Publications – Mobile Laboratories

A mobile optical coherence microscope for studying aquatic organisms in- and outside the laboratory.

Wang L, Davis S, Quilitz T, Beavis T, Bonadonna M, Lamprousi M, Montanari R, Ruperti F, Stokkermans A, Wiegand T, Witte VA, Gil Ortiz A, Dorrity M, Siemens J, Musser J, Arendt D, Leisch N, Vincent F, Ikmi A, Prevedel R

bioRxiv, 2026

doi:10.64898/2026.07.27.740915.

An Advanced Mobile Laboratory to enable field-based microbial ecology and cell biology across scales.

Leisch N, Baars S, Beavis T, Bertucci P, Bhickta C, Bonadonna M, Brannon C, Burgués-Palau L, Cherek P, Chevalier F, Decelle J, Demulder M, Dey G, Dudin O, Duke E, Engel B, Flaum E, Flori S, Gallet B, Guichard P, Halavatyi A, Hamel V, Jacobovitz M, Juery C, Laporte M, Mattei S, Mikus F, Mocaer K, Moog K, Olivetta M, Pavie M, Pepperkok R, Perez-Boerema A, Planat L, Prakash M, Pyle E, Rhodes C, Romero-Brey I, Ronchi P, Rosa H, Ramos AR, Saint-Donat C, Schwab Y, Shah H, Steyer A, Svetlove A, Toullec G, Vincent F, Wiegand T, Wietrzynski W, Yee D, Zwahlen S

bioRxiv, 2026

doi:10.64898/2026.02.23.707475.

Charting the landscape of cytoskeletal diversity in microbial eukaryotes.

Mikus F, Rubio Ramos A, Shah H, Hellgoth J, Olivetta M, Borgers S, Saint-Donat C, Araújo M, Bhickta C, Cherek P, Bilbao J, Txurruka E, Eglit Y, Leisch N, Schwab Y, Husnik F, Seoane S, Probert I, Guichard P, Hamel V, Dey G, Dudin O

Cell, 2025

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2025.09.027.

An intranuclear bacterial parasite of deep-sea mussels expresses apoptosis inhibitors acquired from its host.

Porras MÁG, Assié A, Tietjen M, Violette M, Kleiner M, Gruber-Vodicka H, Dubilier N, Leisch N

Nature microbiology, 2024

doi:10.1038/s41564-024-01808-5.

Revision of the genus Robbea (Stilbonematinae: Desmodoridae), worldwide abundant marine nematodes with chromophoric Fe–Br inclusions and the description of a new stilbonematine genus.

Scharhauser F, Saavedra DEM, Pröts P, Ott JA, Geier B, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Polikarpov M, Bourenkov G, Leisch N

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024

doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae005.

Wooden steps to shallow depths: A new bathymodiolin mussel, Vadumodiolus teredinicola, inhabits shipworm burrows in an ancient submarine forest.

Altamia MA, Appiah-Madson HJ, Falco-Poulin R, Huettel B, Rubin-Blum M, Dubilier N, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Leisch N, Distel DL

Deep-sea research. Part I, Oceanographic research papers, 2024

doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2023.104220.