Publications

Sophie Tröger-Görler, Raghav Vij, Sascha Schäuble, Maira Rosin, Henrik Schweder, Peter Hortschansky, Volker Schroeckh, Amelia E Barber, Olaf Kniemeyer, Sascha Brunke, Gianni Panagiotou, Bernhard Hube, Axel A Brakhage (2026). The fungal transcription factor SmpR coordinates secondary metabolism and antibacterial defence in Aspergillus fumigatus during interspecies interaction. bioRxiv.

Phillip JT Brassington, Maria Laura Fabre, Anna Zimmermann, Lea M Krämer, Maríon Perrier, Annika Schöninger, Ronny Martin, Oliver Kurzai, Amelia E Barber (2026). Comparative pan-genomics reveals extensive variation in secondary metabolism and the non-coding repertoire of clinically-relevant Fusarium solani species complex members. bioRxiv.

Adam Ryan, Sean A Bergin, Jillian Scully, Evelyn Zuniga-Soto, Conor Hession, Amelia E Barber, Emilia Gómez-Molero, Oliver Bader, Florent Morio, Bing Zhai, Kenneth H Wolfe, Geraldine Butler (2025). Small pangenome of Candida parapsilosis reflects overall low intraspecific diversity. mBio.

E Anne Hatmaker, Amelia E Barber, Milton D Drott, Thomas JC Sauters, Adiyantara Gumilang, Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo, Dea Garcia-Hermoso, Justin L Eagan, Nancy P Keller, Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis, Oliver Kurzai, Antonis Rokas (2025). Population structure in a fungal human pathogen is potentially linked to pathogenicity. Nature Communications.

Marina Campos Rocha, Vanda Lerer, John Adeoye, Hilla Hayby, Maria Laura Fabre, Amelia E Barber, Neta Shlezinger (2025). Aspergillus dsRNA virus drives fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host. Nature Microbiology.

Amelia E Barber (2025). mSphere of Influence: Population-level thinking to unravel microbial pathogenicity. mSphere.

Phillip JT Brassington, Frank-Rainer Klefisch, Barbara Graf, Roland Pfüller, Oliver Kurzai, Grit Walther, Amelia E Barber (2024). Genomic reconstruction of an azole-resistant Candida parapsilosis outbreak and the creation of a multilocus sequence typing scheme: a retrospective observational and genomic epidemiology study. The Lancet Microbe.

Slavica Janevska, Sophie Weiser, Ying Huang, Jun Lin, Sandra Hoefgen, Katarina Jojić, Amelia E Barber, Tim Schäfer, Janis Fricke, Dirk Hoffmeister, Lars Regenstein, Vito Valiante, Johann E Kufs (2024). Optimized psilocybin production in tryptophan catabolism-repressed fungi. Microbial Biotechnology.

Holger Bieroff, Amelia E Barber, Matthew G Blango (2024). RNA: DNA triplexes: a mechanism for epigenetic communication between hosts and microbes?. mBio.

Maríon Perrier, Amelia E Barber (2024). Unraveling the genomic diversity and virulence of human fungal pathogens through pangenomics. PLoS Pathogens.

Daniel Loos, Ailton Pereira da Costa Filho, Bas E Dutilh, Amelia E Barber, Gianni Panagiotou (2024). A global survey of host, aquatic, and soil microbiomes reveals shared abundance and genomic features between bacterial and fungal generalists. Cell Reports.

Amelia E Barber (2024). Breaking the mould: rethinking ‘wild type’ in fungal pathogens. Nature Reviews Microbiology.

Mohammad H Mirhakkak, Xiuqiang Chen, Yueqiong Ni, Thorsten Heinekamp, Tongta Sae-Ong, Lin-Lin Xu, Oliver Kurzai, Amelia E Barber, Axel A Brakhage, Sebastien Boutin, Sascha Schaeuble, Gianni Panagiotou (2023). Genome-scale metabolic modeling of Aspergillus fumigatus strains reveals growth dependencies on the lung microbiome. Nature Communications.

Abdulrahman A Kelani, Alexander Bruch, Flora Rivieccio, Corissa Visser, Thomas Krüger, Danielle Weaver, Xiaoqing Pan, Sascha Schaeuble, Gianni Panagiotou, Olaf Kniemeyer, Michael J Bromley, Paul Bowyer, Amelia E Barber, Axel A Brakhage, Matthew G Blango (2023). Disruption of the Aspergillus fumigatus RNA interference machinery alters the conidial transcriptome. RNA.

Brittany A Fleming, Matthew G Blango, Alexis A Rousek, William M Kincannon, Alexander Tran, Adam J Lewis, Colin W. Russell, Qin Zhou, Lisa M Baird, Amelia E Barber, John R Brannon, Connor J Beebout, Vahe Bandarian, Maria Hadjifrangiskou, Michael T Howard, Matthew A Mulvey (2022). A tRNA modifying enzyme as a tunable regulatory nexus for bacterial stress responses and virulence. Nucleic Acids Research.

Amelia E Barber, Tongta Sae-Ong, Kang Kang, Bastian Seelbinder, Jun Li, Grit Walther, Gianni Panagiotou, Oliver Kurzai (2021). Aspergillus fumigatus pan-genome analysis identifies genetic variants associated with human infection. Nature Microbiology.

Amelia E Barber, Jennifer Riedel, Tongta Sae-Ong, Kang Kang, Werner Brabetz, Holger B Deising, Oliver Kurzai (2020). Effects of agricultural fungicide use on Aspergillus fumigatus abundance, antifungal susceptibility, and population structure. mBio.

Amelia E Barber, Sandra Scheufen, Grit Walther, Oliver Kurzai, Volker Schmidt (2020). Low rate of azole resistance in cases of avian aspergillosis in Germany. Medical Mycology.

Amelia E Barber, Michael Weber, Kerstin Kaerger, Jorg Linde, Hanna Golz, Daniel Duerschmied, Antonie Markert, Reinhard Guthke, Grit Walther, Oliver Kurzai (2019). Comparative genomics of serial Candida glabrata isolates and the rapid acquisition of echinocandin resistance during therapy. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Axel Hamprecht, Amelia E Barber, Sibylle C Mellinghoff, Philipp Thelen, Grit Walther, Yanying Yu, Priya Neurgaonkar, Thomas Dandekar, Oliver A Cornely, Ronny Martin, others (2019). Candida auris in Germany and previous exposure to foreign healthcare. Emerging Infectious Diseases.