Melina Kerou, PhD
Winter term 2025
300122 VO Biology and Evolution of Archaea - Archaea evolution, genetics, cell biology, ecology and biotechnology
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Kerou M, Eloy Alves RJ, Schleper C. Class Nitrososphaeria. In Whitman PWB, editor, Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley Online Library. 2016 doi: 10.1002/9781118960608.cbm00055

Kerou M, Schleper C. Family Nitrososphaeraceae. In Whitman PWB, editor, Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley Online Library. 2016 doi: 10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00265

Kerou M, Schleper C. Genus Nitrososphaera. In Whitman WB, editor, Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley Online Library. 2016. p. 1-10 doi: 10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01294

Kerou M, Offre P, Valledor L, Abby SS, Melcher M, Nagler M et al. Proteomics and comparative genomics of Nitrososphaera viennensis reveal the core genome and adaptations of archaeal ammonia oxidizers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2016 Dec 6;113(49):E7937-E7946. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1601212113

Jung MY, Kim JG, Sinninghe Damsté JS, Rijpstra WIC, Madsen EL, Kim SJ et al. A hydrophobic ammonia-oxidizing archaeon of the Nitrosocosmicus clade isolated from coal tar-contaminated sediment. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 2016 Dec;8(6):983-992. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12477


Offre P, Kerou M, Spang A, Schleper C. Variability of the transporter gene complement in ammonia-oxidizing archaea. Trends in Microbiology. 2014 Dec;22(12):665-675. Epub 2014 Aug 26. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.07.007

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What can we do to make labs more sustainable?

Kerou, M. (Speaker)

24 Feb 2026

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Promoting Sustainability in the Life Sciences

Kerou, M. (Invited speaker)

9 Feb 202610 Feb 2026

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Investigation of the contribution of host-associated and environment microbiomes to the mercury detoxification strategies of two caiman species in French Guiana

Scarpa, M. (Speaker), Kerou, M. (Contributor), Mangione, R. (Contributor), Luo, Z.-H. (Contributor) & Lemaire, J. (Contributor)

1 Aug 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Biological Nitrification Inhibition Workshop Panel Discussion

Schleper, C. (Speaker) & Kerou, M. (Speaker)

27 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Sustainable lab practices: focusing on single-use plastics

Kerou, M. (Speaker)

8 Apr 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Sustainability in Life Science Research: Can we do things differently?

Kerou, M. (Invited speaker)

27 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The biofilm lifestyle of ammonia-oxidizing archaea: An understudied mode of growth and activity

Pribasnig, T. (Speaker), Dreer, M. J. (Contributor), Hodgskiss, L. (Contributor), Kerou, M. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

16 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How to transform: Social and Ecological Responsibility of Life Science Universities (LSUs)

Kerou, M. (Speaker) & Weber, P. (Speaker)

3 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The stress of ecological success: Key events during the radiation of ammonia-oxidizing archaea into moderate environments

Kerou, M. (Speaker)

27 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The stress of ecological success: Key events during the radiation of ammonia-oxidizing archaea into moderate environments

Kerou, M. (Speaker)

26 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Sustainable European Labs Network

Kerou, M. (Speaker)

22 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Global players in the Nitrogen Cycle: Evolution and Ecology of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea in Soils

Kerou, M. (Speaker)

29 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Probe Capture and Nitrogen Related Genes in the Environment

Kerou, M. (Speaker)

11 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Green Labs Austria: We can do things differently

Kerou, M. (Speaker) & Weber, P. (Speaker)

25 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Compelling cellular reactions of Saccharolobus solfataricus upon deleti on of a type III CRISPR-Cas system

Wimmer, E. (Speaker), Zink, I. A. (Contributor), Kerou, M. (Contributor), Hodgskiss, L. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

19 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Limitation of Inorganic Carbon in the Soil Ammonia Oxidizing Archaeon, Nitrososphaera viennensis

Hodgskiss, L. (Speaker), Kerou, M. (Contributor), Nägele, T. (Contributor), Weckwerth, W. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

29 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reconstruction of the common ancestor of thaumarchaeota

Kerou, M. (Invited speaker)

1 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ancestral reconstructions help decipher the origins of ammonia-oxidizing archaea

Abby, S. (Speaker), Kerou, M. (Contributor), Melcher, M. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

5 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The stress of ecological success: how ammonia-oxidizing archaea radiated into moderate environments

Kerou, M. (Speaker)

5 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The stress of ecological success: how ammonia-oxidizing archaea radiated into moderate environments

Kerou, M. (Speaker), Abby, S. (Contributor) & Schleper, C. (Contributor)

3 Sept 20185 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CRISPR-mediated RNA interference in the hyperthermophile Sulfolobus

Kerou, M. (Speaker)

30 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The core proteome of ammonia oxidizing Thaumarchaeota and adaptations of the terrestrial clade

Kerou, M. (Speaker)

1 Aug 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Functional and Evolutionary Ecology

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1030 Wien
Room: 3.032

melina.kerou@univie.ac.at