The microbiota of mammals contributes significantly to various fundamental aspects of productivity and health. Whereas the human microbiome has been studied in great detail and depth, the microbiomes of farm animals are much less well known.
The food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is a great concern for food safety because of the high mortality rate associated with listeriosis and also because of the wide occurrence of Listeria monocytogenes&nbs
One focus of our research are obligate intracellular bacterial symbionts of amoebae and we investigated how these symbionts interact with their host cells.
