Collaborative Research Centre 1182

From protists to humans, all animals and plants are inhabited by microbial organisms. There is an increasing appreciation that these resident microbes influence fitness of their plant and animal hosts, ultimately forming a metaorganism consisting of a uni- or multicellular host and a community of associated microorganisms.

Our mission


Recent Highlights

German Research Foundation continues to fund the CRC 1182 at Kiel University in a third funding phase

Four more years of metaorganism research in Kiel


Recent Publications

2025
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Z2

Assembly of a functional neuronal circuit in embryos of an ancestral metazoan is influenced by temperature and the microbiome

Noack, C., Jenderny, S., Giez, C., Merza, O., Hofacker, L. M., Wittlieb, J., Repnik, U., Bramkamp, M., Ochs, K., Bosch, T. C. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(23), e2501225122. doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2501225122

2025
A1
A4
Z3

Polyketide synthase-derived sphingolipids mediate microbiota protection against a bacterial pathogen in C. elegans

Peters, L., Drechsler, M., Herrera, M. A., Liu, J., Pees, B., Jarstorff, J., Czerwinski, A., Lubbock, F., Angelidou, G., Salzer, L., Karlis, A. M., Paczia, N., Shi, Y. M., Schulenburg, H., Kaleta, C., Witting, M., Liebeke, M., Campopiano, D. J., Bode, H. B., Dierking, K. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 5151. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60234-1


Contact

Collaborative Research Centre 1182
Kiel University
Zoological Institute
Am Botanischen Garten 1-9
D-24118 Kiel

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