Nikolaus Leisch

A mobile optical coherence microscope for studying aquatic organisms in- and outside the laboratory

This paper introduces a mobile optical coherence microscope for high-resolution, label-free imaging of aquatic organisms in both lab and field settings, enabling detailed morphological and dynamic analysis.

An Advanced Mobile Laboratory to enable field-based microbial ecology and cell biology across scales

The paper introduces an Advanced Mobile Laboratory (AML) for field-based microbial ecology and cell biology, enabling multiscale analysis of environmental samples directly at the sampling site.

Charting the landscape of cytoskeletal diversity in microbial eukaryotes

Ultrastructure expansion microscopy applied to 221 cultured planktonic eukaryotes maps diverse microtubule and centrin-based cytoskeletons, including dinoflagellate apical centrin rings and cryptophyte cortical centrin meshes.

Placozoan microbiomes reveal evolutionary trajectories towards mutualism among the largely parasitic Rickettsiales

The paper studies Rickettsiales microbiomes in placozoans to reveal evolutionary shifts towards mutualism, finding some symbionts have lost parasitic traits.