Dr. Anja Worrich
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Dr. Anja Worrich
Head of Working group Antibiotikaresistenzen in der Umwelt
Department of Applied Microbial Ecology
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 06/2024 | Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader |
| 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 |
Leipzig University
Module Environmental Microbiology (Prof. Harms), B. Sc. Biochemistry
- 2 SWS Lecture - Global Change Microbiology
Brandenburg University of Technology
Module Microbial Ecology; B. Sc. Biotechnology
- 2 SWS Lecture
- 1 SWS seminar
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2025 (1)
- Sharma, P., Reitz, T., Singh, S.P., Worrich, A., Muehe, E.M. (2025):
Going beyond improving soil health: cover plants as contaminant removers in agriculture
Trends Plant Sci. 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.009
2024 (4)
- Oprei, A., Schreckinger, J., Kamjunke, N., Worrich, A., Mutz, M., Risse-Buhl, U. (2024):
Migrating ripples create streambed heterogeneity altering microbial diversity and metabolic activity
Limnol. Oceanogr. 69 (8), 1882 - 1899 10.1002/lno.12631 - Wen, X., Chen, M., Ma, B., Xu, J., Zhu, T., Zou, Y., Liao, X., Wang, Y., Worrich, A., Wu, Y. (2024):
Removal of antibiotic resistance genes during swine manure composting is strongly impaired by high levels of doxycycline residues
Waste Manage. 177 , 76 - 85 10.1016/j.wasman.2024.01.037 - Wen, X., Xu, J., Wang, Y., Yang, X., Peng, G., Li, S., Ma, B., Zou, Y., Liao, X., Wang, Y., Worrich, A., Wu, Y. (2024):
Community coalescence and plant host filtering determine the spread of tetracycline resistance genes from pig manure into the microbiome continuum of the soil–plant system
Microbiol. Res. 284 , art. 127734 10.1016/j.micres.2024.127734 - Wen, X., Xu, J., Worrich, A., Li, X., Yuan, X., Ma, B., Zou, Y., Wang, Y., Liao, X., Wu, Y. (2024):
Priority establishment of soil bacteria in rhizosphere limited the spread of tetracycline resistance genes from pig manure to soil-plant systems based on synthetic communities approach
Environ. Int. 187 , art. 108732 10.1016/j.envint.2024.108732
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 10.3389/fevo.2023.935987
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 10.1111/1462-2920.15927
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 10.3390/microorganisms9040840
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 10.3389/fevo.2020.00021 - 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 10.3389/fevo.2020.00053
2019 (1)
- Worrich, A., Musat, N., Harms, H. (2019):
Associational effects in the microbial neighborhood
ISME J. 13 (9), 2143 - 2149 10.1038/s41396-019-0444-6
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 10.1371/journal.pone.0206103 - 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 10.1038/s41598-018-27785-4 - 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 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00734 - 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 10.3390/ijms19051385 - Worrich, A. (2018):
Eine starke Allianz
KlarText - Preis für Wissenschaftskommunikation: Die Beiträge der Preisträger
Klaus Tschira Stiftung gGmbH, Heidelberg, S. 22 - 25 - 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 10.1016/bs.aambs.2018.05.005
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 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.11.025 - 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 10.1038/ncomms15472
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 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01214 - 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 10.1128/AEM.03901-15
- Article in "Umweltperspektiven"
- Interview for Helmholtz online: Science Communication
- "KlarText" award for science communication 2018 in biology!
- Night of the Microbes