Prof. Dr. Christian Rinke
University Professor of Environmental Microbiology
Head of the Environmental OMICS (E-OMICS) Working Group
Institute of Microbiology
Technikerstr. 25d
A-6020 Innsbruck
Microbiology Working Group 2 (AG2), Viktor-Franz-Hess Haus, Ground Floor, Room 0/219
Phone: +43 512 507 51248
Email: Christian.Rinke@uibk.ac.at

Research areas
- Use of “omics” techniques to investigate the role of microorganisms
- Solving the plastic waste crisis through microbial plastic degradation
- Nutrient cycling and pollution removal in marine and limnic systems
- Promoting crop growth in alpine agriculture
- Virus predation in aquatic habitats
Projects
CEDRIC: Creating a sustainable cross-border agricultural ecosystem through root microbiome biodiversity
Courses
Publications
Liste aller Publikationen
Publikationen 2026
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
- Parks, Donovan H; Chaumeil, Pierre-Alain; Mussig, Aaron J; Rinke, Christian; Chuvochina, Maria; Hugenholtz, Philip (Early View): GTDB release 10: a complete and systematic taxonomy for 715 230 bacterial and 17 245 archaeal genomes.
In: Nucleic Acids Research. (DOI) (Weblink)
Publikationen 2025
Herausgeberschaften
Sammelband / Sammelwerk, wissenschaftlich (Herausgeberschaft)
- Rinke, Christian; Džunková, Mária (2025): Single-Cell Omics in Microbiome Research. Exploring Microbial Diversity Across Ecosystems. Dordrecht - Heidelberg - London - New York - Berlin: Springer (= The Microbiomes of Humans, Animals, Plants, and the Environment, 7). ISBN 978-3-032-07526-0. (DOI) (Weblink)
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
- Dutkiewicz, Zuzanna; Singleton, Caitlin M.; Sereika, Mantas; Villada, Juan C; Mussig, Aaron J.; Chuvochina, Maria; Albertsen, Mads; Schulz, Frederik; Woyke, Tanja; Nielsen, Per H; Hugenholtz, Philip; Rinke, Christian (2025): Proposal of Patescibacterium danicum gen. nov., sp. nov. in the ubiquitous bacterial phylum Patescibacteriota phyl. nov.
In: ISME Communications 5/1, No. ycae147. (DOI) (Weblink) - Huang, Wen-Cong; Probst, Maraike; Hua, Zheng-Shuang; Szánthó, Lénárd L; Szöllősi, Gergely J; Ettema, Thijs J G; Rinke, Christian; Williams, Tom A; Spang, Anja (2025): Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia.
In: Molecular Biology and Evolution 42/9, Nr. msaf201. (DOI) (Weblink) - Krupovic, Mart; Baquero, Diana P.; Bignon, Eduardo A.; Bize, Ariane; Borrel, Guillaume; Cai, Mingwei; Chen, Lanming; Coves, Marion; Duan, Changhai; Gribaldo, Simonetta; Koonin, Eugene V.; Li, Meng; Liu, Lirui; Liu, Yang; Liu, Ying; Medvedeva, Sofia; Ni, Yimin; Prabhu, Apoorva; Rinke, Christian; Wang, Yongjie; Xu, Tianqi; Yan, Shuling; Zeng, Qinglu; Zhang, Rui; Taxonomy Summary Consortium, ICTV (2025): Summary of taxonomy changes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee, 2025.
In: JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY 106/7, Nr. 002114. (DOI) (Weblink) - Prabhu, A; Zaugg, J; Chan, C. X.; McIlroy, S. J.; Rinke, C (2025): Insights Into Phylogeny, Diversity and Functional Potential of Poseidoniales Viruses.
In: Environmental Microbiology 27/1, No. e70017. (Volltext) (DOI) (Weblink) - Sun, Jiarui; Hirai, Miho; Takaki, Yoshihiro; Evans, Paul N.; Nunoura, Takuro; Rinke, Christian (2025): Metagenomic insights into taxonomic and functional patterns in shallow coastal and deep subseafloor sediments in the Western Pacific.
In: Microbial Genomics 11/3, No. 001351. (DOI) (Weblink)
Sammelbandaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
- Rinke, C (2025): A Hitchhikers Guide to Microbial Single-Cell Omics.
In: Rinke, Christian; Džunková, Mária: Single-Cell Omics in Microbiome Research. Exploring Microbial Diversity Across Ecosystems. Dordrecht - Heidelberg - London - New York - Berlin: Springer (= The Microbiomes of Humans, Animals, Plants, and the Environment, 7)., ISBN 978-3-032-07526-0, S. 1 - 6. (DOI) (Weblink)
Publikationen 2024
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
- Apoorva, Prabhu; Tule, Sanjana; Chuvochina, Maria; Mikael, Bodén; McIlroy, Simon J; Zaugg, Julian; Rinke, Christian (2024): Machine learning and metagenomics identifies uncharacterized taxa inferred to drive biogeochemical cycles in a subtropical hypereutrophic estuary.
In: ISME Communications 4/1, Nr. ycae067. (DOI) (Weblink) - Lu, Fan; Xu, Bu; Chen, Songze; Liu, Yang; Li, Fuyan; Xie, Wei; Prabhu, Apoorva; Dayu, Zou; Wan, Ru; Li, Hongliang; Liu, Yuhang; Kao, Shuh-Ji; Chen, Jianfang; Zhu, Yuanqing; Rinke, Christian; Li, M; Zhu, M; Zhang, C (2024): Gene inversion led to the emergence of brackish archaeal heterotrophs in the aftermath of the Cryogenian Snowball Earth.
In: PNAS Nexus 3/2, Nr. pgae057. (DOI) (Weblink) - Mussig, Aaron J; Chaumeil, Pierre-Alain; Chuvochina, Maria; Rinke, Christian; Parks, Donovan H; Hugenholtz, Philip (2024): Putative genome contamination has minimal impact on the GTDB taxonomy.
In: Microbial Genomics 10/5, Nr. 001256. (DOI) (Weblink) - Tamarit, Daniel; Köstlbacher, Stephan; Kathryn E, Appler; Kassiani, Panagiotou; De Anda, Valerie; Rinke, Christian; Baker, Brett J; Ettema, Thijs J.G. (2024): Description of Asgardarchaeum abyssi gen. nov. spec. nov., a novel species within the class Asgardarchaeia and phylum Asgardarchaeota in accordance with the SeqCode.
In: Systematic and Applied Microbiology 47/4, Nr. 126525. (DOI) (Weblink)


