Participants


As part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), NFDI4Microbiota aims to advance microbiology research by providing access to providing access to data, analysis services, data/metadata standards, and training.

Participants are institutions or people that make important, ongoing contributions to NFDI4Microbiota. Unlike the main institutions that apply for the funding, participants do not help design the overall work plan and are not in charge of any specific part of it. However, their role is still essential to the consortium’s success.

NFDI4Microbiota Call for Participants 2025

The NFDI4Microbiota consortium invites institutions and individuals to join as participants for the second funding phase (2026-2031). The call is open until June 10, 2025.

Why Join?

Participants enjoy a range of exclusive benefits:

How to Contribute:

There are several ways participants can get involved in NFDI4Microbiota:

How to Apply:

If you or your institution would like to be part of NFDI4Microbiota’s second funding phase (2026-2031), please follow these steps:

  1. Review the NFDI4Microbiota proposal: Identify areas where your institution or working group can contribute. If needed, a bilateral discussion can help clarify potential tasks and points of collaboration.
  2. Submit a Letter of Commitment: Please provide a Letter of Commitment (LoC) from the responsible institution or department confirming your willingness to undertake the specified tasks based on this template ( docx, odt, rtf).
  3. Fill in the application form (optional): Complete the application form ( docx, odt, rtf), where you will define how your institution will contribute to NFDI4Microbiota work and identify specific tasks your institution will take on.
  4. Submit Documents: Send your signed Letter of Commitment and completed application form to the email address below by June 10, 2025.

We look forward to your participation and are excited to welcome you to the NFDI4Microbiota consortium. For any questions or further information, please contact us via email at contact@nfdi4microbiota.de until June 10, 2025.

Participating institution Contact person(s) Link for further information
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Prof. Dr. Julia Frunzke Bacterial Networks and Interactions, Priority Programme SPP 2330
Ulm University Prof. Dr. Anita Marchfelder Marchfelder laboratory: Investigation of the RNA metabolism in halophilic Archaea, Priority Programme SPP 2141
Kiel University Prof. Dr. Thomas Bosch Cell and Developmental Biology, Bosch group, Collaborative Research Center (CRC/SFB 1182)
Kiel University Prof. Dr. Ruth Schmitz-Streit Priority Programme SPP 2002
University of Marburg Prof. Dr. Stephan Becker AG Stephan Becker
Technical University of Munich Prof. Dr. Dirk Haller CRC 1371 - Microbiome Signatures
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute Prof. Dr. Axel A. Brakhage Infection Biology and Molecular Biotechnology, Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 124
Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Immune-Mediated Diseases Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Geisslinger Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Immune-Mediated Diseases
Essen University Hospital Prof. Dr. Folker Meyer Research group Data Science
University of Jena Prof. Dr. Kai Papenfort Chair of General Microbiology
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel Prof. Dr. Ute Hentschel Humeida Research Unit – Marine Symbioses
German Aerospace Center (DLR) tba Space Microbiology Research Group
Goethe University Frankfurt Prof. Dr. Jörg Soppa Department of Biology and Genetics of Procaryotes
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Prof. Dr. Alexander Dilthey Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Conatct
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam Dr. Alexander Bartholomäus Section 3.7: Geomicrobiology, Contact
Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) Prof. Dr. Jörg Vogel RNA Biology of Bacterial Infections
Helmholtz Munich - German Research Center for Environmental Health Prof. Dr. Michael Schloter Comparative Microbiome Analysis - COMI
Centre for Innovation Competence (ZIK) Septomics tba Centre for Innovation Competence (ZIK) Septomics
Jülich Research Centre Prof. Dr. Michael Bott Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG) – Biotechnology (IBG-1), Contact
University of Würzburg (JMU) Dr. Tom Beneke Cell function and organ development, Contact
University of Würzburg (JMU) Prof. Dr. Thomas Dandekar Department of Bioinformatics, Contact
University of Würzburg (JMU) Prof. Dr. Cynthia Sharma Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB) - ‘Deep Sequencing’ of pathogens
Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU Giessen) Prof. Dr. Linda Falgenhauer Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine - AG Genombasierte Surveillance und Epidemiologie
Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU Giessen) tba Institute of Medical Microbiology
Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU Giessen) Prof. Dr. John Ziebuhr Institute of Medical Virology - AG Ziebuhr
Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU Giessen) Prof. Dr. Gabriele Klug Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology tba Institute for Applied Biology (IAB)- Angewandte Biologie
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Prof. Dr. Anne-Kristin Kaster Institute for Biological Interfaces (IBG-5) Microbial Genetics & Bioinformatics
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI) Prof. Dr. Axel A. Brakhage Microbiome Dynamics
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gianni Panagiotou Department of Microbiome Dynamics
Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) Prof. Dr. Steve Hoffmann Computational and Systems Biology of Aging
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Grossart Aquatic microbial ecology
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Prof. Dr. Nicolai Siegel Biomedical Center Munich/Molecular Parasitology
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg tba RG Pharmacognosy
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Dr. Sofia Forslund Host-microbiome factors in cardiovascular disease
Hochschule Anhalt - University of Applied Sciences Dr. Dirk Benndorf Angewandte Biowissenschaften und Prozesstechnik
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Prof. Dr. Rudolf Amann Department of Molecular Ecology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Dr. Ruben Garrido-Oter Integrative Bioinformatics group
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg Prof. Dr. Achim Kaasch Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene
Robert Koch Institute (RKI) PD Dr. Mohamed Abdelbary Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
Ruhr-University Bochum Prof. Dr. Franz Narberhaus Microbial Biology
TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library Prof. Dr. Sören Auer & Dr. Irina Sens Data Science & Digital Libraries Research Group
TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences Prof. Dr. Jörn Stitz Research Group Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. Heinz Koeppl Centre for Synthetic Biology - Self-Organizing Systems Lab
Technical University of Munich tba ZIEL – Institute for Food & Health
University Hospital Cologne Prof. Dr. Maria J.G.T. Vehreschild Clinical Microbiome Research Group
University Hospital Erlangen Prof. Dr. Jochen Mattner Institute of Microbiology – Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, AG Prof. J. Mattner
University Hospital Frankfurt Prof. Dr. Maria J.G.T. Vehreschild Infectious Diseases
University of Cologne tba Institute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology
University of Greifswald Prof. Dr. Uwe Völker Department of Functional Genomics
University of Greifswald Prof. Dr. Uwe T. Bornscheuer Dept. of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis Institute of Biochemistry
University of Greifswald Prof. Dr. Dörte Becher & Prof. Dr. Tim Urich Institute for Microbiology
University of Hamburg Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit Microbiology & Biotechnology - Streit lab
Kiel University Mathieu Groussin Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB)
de.NBI e.V. Prof. Dr. Ursula Kummer de.NBI e.V.
Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften - ISAS - e.V. Prof. Dr. Robert Hayer Multidimensional Omics Data Analysis
University of Hohnheim Prof. Dr. Jana Seifert Department of Functional Microbiology of Livestock, Contact
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Dr. rer. nat Nico Jehmlich Microbiome Biology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Prof. Dr. Martin von Bergen Department of Molecular Toxicology
University of Tübingen Professor Dr. rer. nat. Sven Nahnsen Contact at Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC)