University Assistant, Department of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, AT Working group: Prof. Susanne Zeilinger Topic: Molecular cell biology of Trichoderma atroviride mycoparasitism
2012 – 2015
Project Assistant, Institute of Chemical Engineering, University of Technology Vienna, Austria Working group: Prof. Christian P. Kubicek Topic: Molecular cell biology of Trichoderma reesei cellulose metabolism
2011
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Microbiology, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, MX Working group: Prof. Ernestina Castro-Longoria Topic: Functions of the polarisome in tip growth of Neurospora crassa
2006 – 2010
PhD Student, Institute of Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh, UK Working group: Prof. Nick D. Read Topic: Cell communication and cell-cell fusion in Neurospora crassa
2004 – 2006
Research Assistant, Institute of Biophysics, University of Technology Dresden, DE Working group: Prof. Petra Schwille Topic: Fluorescence-Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy in planta
1998 – 2004
BSc/MSc Student, Faculty of Biology, University of Technology Aachen (RWTH-Aachen), DE Majors: Plant Physiology, Immunobiology, Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering
Forschungsgebiete
Molekulare Zellbiologie filamentöser Pilze
Mikrobielle Interaktionen und Zell-Zell-Kommunikation
Mykoparasitismus und Biokontrolle
(Hemi-)Zellulasestoffwechsel und Genregulation
Zellpolarisation und gerichtetes Wachstum
Zell-Zellfusion (Selbst- und nicht-Selbsterkennung)
Atanasova L, Gruber S‡, Lichius A.‡, Radebner T, Abendstein L, Münsterkötter M, Stralis-Pavese N, Łabaj PP, Kreil DP, Zeilinger S. 2018 The Gpr1-regulated Sur7 family protein Sfp2 is required for hyphal growth and cell wall stability in the mycoparasite Trichoderma atroviride. Scientific Reports. 8(1). Nature
Weichert, M., Lichius, A., Priegnitz, B.E., Brandt, U., Gottschalk, J., Nawrath, T., Groenhagen, U., Read, N.D., Schulz, S. and Fleißner, A. 2016. Accumulation of specific sterol precursors targets a MPK kinase cascade mediating cell-cell recognition and fusion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 113(42):11877-11882. PNAS
Lichius, A.‡, F. Bidard‡, F. Buchholz, S. Le Crom, J. Martin ,W. Schackwitz, T. Austerlitz, I.V. Grigoriev, S.E. Baker, A. Margeot, B. Seiboth and C. P. Kubicek. 2015. Genome sequencing of the Trichoderma reesei QM9136 mutant identifies a truncation of the transcriptional regulator XYR1 as the cause for its cellulase negative phenotype. BMC Genomics 16:326. BMC Genomics
Lichius, A. ‡,*, A. Gorjachev, M.D. Fricker, B. Obara, E. Castro-Longoria and N.D. Read*. 2014. CDC-42 and RAC-1 regulate opposite chemotropism in Neurospora crassa.Journal of Cell Science 127:1953-1965. JCS
