The recognition that all macroorganisms live in symbiotic association with microbial communities has opened up a new field in biology. While most attention in the first CRC 1182 funding phase was placed on bacteria as …
Animal developmental programs occur within the context of coevolved associations with microbes. Hydra is one of the prime model systems for evolutionary developmental biologists. The fact that symbiotic interactions were discovered to be essential to …
The C2 project focuses on the interaction of nutritional intake with the resident microbiome and the intestinal mucosa. It uses two complementary experimental systems (Drosophila (C2.1, PI Roeder) and mouse (C2.2, PI Rosenstiel)) to tackle …
