Michael Pester

The paper shows that nitrogen fertilization has a stronger negative impact on bacterial soil diversity than plant species loss in Tibetan grasslands.

This study characterizes a phage that infects Nitrosomonas europaea, showing it disrupts membrane integrity and autotrophic metabolism, leading to host cell lysis.

The paper establishes a publicly available collection of 340 human gut bacterial strains, including 29 newly described species, and identifies plasmids and megaplasmids within these isolates.

This study examines how bacterivorous nematodes and maize litter amendments influence bacterial and archaeal population dynamics in soil over 32 days.

This paper demonstrates that microbial communities can directly transform FeS and H2S into pyrite and CH4, using this reaction as a novel energy metabolism linked to methanogenesis.