Imke Schmitt

The paper examines antimicrobial repertoires in lichen-forming fungi, finding conserved baseline capacity with lineage-specific variation and reduced antimicrobial systems in cyanolichens.

The paper examines transcriptional differences in fungal and algal lichen symbionts from high- and low-elevation sites, revealing site-specific gene expression patterns related to climate adaptation.

The paper examines gene content variation in lichenized fungi across elevation gradients, finding a linear decline in protein kinase gene abundance with elevation.

This study mines lichen-forming fungal genomes to identify novel biosynthetic genes, finding 43 potentially novel gene clusters encoding structurally and functionally unknown natural products.

The paper identifies the biosynthetic gene cluster for gyrophoric acid in lichen-forming fungi using long-read sequencing and bioinformatics.

The paper identifies transposable elements in the genome of a lichen-forming fungus and examines their distribution across elevation gradients in different climate zones.

This study identifies a gene cluster and FAS responsible for depside and depsidone biosynthesis in lichenized fungi through comparative genomics and metatranscriptomics.

The paper assembles the holo-genome of the lichen Umbilicaria pustulata using metagenomic data, revealing genome structures and abundance ratios of its symbiotic components.