Dr. Katharina Kohm

Contact

Tel: 0711-459-22223
Fax: 0711-459-22238
Mail

Research interests

"I am interested in the biology of phages that infect the Gram-positive model bacterium Bacillus subtlis. In my PhD thesis, I was working on the lysis/lysogeny management system of the SPβ phage."

Education - professional experience

07/2024 - present, PostDoc, University of Hohenheim, Germany

01/2021 - 07/2024, PhD thesis, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, University of Hohenheim, Germany

06/2020 - 11/2020, Master thesis, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany

10/2018 - 04/2020, Master degree (M. Sc.), Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany

09/2014 - 02/2018, Bachelor degree (B. Sc.), University of Applied Science Biberach, Germany

Publications

Herdan S, Kohm K, Warneke R, Roth F, Görge N, Hoang TD, Schunke E, Häse C, Rappsilber J, Fritz G, Commichau FM, Gibhardt J, Steuber J (2026) The evolution of a sodium cation sensitive Vibrio cholerae mutant unmasks the moolighting activity of tha aminopeptidase PepA as a regulator of nhaB expression. biorxiv.org.

Kohm K (2025) Hitze als Schlüssel zur Aufklärung der Lysogenie beim SPβ-Phagen. Biospektrum. 31: 336.

Kohm K, v. Clanner A, Hertel R, Commichau FM (2025) Closely related and yet special - how SPβ phages control lysis-lysogeny decisions. Trends Microbiol. 33: 387-396.

Kohm K, Jalomo-Kharyova E, Krüger A, Basu S, Steinchen W, Bange G, Frunzke J, Hertel R, Commichau FM, Czech L (2023b) Structural and functional characterization of MrpR, the master repressor of the Bacillus subtilis prophage SPβ. Nucleic Acids Res. 51: 9452-9474.

Kohm K, Lutz VT, Friedrich I, Hertel R (2023a) CRISPR-Cas9 shaped viral metagenomes associated with Bacillus subtilis. Methods Mol Biol. 2555: 205-212.

Kohm K, Floccari VA, Lutz VT, Nordmann B, Mittelstädt C, Poehlein A, Dragos A, Commichau FM, Hertel R (2022) The Bacillus phage SPβ and its relatives: a temperate phage model system reveals new strains, species, prophage integration loci, conserved proteins and lysogeny management components. Environ Microbiol. 24: 2098-2118.

Kohm K Basu S Nawaz MM Hertel R (2021) Chances and limitations when uncovering essential and non-essential genes of Bacillus subtilis phages with CRISPR-Cas9. Environ Microbiol Rep. 13: 934-944.

Kohm K Hertel R (2021) The life cycle of SPβ and related phages. Arch Virol 166: 2119-2130.