(2022)
Comparative genomic and metabolomic analysis of Termitomyces species provides insights into the terpenome of the fungal cultivar and the characteristic odor of the fungus garden of Macrotermes natalensis termites.
mSystems 7(1),
e0121421.
Jan Schwitalla
Chemical Biology of Microbe-Host Interactions · PhD student +49 3641 532-1289 jan.schwitalla@leibniz-hki.deCurriculum vitae
Main Research Areas
- analysis of biosynthetic pathways
- natural product identification
- description of novel bacterial species
Professional Career
2018 | PhD Student International Leibniz Research School for Microbial and Biomolecular Interactions (ILRS) |
2015-2017 | M.Sc. in Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
2012-2015 | B.Sc. in Biologie, Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
Awards · Appointments · Scientific Activities
2018 | Course Chemical and Genomic Insight to Parasitic and Mutualistic Host-Microbe Interactions, Universität Kopenhagen, Dänemark |
2016-2017 | Tutor and Student Research Assistant, Department for Applied and Ecological Microbiology, Institute for Microbiology (Jena, GER) |
2014 | Internship at AirLiquide, ALTECH GmbH (Krefeld, GER) |
2014 | Tutor, Department for Biochemistry and Biophysics, work group of Cell Biology (Jena, GER) |
Publications
(2022)
GNPS**-guided discovery of madurastatins A1, A2, E1, F, and G1, siderophores from the termite-associated Actinomadura sp. RB99. (GNPS=global natural product social molecular networking platform.)
Chemistry 28(36),
e202200612.
(2021)
Female-biased sex allocation and lack of inbreeding avoidance in Cubitermes termites.
Ecol Evol 11(10),
5598-5605.
(2020)
Nocardia macrotermitis sp. nov. and Nocardia aurantia sp. nov., isolated from the gut of the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 70(10),
5226-5234.
(2020)
Gene cluster activation in a bacterial symbiont leads to halogenated angucyclic maduralactomycins and spirocyclic actinospirols.
Org Lett 22(7),
2634-2638.
(2020)
Polyhalogenation of isoflavonoids by the termite-associated Actinomadura sp. RB99.
J Nat Prod 83(10),
3102-3110.
(2020)
Steptomyces smaragdinus sp. nov. isolated from the gut of fungus growing-termite Macrotermes natalensis.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 70(11),
5806-5811.