Publications
MICROBE experts have already published several of the MICROBE project results within scientific publications.
Pamela Espı´ndola-Herna´ndez, Samiran Banerjee, Abdulkabir O. Abdulmalik, Diana Andrade-Linares, Germana Baldi, Gabriele Berg, Francis Q. Brearley, Cecilia G. Flocco, Luisa Galgani, Lina Gegeckiene, Silvia Gschwendtner, Tim Hensen, Tanja Kostic, Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, Lisa Maier, Anna Marciniak, Juliette Ohan, Jo¨rg Overmann, Teresa Rito, Matthew Ryan, Stefanie Schulz, Selma Vieira, MICROBE Consortium, Michael Schloter
A trait-based framework to identify microbial keystone taxa for microbiome engineering
Cell Reports Sustainability, 2026; 3
Hanna Koch, Thomas Clavel, Cintia Mayr, Benjamin L. Coltman, Michael Schloter, Julia A. Vorholt, Yolanda Sanz, Tomislav Cernava, Gwyn A. Beattie, Lene Lange, Stéphane Chaillou, Ákos T. Kovács, Hauke Smidt, Corné M. J. Pieterse, Tanja Kostic, Omri M. Finkel, Christopher E. Lawson, Luca Cocolin, Jesús Mercado-Blanco, Robert D. Finn, Kalliope K. Papadopoulou, Matthew Ryan, Marco Candela, Paul D. Cotter, Gabriele Berg, Orla O'Sullivan, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Pankaj Trivedi, Trevor C. Charles, Brajesh K. Singh, Günter Brader, Malek Marian & Angela Sessitsch.
From "synthetic" to defined microbial communities for clearer terminology
Nature Communications 17, 2026
Débora S. Raposo, Davide Faggionato, Barbara Ebert, Pablo Orozco, Guy Cochrane, Yiming Bao, Masanori Arita, Melania Muñoz-García, Jens Freitag, Tim Hirsch, Charles E. Cook, Rutger Vos, Lorenz Reimer, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Mathieu Rouard, Sarah Brinkley, Matthias Lange, Uwe Scholz, Stephan Weise, Björn Usadel, Robert D. Finn, Chan-Ho Park, Aylin S. Haas, David Castle, Colman O'Cathail & Amber H. Scholz
How can biological databases support the new UN mechanism for benefit-sharing from digital sequence information?
scientific data 13, 971 (2026)
Davide Faggionato, Melania Muñoz-García, Tanja Kostic, Mariana L. Ferrari, Pascale Vonaesch, Mathilde Poyet, Perrine Portier, Matthew J. Ryan, Djamila Djeddour, Cornelia Stumptner, Giovanna Cristina Varese, Aurora Zuzuarregui, Mathieu Groussin, Michael Schloter, Robert D. Finn, Aylin S. Haas, Ian Probert, Gerard Verkley, Jörg Overmann, Amber H. Scholz.
Policy Briefing: from access to use—untangling the international legal frameworks that govern microbial resources
Sustainable Microbiology, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2026
Davide Faggionato, Melania Muñoz-García, Tanja Kostic, Mariana L. Ferrari, Pascale Vonaesch, Mathilde Poyet, Perrine Portier, Matthew J. Ryan, Djamila Djeddour, Cornelia Stumptner, Giovanna Cristina Varese, Aurora Zuzuarregui, Mathieu Groussin, Michael Schloter, Robert D. Finn, Aylin S. Haas, Ian Probert, Gerard Verkley, Jörg Overmann, Amber H. Scholz.
Policy in Practice: How to do the Nagoya Protocol: common misconceptions, challenges and best practices for access and benefit-sharing compliance
Sustainable Microbiology, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2026
Davide Faggionato, Melania Muñoz-García, Tanja Kostic, Mariana L Ferrari, Pascale Vonaesch, Mathilde Poyet, Perrine Portier, Matthew J Ryan, Djamila Djeddour, Cornelia Stumptner, Giovanna Cristina Varese, Aurora Zuzuarregui, Mathieu Groussin, Michael Schloter, Robert D Finn, Aylin S Haas, Ian Probert, Gerard Verkley, Jörg Overmann, Amber H Scholz
Policy in Practice: How to do the Nagoya Protocol: common misconceptions, challenges and best practices for access and benefit-sharing compliance
Sustainable Microbiology, Volume 3, Issue 2, 202
Pamela Espı´ndola-Herna´ndez, Samiran Banerjee, Abdulkabir O. Abdulmalik, Diana Andrade-Linares, Germana Baldi, Gabriele Berg, Francis Q. Brearley, Cecilia G. Flocco, Luisa Galgani, Lina Gegeckiene, Silvia Gschwendtner, Tim Hensen, Tanja Kostic, Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, Lisa Maier, Anna Marciniak, Juliette Ohan, Jo¨rg Overmann, Teresa Rito, Matthew Ryan, Stefanie Schulz, Selma Vieira, MICROBE Consortium, Michael Schloter
An Operational Definition of Microbial Keystone Taxa for Advancing Sustainable Microbiome Solutions
SSRN, 2025