(2021)
Rapid proliferation due to better metabolic adaptation results in full virulence of a filament-deficient Candida albicans strain.
Nat Commun 12(1),
3899.

Dr Maria Joanna Niemiec
Microbial Immunology · Head of MI CanBac team; associated to FungiNet +49 3641 532-1454 joanna.niemiec@leibniz-hki.deCurriculum vitae
Professional Career
Since 01/2016 | PostDoc, Microbial Immunology Unit, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany. Head: Ilse D. Jacobsen |
07/2015-12/2015 | PostDoc, Antifungal Immunity Lab, Part of ‘Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden’ (MIMS), Umeå, Sweden. Head: Constantin F. Urban |
08/2009-06/2015 | PhD student, Antifungal Immunity Lab, MIMS, Umeå, Sweden. Head: Constantin F. Urban |
01/2009-06/2009 | Research Assistant, Section of Molecular and Cellular Microbiology (MCM), Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Tübingen, Germany. Head: Andreas Peschel |
05/2008-01/2009 | Diploma thesis, MCM, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Tübingen, Germany. Head: Andreas Peschel |
06/2006-02/2007 | Research Assistant, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Tübingen, Germany. Head: Julia S. Frick |
10/2003-01/2009 | Diploma studies in Biochemistry, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, GER |
Publications
(2021)
Immune resolution dilemma: Host antimicrobial factor S100A8/A9 modulates inflammatory collateral tissue damage during disseminated fungal peritonitis.
Front Immunol 12,
553911.
(2020)
Fungal biotin homeostasis is essential for immune evasion after macrophage phagocytosis and virulence.
Cell Microbiol 22(7),
e13197.
(2019)
Fungal-bacterial interactions in health and disease.
Pathogens 8(2),
70.
(Review)
(2018)
Biphasic zinc compartmentalisation in a human fungal pathogen.
PLOS Pathog 14(5),
e1007013.
(2018)
Fungi as part of the microbiota and interactions with intestinal bacteria.
In: Curr Top Microbiol Immunol (ed.) Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 422, pp. 265-301. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
(Review)
(2018)
The secreted Candida albicans protein Pra1 disrupts host defense by broadly targeting and blocking complement C3 and C3 activation fragments.
Mol Immunol 93,
266-277.
(2018)
Assessment of Neutrophil Chemotaxis Upon G-CSF Treatment of Healthy Stem Cell Donors and in Allogeneic Transplant Recipients
Front Immunol (9),
1968.
(2017)
Commensal to Pathogen Transition of Candida albicans.
In: Elsevier (ed.) Reference Module in Life Sciences 2017 Elsevier.
ISBN: 9780128096338. (Review)
(2016)
Probing intracellular element concentration changes during neutrophil extracellular trap formation using synchrotron radiation based X-Ray fluorescence
PLOS ONE 11(11),
e0165604.