Hannes Peter

The paper investigates how freshwater microbial communities influence viral inactivation, finding that specific bacterial taxa, rather than community diversity, drive differences in virus removal rates.

This study investigates genomic adaptations of Polaromonas bacteria across cryospheric habitats, revealing evolutionary transitions driven by horizontal gene transfer and genomic plasticity.

The paper isolates and characterizes novel phages from alpine stream biofilms, revealing their genetic diversity and ecological impact.

The paper investigates viral communities in proglacial streams, finding high host specificity and shared auxiliary metabolic genes among phages infecting microdiverse bacterial clades.

The paper benchmarks nucleic acid extraction protocols for microbial biofilms in glacier-fed streams, finding an adapted phenol-chloroform method yields better DNA quality and taxonomic profiles than commercial methods.