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Assoz. Prof. Maria Filipa Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, PhD
T: +43-1-4277-76524
https://archaea.univie.ac.at/research/filipa-sousa-lab/
Winter term 2025
262005 VO Introduction to Computational Biology and Drug Discovery
262006 UE Introduction to Computational Biology and Drug Discovery - Exercises
300108 UE Genome analysis for Ecologists
300119 SE Functional Ecology - Masterseminar MEC-9 / Alternatives Masterseminar MBO 7
300122 VO Biology and Evolution of Archaea - Archaea evolution, genetics, cell biology, ecology and biotechnology
300186 PP Forschungspraktikum Ökologie
300207 UE Lab rotation I
300208 UE Lab rotation II
300236 VO Prokaryotic evolution and diversity
300371 SE New concepts in archaeal and bacterial biology
300449 SE Literature seminar on biodiversity and ecosystems
301487 PS Proseminar Microbial Ecology
301848 UE Scientific Practice in Molecular Microbiology, Ecology or Immunobiology
Summer term 2025
300119 SE Evolutionary Ecology - Masterseminar MEC-9
300207 UE Lab rotation I
300208 UE Lab rotation II
300449 SE Literature seminar on biodiversity and ecosystems
301848 UE Scientific Practice in Molecular Microbiology, Ecology or Immunobiology
550004 VU Functional Genomics for PhD students - State-of-the-art computational techniques in the field of computational genomics applied to ecology and evolution
Winter term 2024
262005 VO Introduction to Computational Biology and Drug Discovery
262006 UE Introduction to Computational Biology and Drug Discovery - Exercises
300108 UE Genome analysis for Ecologists
300119 SE Functional Ecology - Masterseminar MEC-9
300122 VO Biology and Evolution of Archaea - Archaea evolution, genetics, cell biology, ecology and biotechnology
300207 UE Lab rotation I
300208 UE Lab rotation II
300236 VO Prokaryotic evolution and diversity
300371 SE New concepts in archaeal and bacterial biology
300378 UE Introduction to biodiversity and ecosystem research
300449 SE Literature seminar on biodiversity and ecosystems
301487 PS Proseminar Microbial Ecology
301849 UE Scientific Practice in Molecular Microbiology, Ecology or Immunobiology
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Padalko A, Karavaeva V, Zamarreno Beas J, Neukirchen S, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF. Bioenergetics evolution: the link between Earth's and Life's history. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 2025 Aug 7;380(1931):20240102. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0102
Beas JZ, Folgosa F, Karavaeva V, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF, Saraiva LM. A novel type of hemoglobin confers host-derived nitric oxide resistance to the opportunistic pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii. Scientific Reports. 2025 Feb 18;15:5969. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-88123-z
Modjewski LD, Karavaeva V, Mrnjavac N, Knopp M, Martin WF, L. Sousa F, (ed.). Evidence for corrin biosynthesis in the last universal common ancestor. The FEBS Journal. 2025 Feb;292(4):827-850. doi: 10.1111/febs.17367
Barbosa ACC, Venceslau SS, Ferreira D, Neukirchen S, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF, Melo MN et al. Characterization of DsrD and its interaction with the DsrAB dissimilatory sulfite reductase. Protein Science. 2024 Dec;33(12):e5222. Epub 2024 Nov 16. doi: 10.1002/pro.5222
Karavaeva V, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF. Navigating the archaeal frontier: insights and projections from bioinformatic pipelines. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2024 Sept 23;15:1433224. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1433224
Padalko A, Nair G, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF. Fusion/fission protein family identification in Archaea. mSystems. 2024 Jun 18;9(6):e0094823. Epub 2024 May 3. doi: 10.1128/msystems.00948-23
Neukirchen S, Pereira IAC, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF. Stepwise pathway for early evolutionary assembly of dissimilatory sulfite and sulfate reduction. The ISME Journal. 2023 Oct;17(10):1680-1692. Epub 2023 Jul 19. doi: 10.1038/s41396-023-01477-y
Zamarreño Beas J, Videira MAM, Karavaeva V, Lourenco FM, Almeida MR, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF et al. In Campylobacter jejuni, a new type of chaperone receives heme from ferrochelatase. Frontiers in Genetics. 2023 Jun 21;14(1199357):1199357. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1199357
Karavaeva V, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF. Modular structure of complex II: An evolutionary perspective. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics. 2023 Jan 1;1864(1):148916. 148916. Epub 2022 Sept 6. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2022.148916
Neukirchen S, L. Sousa F. DiSCo: predicting the type of dissimilatory sulfur metabolism in microbial data. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics. 2022 Sept;1863:74-75. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2022.148813
Wimmer JLE, Xavier JC, Vieira ADN, Pereira DPH, Leidner J, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF et al. Energy at Origins: Favorable Thermodynamics of Biosynthetic Reactions in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). Frontiers in Microbiology. 2021 Dec 13;12:793664. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.793664
Neukirchen S, Sousa FL. DiSCo: a sequence-based type-specific predictor of Dsr-dependent dissimilatory sulphur metabolism in microbial data. Microbial genomics. 2021 Jul;7(7):000603. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000603
Kauppila H, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF, Neukirchen S. Luca as art Finnland-Institut Berlin. 2021.
Chernyh NA, Neukirchen S, Frolov EN, Sousa FL, Miroshnichenko ML, Merkel AY et al. Dissimilatory sulfate reduction in the archaeon ‘Candidatus Vulcanisaeta moutnovskia’ sheds light on the evolution of sulfur metabolism. Nature Microbiology. 2020 Aug 17;5:1428–1438. doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-0776-z
Preiner M, Asche S, Becker S, Betts HC, Boniface A, Camprubi E et al. The Future of Origin of Life Research: Bridging Decades-Old Divisions. Life. 2020 Feb 26;10(3):20. doi: 10.3390/life10030020
Schleper C, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF. Meet the relatives of our cellular ancestor: News and views. Nature. 2020 Jan 15;577(7791):478-479. doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-00039-y
Manoharan L, Kozlowski JA, Murdoch RW, Löffler FE, Sousa FL, Schleper C. Metagenomes from Coastal Marine Sediments Give Insights into the Ecological Role and Cellular Features of Loki- and Thorarchaeota. mBio. 2019 Sept 10;10(5):e02039-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02039-19
Wu HY, Nöllenburg M, Sousa FL, Viola I. Metabopolis: scalable network layout for biological pathway diagrams in urban map style. BMC Bioinformatics. 2019 Apr 15;20:187. doi: 10.1186/s12859-019-2779-4
Degli Esposti M, Mentel M, Martin W, Sousa FL. Oxygen Reductases in Alphaproteobacterial Genomes: Physiological Evolution From Low to High Oxygen Environments. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2019 Mar 18;10:499. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00499
Däuble W, Baltazar de Lima de Sousa MF. Wie der Stoffwechsel in der Ursuppe entstand. Die Presse. 2019 Jan 23.
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My career - a 99% improvisation story

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker)

27 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Life: 4 billion years changing (with) Earth

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker)

21 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

The link between Earth and life histories

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker)

12 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Modular structure of life - a (C)ool story…

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker)

26 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

No enzyme (or pathway) is an island: metals, prosthetic groups and coenzymes

Karavaeva, V. (Contributor), Neukirchen, S. (Contributor), Padalko, A. (Contributor), Zamarreno Beas, J. (Contributor) & Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker)

28 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Evolution of heme biosynthesis in prokaryotes

Karavaeva, V. (Speaker) & Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Contributor)

27 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Evolution of physiology: from elements to life

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Invited speaker)

10 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Automatic detection and type classification of dissimilatory sulfite reductases across archaea and bacteria

Neukirchen, S. (Speaker), Cardoso Pereira, I. A. (Contributor) & Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Contributor)

4 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Stepwise pathway for early evolutionary assembly of dissimilatory sulfite and sulfate reduction

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker), Cardoso Pereira, I. A. (Contributor) & Neukirchen, S. (Contributor)

4 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Reimagining Vienna - microbes in the past and future

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Invited speaker)

30 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Retracing the modular evolution of Life by exploring extant genomes

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker)

20 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Modular structure of Life

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Invited speaker)

22 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Complex cytoskeleton and cell architecture in an Asgard archaeon

Rodrigues de Oliveira, T. (Speaker), Wollweber, F. (Contributor), Ponce Toledo, R. I. (Contributor), Xu, J. (Contributor), Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Contributor), Rittmann, S.K.-M. R. (Contributor), Klingl, A. (Contributor), Pilhofer, M. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

2 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Rediscovering Methanogenesis via the evolution of its coenzymes’ Biosynthesis

Padalko, A. (Speaker) & Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Contributor)

2 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Diversity and distribution of Moco-complexes within prokaryotes

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker)

28 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

A targeted approach to functional analysis of nitrogen and carbon cycling in microbial communities

Hilts, A. (Speaker), Siljanen, H. M. P. (Contributor), Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

3 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Evolution of dsr-dependent sulfate reduction in Archaea

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker), Chernyh, N. A. (Contributor), Neukirchen, S. (Contributor), Frolov, E. N. (Contributor), Miroshnichenko, M. L. (Contributor), Merkel, A. Y. (Contributor), Pimenov, N. V. (Contributor), Sorokin, D. Y. (Contributor), Ciordia, S. (Contributor), Mena, M. A. (Contributor), Ferrer, M. (Contributor), Golyshin, P. N. (Contributor), Lebedinsky, A. V. (Contributor), Cardoso Pereira, I. A. (Contributor) & Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A. (Contributor)

29 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Life: 4 billion years changing (with) Earth

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Invited speaker)

7 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Bioinformatics of Metalloproteins

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker)

18 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Science Talk 2019

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker)

12 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Evolution of Physiology

Sousa, F. L. (Invited speaker)

15 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Round Table – Academia versus Industry

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Invited speaker)

Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Dissimilatory sulfur metabolism – automatic detection and physiological phenotype prediction in prokaryotes

Neukirchen, S. (Speaker) & Sousa, F. L. (Contributor)

23 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Interdisciplinary Origin of Life (IOoL) Meeting for PhD students and postdocs

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, F. (Invited speaker)

22 Oct 2018 → 24 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Early evolution and diversity of Life

L Sousa, F. (Keynote speaker)

24 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Bioenergetics and evolution from genomes

L Sousa, F. (Invited speaker)

19 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Automatic detection of dissimilatory sulfur metabolism in prokaryotes

Neukirchen, S. (Speaker), Pereira, I. A. C. (Contributor), Martin, W. F. (Contributor) & Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Contributor)

3 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Sulfur metabolism in Archaea

L. Sousa, F. (Speaker)

18 Apr 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Archaea strain collection

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Invited speaker)

Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Microbial physiology and evolution from genomic data.

Sousa, F. L. (Speaker)

22 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Archaea Metabolic Diversity: A Genomic Perspective

Sousa, F. L. (Speaker)

24 Jul 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Let’s talk about evolution

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker)

24 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Bioenergetic evolution

Baltazar de Lima de Sousa, M. F. (Speaker)

29 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Functional and Evolutionary Ecology

Djerassiplatz 1 (UBB)
1030 Wien
Room: 3.042

T: +43-1-4277-76524

filipa.sousa@univie.ac.at