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Natacha Bodenhausen

Activity areas

  • Microbiome
  • Mycorrhiza
  • Plant-microbe interactions
  • Data analysis
  • Biofertilizers

Projects

StatusFiBLTitleStartEnd
ongoing CH Encapsulation of bacterial-fungal consortia for agricultural applications (ENHANCE) 01.01.2025 31.12.2028
ongoing CH Mycorrhiza Implementation Network for Sustainable Agricultural Production 01.04.2024 31.03.2026
ongoing CH Predicting success of inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi 01.01.2023 31.12.2024
ongoing CH Vitiforestry – a sustainable strategy for viticulture to cope with climate change? 01.01.2023 31.07.2027
ongoing CH Root2Res: Root phenotyping and genetic improvement for rotational crops resilient to environmental change (EU Root2Res) 01.09.2022 31.08.2027
completed CH Predicting microbial communities 01.01.2022 31.12.2022
ongoing CH Organic conservation agriculture: weed management and soil quality (Adventisol) 01.01.2022 31.12.2025
completed CH Microbiome Lighthouse Project 01.01.2022 31.12.2023
completed CH Statistical basics and data visualisation with the programme R (DatVis) 01.09.2021 31.08.2023
ongoing CH Network of farms committed to the non-use of phytosanitary treatments for seeds (Res0sem) 01.07.2021 31.12.2029
ongoing CH Microbiome Theme Coordination 01.04.2021 31.12.2024
completed CH Plant microbiome recruitment for superior agricultural systems (AGRIBIOME) 01.04.2020 31.03.2024
completed CH Microbial nitrogen cycling and functional diversity of soil microbes in organic and conventional farming systems under temperate and tropical climates 01.01.2019 30.06.2022
completed CH Microbiome diagnostics for a sustainable agriculture (Gebert Rüf Microbiome) 01.03.2018 28.02.2021
completed CH Solutions for improving Agroecosystem and Crop Efficiency for water and nutrient use (SolACE) 01.05.2017 30.09.2022
completed CH ReMIX - Redesigning European cropping systems based on species MIXtures (ReMIX) 01.05.2017 30.04.2021
completed CH Managing soil biodiversity and ecosystem services in agroecosystems across Europe under climate change (SOILCLIM) 01.01.2017 31.12.2019

Training / professional career

  • 2019 Master of Science UZH in Biostatistics, University of Zurich
  • Since 2017 Scientific collaborator at FiBL Switzerland
  • 2015 - 2017 Postdoc at Agroscope (Plant-soil interactions with Klaus Schlaeppi and Prof. Marcel van der Heijden)
  • 2010 - 2014 Postdoc at ETH, funded with Marie Heim-Vögtlin grant (Phyllosphere Microbiology with Prof. Julia Vorholt)
  • 2007 - 2009 Postdoc at the University of Chicago, funded with Early Postdoc fellowship from SNSF (Plant Microbiome with Prof. Joy Bergelson)
  • 2002 - 2007 PhD student at the University of Lausanne (Plant-insect interactions, with Prof. Philippe Reymond)
  • 1997 - 2002 Biology studies at the University of Lausanne

Committee work / further activities

  • Member of the Editorial Board of European Journal of Soil Biology
  • Member of the Swiss Society of Microbiology

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

  • Vogel, C., Bodenhausen, N., Gruissem, W., & Vorholt, J. A. (2016). The Arabidopsis leaf transcriptome reveals distinct but also overlapping responses to colonization by phyllosphere commensals and pathogen infection with impact on plant health. New Phytologist 212 (1), 192-207
  • Guyer, A., De Vrieze, M., Bönisch, D., Gloor, R., Musa, T., Bodenhausen, N., Bailly, A. and Weisskopf, L. (2015). The Anti-Phytophthora Effect of Selected Potato-Associated Pseudomonas Strains: From the Laboratory to the Field. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6.
  • Horton, M. W., Bodenhausen, N., Beilsmith, K., Meng, D., Muegge, B. D., Subramanian, S., Vetter, M. M., Vilhjalmsson, B. J., Nordborg, M., Gordon, J. I., Bergelson, J. (2014). Genome-wide association study of Arabidopsis thaliana leaf microbial community. Nature Communications, 5, 1–7.
  • Bodenhausen, N., Bortfeld-Miller, M., Ackermann, M., Vorholt J.A.  A synthetic community approach reveals plant genotypes affecting the phyllosphere microbiota. (2014). PLoS Genetics, 10 (4), e1004283.
  • Stopnisek, N., Bodenhausen, N., Frey, B., Fierer, N., Eberl L., Weisskopf, L. Genus-wide acid tolerance accounts for the biogeographical distribution of soil Burkholderia populations. (2014). Environmental Microbiology. 16 (6), 1503-1512.
  • Falk, K.L., Kästner, J., Bodenhausen, N., Schramm, K., Paetz, C., Vassão, D.G., Reichelt, M., von Knorre, D., Bergelson, J., Erb, M., Gershenzon J., and Meldau S. The role of glucosinolates and the jasmonic acid pathway in resistance of Arabidopsis thaliana against molluskan herbivores. (2014) Molecular Ecology. 23, 1188–1203
  • Bodenhausen, N., Horton, M., and J. Bergelson. Bacterial communities associated with the leaves and the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. (2013) PLoS ONE 8(2): e56329.
  • Schweizer, F., Bodenhausen, N., Lassueur, S., Masclaux, F.G., Reymond, P. Differential contribution of transcription factors to Arabidopsis thaliana defence against Spodoptera littoralis. (2013) Frontiers in Plant Science 4:13.
  • Brankatschk, R., Bodenhausen, N., Zeyer, J. and Burgmann, H. (2012) Simple absolute quantification method correcting for quantitative PCR efficiency variations for microbial community samples. Appl Environ Microbiol, 78, 4481-4489.
  • Consales, F., Schweizer, F., Erb, M., Gouhier-Darimont, C., Bodenhausen, N., Bruessow, F., Sobhy, I., and Reymond, P. (2012). Insect oral secretions suppress wound-induced responses in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany 63, 727-737.
  • Horton, M., Bodenhausen, N., and Bergelson, J. (2010). MARTA: a suite of Java-based tools for assigning taxonomic status to DNA sequences. Bioinformatics 26, 568-569.
  • Barrett, L.G., Kniskern, J.M., Bodenhausen, N., Zhang, W., and Bergelson, J. (2009). Continua of specificity and virulence in plant host–pathogen interactions: causes and consequences. New Phytologist 183, 513-529.
  • Schlaeppi, K. *, Bodenhausen, N. *, Buchala, A., Mauch, F., and Reymond, P. (2008). The glutathione-deficient mutant pad2-1 accumulates less glucosinolates and is more susceptible to the insect herbivore Spodoptera littoralis. Plant Journal 55, 774-786.  * Equal contribution
  • Van Oosten, V.R., Bodenhausen, N., Reymond, P., Van Loon, L.C., Dicke, M., and Pieterse, C.M.J. (2008). Effectiveness of microbially induced resistance against herbivorous insects in Arabidopsis. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 21: 919-930.
  • Bodenhausen, N., and Reymond, P. (2007). Signaling pathways controlling induced resistance to insect herbivores in Arabidopsis. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 20, 1406-1420.
  • Reymond, P., Bodenhausen, N., Van Poecke, R.M., Krishnamurthy, V., Dicke, M., and Farmer, E.E. (2004). A conserved transcript pattern in response to a specialist and a generalist herbivore. Plant Cell 16, 3132-3147.