Detail

Keywords

Gene Regulatory Networks; Microbial Interactions

Research group(s)

• Infection Biology Research Lab
  Head: Sylvia Knapp
  Research Area: Endogenous modulators of inflammation; Macrophage plasticity in bacterial lung infections; Co- and Super-Infection
  Members:
  Riem Gawish
  Sylvia Knapp
  Stefanie Widder
• Multi-Omics Microbial Systems
  Head: Stefanie Widder
  Members:
  Stefanie Widder

Grants

• EnhanceFun - Engineering enhanced microbiome function using synthetic ecology (2025)
  Source of Funding: WWTF (Vienna Science and Technology Fund), LS24 - Synthetic Biology
  Principal Investigator
• CF microbiome for biomarker detection (2017)
  Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Elise Richter
  Principal Investigator

Selected publications

1. Widder, S. et al. (2024) ‘Microbial community organization designates distinct pulmonary exacerbation types and predicts treatment outcome in cystic fibrosis’, Nature Communications, 15(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49150-y.
2. Delogu, F. et al. (2023) ‘Forecasting the dynamics of a complex microbial community using integrated meta-omics’, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8(1), pp. 32–44. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02241-3.
3. Widder, S. et al. (2022) ‘Metagenomic sequencing reveals time, host, and body compartment-specific viral dynamics after lung transplantation’, Microbiome, 10(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01244-9.
4. Widder, S. et al. (2016) ‘Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics’, The ISME Journal, 10(11), pp. 2557–2568. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.45. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/.
5. Berry, D. & Widder, S., 2014. Deciphering microbial interactions and detecting keystone species with co-occurrence networks. Frontiers in Microbiology, 5. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00219.