Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schulenburg
Institution
Contact
Vita
Education/Training
1996 – 2000
PhD degree at Cambridge University, UK
1991 – 1996
Studies in Biology, Bielefeld University and Cambridge University, UK
Research Experience/Academic Appointments
Since 2008
Professor in Zoology (W3), Christian-Albrechts University Kiel
2005 – 2008
Research scientist, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen
2000 – 2005
Research assistant, Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster
Important Scientific Prizes/Functions
Since 2017
Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön
Since 2016
Vice-speaker of the CRC 1182 Origin and Function of Metaorganisms
Since 2016
Speaker of the Kiel Evolution Center at CAU Kiel
Since 2016
Vice-speaker of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Evolutionary Medicine of the Lung (EvoLUNG)
Since 2016
Steering committee of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Kiel Science Outreach Campus (KiSOC)
Since 2014
Director of Master curriculum Molecular Biology and Evolution at CAU Kiel
Since 2014
Steering committee of the Excellence Cluster Inflammation at Interfaces (now Precision Medicine in chronic Inflammation) and the CAU research focus Kiel Life Science
Since 2013
Editorial board of Zoology
Since 2010
Speaker of the International Max-Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology at CAU Kiel (together with Diethard Tautz)
Since 2009
Vice-speaker of the priority program SPP 1399 Host-parasite coevolution
2013-2017
Secretary of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology
2010-2014
Associate editor for BMC Evolutionary Biology
2006-2007
Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin
Research
Publications
2020
Community assembly of the native C. elegans microbiome is influenced by time, substrate and individual bacterial taxa.
Johnke J, Dirksen P, Schulenburg H (2020) Environmental Microbiology 22(4), 1265–1279. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14932
2019
FeaturedComparative analysis of amplicon and metagenomic sequencing methods reveals key features in the evolution of animal metaorganisms
Rausch P, Rühlemann M, Hermes BM, Doms S, Dagan T, Dierking K, Domin H, Fraune S, von Frieling J, Hentschel U, Heinsen F-A, Höppner M, Jahn MT, Jaspers C, Kissoyan KAB, Langfeldt D, Rehman A, Reusch TBH, Roeder T, Schmitz RA, Schulenburg H, Soluch R, Sommer F, Stukenbrock E, Weiland-Bräuer N, Rosenstiel P, Franke A, Bosch T, Baines JF (2019) Microbiome, doi: 10.1186/s40168-019-0743-1
FeaturedThe functional repertoire contained within the native microbiota of the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
Zimmermann J, Obeng N, Yang W, Pees B, Petersen C, Waschina S, Kissoyan KAB, Aidley J, Hoeppner MP, Bunk B, Spröer C, Leippe M, Dierking K, Kaleta C*, Schulenburg H* (2019) The ISME Journal. 1-13. * Shared senior authorship doi: 10.1038/s41396-019-0504-y
The inducible response of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to members of its natural microbiome across development and adult life
Yang W#, Petersen C#, Pees B#, Zimmermann J, Waschina S, Dirksen P, Rosenstiel P, Tholey A, Leippe M, Dierking K, Kaleta C*, Schulenburg H*. Front Microbiol. 10:1793. # Equal contribution as first authors, * Equal contribution as senior authors doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01793.
FeaturedNeutrality in the metaorganism
Sieber M, Pita L, Weiland-Bräuer N, Dirksen P, Wang J, Mortzfeld B, Franzenburg S, Schmitz RA, Baines JF, Fraune S, Hentschel U, Schulenburg H, Bosch TCG, Traulsen A (2019) PLoS Biol., DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000298
aFold – using polynomial uncertainty modelling for differential gene expression estimation from RNA sequencing data
Yang W, Rosenstiel P, Schulenburg H (2019) BMC Genomics, 20:364, 1-17. doi: 10.1186/s12864-019-5686-1
Bdellovibrio and like organisms are predictors of microbiome diversity across diverse host groups.
Johnke J, Fraune S, Bosch TCG, Hentschel U, Schulenburg H (2019) Microbial Ecology DOI: 10.1007/s00248-019-01395-7
A multi-parent recombinant inbred line population of C. elegans allows identification of novel QTLs for complex life-history traits
Snoek BL, Volkers RJM, Nijveen H, Petersen C, Dirksen P, Sterken MG, Nakad R, Riksen J, Rosenstiel P, Stastna JJ, Braeckman BP, Harvey SC, Schulenburg H*, Kammenga JE* (2019) BMC Biol. 17:24. * Shared senior authorship doi: 10.1186/s12915-019-0642-8
2018
The Caenorhabditis elegans proteome response to naturally associated microbiome members of the genus Ochrobactrum
Cassidy L, Petersen C, Treitz C, Dierking K, Schulenburg H, Leippe M, Tholey A (2018); Proteomics, doi: 10.1002/pmic.201700426
Metaorganisms in extreme environments: do microbes play a role in organismal adaptation?
Bang C, Dagan T, Deines P, Dubilier N, Duschl W J, Fraune S, Hentschel U, Hirt H, Hülter N, Lachnit T, Picazo D, Galan P L, Pogoreutz C, Rädecker N, Saad M M, Schmitz R A, Schulenburg H, Voolstra C R, Weiland-Bräuer N, Ziegler M, Bosch T C G (2018); Zoology, doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2018.02.004
2017
The Natural Biotic Environment of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Schulenburg H, Félix M A (2017); Genetics., 206(1):55-86. doi: 10.1534/genetics.116.195511
Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for microbiome research.
Zhang F, Berg M, Dierking K, Félix M A, Shapira M, Samuel B, Schulenburg H (2017); Front. Microbiol., 8:485. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00485
2016
Antimicrobial effectors in the nematode C. elegans – an outgroup to the Arthropoda.
Dierking K, Yang W, Schulenburg H (2016); Phil Trans R Soc Lond B., 371. doi:
The native microbiome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans: Gateway to a new host-microbiome model.
Dirksen P, Marsh SA, Braker I, Heitland N, Wagner S, Nakad R, Mader S, Petersen C, Kowallik V, Rosenstiel P C, Felix M A, Schulenburg H (2016); BMC Biology, 14:38. doi:10.1186/s12915-016-0258-1