Jan Schwitalla

Chemical Biology of Microbe-Host Interactions · PhD student +49 3641 532-1289 jan.schwitalla@leibniz-hki.de

Curriculum 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)

Topics

Secondary metabolites from insect-associated microbes

Publications

Kreuzenbeck NB, Seibel E, Schwitalla JW, Fricke J, Conlon BH, Schmidt S, Hammerbacher A, Köllner TG, Poulsen M, Hoffmeister D, Beemelmanns C (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.

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Lee SR, Schalk F, Schwitalla JW, Guo H, Yu JS, Song M, Jung WH, de Beer ZW, Beemelmanns C, Kim KH (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.

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Sinotte VM, Conlon BH, Seibel E, Schwitalla JW, de Beer ZW, Poulsen M, Bos N (2021) Female-biased sex allocation and lack of inbreeding avoidance in Cubitermes termites. Ecol Evol 11(10), 5598-5605.

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Benndorf R, Schwitalla JW, Martin K, de Beer ZW, Vollmers J, Kaster AK, Poulsen M, Beemelmanns C (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.

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Guo H, Schwitalla JW, Benndorf R, Baunach M, Steinbeck C, Görls H, de Beer ZW, Regestein L, Beemelmanns C (2020) Gene cluster activation in a bacterial symbiont leads to halogenated angucyclic maduralactomycins and spirocyclic actinospirols. Org Lett 22(7), 2634-2638.

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Rak Lee S, Schalk F, Schwitalla JW, Benndorf R, Vollmers J, Kaster AK, de Beer ZW, Park M, Ahn MJ, Jung WH, Beemelmanns C, Kim KH (2020) Polyhalogenation of isoflavonoids by the termite-associated Actinomadura sp. RB99. J Nat Prod 83(10), 3102-3110.

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Schwitalla JW, Benndorf R, Martin K, Vollmers J, Kaster AK, de Beer ZW, Poulsen M, Beemelmanns C (2020) Steptomyces smaragdinus sp. nov. isolated from the gut of fungus growing-termite Macrotermes natalensis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 70(11), 5806-5811.

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