Jörg Overmann

The paper introduces the StrainDiscoveryDatabase (SDD), a unified microbial strain dataset that resolves data fragmentation and synonymy to support AI-driven bioindustrial applications.

This study reveals that ancestral Rhizobiaceae bacteria evolved photosynthesis in association with algae and plants, later losing it in some lineages that became plant symbionts or pathogens.

The paper presents 154 new Myxococcota genomes, expands taxonomy, and identifies novel natural products, highlighting their biosynthetic potential for drug discovery.

This study tracks respiratory microbiome changes in smokers after cessation, showing site-specific recovery and persistent microbial alterations.

The paper identifies three large virulence-factor-like proteins in a bacterial symbiosis, showing their transfer between species and potential roles in promoting cell contact and facilitating protein injection.

The paper shows that gut bacteria like Klebsiella oxytoca, under anoxic conditions, suppress Acinetobacter baumannii through metabolites from specific carbohydrates like maltose.

The paper uses machine learning on curated bacterial datasets to predict phenotypic traits, showing that high-quality data improves prediction accuracy and generates new data points for the BacDive database.

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.

The paper updates the EnteroBase platform with new data and tools for genomic epidemiology of bacterial pathogens, including antimicrobial resistance detection and visualization features.

The paper isolates and characterizes four new Streptomyces phages with varying host ranges and temperate/virulent properties, expanding the available phage resources for studying antiviral strategies in Streptomyces.

The paper presents a multi-omics analysis of Prorocentrum cordatum under heat stress, revealing RNA editing and exon usage regulation of biomolecules.

The paper shows that bursts in biosynthetic gene cluster transcription in Sorangium sp. correlate with natural compound production, challenging the idea that BGCs are preferentially expressed under nutrient limitation.

The paper uses whole-genome sequencing to reclassify Allorhizobium vitis into a species complex, identifying two distinct species and their ecological adaptations.