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

Kohm K, v. Clanner A, Hertel R, Commichau FM (2024) Closely related and yet special - how SPβ phages control lysis-lysogeny decisions. Trends Microbiol. In press.

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.