Dr. Anja Worrich
Contact
Dr. Anja Worrich
Head of Working group Environmental Antimicrobial Resistance
Department of Environmental Microbiology
Helmholtz Centre
for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Phone +49 341 235-1378
anja.worrich@ufz.de
Research interests
I am interested in the biotransformation and effects of antibiotics in the environment, especially in agricultural soils. My focus is on both the antibiotics themselves and the associated resistance genes in bacteria. The latter are particularly important because of their potential to multiply and spread in the environment and, when transferred to pathogens, to threaten human and animal health. It is therefore necessary to consider human, animal and environmental health together when developing strategies to contain antimicrobial resistance, and the environment in particular has not been sufficiently taken into account in previous actions.
| since 06/2020 | Group leader at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research |
| 01/2020 - 04/2020 | EMBO Short-term Fellowship at ETH Zurich in the Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics group |
| 03/2018 - 06/2020 | Postdoc; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research |
| 02/2017 - 02/2018 |
Postdoc at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig Molecular Interaction Ecology group and Ecometabolomics platform |
| 03/2013 - 01/2017 | PhD student; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Bioavailabilty group |
| Subject: Role of Fungus-mediated Transport Mechanisms for Bacterial Activity under Environmental Stress | |
| 03/2012 - 02/2013 | Master thesis; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Systems Ecology group |
| Subject: Influence of a spatially structured environment on the establishment of a bacterial inoculum | |
| 10/2010 - 02/2013 | Studies in Biotechnology and Applied Ecology at the International Graduate School (IHI) Zittau |
| 10/2007 - 09/2010 | Studies in Biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Zittau |
Brandenburg University of Technology
Studiengang Biotechnology, B.Sc.
Modul Mikrobielle Ökologie
2 SWS Vorlesung
1 SWS Seminar
Index:
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2023 (1)
- Veen, J., Jang, H., Raubenheimer, D., van Pinxteren, B.O.C.M., Kandza, V., Meirmans, P.G., van Dam, N.M., Dunker, S., Hoffmann, P., Worrich, A., Janmaat, K.R.L. (2023):
Development of embodied capital: diet composition, foraging skills, and botanical knowledge of forager children in the Congo Basin
Front. Ecol. Evol. 11 , art. 935987
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2022 (1)
- Jadeja, N.B., Worrich, A. (2022):
From gut to mud: dissemination of antimicrobial resistance between animal and agricultural niches
Environ. Microbiol. 24 (8), 3290 - 3306
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2021 (1)
- Saraiva, J.P., Worrich, A., Karakoç, C., Kallies, R., Chatzinotas, A., Centler, F., Nunes da Rocha, U. (2021):
Mining synergistic microbial interactions: a roadmap on how to integrate multi-omics data
Microorganisms 9 (4), art. 840
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2020 (2)
- Banitz, T., Chatzinotas, A., Worrich, A. (2020):
Prospects for integrating disturbances, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning using microbial systems
Front. Ecol. Evol. 8 , art. 21
full text (doi) - König, S., Vogel, H.-J., Harms, H., Worrich, A. (2020):
Physical, chemical and biological effects on soil bacterial dynamics in microscale models
Front. Ecol. Evol. 8 , art. 53
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2019 (1)
- Worrich, A., Musat, N., Harms, H. (2019):
Associational effects in the microbial neighborhood
ISME J. 13 (9), 2143 - 2149
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2018 (7)
- Broekgaarden, C., Pelgrom, K.T.B., Bucher, J., van Dam, N.M., Grosser, K., Pieterse, C.M.J., van Kaauwen, M., Steenhuis, G., Voorrips, R.E., de Vos, M., Vosman, B., Worrich, A., van Wees, S.C.M. (2018):
Combining QTL mapping with transcriptome and metabolome profiling reveals a possible role for ABA signaling in resistance against the cabbage whitefly in cabbage
PLOS One 13 (11), e0206103
full text (doi) - König, S., Worrich, A., Banitz, T., Centler, F., Harms, H., Kästner, M., Miltner, A., Wick, L.Y., Thullner, M., Frank, K. (2018):
Spatiotemporal disturbance characteristics determine functional stability and collapse risk of simulated microbial ecosystems
Sci. Rep. 8 , art. 9488
full text (doi) - König, S., Worrich, A., Banitz, T., Harms, H., Kästner, M., Miltner, A., Wick, L.Y., Frank, K., Thullner, M., Centler, F. (2018):
Functional resistance to recurrent spatially heterogeneous disturbances is facilitated by increased activity of surviving bacteria in a virtual ecosystem
Front. Microbiol. 9 , art. 734
full text (doi) - Peters, K., Worrich, A., Weinhold, A., Alka, O., Balcke, G., Birkemeyer, C., Bruelheide, H., Calf, O.W., Dietz, S., Dührkop, K., Gaquerel, E., Heinig, U., Kücklich, M., Macel, M., Müller, C., Poeschl, Y., Pohnert, G., Ristok, C., Rodríguez, V.M., Ruttkies, C., Schumann, M., Schweiger, R., Shahaf, N., Steinbeck, C., Tortosa, M., Treutler, H., Ueberschaar, N., Velasco, P., Weiß, B.M., Widdig, A., Neumann, S., van Dam, N.M. (2018):
Current challenges in plant eco-metabolomics
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 19 (5), art. 1385
full text (doi) - Worrich, A. (2018):
Eine starke Allianz
KlarText : Preis für Wissenschaftskommunikation : die Beiträge der Preisträger
Klaus Tschira Stiftung gGmbH, Heidelberg, S. 22 - 25
full text (url) - Worrich, A. (2018):
Eine starke Allianz
Umwelt Perspektiven (Dezember 2018), 20 - 21 - Worrich, A., Wick, L.Y., Banitz, T. (2018):
Ecology of contaminant biotransformation in the mycosphere: Role of transport processes
In: Gadd, G.M., Sariaslani, S. (eds.)
Advances in Applied Microbiology 104
Elsevier, Oxford, p. 93 - 133
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2017 (2)
- König, S., Worrich, A., Centler, F., Wick, L.Y., Miltner, A., Kästner, M., Thullner, M., Frank, K., Banitz, T. (2017):
Modelling functional resilience of microbial ecosystems: Analysis of governing processes
Environ. Modell. Softw. 89 , 31 - 39
full text (doi) - Worrich, A., Stryhanyuk, H., Musat, N., König, S., Banitz, T., Centler, F., Frank, K., Thullner, M., Harms, H., Richnow, H.-H., Miltner, A., Kästner, M., Wick, L.Y. (2017):
Mycelium-mediated transfer of water and nutrients stimulates bacterial activity in dry and oligotrophic environments
Nat. Commun. 8 , art. 15472
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2016 (2)
- Worrich, A., König, S., Banitz, T., Centler, F., Frank, K., Thullner, M., Harms, H., Miltner, A., Wick, L.Y., Kaestner, M. (2016):
Bacterial dispersal promotes biodegradation in heterogeneous systems exposed to osmotic stress
Front. Microbiol. 7 , art. 1214
full text (doi) - Worrich, A., König, S., Miltner, A., Banitz, T., Centler, F., Frank, K., Thullner, M., Harms, H., Kästner, M., Wick, L.Y. (2016):
Mycelium-like networks increase bacterial dispersal, growth, and biodegradation in a model ecosystem at various water potentials
Appl. Environ. Microb. 82 (10), 2902 - 2908
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- Article in "Umweltperspektiven"
- Interview for Helmholtz online: Science Communication
- "KlarText" award for science communication 2018 in biology!
- Night of the Microbes