Archaea Ecology and Evolution -
Christa Schleper
Room: 3.035
Djerassiplatz 1 (UBB)
1030 Vienna, Austria
+43-1-4277-76510
christa.schleper@univie.ac.at
Research Focus
Archaea Ecology and Evolution
We are interested in the natural diversity and ecological distribution of archaea as well as in their viruses and virus defense systems.
Our specific projects include:
- Genomic and proteomic studies of ammonia oxidizing thaumarchaeota from soils, marine sediments and hot springs
- Cultivation of novel lineages of archaea and ecogenomics of Lokiarchaeota
- Virus defense and CRISPR-mediated RNA degradation in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus
Funding Sources
Twinning Horizon Europe Framework Programme
Research Action Network for Reducing Reactive Nitrogen Losses from Agricultural Ecosystems
DK+ Doctoral Programme
Microbial Nitrogen Cycling - from single cells to ecosystems
(speaker C. Schleper)
Former projects
Group Members
- Dr. Melina Kerou
- Logan Hodgskiss, PhD
- Thiago Rodrigues de Oliveira, PhD
- Dr. Rafael Isaac Ponce Toledo
- Maximilian Dreer, M.Sc.
- Dipl.-Ing. Michael Melcher
- Thomas Pribasnig, M.Sc.
- Erika Wimmer, M.Sc.
- Ülkü Yüksel, M.Sc.
- Karin Hager, B.Sc.
- Marina Monserrat i Diez, B.Sc.