Research interest:

• Evolution
• Ecology
• Genomics
• Parasitology

Jarquín-Díaz VH, Balard A, Jost J, Kraft J, Dikmen MN, Kvičerová J, Heitlinger E
Detection and quantification of house mouse Eimeria at the species level – challenges and solutions for the assessment of Coccidia in wildlife.
IJP: Parsites and Wildlife
doi: 10.1101/636662

Norus Ahmed, Nicole Affinass, Emanuel Heitlinger, Anja A. Kühl, Natasa Xenophontos, Victor H. Jarquin, Jenny Jost, Svenja Steinfelder, Susanne Hartmann (2019)
A novel non-invasive method to detect RELM beta transcript in gut barrier related changes during a gastrointestinal nematode infection.
Front. Immunol.10:445
doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00445

Ehret T, Spork S, Dieterich C, Lucius R, Heitlinger E (2017): Dual RNA-seq reveals no plastic transcriptional response of the coccidian parasite Eimeria falciformis to host immune defenses.; BMC Genomics.18(1):686.
doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-4095-6.; PMID: 28870168; PMCID: PMC5584376

Heitlinger E*, Ferreira SCM*, Thierer D, Hofer H, East ML (2017)
The Intestinal Eukaryotic and Bacterial Biome of Spotted Hyenas: The Impact of Social Status and Age on Diversity and Composition; Front Cell Infect Microbiol.; 7: 262.
doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00262, PMCID: PMC5472691
*equal contribution