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Professor Thomas BOSCH
Kiel University, Zoological Institute

Thomas Bosch is a biologist specialising in evolution and development.

His research explores complex interactions in meta-organisms within a simple model system, the hydra (Cnidaria). Cnidarians represent a key transition in the evolution of animal complexity. It is therefore essential to study them in order to understand the origin of developmental mechanisms, as well as their role in more complex organisms, including humans, and also to understand the impact of environmental factors, such as microbial interactions, on host performance.

Professor Bosch is a Principal Investigator and member of the steering committee of the Collaborative Research Centre “Origin and Function of Metaorganisms”, an interdisciplinary network involving around 80 researchers that investigates the interactions of specific microbial communities with multicellular host organisms. It is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and deals with the question of how plants and animals including humans form functional units (metaorganisms) together with highly specific communities of microbes. The aim of the CRC 1182 is to understand why and how microbial communities enter into these long-term connections with their host organisms and what functional consequences these interactions have. The CRC 1182 brings together scientists from five faculties of Kiel University, the GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, the Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie Plön, the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education and the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design.

https://www.bosch-lab.de  |  https://www.metaorganism-research.com