Publications 2026

Supported by DNRF 137

Alfastsen L, Mauduit M, Cowled MS, Vig NA, Friis-Møller R, Reimert FVH, Schostag MD, Andersen AJC, Gram L, Zhang SD 2026. Re-examining the iron paradox: the influence of growth medium on regulation and functionality of the tropodithietic acid (TDA) biosynthetic pathway in Phaeobacter piscinae. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 102:fiag080 https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiag080

Almeida ME, Smahajcsik D, Zhang SD, Gram L 2026. Probiotic potential of Isochrysis galbana microbiomes against the fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum. Aquaculture 612:743196 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2025.743196

Crudele M, Barnaba NF, Di Cosmo D, Mascia T, Lum KY, Cowled MS, Larsen TO, Faretra F, Coleman JJ, De Miccolis Angelini RM 2026. Characterization of the chloromonilicin biosynthetic gene cluster in the brown rot fungus Monilinia fructicola by a CRISPR/Cas9 transformation system. Microbiological Research 310:128558 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2026.128558

Godefroid M, Otero-Ferrer F, Wind-Hansen M, Behrendt L, Ransquin I, Soler-Onís E, Espino F, Littmann S, Ahmerkamp S 2026. Ciliary flow and morphology shape mass transport at the surface and within gastrovascular cavities of black corals. Communications Biology 9:876 https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-10531-2

Kemkuignou BM, Haahr M, Maleckis M, Ding L 2026. Discovery and biosynthesis of antifungal microbial secondary metabolites. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 13:e0007525 https://doi.org/10.1128/mmbr.00075-25

Lozano-Andrade CN, Queiroz, JIP, Jelsbak L 2026. When neighbors control metabolite fate: consequences for plant pathogen virulence and biocontrol outcomes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 92:e00149-26https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00149-26

Rutz A, Probst D, Aguilar C, Akiyama DY, Alberti F, Augustijn HE, Avalon NE, Beemelmanns C, Barbieri HB, Biermann F, Bridge AJ, Girón EC, Cox R, Crüsemann M, D’Agostino PM, Feuermann M, Gerke J, García KG, Jonathan E. Holme JE, Hwang J-Y, Iacovelli R, Barbosa JCJ, Navneet Kaur N, Klapper M, Köhler AM, Korenskaia A, Kubach N, Lee BT, Loureiro C, Mantri S, Narula S, Meijer D, Navarro-Muñoz JC, Nguyen G-S, Paliyal S, Panghal M, Rao L, Sieber S, Sokolova N, Sowa ST, Szenei J, Terlouw BR, Weddeling HG, Yu J, Ziemert N, Weber T, Blin K, van der Hooft JJJ, Medema MH, Zdouc MM 2026. MITE: the Minimum Information about a Tailoring Enzyme database for capturing specialized metabolite biosynthesis. Nucleic Acids Research 54:D635–D642 https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf969

Sarkis AW, Sørensen JL, Sondergaard TE, Nielsen KL, Frisvad JC, Theobald DL, Hedstrom L 2026. An activity–resistance trade-off constrains enzyme evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123:e2602068123 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2602068123

Sarlet A, Ehrmann AK, Mitarai N, Jauffred L 2026. Wrinkle-like structures emerge from matrix complementarity and mechanical discontinuity in heterogenous biofilms. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes accepted https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-026-01048-x

Singleton CM, Jensen TBN, Delogu F, Knudsen KS, Sørensen EA, Jørgensen VR, Karst SM, Yang Y, Sereika M, Petriglieri F, Knutsson S, Dall SM, Kirkegaard RH, Kristensen JM, Overgaard CK, Woodcroft BJ, Speth DR, Aroney STN, The Microflora Danica Consortium, Wagner M, Dueholm MKD, Nielsen PH, Albertsen M 2026. The Microflora Danica atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes. Nature 649:971-981 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09794-2

Smahajcsik D, Sander MR, Almeida, Arias Orozco PE, Otto DJ, Gram L, Jarmusch SA 2026. Desferrioxamine Sharing Among Microalgal Bacteria Enhances Iron-Limited Inhibition of Vibrio anguillarum. Journal of Natural Products 89:955-965
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5c01565

Wang X, Lozano-Andrade CN, Jarmusch SA, Frisvad JC, Kovács ÁT, Larsen TO 2026. Dual-function Aspergillus sulphureoviridis: antibacterial polyketides against Dickeya solani and elicitation of Bacillus subtilis lipopeptides. Microbiology Spectrum 0:e00977-26
https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.00977-26