Saini, MK*, Kuzyk, SB, Villena-Alemany, C, Kirstein, S, Wolf, J, Neumann-Schaal, M, Haruta, S, Hanada, S, Koblížek, M, Thiel, V*, Tank, M*, Bryant, DA: Chloracidobacterium validum sp. nov., a thermophilic chlorophotoheterotrophic bacterium of the phylum Acidobacteriota from an alkaline hot spring microbial mat, represents Chloracidobacterium gen. nov., Chloracidobacteriaceae fam. nov. and Chloracidobacteriales ord. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 76(1), 007003, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.007003

Santoro, M, Vanharanta, M, Villena-Alemany, C, Hassenrück, C, Hagemann, M, Grossart, HP, Piwosz, K, Spilling, K, Labrenz, M*: Impact of extreme weather events on pelagic cyanobacterial communities: an in situ mesocosm study in the Gulf of Finland. Journal of Marine Systems 253, 104174, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2025.104174

Gardiner, AT, Jin, Y, Bína, D, Joosten, M, Kaftan, D, Mujakić, I, Gardian, Z, Castro-Hartmann, P, Qian, P, Koblížek, M*: Two solutions for efficient light-harvesting in phototrophic Gemmatimonadota. mSystems, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01094-25

Zhang, M, Sanders, SE, Lüttig, J, Mueller, S, Gardiner, AT, Brixner, T, Ogilvie, JP*: Accounting for pulse shaper nonlinearity in action-detected two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. Optics Express 33(25), 52793-52814, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.580416

Spilling, K*, Vanharanta, M, Santoro, M, Villena-Alemany, C, Labrenz, M, Grossart, HP, Piwosz, K: Picophytoplankton act as the primary consumers of excess phosphorus after the spring bloom in the eutrophic Baltic Sea. Limnology and Oceanography 70(S2), S55-S68, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70027

Wiesneth, S, Recknagel, P, Gardiner, AT, Cogdell, RJ, Hildner, R, Köhler, J*: Fluorescence-Detected Wavepacket Interferometry Reveals Time-Varying Exciton Relaxation Pathways in Single Light-Harvesting Complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 147(44), 40537-40546, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c12416

Uragami, C, Mitani, K, Yukihira, N, Gardiner, AT, Cogdell, RJ, Hashimoto, H*: Photophysical consequences of spheroidene reconstitution in LH1 of Rsp. rubrum: improved energy transfer and altered photoprotection. Plant and Cell Physiology 66(11), 1750-1759, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcaf087

Chrupková, P, Hovan, A, Koblížek, M, Gardiner, AT, Polívka, T, Kloz, M*: Vibrational signature of 1¹B_u⁺ and hot 2¹A_g^- excited states of carotenoids revisited by femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 27(37), 20313-20325, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CP02711J

Villena-Alemany, C*, Tomaš, AV, Mujakić, I, Kopejtka, K, Šantić, D, Koblížek, M: Lineage-specific phototrophy and lifestyle of coastal marine aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs. Ocean Microbiology 1, 5, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44375-025-00005-x

Camara Manoel, JA, Štěrbová, K, Saini, MK, Bárcenas-Pérez, D, Cheel, J, Grivalský, T, Lakatos, GE, Lukeš, M, Urajová, P, Ferreira, A, Figueiredo, D, Gouveia, L, Masojídek, J, Saurav, K*: Microalgae-associated Stenotrophomonas maltophilia enhances lutein production and biostimulant activity in Monoraphidium sp. Algal Research 91, 104250, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2025.104250

Villamor, J, Ramos-Barbero, MD, Moreno-Paz, M, Villena Alemany, C, Martínez-García, M, Parro, V, Antón, J, Santos, F*: Novel viruses of Haloquadratum walsbyi expand the known archaeal virosphere of hypersaline environments. The ISME Journal 19(1), wraf149, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wraf149

Tomasch, J*, Bartling, P, Vollmers, J, Wöhlbrand, L, Jarek, M, Rohde, M, Brinkmann, H, Freese, HM, Rabus, R, Petersen, J*: Structural and regulatory determinants of flagellar motility in Rhodobacterales—the archetypal flagellum of Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395. mSystems 10(8), e0041925, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00419-25

Vatareck, E, Rick, T, Gomez, NO, Bandyopadhyay, A, Kramer, J, Strunin, D, Erdmann, J, Hartmann, O, Alpers, K, Boedeker, C, Steffen, A, Sieben, C, Zhao, G, Tomasch, J, Häussler, S*: Epigenetic cellular memory in Pseudomonas aeruginosa generates phenotypic variation in presponse to host environments. PNAS 122(27), e2415345122, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415345122

Das, I, Chazan, A, Church, JR, Larom, S, León, R, Gómez-Villegas, P, Bárcenas-Pérez, D, Cheel, J, Koblížek, M, Béja, O*, Schapiro, I*, Sheves, M*: Selective Choice of the Efficient Carotenoid Antenna by a Xanthorhodopsin: Controlling Factors for Binding and Excitation Energy Transfer. JACS Au 5(7), 3070-3081, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.4c01243

Tzlil, G, Marín, MD, Matsuzaki, Y, Nag, P, Itakura, S, Mizuno, Y, Murakoshi, S, Tanaka, T, Larom S, Konno, M, Abe-Yoshizumi, R, Molina-Márquez, A, Bárcenas-Pérez, D, Cheel, J, Koblížek, M, León, R, Katayama, K, Kandori, H, Schapiro, I, Shihoya, W*, Nureki, O*, Inoue, K*, Rozenberg, A*, Chazen, A*, Béja, O*: Structural insights into light harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea. Nature Microbiology 10, 1484-1500, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02016-5

Wang, W, Liu, Y, Gu, J, An, S, Ma, C, Gao, H, Jiao, N, Shen, J-R, Beatty, JT, Koblížek, M, Zhan, X*, Zheng, Q*, Chen, J-H*: Cryo-EM Analysis of a Tri-Heme Cytochrome-Associated RC-LH1 Complex from the Marine Photoheterotrophic Bacterium Dinoroseobacter Shibae. Advanced Science 12(18), 2413456, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202413456

Šantić, D*, Stojan, I, Vrdoljak Tomaš, A, Milić Roje, B, Mujakić, I, Villena-Alemany, C, Koblížek, M, Jozić, S, Šolić, M, Šestanović, S: Contribution of different bacterial groups in the carbon flow through the microbial food web. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 318, 109228, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109228

Delawská, K, Hájek, J, Voráčová, K, Kuzma, M, Mareš, J, Vicková, K, Kádek, A, Tučková, D, Gallob, F, Divoká, P, Moos, M, Opekar, S, Koch, L, Saurav, K, Sedlák, D, Novák, P, Urajová, P, Dean, J, Gažák, R, Niedermeyer, TJH, Kameník, Z, Šimek, P, Villunger, A, Hrouzek, P*: Discovery of nostatin A, an azole-containing proteusin with prominent cytostatic and pro-apoptotic activity. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 23(2), 449-460, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ob01395f

Uragami, C, Yoshida, M, Gardiner, AT, Cogdell, RJ, Hashimoto, H*: Excitation Energy Transfer Dynamics from Carotenoid to Bacteriochlorophyll a in the LH2 Complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: Insights from Reconstitution Experiments with Carotenoids and B800 Bacteriochlorophyll a. Molecules 30(4), 814, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30040814

Javed, A, Lüttig, J, Charvátová, K, Sanders, SE, Willow, R, Zhang, M, Gardiner, AT, Malý, P*, Ogilvie, JP*: Photosynthetic Energy Transfer: Missing in Action (Detected Spectroscopy)? Journal of Chemistry Letters 15(50), 12376-12386, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02665