Martin Kaltenpoth
Principal Investigator
- Project: Project 14.1
- Research Group
- Address: iomE, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg-15, 55128 Mainz, now: Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Straße 8, 07745 Jena
- Phone: +49 6131 39 24411
"The RTG has the potential to provide excellent education in two different disciplines for a generation of talented young scientists and generate a group of molecular biology-enabled evolutionary biologists."
- Since 2020: Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena
- Since 2015: Professor for Evolutionary Ecology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
- 2009-2015: Independent Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany (Research Group Insect Symbiosis)
- 2007-2009: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- 2006-2009: Postdoctoral researcher, Zoological Institute, University of Regensburg
Education:
- 2006: PhD in Biology (summa cum laude) with Prof. Dr. E. Strohm, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg
- 2003: Diploma in Biology (with honors), University of Würzburg
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Salem H, Kaltenpoth M (2022)
Beetle–Bacterial Symbioses: Endless Forms Most Functional Annual Review of Entomology, 67(1) -
Kanyile SN, Engl T, Kaltenpoth M (2021)
Nutritional symbionts confer structural defence against predation and fungal infection in a grain pest beetle Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb.243593 -
Ganesan R, Kaltenpoth M and Flórez LV (2021)
Transposon-insertion Sequencing as a Tool to Elucidate Bacterial Colonization Factors in a Burkholderia gladioli Symbiont of Lagria villosa Beetles Journal of Visualized Experiments, 174:e62843 -
Kiefer JST, Batsukh S, Bauer E, Hirota B, Weiss B, Wierz JC, Fukatsu T, Kaltenpoth M and Engl T (2021)
Inhibition of a nutritional endosymbiont by glyphosate abolishes mutualistic benefit on cuticle synthesis in Oryzaephilus surinamensis Communications Biology, 4:554 -
Nechitaylo TY, Sandoval-Calderón M, Engl T, Wielsch N, Dunn DM, Goesmann A, Strohm E, Svatoš A, Dale C, Weiss RB and Kaltenpoth M (2021)
Incipient genome erosion and metabolic streamlining for antibiotic production in a defensive symbiont PNAS, (17):e2023047118 -
Dose B, Niehs SP, Scherlach K, Sophie Shahda S, Flórez LV, Kaltenpoth M and Hertweck C (2021)
Biosynthesis of Sinapigladioside, an Antifungal Isothiocyanate from Burkholderia Symbionts ChemBioChem -
Kaltenpoth M (2021)
Vegetarier mit Helfern: Symbionten unterstützen Herbivorie bei Käfern Biologie in Unserer Zeit, 51(1):82–89 -
Reis F, Kirsch R, Pauchet Y, Bauer E, Bilz LC, Fukumori K, Fukatsu T, Kölsch G, Kaltenpoth M (2020)
Bacterial symbionts support larval sap feeding and adult folivory in (semi-)aquatic reed beetles Nat Commun, 11(1) -
Martinez AJ, Onchuru TO, Ingham CS (2020)
Angiosperm to Gymnosperm host-plant switch entails shifts in microbiota of the Welwitschia bug, Probergrothius angolensis (Distant, 1902) Mol Ecol., 28(23):5172-5187 -
Onchuru TO, Kaltenpoth M (2020)
Established cotton stainer gut bacterial mutualists evade regulation by host antimicrobial peptides Appl Environ Microbiol, 85(13) -
Onchuru TO, Kaltenpoth M (2020)
Quantitative PCR primer design affects quantification of dsRNA-mediated gene knockdown Ecol Evol, 9(14):8187-8192 -
Niehs SP, Kumpfmüller J, Dose B (2020)
Insect‐Associated Bacteria Assemble the Antifungal Butenolide Gladiofungin by Non‐Canonical Polyketide Chain Termination Angew Chemie Int Ed -
Kaltenpoth M (2020)
An endosymbiont’s journey through metamorphosis of its insect host Proc Natl Acad Sci, 117:20994–20996 -
Brückner A, Kaltenpoth M and Heethoff M (2020)
De novo biosynthesis of simple aromatic compounds by an arthropod (Archegozetes longisetosus) Proc R Soc B Biol Sci, 287:20201429 -
Semiatizki A, Weiss B, Bagim S, Rohkin-Shalom S, Kaltenpoth M, Chiel E (2020)
Effects, interactions, and localization of Rickettsia and Wolbachia in the house fly parasitoid, Spalangia endius Microb Ecol. -
Wu Y, Liu Q, Weiss B, Kaltenpoth M, Kadowaki T (2020)
Honey Bee Suppresses the Parasitic Mite Vitellogenin by Antimicrobial Peptide Front Microbiol, 11:1037 -
Bauer E, Kaltenpoth M, Salem H (2020)
Minimal fermentative metabolism fuels extracellular symbiont in a leaf beetle ISME J, 14(3):866-870 -
Lemoine MM, Engl T, Kaltenpoth M. (2020)
Microbial symbionts expanding or constraining abiotic niche space in insects Curr Opin Insect Sci., 39:14–20 -
Waterworth SC, Flórez L V, Rees ER, Hertweck C, Kaltenpoth M, Kwan JC (2020)
Horizontal Gene Transfer to a Defensive Symbiont with a Reduced Genome in a Multipartite Beetle Microbiome. MBio -
Kaltenpoth M, Flórez L V (2020)
Versatile and Dynamic Symbioses Between Insects and Burkholderia Bacteria Annu Rev Entomol., 65(1):145-170 -
Segers FHID, Kaltenpoth M, Foitzik S (2019)
Abdominal microbial communities in ants depend on colony membership rather than caste and are linked to colony productivity Ecol Evol, 23:13450-13467