GEOMAR  Hentschel Humeida, Ute

Prof. Dr. Ute Hentschel Humeida


Forschungsbereich 3 - Marine Ökologie

Forschungseinheit - Marine Symbiosen

Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Ute Hentschel Humeida

Adresse:
GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Wischhofstraße 1-3, Gebäude 5, Büro: 4.502
D-24148 Kiel
Raum: 4.502
Tel.: 0431 600-4480
E-Mail: uhentschel(at)geomar.de

and

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4 - 24118 Kiel, Germany

WISSENSCHAFTLICHER WERDEGANG

  • 07/2015-current Professor (W3) of Marine Symbioses, GEOMAR and Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel,  Germany
  • 09/2008-06/2015 Professor (W2) of Chemical Ecology, University of Würzburg
  • 05/2004-08/2008 Head of a Junior Research Group at the Research Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg
  • 2004 Habilitation in Microbiology, University of Würzburg
  • 1998-2003 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg
  • 1995-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dept. of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, UC Santa Barbara, USA
  • 1989-1994 Graduate studies of Marine Biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA and PhD Degree
  • 1986-1988 Undergraduate studies of biology at the University of Hannover and Bachelor’s Degree (Vordiplom) 

WISSENSCHAFTLICHES INTERESSE

  • Mikrobiota-Wirt Interaktion
  • Mikrobiologie mariner Schwämme
  • Nicht-kultivierte Bakterien
  • Omics (Metagenomik, Einzelzellgenomik, (Meta)-Transkriptomik)
  • Wirkstoffgewinnung aus marinen Actinomyceten

GREMIEN UND HERAUSGEBERTÄTIGKEITEN

  • Editor-Tätigkeiten für die Forschungsgebiete Marine Symbiose, Marine Mikrobiologie, Marine Biotechnologie
  • Gutachter-Tätigkeiten für die DFG, DAAD und weitere internationale Institutionen
  • Tagungs-Organisation, z.B. Stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Gordon Research Conference "Animal-Microbe Symbiosis", Waterville, Valley, USA, 2017
  • Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
  • Meeting Organisation, i.e., Chair for the Gordon Research Conference “Animal-Microbe Symbioses”, Waterville Valley, USA, 2019

AUSGEWÄHLTE PUBLIKATIONEN (von mehr als 170 der gesamten Publikationen)

  1. Busch K, Slaby BM, Bach W, Boetius A, Clefsen I, Colaço A, Creemers M, Cristobo J, Federwisch L, Franke A, Gavriilidou A, Hethke A, Kenchington E, Mienis F, Mills S, Riesgo A, Ríos P, Roberts EM, Sipkema D, Pita L, Schupp PJ, Xavier J, Rapp HT, Hentschel U (2022) Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome. Nat Commun 13, 5160. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32684-4

  2. Morganti TM, Slaby BM, de Kluijver A, Busch K, Hentschel U, Middelburg J, Grotheer H, Mollenhauer G, Dannheim J, Rapp HT, Purser A, Boetius A (2022) Giant sponge grounds of Central Arctic seamounts are associated with extinct seep life (Langseth Ridge, 87°N, 61°E). Nat Commun 13 (1):638. DOI 10.1038/s41467-022-28129-7

  3. Rix L, Ribes M, Coma R, Jahn MT, van Oevelen D, de Goeij J, Escrig S, Meibom A, Hentschel U (2020). Heterotrophy in the earliest gut: A single-cell view of heterotrophic carbon and nitrogen assimilation in sponge-microbe symbioses. ISME J: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0706-3

  4. Jahn MT, Arkhipova, K, Markert SM, Stigloher C, Lachnit T, Pita L, Kupczok A, Ribes M, Stengel ST, Rosenstiel P, Dutilh BE, Hentschel U (2019) A Phage Protein Aids Bacterial Symbionts in Eukaryote Immune Evasion. Cell Host & Microbe. Published: September 24,2019 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2019.08.019

  5. Bayer K, Jahn MT, Slaby BM, Moitinho-Silva L, Hentschel U (2018) Marine sponges as Chloroflexi Hot Spots: Genomic insights and high resolution visualization of an abundant and diverse symbiotic clade. American Society for Microbiology Journals.  Published online: 26.12.2018 https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00150-18
  6. Pita L, Rix L, Slaby BM, Franke A, Hentschel U (2018). The sponge holobiont in a changing ocean: from microbes to ecosystems. Microbiome 6(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s40168-018-0428-1.
  7. Slaby BM, Hackl T, Horn H, Bayer K, Hentschel U (2017). Metagenomic binning of a marine sponge microbiome reveals unity in defense but metabolic specialization. ISME J.: doi: 10.1038/ismej.2017.101.
  8. Abdelmohsen UR , Balasubramanian S, Oelschlaeger TA, Grkovic T, Pham NB, Quinn RJ, Hentschel U (2017). Potential of marine natural products against drug-resistant fungal, viral, and parasitic infections. Lancet Infect. Dis.: doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30323-1
  9. Thomas T, Moitinho-Silva L,  Lurgi M, Björk JR, Easson C, Astudillo C, Olson JB, Erwin PM, López-Legentil S, Luter H, Chaves-Fonnegra A, Costa R, Schupp P, Steindler L, Erpenbeck D, Gilbert J, Knight R, Ackerman G, Lopez JV, Taylor MW, Thacker RW, Montoya JM, Hentschel U, Webster N. (2016) Global Sponge Microbiome: Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of symbiont communities across the phylum Porifera. Nature Comm.: doi: 10.1038/ncomms11870
  10. Jahn MT, Markert SM, Ryu T, Ravasi T, Stigloher C, Hentschel U, Moitinho-Silva L. (2016) Shedding light on cell compartmentation in the candidate phylum Poribacteria by high resolution visualisation and transcriptional profiling. Sci Rep.: doi: 10.1038/srep35860
  11. Wilson MC, Mori T, Rückert C, Uria AR, Helf MJ, Takada K, Gernert C, Steffens UA, Heycke N, Schmitt S, Rinke C, Helfrich EJ, Brachmann AO, Gurgui C, Wakimoto T, Kracht M, Crüsemann M, Hentschel U, Abe I, Matsunaga S, Kalinowski J, Takeyama H, Piel J (2014) An environmental bacterial taxon with a large and distinct metabolic repertoire. Nature 506 (7486): 58-62
  12. Kamke J, Sczyrba A, Ivanova N, Schwientek P, Rinke C, Mavromatis K, Woyke T, Hentschel U (2013) Single-cell genomics reveals complex carbohydrate degradation patterns in poribacterial symbionts of marine sponges. ISME J 7(12): 2287-2300
  13. McFall-Ngai M, Hadfield M, Bosch T, Carey H, Domazet-Loso T, Douglas A, Dubilier N, Eberl G, Fukami T, Gilbert S, Hentschel U, King N, Kjelleberg S, Knol, AH, Kremer N, Mazmanian S, Metcalf J, Nealson K, Pierce N, Rawls J, Reid A, Ruby E, Rumpho, M, Sanders J, Tautz, D, Wernegreen J (2013) Animals in a bacterial world: a new imperative for the life sciences. Proc Natl Acad Sci 110(9): 3229-3236
  14. Hentschel U, Piel J, Degnan SM, Taylor MW (2012) Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome. Nature Reviews Microbiology 10(9): 641-654
  15. Siegl A, Kamke J, Hochmuth T, Piel J, Richter M, Liang C, Dandekar T, Hentschel U (2010) Single cell genomics reveals the lifestyle of Poribacteria, a candidate phylum symbiotically associated with marine sponges. ISME J 5(1): 61-70
  16. Heithoff DM, Conner CP, Hanna PC, Julio SM, Hentschel U, Mahan JM (1997) Bacterial infection as assessed by in vivo gene expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci 94: 934-939
  17. Hentschel U, Felbeck H (1993) Nitrate respiration in the hydrothermal vent tube worm Riftia pachyptila. Nature 366: 338-340

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