Dr. N. (Nina) Dombrowski
- Science Park 904
- Room number: C4.204
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Postbus 94240
1090 GE Amsterdam
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Introduction
My name is Nina Dombrowski, and I am the bioinformatician at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED).
My role involves supporting scientists, postdocs, and PhDs at IBED in analyzing their bioinformatic data. I am also developing new workflows that can benefit the research community. I have experience in metagenomics, phylogenomics, amplicon data analysis, and I've also delved into metatranscriptomics in the past.
If you are curious about my past projects, feel also free to visit my personal website.
Past Work
I studied Biology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and afterwards did my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. During this time, I investigated microbial communities interacting with plant roots and became interested in using computation approaches, such as amplicon sequence analysis, to address biological questions.
To understand more about hard to cultivate microbes I did a Postdoc at the University of Texas, Marine Science Institute. There I used metagenomics to study archaea in hydrothermal vent sediments. Afterwards, I moved to the Netherlands to pursue a postdoc at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). During this time I used phylogenomics to study symbiotic archaea.
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Publications
2024
Hamm, J. N., Liao, Y., von Kügelgen, A., Dombrowski, N., Landers, E., Brownlee, C., Johansson, E. M. V., Whan, R. M., Baker, M. A. B., Baum, B., Bharat, T. A. M., Duggin, I. G., Spang, A., & Cavicchioli, R. (2024). The parasitic lifestyle of an archaeal symbiont. Nature Communications, 15, Article 6449. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49962-y [details]- Moody, E. R. R., Álvarez-Carretero, S., Mahendrarajah, T. A., Clark, J. W., Betts, H. C., Dombrowski, N., Szánthó, L. L., Boyle, R. A., Daines, S., Chen, X., Lane, N., Yang, Z., Shields, G. A., Szöllősi, G. J., Spang, A., Pisani, D., Williams, T. A., Lenton, T. M., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2024). The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8(9), 1654-1666. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02461-1 [details]
- van Duijnhoven, H. J., Dombrowski, N., Kuperus, P., Aires, T., Coelho, M. A. G., Silva, J., Muyzer, G., & Engelen, A. H. (2024). Draft genome of the marine bacterium Alteromonas gracilis strain J4 isolated from the green coenocytic alga Caulerpa prolifera. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 13(7), Article e0018424. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00184-24 [details]
2023
- Mahendrarajah, T. A., Moody, E. R. R., Schrempf, D., Szánthó, L. L., Dombrowski, N., Davín, A. A., Pisani, D., Donoghue, P. C. J., Szöllősi, G. J., Williams, T. A., & Spang, A. (2023). ATP synthase evolution on a cross-braced dated tree of life. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 7456. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42924-w
2021
- IMG/M Data Consortium (2021). Author Correction: A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature Biotechnology, 39(4), 521. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-00898-4
2025
- Huang, W.-C., Dombrowski, N., Mahendrarajah, T., Wahl, N., Stamatakis, A., Szöllősi, G., Williams, T. & Spang, A. (15-10-2025). Phylogenetic reconciliation supports a methanogenic ancestor of the Archaea and a derived origin for host-associated lineages. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17360805
2023
- Dombrowski, N. (30-10-2023). Databases needed to run snakemake classifier. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10052996
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Hamm, J. N., Liao, Y., von Kügelgen, A., Dombrowski, N., Landers, E., Brownlee, C., Johansson, E. M. V., Whan, R. M., Baker, M. A. B., Baum, B., Bharat, T. A. M., Duggin, I. G., Spang, A., & Cavicchioli, R. (2024). The parasitic lifestyle of an archaeal symbiont. Nature Communications, 15, Article 6449.