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[MH] Dr Matthias Horn: Parachlamydia;
Chlamydial research methods: In
situ
hybridization
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Matthias Horn is post doc in the Microbial Ecology
Group of Michael Wagner at the Technische Universität München (TUM),
Department for Microbiology. He graduated in Microbiology at the TUM in
1998, where he
met Thomas R. Fritsche (from the University of Washington, Seattle), who
spent his sabbatical leave in Munich and who brought along numerous Acanthamoeba
isolates. Matthias started to analyse the bacterial endosymbionts of these
amoebae and after some time received his PhD for these studies. His
background being mainly molecular microbial ecology, and the evolution,
phylogeny, and taxonomy of prokaryotes, He became interested in one
special group of bacterial endosymbionts of amoebae: the chlamydia-like
symbionts, today known as Parachlamydia and Neochlamydia, or
(more generally) as environmental chlamydia. The biology of these
organisms, their possible clinical significance, and their role in the
evolution of chlamydiae pathogenic for humans is the main focus of his
current work.
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