Maria Straßburger

This study shows the murine lung microbiome is dynamic and transient, with bacteria rapidly cleared by the immune system and not establishing stable colonization.

This study shows that Aspergillus fumigatus infection in immunosuppressed mice disrupts lung microbiome balance, increasing anaerobic bacteria like Ligilactobacillus murinus, which can be internalized by epithelial cells.

This paper introduces a novel genetic engineering method using endogenous pyrimidine salvage pathway genes as selectable markers for targeted DNA insertion in fungal pathogens.