Christiane Emmerich

Appointments

Laboratory technician | 2013 – present
Max Planck Institute for Biology
Tübingen, Germany

Education

M.S. University of Bayreuth | 2012
Bayreuth, Germany

B.S. University of Bayreuth | 2010
Bayreuth, Germany

Research Interests

I am exploring how specific host proteins mediate the interaction between tortoise beetles and Stammera, their pectinolytic symbionts.

Publications

Porras M*, Pons I*, García-Lozano M, Jagdale S, Emmerich C, Weiss B, Salem H (2024). Extracellular symbiont colonises insect during embryo development. ISME Communications, doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae005

Seah BKB, Singh A, Vetter DE, Emmerich C, Peters M, Soltys V, Huettel B, Swart E (2023). Nuclear dualism without extensive DNA elimination in the ciliate Loxodes magnus. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.09.566212

Swart EC, Emmerich C, Seah BKB, Singh M, Shulgina Y, Singh A (2023). How did UGA codon translation as tryptophan evolve in certain ciliates? A critique of Kachale et al. 2023 Nature. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.09.561518

Singh A, Häußermann L, Emmerich C, Nischwitz E, Seah BKB, Butter FKB, Nowacki M, Swart EC (2023). ISWI1 complex proteins facilitate developmental genome editing in Paramecium. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.09.552620

Seah BKB, Singh M, Emmerich C, Singh A, Woehle C, Huettel B, Byerly A, Stover NA, Sugiura M, Harumoto T, Swart EC (2023). MITE infestation accommodated by genome editing in the germline genome of the ciliate Blepharisma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213985120

Singh M, Seah BKB, Emmerich C, Singh A, Woehle C, Huettel B, Byerly A, Stover NA, Sugiura M, Harumoto T, Swart EC (2023). Origins of genome-editing excisases as illuminated by the somatic genome of the ciliate Blepharisma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213887120

Seah BKB, Emmerich C, Singh A, Swart EC (2022). Improved methods for bulk cultivation and fixation of Loxodes ciliates for fluorescence microscopy. Protist, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2022.125905

Mozzicafreddo M, Pucciarelli S, Swart EC, Piersanti A, Emmerich C, Migliorelli G, Ballarini P, Miceli C (2021). The macronuclear genome of the Antarctic psychrophilic marine ciliate Euplotes focardii reveals new insights on molecular cold adaptation. Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98168-5

Lazzaretti D*, Bandholz-Cajamarca L*, Emmerich C, Schaaf K, Basquin C, Irion U, Bono F (2018). The crystal structure of Staufen1 in complex with a physiological RNA sheds light on substrate selectivity. Life Science Alliance, https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.201800187

Banerjee A, Adolph RS, Gopalakrishnapai J, Kleinboelting S, Emmerich C, Steegborn C, Visweswariah SS (2015). A universal stress protein (USP) in mycobacteria binds cAMP. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M115.644856

Contact

Max-Planck-Ring 5, Tübingen
72076, Germany

Email: christiane.emmerich@tuebingen.mpg.de