Contact
Dr. Anja Worrich
Department of Applied Microbial Ecology
Working Group Environmental Antimicrobial Resistance
Phone +49 341 235 482295
Permoserstraße 15 | 04318 Leipzig | Germany
News
We warmly welcome our new postdoctoral researcher Mary Eliza to the group! She holds a PhD in Soil Evolutionary Microbiology from the University of Sheffield, where she focused on harnessing soil microbiomes for sustainable agriculture. She will be working in the ANTIRESIST project.
We are happy to welcome our new postdoctoral researcher Debjyoti Ghosh! In his PhD he worked on soil metaproteomics in the context of agricultural management. He is now bringing his expertise to several ongoing projects, focusing on the functional characterization of bacterial communities in soil-plant systems.
We are happy to announce that we are looking for a new student to work with Lieke in the SmartManure college. If you are interested in doing an internship, bachelor or master thesis on this topic, have a look here.
We had our group Christmas party involving a lot of quizzes and nice food! We wish everyone merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
We welcome Dr. Luis Daniel Prada Salcedo as a new postdoctoral researcher to our group! He is involved in the pilot project ResistChange and investigates the impact of climate change on the spread of antibiotic resistance from livestock manure to soils under various agricultural management practices.
Maja, Chika and Franzi participated in a workshop for our new digital PCR from QIAGEN.
Haining and Chika presented posters at the 3rd IP Day of the Integration Platform 4 'Tapping nature's potential for sustainable production and a healthy environment'.
Welcome to Franziska Raab, a new PhD student in our group! As a part of the project ANTIRESIST, she will work on the effects of antibiotics on the bacterial activity in soil-plant systems.
Welcome Jiaojiao Xu to the group! She is an exchange PhD student from South China Agricultural University working on conjugative transfer of ARGs among bacterial communities of swine manure.
Chika and Haining presented posters at the International One Health Symposium Berlin.
We welcome two new students to our group. Melanie Konrad (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) will do her internship with Chika and Lukas Niemöller (Universität Leipzig) will do his bachelor thesis with Lieke.
We welcome Salome Schneider as a new apprentice in our group. She will support the different projects in our group and will be mainly supervised by Maja.
Welcome to the group Lieke! Lieke Lipsch is part of the SmartManure PhD college and will spend the next three years investigating whether cover crops can mitigate the negative environmental impacts of manure application on agricultural soils.
We are very happy to welcome Haining Huang as a new PhD student in the group! Haining will be working on extracellular vesicles in soils and their role in the spread of antibiotic resistance in the soil microbiome.
Wenxuan Chen joined the group as a visiting PhD student. She will be working on the development of QSAR models for the prediction of antibiotic rejection by membranes. Nice to have you on board!
Dr. Chika Ejikeugwu joined our group via a Humboldt Fellowship for experienced researchers. Chika will work on the effects of antibiotic mixtures in soils. Welcome!
After one year with us, we say goodbye to Xin Wen, who is going back to South China Agricultural University after her stay as a guest PhD in our group. Thank you Xin for the good time and good luck on your further way! We also look forward to continuing our collaboration in the future.
Hendrik Seifert will now continue the work he did during his internship in the FULLREMOVAL project as a master student under the supervision of Fátima. Welcome back Hendrik!
New review paper out in Environmental Microbiology. From gut to mud: dissemination of antimicrobial resistance between animal and agricultural niches
Click here for open access version
We warmly welcome Fátima as a new postdoc to the group. Fátima will be working on her MSCA-funded project FULLREMOVAL for the next two years.
Kristina Scholz is joining the working group as an intern for the next three months. Welcome Kristina!
Hanna's bachelor thesis will investigate the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance persistence in soils.
Good luck!
Since February, Maja Hinkel is supporting the working group as a technical assistant. She will develop and apply protocols to determine hosts of antibiotic resistance genes in soil. Welcome Maja!
Johanna Zech will do an internship with us until the end of February. She will investigate how soil biophysical conditions affect the invasion success of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Our BELL student Johanna Rasch participated very successfully in the regional Jugend forscht contest. She took the first place in the biology category and also received the Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Award.
Congratulations Johanna!
The MDR series "Mission: Saving the world" featured our work on antibiotics in soils.
Publications
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