Publications 

Ramírez, G. A., Bar-Shalom, R., Furlan, A., Romeo, R., Gavagnin, M., Calabrese, G., . . . Steindler, L. (2023). Bacterial aerobic methane cycling by the marine sponge-associated microbiome. Microbiome, 11(1). doi:10.1186/s40168-023-01467-4

Burgsdorf, I., Sizikov, S., Squatrito, V., Steindler, L., Slaby, B., & Cerrano, C. et al. (2021). Lineage-specific energy and carbon metabolism of sponge symbionts and contributions to the host carbon pool. The ISME Journal. doi: 10.1038/s41396-021-01165-9 📜

Cerrano, C., Giovine, M., & Steindler, L. (2021). Petrosia ficiformis (Poiret, 1789): an excellent model for holobiont and biotechnological studies. Current Opinion In Biotechnology, 74, 61-65. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2021.10.022 📜

Roth Rosenberg, D., Haber, M., Goldford, J., Lalzar, M., Steindler, L., & Al‐Ashhab, A. et al. (2021). Particle‐associated and free‐living bacterial communities in an oligotrophic sea are affected by different environmental factors. Environmental Microbiology, 23(8), 4295-4308. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15611 

Hassanzadeh, B., Thomson, B., Deans, F., Wenley, J., Lockwood, S., & Steindler, L. et al. (2021). Microbial rhodopsins are increasingly favoured over chlorophyll in High Nutrient Low Chlorophyll waters. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 13(3), 401-406. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12948 

Haber M, Burgsdorf I, Handley KM, Rubin MR, Steindler L (2021) Genomic insights into the lifestyles of Thaumarchaeota inside sponges. Frontiers in Microbiology 11: 622824. DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.622824.

Sizikov S, Burgsdorf I, Handley KM, Lahyani M, Haber M, Steindler L (2020) Adaptations to symbiotic lifestyle in sponge-associated Verrucomicrobia comprises microcompartment-based sugar utilization and enhanced toxin-antitoxin defense. Environmental Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15210. 📜

Britstein M, Cerrano C, Burgsdorf I, Zoccarato L, Kenny NJ, Riesgo A, Lalzar M, Steindler L (2020) Sponge microbiome stability during environmental acquisition of highly specific photosymbionts. Environmental Microbiology, 22(8):3593-3607, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15165. 📜

Ishaque NM, Burgsdorf I, Malit JJL, Saha S, Teta R, Ewe D, Kannabiran K, Hrouzek P, Steindler L, Costantino V, Saurav S (2020) Isolation, genomic and metabolomic characterization of Streptomyces tendae VITAKN with quorum sensing inhibitory activity from Southern India. Microorganisms 8(1):121. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8010121. 

Saurav K, Borbone N, Burgsdorf I, Teta R, Caso A, Bar-Shalom R, Esposito G, Britstein M, Steindler L, Costantino V (2020) Identification of Quorum Sensing activators and inhibitors in the marine sponge Sarcotragus spinosulus. Marine Drugs 18(2):127. doi: 10.3390/md18020127

Burgsdorf I, Handley KM, Bar-Shalom R, Erwin PM, Steindler L (2019) Life at home and on the roam: Genomic adaptations reflect the dual lifestyle of an intracellular facultative symbiont. mSystems 4;(4).

Britstein M, Saurav K, Teta R, Sala GD, Bar-Shalom R, Stoppelli N, Zoccarato L, Costantino V, Steindler L (2018) Identification and chemical characterization of N-acyl homoserine lactone quorum sensing signals across sponge species and time. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(2). doi: 10.1093 

Duchet C, Moraru GM, Spencer M, Saurav K, Bertrand C, Fayolle S, Gershberg Hayoon A, Shapir R, Steindler L, Blaustein L (2018) Pesticide-mediated trophic cascade and an ecological trap for mosquitos. Ecosphere, 9(4), e02179.  

Dadon-Pilosof A, Conley KR, Jacobi Y, Haber M, Lombard F, Sutherland KR, Steindler L, Tikochinski Y, Richter M, Glöckner FO, Suzuki MT, West NJ, Genin A, Yahel G (2017) Surface properties of SAR11 bacteria facilitate grazing avoidance. Nature Microbiology, 2(12):1696. doi: 10.1038/s41564-017-0064-8 

Moitinho-Silva L, Nielsen S, Amir A, Gonzalez A, Ackermann GL, Cerrano C, Astudillo-Garcia C, Easson C, Sipkema D, Liu F, Steinert G, Kotoulas G, McCormack GP, Feng G, Bell JJ, Vicente J, Björk JR, Montoya JM, Olson JB, Reveillaud J, Steindler L, …, Thomas T (2017) The sponge microbiome project. GigaScience 6 (10), 1-7 

Costantino V, Della Sala G, Saurav K, Teta R, Bar-Shalom R, Mangoni A, Steindler L (2017) Plakofuranolactone as a quorum quenching agent from the Indonesian sponge Plakortis cf. lita. Marine Drugs 15, 59; doi: 10.3390/md15030059 

Saurav K, Costantino V, Venturi V, Steindler L (2017) Quorum sensing inhibitors from the Sea discovered using bacterial N-acyl homoserine lactone-based biosensors. Marine Drugs 15(3). pii: E53. doi: 10.3390/md15030053. Review. 

Dubinski V, Haber M, Burgsdorf I, Saurav K, Lehahn Y, Malik A, Sher D, Aharonovich D, Steindler L (2017) Metagenomic analysis reveals unusually high incidence of proteorhodopsin genes in the ultraoligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Environmental Microbiology 19(3), 1077-1090  📜

Thomas T, Moitinho-Silva L, Lurgi M, Björk JR, Easson C, Astudillo-Garc?a C, Olson J, Erwin P, Lopez-Legentil S, Luter H, Chaves-Fonnegra A, Costa R, Schupp P, Steindler L, Erpenbeck D, Gilbert J, Knight R, Ackermann G, Lopez J, Taylor M, Thacker RW, Montoya J, Hentschel Humeida U, and Webster N. (2016) Global Sponge Microbiome: Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of symbiont communities across the phylum Porifera. Nature Communications 16;7:11870. doi: 10.1038/ncomms11870 

Saurav K, Bar-Shalom R, Haber M, Burgsdorf I, Oliviero G, Costantino V, Morgenstern D, Steindler L (2016) In search of alternative antibiotic drugs: Quorum-quenching based anti-virulence potential in sponges and their bacterial isolates. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:416. doi: 10.3389. 

Saurav K, Teta R, Esposito G, Bar-Shalom R, Costantino V, Steindler L (2016) Isolation of marine Paracoccus sp. Ss63 from the sponge Sarcotragus sp. and characterization of its quorum-sensing chemical-signaling molecules by LC-MS/MS analysis. Israel Journal of Chemistry. doi: 10.1002/ijch.201600003 

Burgsdorf I, Slaby BM, Handley KM, Haber M, Blom J, Marshall CW, Gilbert JA,Hentschel, U, Steindler L (2015) Lifestyle evolution in cyanobacterial symbionts of sponges. MBio 6(3):e00391-15. Doi:10.1128/mBio.00391-15 

Britstein M, Devescovi G, Handley KM, Malik A, Haber M, Saurav K, Teta R, Costantino V, Burgsdorf I, Gilbert JA, Sher N, Venturi V and Steindler L. (2016) A new N-acyl homoserine lactone synthase in an uncultured symbiont of the Red Sea sponge Theonella swinhoei. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 82(4):1274-1285 

Zheng Q, Liu Y, Steindler L, Jiao N (2015) Pyrosequencing analysis of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacterial community structure in the oligotrophic western Pacific Ocean. FEMS Microbiology Letters 362(8). Pii: fnv034. Doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnv034 

Burgsdorf I, Erwin PM, López-Legentil S, Cerrano C, Haber M, Frenk S, Steindler L (2014) Biogeography rather than association with cyanobacteria structures symbiotic microbial communities in the marine sponge Petrosia ficiformis. Frontiers in Microbiology 10;5:529, doi: 10.3389 

Carini P, Steindler L, Beszteri S, Giovannoni SJ (2013) Nutrient requirements for growth of the extreme oligotroph 'Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique' HTCC1062 on a defined medium. The ISME Journal 7(3):592-602 

Sun J, Steindler L, Thrash JC, Halsey KH, Smith DP, Carter AE, Landry ZC, Giovannoni SJ (2011) One Carbon metabolism in SAR11 pelagic marine bacteria. PLoS ONE 6(8):e23973 

Steindler L, Schwalbach M, Smith DP, Chan F, Giovannoni SJ (2011) Energy starved Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique substitutes light-mediated ATP production for endogenous carbon respiration. PloS ONE 6(5):e19725