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Project C1 (PIs Bosch, Gruber-Vodicka) aims to explore the impact of microbes on senescence and life history switches in two stem bilaterians: Hydra and placozoans using a comparative approach. This includes focusing on the role …
Giez C, Noack C , Sakib E, Hofacker L-M , Repnik U, Bramkamp M , Bosch TCG (2024) Satiety controls behavior in Hydra through an interplay of pre-enteric and central nervous system-like neuron populations. Cell Reports, 43, June 25, 2024 DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114210
Nawroth JC, Giez C, Klimovich A, Kanso EA, Bosch TCG (2023) Spontaneous body wall contractions stabilize the fluid microenvironment that shapes host-microbe associations. eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.83637.
Giez C, Pinkle D, Giencke Y, Wittlieb J, Herbst E, Spratte T, Lachnit T, Klimovich A, Selhuber-Unkel C, Bosch TCG (2023) Microbes as part of ancestral neuronal circuits: Bacterial produced signals affect neurons controlling eating behavior in Hydra. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2023.04.28.538719
Ulrich Laura, Giez Christoph, Steiner Leon X., Hentschel Ute, Lachnit Tim (2022): Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 13.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1056388
Bosch T & Giez C (2022). Wenn das Mikrobiom den Nerven trifft: Hydra hilft den Blick auf die Interaktion von Mikroben und Nervenzellen zu vertiefen. Biologie in Unserer Zeit, 52(4), 352–362. https://doi.org/10.11576/biuz-5866
Giez C, Bosch TCG (2021) Nat Rev Microbiol. doi: 10.1038/s41579-021-00575-y
Giez C, Klimovich A, Bosch TCG (2021) Neuroforum 27(2): 89–98. doi 10.1515/nf-2021-0003