Dr. Claudia Steglich

Focus of research
- Regulation of gene expression in marine cyanobacteria
- Gene regulation by sRNAs and RNA-binding proteins
- Cyanophage host systems
CV
- since 2021 research group leader in SPP 2330
- since 2019 Academic Senior Councelor and Lecturer, Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg
- 2011–2018 Academic Counselor and Lecturer, Institute of Biology II+III, University of Freiburg
- 2006–2013 Research Group Leader in SPP 1258, University of Freiburg
- 2004–2011 Research Assistant, University of Freiburg
- 2003–2004 Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
- 2003 Doctorate in Genetics (Dr. rer. nat.) Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
- 1999 Diploma in Biology, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Selected Publications
- Coe, A., Braakman, R., Biller, S.J., Arellano, A., Bliem, C., Vo, N.N., Von Emster, K., Thomas, E., DeMers, M., Steglich, C., Huisman, J., Chisholm, S.W., 2024. Emergence of metabolic coupling to the heterotroph Alteromonas promotes dark survival in Prochlorococcus. ISME Communications 4, ycae131. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae131
- Lott S.C., Voigt K., Lambrecht S.J., Hess W.R., and #Steglich C. (2020) A framework for the computational prediction and analysis of non-coding RNAs in microbial environmental populations and their experimental validation. ISME J 14(8), 1955–1965, #corresponding author, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0658-7
- #Steglich, C., Futschik, M., Lindell, D., Voss, B., Chisholm, S.W. and Hess, W.R. (2008) The challenge of regulation in a minimal photoautotroph: Non-coding RNAs in Prochlorococcus. PLoS Genetics 4 (8), e10000173, #corresponding author, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000173
- Coleman, M.L., Sullivan, M.B., Martiny, A.C., Steglich, C., Barry, K., DeLong, E.F., Chisholm, S.W. (2006) Genomic Islands and the ecology and evolution of Prochlorococcus. Science 311, 1768-1770, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1122050
- Rocap, G., Larimer, F.W., Lamerdin, J., Malfatti, S., Chain, P., Ahlgren, N.A., Arellano, A., Coleman, M, Hauser, L., Hess, W.R., Johnson, Z.I., Land, M., Lindell, D., Post, A.F., Regala, W., Shah, M., Shaw, S.L., Steglich, C., Sullivan, M.B., Ting, C.S., Tolonen, A., Webb, E.A., Zinser, E. and Chisholm, S.W. (2003) Genome divergence in two Prochlorococcus ecotypes reflects Oceanic niche differentiation. Nature 424(6952), 1042-1047, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01947