkov AS, Klyukina AA, Suzina NE, Bale NJ et al. Polysaccharide-degrading archaea dominate acidic hot springs: genomic and cultivation insights into a novel Thermoproteota lineage. mSystems. 2025 Sept 22;e0071025. Epub 2025 Sept 22. doi: 10.1128/msystems.00710-25

Baur PA, Rodrigues-Oliveira T, Hager K, Luo ZH, Schleper C, Glatzel S. Temporal dynamics of CH4 emission pathways in the subsaline reed wetland of Lake Neusiedl. Biogeosciences. 2025 Sept 10;22:4467-4490. doi: 10.5194/bg-22-4467-2025

Dreer M, Pribasnig T, Hodgskiss LH, Luo ZH, Pozaric F, Schleper C. Biofilm lifestyle across different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea. The ISME Journal. 2025 Sept 9. Epub 2025 Sept 9. doi: 10.1093/ismejo/wraf182

Weckwerth W, Chaturvedi P, Ghatak A, Kerou M, Garg V, Bohra A et al. Natural variation of the holobiont for sustainable agroecosystems. Trends in Plant Science. 2025 Jun 27. Epub 2025 Jun 27. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.05.006

Dahl MB, Brachmann S, Söllinger A, Schnell M, Ahlers L, Wutkowska M et al. Quantifying Soil Microbiome Abundance by Metatranscriptomics and Complementary Molecular Techniques-Cross-Validation and Perspectives. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2025 Jun 3;e14130. Epub 2025 Jun 3. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.14130

Wollweber F, Xu J, Ponce-Toledo RI, Marxer F, Rodrigues-Oliveira T, Pössnecker A et al. Microtubules in Asgard archaea. Cell. 2025 May 1;188(9):2451-2464.e26. Epub 2025 Mar 19. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.02.027

Klein T, Hodgskiss LH, Dreer MJ, Murrell JC, Hutchings MI, Schleper C et al. Distinct Patterns of Antibiotic Sensitivities in Ammonia-Oxidising Archaea. Environmental Microbiology. 2025 May;27(3):e70063. Epub 2025 Mar 11. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.70063

Hager K, Luo ZH, Monserrat i Diez M, Ponce Toledo RI, Baur PA, Dahlke S et al. Diversity and environmental distribution of Asgard archaea in shallow saline sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2025 Mar 18;16:1549128. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1549128

Siljanen HMP, Manoharan L, Hilts AS, Bagnoud A, Alves RJE, Jones CM et al. Targeted metagenomics using probe capture detect a larger diversity of nitrogen and methane cycling genes in complex microbial communities than traditional metagenomics. ISME Communications. 2025 Jan;5(1):ycaf183. doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycaf183



Greening C, Cabotaje PR, Valentin Alvarado LE, Leung PM, Land H, Rodrigues-Oliveira T et al. Minimal and hybrid hydrogenases are active from archaea. Cell. 2024 Jun 20;187(13):3357-3372.e19. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.05.032

Bei Q, Reitz T, Schädler M, Hodgskiss LH, Peng J, Schnabel B et al. Metabolic potential of Nitrososphaera-associated clades. The ISME Journal. 2024 May 14;18(1):wrae086. Epub 2024 May 14. doi: 10.1093/ismejo/wrae086

Salas E, Gorfer M, Bandian D, Eichorst SA, Schmidt H, Horak J et al. Reevaluation and novel insights into amino sugar and neutral sugar necromass biomarkers in archaea, bacteria, fungi, and plants. Science of the Total Environment. 2024 Jan 1;906:167463. Epub 2023 Oct 5. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167463

Hodgskiss LH, Melcher M, Kerou M, Chen W, Ponce-Toledo RI, Savvides SN et al. Correction to: Unexpected complexity of the ammonia monooxygenase in archaea. The ISME Journal. 2023 Jun;17(6):947. doi: 10.1038/s41396-023-01403-2



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Unexpected cell biology of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum, an Asgard Archaeon

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

5 Nov 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Leben im Vulkan? Was uns Mikroorganismen über die Entstehung des Lebens und das Überleben in extremen Standorten lehren können

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

2 Oct 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


What Asgard Archaea can tell us about early eukaryotic evolution

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

23 Sept 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Architects of Complexity: Chromatin Proteins in a Cultured Asgard Archaeon

Viehböck, T. (Speaker), Sabater i Mezquita, A. (Contributor), Pende, N. (Contributor), Grant, E. (Contributor), Bulgheresi, S. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

18 Sept 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Unexpected Cellular Features of the Asgard Archaeon Lokiarchaeum Ossiferum

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

20 Jul 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Biological Nitrification Inhibition Workshop Panel Discussion

Schleper, C. (Speaker) & Kerou, M. (Speaker)

27 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How Did Complex Life Forms Emerge on Earth

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

28 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


A complex actin-based cytoskeleton predated the emergence of the first eukaryotes

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

24 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What is wrong with the Nitrogen cycle - and how can we fix it?

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

12 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Archaea und die Evolution komplexer Lebensformen

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

24 Feb 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From greenhouse gas production to eukaryogenesis: A journey to the ecological and evolutionary impacts of Archaea

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

11 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

9 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


From microorganisms to complex life forms

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

27 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Nitrifying Microorganisms and the Unbalanced Nitrogen Cycle

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

17 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Archaea biology, ammonia oxidation, soil microbiology

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

13 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Biology of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum, a cultivated Asgard Archaeon

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

24 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What Asgard Archaea can tell us about the origin of Eukaryotes

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

20 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Quantifying amino acid and amino sugar biomarkers in a single approach to estimate necromass from soil archaea, bacteria, fungi, and plants

Salas, E. (Contributor), Gorfer, M. (Contributor), Bandian, D. (Contributor), Eichorst, S. (Contributor), Schmidt, H. (Contributor), Horak, J. (Contributor), Rittmann, S.K.-M. R. (Contributor), Schleper, C. (Contributor), Reischl, B. (Contributor), Pribasnig, T. (Contributor), Jansa, J. (Contributor), Kaiser, C. (Contributor) & Wanek, W. (Contributor)

14 Apr 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Aua - heiss! Lebt da jemand im Vulkan?

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

10 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The biofilm lifestyle of ammonia-oxidizing archaea: An understudied mode of growth and activity

Pribasnig, T. (Speaker), Dreer, M. J. (Contributor), Hodgskiss, L. (Contributor), Kerou, M. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

16 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What is wrong with the nitrogen cycle -- and what can we do about it?

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

11 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ohne Sie gäbs uns nicht: Was uns Archaeen über die frühe Evolution verraten

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

29 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Der Stickstoffkreislauf in der Krise: Konsequenzen für die Umwelt und unsere Essgewohnheiten

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

21 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What Cultivated Asgard Archaea Can Tell Us about the Evolution of Eukaryotes

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

29 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What Asgard Archaea Might Tell Us About The Origin Of Eukaryotes

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

11 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cellular features of an Asgard archaeon reveal insights into the evolution of eukaryotes

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

1 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What Asgard Archaea might tell us about the origin of Eukaryotes

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

23 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What is wrong with the Nitrogen Cycle - and what can we do about it?

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

17 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Manche mögen's heiß: Was uns urtümliche Mikroorganismen aus vulkanischen Quellen über die Evolution verraten

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

27 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Archaea: Microorganisms with Climate Impact and Biotechnological Potential

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

26 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ohne sie gäb's uns nicht: Die Rolle der Archaeen von der frühen Evolution bis zum Klimawandel

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

21 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


What Lokiarchaea can tell us about the origin of eukaryotes

Schleper, C. (Keynote speaker)

7 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Complex cell architecture and cytoskeleton in Asgard archaea

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

28 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Extremely thermophilic microorganisms and the origin of life

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

15 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Complex cytoskeleton in Asgard Archaea, at the interface of the prokaryote to eukaryote transition

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

24 Feb 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What can Asgard Archaea tell us about the origin of eukaryotes?

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

18 Feb 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Complex Cell Architecture and Cytoskeleton in Asgard archaea

Schleper, C. (Keynote speaker)

6 Jan 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Metabolism and Physiology of Nitrososphaera viennensis, a Model of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea from Soil

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

12 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Environmental and human-associated archaea

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

28 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Actin cytoskeleton and complex cell architecture in an Asgard archaeon

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

21 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Compelling cellular reactions of Saccharolobus solfataricus upon deleti on of a type III CRISPR-Cas system

Wimmer, E. (Speaker), Zink, I. A. (Contributor), Kerou, M. (Contributor), Hodgskiss, L. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

19 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Complex cytoskeleton and cell architecture in an Asgard archaeon

Rodrigues de Oliveira, T. (Speaker), Wollweber, F. (Contributor), Ponce Toledo, R. I. (Contributor), Xu, J. (Contributor), Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Contributor), Rittmann, S.K.-M. R. (Contributor), Klingl, A. (Contributor), Pilhofer, M. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

2 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Female careers in Science - How I did not plan my scientific career

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

1 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Recent advances in ammonia-oxidizing archaea

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

9 Mar 202211 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A targeted approach to functional analysis of nitrogen and carbon cycling in microbial communities

Hilts, A. (Speaker), Siljanen, H. M. P. (Contributor), Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

3 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Limitation of Inorganic Carbon in the Soil Ammonia Oxidizing Archaeon, Nitrososphaera viennensis

Hodgskiss, L. (Speaker), Kerou, M. (Contributor), Nägele, T. (Contributor), Weckwerth, W. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

29 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ökosysteme schützen: Was ist los mit dem Stickstoffkreislauf? Und was können wir tun?

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

13 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


FSS diskutiert....Was läuft eigentlich falsch mit dem Stickstoffkreislauf - und wie können wir ihn entlasten?

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

8 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Source or sink? Revisiting current knowledge on Archaea in greenhouse gas production and consumption

Schleper, C. (Keynote speaker)

18 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Panel discussion

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

9 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


What we can learn from Archaea about early evolution (and about a scientist)

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

11 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Small in size but vast in the environment: why Archaea are so big in the outrageous nitrogen cycle

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

27 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What is Wrong with the Nitrogen Cycle?

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

4 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The stress of ecological success: Ancestral reconstructions decipher the adaptations of archaea radiating into moderate terrestrial and marine environments

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

1 Mar 20204 Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The role of Archaea in biogeochemical cycles and greenhouse gas production

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

17 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Uncovering the Ecological Success and Evolution of Thaumarchaeota through Ancestral Reconstructions

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

16 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Climate Crisis

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

21 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Ecology and Physiology of ammonia oxidizing archaea

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

1 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Vital roles of the S-layer from Sulfolobus solfataricus revealed by CRISPR-mediated gene silencing

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

26 Sept 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Publishing and Career Evaluation: The challenge of evaluation

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

5 Sept 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Uncovering the Ecological Success of Thaumarchaeota Through Ancestral Reconstructions

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

21 Jul 2019 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Hot Origins and Mesophilic Adaptations of Ammonia-Oxidizing Thaumarchaea Deciphered by Ancestral Reconstructions

Schleper, C. (Keynote speaker)

2 Apr 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


About the unplannable steps in a scientific career - a personal view

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

7 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Thaumarchaeota evolution

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

18 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipid Pattern of Methanothermococcus okinawensis under Varying Enceladus-like Conditions

Taubner, R.-S. (Speaker), Baumann, L. (Contributor), Steiner, M. (Contributor), Firneis, M. G. (Contributor), Schleper, C. (Contributor), Peckmann, J. (Contributor), Birgel, D. (Contributor) & Rittmann, S.K.-M. R. (Contributor)

24 Sept 201828 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ancestral reconstructions help decipher the origins of ammonia-oxidizing archaea

Abby, S. (Speaker), Kerou, M. (Contributor), Melcher, M. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

5 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The biogeography of the human archaeome

Mahnert, A. (Speaker), Koskinen, K. (Contributor), Brunner, D. (Contributor), Patra, V. (Contributor), Wolf, P. (Contributor), Schleper, C. (Contributor) & Moissl-Eichinger, C. (Contributor)

5 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The stress of ecological success: how ammonia-oxidizing archaea radiated into moderate environments

Kerou, M. (Speaker), Abby, S. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

3 Sept 20185 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The rumen microbiome – short-term structural and functional dynamics revealed by quantitative metatranscriptomics

Söllinger, A. (Speaker), Tveit, A. (Contributor), Poulsen, M. (Contributor), Noel, S. J. (Contributor), Bengtsson, M. (Contributor), Bernhardt, J. (Contributor), Frydendahl Hellwing, A. L. (Contributor), Lund, P. (Contributor), Riedel, K. (Contributor), Schleper, C. (Contributor), Hojberg, O. (Contributor) & Urich, T. (Contributor)

16 Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Simulating putative Enceladus-like conditions: The possibility of biological methane production on Saturn’s icy moon

Taubner, R.-S. (Speaker), Pappenreiter, P. (Contributor), Zwicker, J. (Contributor), Smrzka, D. (Contributor), Pruckner, C. (Contributor), Kolar, P. (Contributor), Bernacchi, S. (Contributor), Seifert, A. H. (Contributor), Krajete, A. (Contributor), Bach, W. (Contributor), Peckmann, J. (Contributor), Paulik, C. (Contributor), Firneis, M. G. (Contributor), Schleper, C. (Contributor) & Rittmann, S.K.-M. R. (Contributor)

Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Biological methane production under putative Enceladus-like conditions

Taubner, R.-S. (Invited speaker), Pappenreiter, P. (Contributor), Zwicker, J. (Contributor), Smrzka, D. (Contributor), Pruckner, C. (Contributor), Kolar, P. (Contributor), Bernacchi, S. (Contributor), Seifert, A. H. (Contributor), Krajete, A. (Contributor), Bach, W. (Contributor), Peckmann, J. (Contributor), Paulik, C. (Contributor), Firneis, M. G. (Contributor), Schleper, C. (Contributor) & Rittmann, S.K.-M. R. (Contributor)

Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The role of Archaea in Biogeochemical Cycles

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

29 May 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Silencing of essential genes via a Type III CRISPR system in the hyperthermophlic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

12 Dec 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How could I make it through science?

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

9 Oct 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Copper Uptake in the Ammonia Oxidizing Archaeon Nitrososphaera Viennensis

Reyes, C. (Speaker), Schleper, C. (Contributor) & Krämer, S. (Contributor)

13 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Variable growth conditions induce changes in the membrane lipid compositions of Methanothermococcus okinawensis and Methanocaldococcus villosus

Baumann, L. (Speaker), Taubner, R.-S. (Contributor), Birgel, D. (Contributor), Schleper, C. (Contributor), Peckmann, J. L. (Contributor) & Rittmann, S.K.-M. R. (Contributor)

7 Jul 20178 Jul 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ecology, Physiology and Evolution of Ammonia oxidizing Archaea

Schleper, C. (Keynote speaker)

21 Mar 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


TACK and Lokiarchaeota Evolution

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

13 Mar 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Genomics and proteomics of ammonia oxidizing and non-ammonia oxidizing

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

30 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Thaumarchaeota - Comparative Genomics and Proteomics of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea and their closest relatives

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

20 Sept 201621 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Differential gene expression in ammonia oxidizing archaea

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

30 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ecology, Physiology and Evolution of Ammonia oxidizing Archaea

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

31 Mar 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Archaea: Their role in biogeochemical cycles and early evolution

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

12 Jan 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Archaea: What extremists can tell us about the origin of life

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

10 Dec 201511 Dec 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Zooming in on the Functional Heterogeneity of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea in Arctic Soils

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

3 Dec 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Lokiarchaea: Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

4 Oct 20155 Oct 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Lokiarchaea: Deep into the Archaeal Roots of Eukaryotes

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

28 Sept 201529 Sept 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Planning a scientific career? – my truth

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

Jul 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Proteo-Genomics of Nitrososphaera viennensis

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

28 Jun 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Genomics and physiology of Thaumarchaeota, one of the most abundant but enigmatic groups of prokaryotes

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

10 Oct 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Metagenomics of Archaea: Exploring the unseen microbial world

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

2 Sept 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea of the novel Phylum Thaumarchaeota: From metagenomics to ecophysiology

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

19 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Meine klitzekleinen Freunde - Warum Bakterien auf meinem Körper so wichtig sind

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

16 Jul 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Genomic and phenotypic characterization of Thaumarchaeota from soil

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

21 May 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The Archaeon among Us: Thaumarchaeota and Others that Affect Our Daily Life

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

18 May 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


CRISPR-mediated Virus Defense in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

15 May 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Challenges in Microbial Ecology - for Vigdis Torsvik

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

30 Jan 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ammonia oxidizing Archaea: Testing genomic predictions on a pure culture

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

13 Jan 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ammonia oxidizing Archaea: Testing genomic predictions on a pure culture

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

13 Jan 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ammonia oxidizing Archaea: Testing genomic predictions on a pure culture

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

13 Jan 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Physiology and Ecology of arctic Thaumarchaeota

Schleper, C. (Keynote speaker)

3 Sept 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Physiology and Ecology of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

24 Jun 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea: Ecology and Evolution

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

12 Mar 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ammonia oxidizing Archaea: Testing (meta-)genomic predictions on a pure culture

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

22 Nov 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Physiology of Thaumarchaeota: Testing Genomic Predictions on a Pure Culture

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

4 Jul 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Thaumarchaeota: Their lifestyles and evolution

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

12 Jun 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


UV-inducible DNA exchange in hyperthermophilic archaea

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

15 Jan 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Structure and diversity of microbial communities in permafrost-affected and cryoturbated soil in the Siberian Arctic

Schleper, C. (Contributor)

8 Nov 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Thaumarchaeota: Testing (meta-)genomic predictions on a pure culture

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

10 Oct 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


UV – Inducible DNA Exchange In Hyperthermophilic Archaea Mediated by Type IV pili

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

8 Oct 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


In-depth analysis of microbial permafrost communities in the European and Siberian Arctic

Schleper, C. (Contributor)

6 Sept 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Microorganisms affecting Soil Organic Carbon Stabilisation in Cryoturbated soils of the Siberian Arctic

Schleper, C. (Contributor)

6 Sept 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Thaumarchaeota: novel perspectives on their lifestyles and evolution

Schleper, C. (Keynote speaker)

31 Jul 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea from Soil: New discovery of an old group

Schleper, C. (Keynote speaker)

27 Apr 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Evolution and Ecology of Archaea: New discoveries in an old group

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

19 Nov 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


In vivo activity of CRISPR-mediated virus defenseIn the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

22 Oct 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Genomics and Metagenomics of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

29 Sept 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Evolution and Physiology of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

22 Aug 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Genomics of the novel phylum Thaumarchaeota

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

17 Aug 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Characterisation of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea by Metagenomics and Metatranscriptomics

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

11 Jun 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Diversity, Ecophysiology, and Genomics of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

27 Apr 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Introduction to Metagenomics: methods and applications

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

17 Mar 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Reactions of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus to UV damage

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

19 Jan 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ecology and Evolution of Archaea - the third domain of life

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

21 Oct 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ecophysiology and Evolution of Ammonia-oxidizing Archaea

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

27 Jul 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Metagenomics of Ammonia oxidizing Archaea from Soils and Hot Springs

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

6 Jul 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Metagenomics and -transcriptomics of Ammonia oxidizing Archaea

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

30 Jun 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ecology and Evolution of Ammonia oxidizing Archaea

Schleper, C. (Keynote speaker)

19 Jun 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Silicon cell model for the central carbohydrate metabolism of the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus under temperature variation

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

20 May 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ecology and Evolution of Ammonia oxidizing Archaea

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

11 May 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Sulfolobus-Silicon Cell modell for the central carbohydrate metabolism

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

1 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Simultaneous assessment of soil microbial community structure and function using meta-transcriptomics

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

22 Jun 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Metagenomics of Ammonia-oxidizing Archaea

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

28 May 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Metagenomics to explore microbial diversity and its biotechnological potential

Schleper, C. (Speaker)

17 Apr 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Responses of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus to UV irradiation

Schleper, C. (Invited speaker)

20 Mar 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Crucial steps in evolution: The rise of genome architecture and function

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Berger, F. (Co-Lead), Schur, F. (Co-Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Viehböck, T. (Scientific Project Staff), Hager, K. (Technical Project Staff) & Grant, E. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/09/2431/08/29

Project: Research funding


The molecular network of archaeal argonautes

Zink, I. A. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin) & Schleper, C. (Mentor)

1/08/2431/07/25

Project: Research funding


Ecology and Evolution of Archaea, Environmental Genomics

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Rodrigues de Oliveira, T. (Scientific Project Staff), Monserrat i Diez, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Weber, P. (Scientific Project Staff), Hager, K. (Technical Project Staff), Harrer, S. (Technical Project Staff), Pozaric, F. (Scientific Project Staff), Grant, E. (Scientific Project Staff), Perier, Ü. (Technical Project Staff), Znidaric, N. (Technical Project Staff), Radler, P. (Scientific Project Staff), Viehböck, T. (Scientific Project Staff), Maslac, N. (Scientific Project Staff), Luo, Z.-H. (Scientific Project Staff), Wimmer, E. (Scientific Project Staff), Zwicker, J. (Scientific Project Staff), Sun, Z. (Scientific Project Staff), Karavaeva, V. (Scientific Project Staff) & Baraket, F. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/03/2329/02/28

Project: Research funding


AOP: The Ammonia oxidation process in Archaea

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Pribasnig, T. (Scientific Project Staff), Iziumova, I. (Technical Project Staff), Kerou, M. (Affiliated Project Staff), Hodgskiss, L. (Affiliated Project Staff), Monserrat i Diez, M. (Scientific Project Staff) & Dreer, M. J. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/03/2328/02/27

Project: Research funding


ACTIONr: Research Action Network for Reducing Reactive Nitrogen Losses from Agricultural Ecosystems

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Hodgskiss, L. (Scientific Project Staff) & Kerou, M. (Co-Lead)

1/11/2231/10/25

Project: Research funding


Archaea on skin

Schleper, C. (Co-Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Moissl-Eichinger, C. (Project Lead), Weitemeyer, J. (Technical Project Staff), Tramontano, A. (Technical Project Staff), Dreer, M. J. (Scientific Project Staff), Perier, Ü. (Scientific Project Staff) & Hodgskiss, L. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/02/1831/07/22

Project: Research funding


FEMAC2: Career Development Programme for Female Academics

Tiefenbacher, K. (Project Lead), Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Co-Lead), Schleper, C. (Co-Lead) & Marohn, N. (Co-Lead)

1/10/1730/09/19

Project: Research funding


Model system mimicking the cell envelope of archaea

Schleper, C. (Co-Lead), Rittmann, S.K.-M. R. (Project Lead), Bernhard, S. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin) & Pfeifer, K. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/10/1630/09/21

Project: Research funding


Mintox: Mikrobielle Stickstoffumwandlun

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Fellner, J. (Project Lead), Rittmann, S.K.-M. R. (Cooperation Partner) & Tramontano, A. (Technical Project Staff)

1/09/1631/12/21

Project: Research funding


TACKLE: TACK Superphylum and Lokiarchaeota Evolution: Dissecting the Ecology and Evolution of Archaea to Elucidate the Prokaryote to Eukaryote Transition

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Kozlowski, J. (Scientific Project Staff), Angeler, T. (Technical Project Staff), Alves, R. (Scientific Project Staff), Mertens, L. M. Y. (Scientific Project Staff), Mardini, M. A. (Technical Project Staff), Wimmer, E. (Scientific Project Staff), Manoharan, L. (Scientific Project Staff), Taubner, R.-S. (Scientific Project Staff), Bagnoud, A. (Scientific Project Staff), Pribasnig, T. (Scientific Project Staff), Zink, I. A. (Scientific Project Staff), De Silva, J. M. K. (Technical Project Staff), Melcher, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Amano, C. (Scientific Project Staff), Mauerhofer, L.-M. (Scientific Project Staff), Ponce Toledo, R. I. (Scientific Project Staff), Rodrigues de Oliveira, T. (Scientific Project Staff), Mousavian, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Monserrat i Diez, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Perier, Ü. (Scientific Project Staff), Hodgskiss, L. (Scientific Project Staff), Ward, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Hager, K. (Scientific Project Staff) & Kerou, M. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/08/1631/07/22

Project: Research funding


Pan-Metabolic Profiling of Archaea: The Ecology of Genomics

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Neukirchen, S. (Scientific Project Staff), Nair, G. M. (Scientific Project Staff), Pichlhöfer, E. (Scientific Project Staff), Spiegelhofer, J. (Admin), Pruckner, C. (Technical Project Staff), van Ham, J. (Project Staff), Padalko, A. (Scientific Project Staff), Schleper, C. (Scientific Project Staff) & Ellis, C. (Technical Project Staff)

1/06/1630/09/25

Project: Research funding


THAUMECOPHYL: Thaumecophyl

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin) & Abby, S. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/04/1631/03/18

Project: Research funding


Microbial nitrogen cycling – from single cells to ecosystems

Schleper, C. (Project Coordinator), Jandl, N. (Admin), Bulgheresi, S. (Co-Lead), Hodgskiss, L. (Scientific Project Staff), Paredes Rojas, G. F. (Scientific Project Staff), Melcher, M. (Affiliated Project Staff), Weber, P. (Affiliated Project Staff), Kerou, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Reyes, C. (Scientific Project Staff), Haillot, E. (Scientific Project Staff), König, L. (Scientific Project Staff) & Wienkoop, S. (Co-Lead)

1/01/1628/02/21

Project: Research funding


Thaumarchaeota

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Melcher, M. (Technical Project Staff), Zebec, Z. (Scientific Project Staff), Abby, S. (Scientific Project Staff), Jahnel, S. (Scientific Project Staff), Schmider, T. (Scientific Project Staff), Pruckner, C. (Scientific Project Staff) & Melcher, M. (Scientific Project Staff)

20/05/1431/07/19

Project: Research funding


Archaea in arkt.Tundrab den

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Schwab, C. (Scientific Project Staff), Alves, R. (Scientific Project Staff), Offre, P. (Scientific Project Staff), Kerou, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Offre, P. (Scientific Project Staff), Melcher, M. (Technical Project Staff), Rittmann, S.K.-M. R. (Scientific Project Staff), Stieglmeier, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Melcher, M. (Technical Project Staff), Zappe, A. (Scientific Project Staff), Stieglmeier, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Kerou, M. (Scientific Project Staff) & Rittmann, S.K.-M. R. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/01/1331/12/17

Project: Research funding


Stoffwechselanalysen

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Teichmann, D. (Scientific Project Staff), Radax, R. (Scientific Project Staff), Stieglmeier, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Mooshammer, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Nagler, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Melcher, M. (Technical Project Staff), Manica, A. (Scientific Project Staff) & Spang, A. (Scientific Project Staff)

30/09/1031/12/13

Project: Research funding


MOCA: MOCA

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin) & Offre, P. (Scientific Project Staff)

18/03/1031/10/13

Project: Research funding


SOLAR: SOLAR

Schleper, C. (Project Lead), Jandl, N. (Admin), Teichmann, D. (Scientific Project Staff) & Stieglmeier, M. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/01/0730/06/11

Project: Research funding


MICDIF: Linking Microbial Diversity and Functions across Scales and Ecosystems

Richter, A. (Project Lead), Battin, T. (Co-Lead), Daims, H. (Co-Lead), Wagner, M. (Co-Lead), Strauss, J. (Co-Lead), Sterflinger-Gleixner, K. (Co-Lead), Riedel, K. (Co-Lead), Eberl, L. (Co-Lead), Psenner, R. (Co-Lead), Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S. (Co-Lead), Jandl, R. (Co-Lead), Wanek, W. (Co-Lead), Obersteiner, M. (Co-Lead), Schmid, E. (Co-Lead), Schleper, C. (Co-Lead) & Rattei, T. (Co-Lead)

1/12/0630/11/09

Project: Research funding


Functional and Evolutionary Ecology

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