Akos Kovács
Hoogleraar Microbiome Ecology
- Naam
- Prof.dr. A.T. Kovács
- Telefoon
- +31 71 527 4384
- a.t.kovacs@biology.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4465-1636
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Hoogleraar Microbiome Ecology
- Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen
- Instituut Biologie Leiden
- IBL Microbial Sciences
- Jensen C.N.G., Pang J.K.Y., Hahn C.M., Gottardi M., Husted S., Moelbak L., Kovács Á.T., Fimognari L. & Schulz A. (2024), Differential influence of Bacillus subtilis strains on Arabidopsis root architecture through common and distinct plant hormonal pathways, Plant Science 339: 111936.
- Kovács Á.T. (2024), Plant cell wall component induced bacterial development, Trends in Microbiology 32(1): P1-3.
- Xu X. & Kovács A.T. (2024), How to identify and quantify the members of the Bacillus genus?, Environmental Microbiology 26(2): e16593.
- Lyng M., Jørgensen J.P.B., Schostag M.D., Jarmusch S.A., Aguilar D.K.C., Lozano-Andrade C.N. & Kovács A.T. (2024), Competition for iron shapes metabolic antagonism between Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas marginalis, The ISME Journal 18(1): wrad001.
- Lyng M. & Kovács Á.T. (2023), Frenemies of the soil: Bacillus and Pseudomonas interspecies interactions, Trends in Microbiology 31(8): 845-857.
- Kovács Á.T. (2023), Colony morphotype diversification as a signature of bacterial evolution, microLife 4: uqad041.
- Sartor F., Xu X., Popp T., Dodd A.N., Kovács Á.T. & Merrow M. (2023), The circadian clock of the bacterium B. subtilis evokes properties of complex, multicellular circadian systems, Science Advances 9(31): eadh1308.
- Kovács Á.T. (2023), Diversification during cross-kingdom microbial experimental evolution, The ISME Journal 17: 1355-1357.
- Gallegos‐Monterrosa R. & Kovács Á.T. (2023), Phenotypic plasticity: the role of a phosphatase family Rap in the genetic regulation of Bacilli, Molecular Microbiology 120(1): 20-31.
- Hu G., Wang Y., Blake C., Nordgaard M., Liu X., Wang B. & Kovács Á.T. (2023), Parallel genetic adaptation of Bacillus subtilis to different plant species, Microbial Genomics 9(7): 001064.
- Danevčič T., Spacapan M., Dragoš A., Kovács Á.T. & Mandic-Mulec I. (2023), DegQ is an important policing link between quorum sensing and regulated adaptative traits in Bacillus subtilis, Microbiology Spectrum 11(5): e00908.
- Hu G., Wang Y., Liu X., Strube M.L., Wang B. & Kovács Á.T. (2023), Species and condition shape the mutational spectrum in experimentally evolved biofilms, mSystems 8(5): e00548-23.
- Lozano-Andrade C.N., Nogueira C.G., Henriksen N.N.S.E., Wibowo M., Jarmusch S.A. & Kovács Á.T. (2023), Establishment of a transparent soil system to study Bacillus subtilis chemical ecology, ISME Communications 3: 110.
- Kovács Á.T. (2023), Plant–microbe interactions: plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa, Current Biology 33(15): R825-R827.
- Xu X., Nielsen L.J.D., Song L., Maróti G., Strube M.L. & Kovács Á.T. (2023), Enhanced specificity of Bacillus metataxonomics using a tuf-targeted amplicon sequencing approach, ISME Communications 3(1): 126.
- Nordgaard M., Blake C., Maróti G, Hu G., Wang Y., Strube M.L. & Kovács Á.T. (2022), Experimental evolution of Bacillus subtilis on Arabidopsis thaliana roots reveals fast adaptation and improved root colonization, iScience 25(6): 104406.
- Jautzus T., Gestel J. van & Kovács Á.T. (2022), Complex extracellular biology drives surface competition during colony expansion in Bacillus subtilis, The ISME Journal 16(10): 2320-2328.
- Lin Y., Briandet R. & Kovács Á.T. (2022), Bacillus cereus sensu lato biofilm formation and its ecological importance, Biofilm 4: 100070.
- Lin Y., Xu X., Maróti G., Strube M.L. & Kovács Á.T. (2022), Adaptation and phenotypic diversification of Bacillus thuringiensis biofilm are accompanied by fuzzy spreader morphotypes, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 8(1): 27.
- Sartor F. Kovács Á.T. (2022), Rhythmic spatial self-organization of bacterial colonies, mBio 13(4): e01703-22.
- Kjeldgaard B., Neves A.R., Fonseca C., Kovács Á.T. & Domínguez-Cuevas P. (2022), Quantitative high-throughput screening methods designed for identification of bacterial biocontrol strains with antifungal properties, Microbiology Spectrum 10(2): e01433-21.
- Jakab Á., Kovács F., Balla N., Tóth Z., Ragyák Á., Sajtos Z., Csillag K., Nagy-Köteles C., Nemes D., Bácskay I., Pócsi I., Majoros L., Kovács Á.T. & Kovács R. (2022), Physiological and transcriptional profiling of surfactin exerted antifungal effect against Candida albicans, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 152: 113220.
- Lyng M. & Kovács Á.T. (2022), Microbial ecology: metabolic heterogeneity and the division of labor in multicellular structures, Current Biology 32(34): R771-R774.
- Sun X., Xu Z., Xie J., Hesselberg-Thomsen V., Tan T., Zheng D., Strube M.L., Dragoš A., Shen Q., Zhang R. & Kovács Á.T. (2022), Bacillus velezensis stimulates resident rhizosphere Pseudomonas stutzeri for plant health through metabolic interactions, The ISME Journal 16(3): 774-787.
- Kovács Á.T. & Stanley-Wall N.R. (2021), Biofilm dispersal for spore release in Bacillus subtilis, Journal of Bacteriology 203(14): e00192.
- Kiesewalter H.T., Lozano-Andrade C.N., Wibowo M., Strube M.L., Maróti G., Snyder D., Jørgensen T.S., Larsen T.O., Cooper V.S., Weber T. & Kovács Á.T. (2021), Genomic and chemical diversity of Bacillus subtilis secondary metabolites against plant pathogenic fungi, mSystems 6(1): e00770.
- Nordgaard M., Mortensen R.M.R., Kirk N.K., Gallegos‐Monterrosa R. & Kovács Á.T. (2021), Deletion of Rap‐Phr systems in Bacillus subtilis influences in vitro biofilm formation and plant root colonization, MicrobiologyOpen 10(3): e1212.
- Lin Y., Alstrup M., Pang J.K.Y., Maróti G., Er-Rafik M., Tourasse N., Økstad O.A. & Kovács Á.T. (2021), Adaptation of Bacillus thuringiensis to plant colonization affects differentiation and toxicity, mSystems 6(5): e00864.
- Blake C., Christensen M.N. & Kovács Á.T. (2021), Molecular aspects of plant growth promotion and protection by Bacillus subtilis, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 34(1): 15-25.
- Steinke K., Mohite O.S., Weber T. & Kovács Á.T. (2021), Phylogenetic distribution of secondary metabolites in the Bacillus subtilis species complex, mSystems 6(2): e00057.
- Arnaouteli S., Bamford N.C., Stanley-Wall N.R. & Kovács Á.T. (2021), Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation and social interactions, Nature Reviews Microbiology 19(9): 600-614.
- Dragos A., Andersen A.J.C., Lozano-Andrade C.N., Kempen P.J., Kovács A.T. & Strube M.L. (2021), Phages carry interbacterial weapons encoded by biosynthetic gene clusters, Current Biology 31(16): 3479-3489.
- Gallegos-Monterrosa R., Christensen M.N., Barchewitz T., Koppenhöfer S., Priyadarshini B., Bálint B., Maróti G., Kempen P.J., Dragoš A. & Kovács Á.T. (2021), Impact of Rap-Phr system abundance on adaptation of Bacillus subtilis, Communications Biology 4(1): 468.
- Blake C., Nordgaard M., Maróti G. & Kovács Á.T. (2021), Diversification of Bacillus subtilis during experimental evolution on Arabidopsis thaliana and the complementarity in root colonization of evolved subpopulations, Environmental Microbiology 23(10): 6122-6136.
- Lozano-Andrade C.N., Strube M.L. & Kovács Á.T. (2021), Complete genome sequences of four soil-derived isolates for studying synthetic bacterial community assembly, Microbiology Resource Announcements 10(46): e00848.
- Hartmann R., Jeckel H., Jelli E., Singh P.K., Vaidya S., Bayer M., Rode D.K.H., Vidakovic L., Díaz-Pascual F., Fong J.C.N., Dragoš A., Lamprecht O., Thöming J.G., Netter N., Häussler S., Nadell C.D., Sourjik V., Kovács Á.T., Yildiz F.H. & Drescher K. (2021), Quantitative image analysis of microbial communities with BiofilmQ, Nature Microbiology 6(2): 151-156.
- Dragoš A., Priyadarshini B., Hasan Z., Strube M.L., Kempen P.J., Maróti G., Kaspar C., Bose B., Burton B.M., Bischofs I.B. & Kovács Á.T. (2021), Pervasive prophage recombination occurs during evolution of spore-forming Bacilli, The ISME Journal 15(5): 1344-1358.
- Eelderink-Chen Z., Bosman J., Sartor F., Dodd A.N., Kovács Á.T. & Merrow M. (2021), A circadian clock in a nonphotosynthetic prokaryote, Science Advances 7(2): eabe2086.
- Thérien M., Kiesewalter H.T., Auria E., Charron-Lamoureux V., Wibowo M., Maróti G., Kovács A.T. & Beauregard P.B. (2020), Surfactin production is not essential for pellicle and root-associated biofilm development of Bacillus subtilis, Biofilm 2: 100021.
- Garde R., Ewald J., Kovács A.T. & Schuster S. (2020), Modelling population dynamics in a unicellular social organism community using a minimal model and evolutionary game theory, Open Biology 10(11): 200206.
- Falcón García C., Kretschmer M., Lozano-Andrade C.N., Schönleitner M., Dragoŝ A., Kovács A.T. & Lieleg O. (2020), Metal ions weaken the hydrophobicity and antibiotic resistance of Bacillus subtilis NCIB 3610 biofilms, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 6: 1.
- Kiesewalter H.T., Lozano-Andrade C.N., Maróti G., Snyder D., Cooper V.S., Jørgensen T.S., Weber T. & Kovács A.T. (2020), Complete genome sequences of 13 Bacillus subtilis soil isolates for studying secondary metabolite diversity, Microbiology Resource Announcements 9(2): e01406-19.
- Garde R., Ibrahim B., Kovács A.T. & Schuster S. (2020), Differential equation-based minimal model describing metabolic oscillations in Bacillus subtilis biofilms, Royal Society Open Science 7(2): 190810.
- Martin M., Dragoš A., Otto S.B., Schäfer D., Brix S., Maróti G. & Kovács A.T. (2020), Cheaters shape the evolution of phenotypic heterogeneity in Bacillus subtilis biofilms, The ISME Journal 14(9): 2302-2312.
- Otto S.B., Martin M., Schäfer D., Hartmann R., Drescher K., Brix S., Dragoš A. & Kovács A.T. (2020), Privatization of biofilm matrix in structurally heterogeneous biofilms, mSystems 5(4): e00425-20.
- Kovács A.T. (2020), A fungal scent from the cheese, Environmental Microbiology 22(11): 4524-4526.
- Kiesewalter H.T., Lozano-Andrade C.N., Strube M.L. & Kovács A.T. (2020), Secondary metabolites of Bacillus subtilis impact the assembly of soil-derived semisynthetic bacterial communities, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 16: 2983-2998.
- Wagner K., Krause K., Gallegos-Monterrosa R., Sammer D., Kovács A.T. & Kothe E. (2019), The ectomycorrhizospheric habitat of Norway Spruce and Tricholoma vaccinum: promotion of plant growth and fitness by a rich microorganismic community, Frontiers in Microbiology 10: 307.
- Kovács A.T. & Dragoš A. (2019), Evolved biofilm: review on the experimental evolution studies of Bacillus subtilis pellicles, Journal of Molecular Biology/JMB Online 431(23): 4749-4759.
- Sartor F., Eelderink-Chen Z., Aronson B., Bosman J., Hibbert L.E., Dodd A.N., Kovács A.T. & Merrow M. (2019), Are there circadian clocks in non-photosynthetic bacteria?, Biology 8(2): 41.
- Devi S., Kiesewalter H.T., Kovács R., Frisvad J.C., Weber T., Larsen T.O., Kovács A.T. & Ding L. (2019), Depiction of secondary metabolites and antifungal activity of Bacillus velezensis DTU001, Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology 4(3): 142-149.
- Kovács A.T. (2019), Bacillus subtilis, Trends in Microbiology 27(8): 724-725.
- López-Goñi I., Giner-Lamia J., Álvarez-Ordoñez A., Benitez-Páez A., Claessen D., Cortesao M., de Toro M., García-Ruano D., Granato E.., Kovács A.T., Romalde J.L., Sana T.G., Sánchez-Angulo M., Sangari F.J., Smits W.K., Sturm T., Thomassin J.L., Valdehuesa K.N.G. & Zapotoczna M. (2019), #EUROmicroMOOC: using Twitter to share trends in microbiology worldwide, FEMS Microbiology Letters 366(11): fnz141.
- Kjeldgaard B., Listian S.A., Ramaswamhi V., Richter A., Kiesewalter H.T. & Kovács A.T. (2019), Fungal hyphae colonization by Bacillus subtilis relies on biofilm matrix components, Biofilm 1: 100007.
- Raie D., Mhatre E., El-Desouki D., Labena A., El-Ghannam G., Farahat L., Youssef T., Fritzsche W. & Kovács A.T. (2018), Effect of novel quercetin titanium dioxide-decorated multi-walled carbon nanotubes nanocomposite on Bacillus subtilis biofilm development, Materials 11(1): 157.
- Dragoš A., Kiesewalter H., Martin M., Hsu C.Y., Hartmann R., Wechsler T., Eriksen C., Brix S., Drescher K., Stanley-Wall N., Kümmerli R. & Kovács A.T. (2018), Division of labor during biofilm matrix production, Current Biology 28(12): 1903-1913.
- Dragoš A., Martin M., Falcón García C., Kricks L., Pausch P., Heimerl T., Bálint B., Maróti G., Bange G., López D., Lieleg O. & Kovács A.T. (2018), Collapse of genetic division of labour and evolution of autonomy in pellicle biofilms, Nature Microbiology 3: 1451-1460.
- Dragoš A., Lakshmanan N., Martin M., Horváth B., Maróti G., Falcón García C., Lieleg O. & Kovács A.T. (2018), Evolution of exploitative interactions during diversification in Bacillus subtilis biofilms, FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94(1): fix155.
- Tauber J.P., Gallegos-Monterrosa R., Kovács A.T., Shelest E. & Hoffmeister D. (2018), Dissimilar pigment regulation in Serpula lacrymans and Paxillus involutus during inter-kingdom interactions, Microbiology 164(1): 65-77.
- Richter A., Hölscher T., Pausch P., Sehrt T., Brockhaus F., Bange G. & Kovács A.T. (2018), Hampered motility promotes the evolution of wrinkly phenotype in Bacillus subtilis, BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 155.
- Hölscher T., Schiklang T., Dragoš A., Dietel A.K., Kost C. & Kovács A.T. (2017), Impaired competence in flagellar mutants of Bacillus subtilis is connected to the regulatory network governed by DegU, Environmental Microbiology Reports 10(1): 23-32.
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