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2012
# Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez, Stefan Boedi, Michael Sulyok, Gerlinde Wiesenberger, Norbert Stoppacher Rudolf
Krska and Joseph Strauss (2012). Heterochromatin influences the secondary metabolite profile in the plant
pathogen Fusarium graminearum. Fungal Genet. Biol. 49: 39-47.
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2010-2011
# Hans-Wilhelm Nützmann, Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez, Volker Schroeckh, Kirstin Scherlach, Christian
Hertweck, Joseph Strauss and Axel A. Brakhage (2011). Bacteria induced natural product formation in the fungus
Aspergillus nidulans requires Saga/Ada mediated histone acetylation. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci, 108: 14282-14287
# Markus Gorfer, Marzena Blumhoff, Sylvia Klaubauf, Alexander Urban, Erich Inselsbacher, Dragana Bandian,
Birgit Mitter, Angela Sessitsch, Wolfgang Wanek, Joseph Strauss (2011). Community profiling and gene
expression of fungal assimilatory nitrate reductases in agricultural soil ISME-J. 5: 1771-1783.
doi: 10.1038/ismej.2011.53. Epub 2011 May 12
# Susanna De Maria, Anna R. Rivelli, Melanie Kuffner, Angela Sessitsch, Walter W. Wenzel, Markus Gorfer,
Joseph Strauss, Markus Puschenreiter (2011). Interactions between accumulation of trace elements and
macronutrients in Salix caprea after inoculation with rhizosphere microorganisms. Chemosphere May
doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.05.002
# Katrin Glaser, Evelyn Hackl, Erich Inselsbacher, Joseph Strauss,Wolfgang Wanek, Sophie Zechmeister-
Boltenstern and Angela Sessitsch (2010). Dynamics ofammonia-oxidizing communities in barley-planted bulk
soiland rhizospherefollowing nitrateandammoniumfertilizer amendment. FEMS Microbial Ecology 74: 575-591
(published online Aug. 2010. DOI:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00970.x)
# Erich Inselsbacher, Wolfgang Wanek, Katrin Ripka, Evelyn Hackl, Angela Sessitsch, Joseph Strauss, Sophie
Zechmeister-Boltenstern (2010). Greenhouse gas fluxes respond to different N fertilizer types due to altered
plant-soil-microbe interactions. (Plant and Soil, Oct. DOI 10.1007/s11104-010-0597-6)
# Christina Kaiser, Lucia Fuchslueger, Marianne Koranda, Markus Gorfer, Claus F.Stange, Barbara Kitzler,
Frank Rasche, Joseph Strauss, Angela Sessitsch, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, and Andreas Richter (2011)
Plants control the seasonal dynamic of microbial nitrogen cycling in a beech forest soil by belowground carbon
allocation. Ecology 92: 1036-1051
# Thorsten Schinko, Harald Berger, Wanseon Lee, Andreas Gallmetzer, Katharina Pirker, Robert Pachlinger,
Ingrid Buchner, Thomas Reichenauer, Ulrich Güldner and Joseph Strauss (2010) The Aspergillus nidulans
nitrate transcriptome reveals connections to nitric oxide metabolism. Mol.Mircobiol. 78: 720-738.
# Klaubauf, S., Inselsbacher, E., Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S., Wanek, W., Gottsberger, R., Strauss, J., and
Gorfer, M. 2010. Molecular diversity of fungal communities in agricultural and grassland soils from Lower
Austria. Fungal Diversity 44: 65-75
# Joseph Strauss and Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez (2011). Regulation of secondary metabolism by chromatin
structure and epigenetic codes (review article). Fungal Genet. Biol. 48: 62-68 (online July 2010
doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2010.07.009;
# Katharina M. Keiblinger, Edward K. Hall, Ute Szukics, Ieda Hämmerle, Günther Ellersdorfer, Wolfgang
Wanek, Katja Sterflinger, Sandra Böck, Joseph Strauss, Andreas Richter and Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern.

(2010) The Effect of Resource Quantity and Resource Stoichiometry on Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency.
FEMS Microbial Ecology 73: 430-440
# Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez, JinWoo Bok, Harald Berger, Keats Shwab, Andreas Gallmetzer, Claudio
Scazzocchio, Nancy Keller and Joseph Strauss (2010). Heterochromatic marks are associated with the
repression of secondary metabolism clusters in Aspergillus nidulans. Mol. Microbiol. 76: 1376-1386
# Igor Y. Morozov, Meriel G. Jones, Dave G. Spiller, Daniel J. Rigden, Christoph Dattenböck, Rene Novotny,
Joseph Strauss and Mark X. Caddick (2010) Distinct roles for Caf1, Ccr4, Edc3 and CutA in the coordination of
transcript deadenylation, decapping and P-body formation in Aspergillus nidulans. Mol. Microbiol. 76: 503-516
# Kuffner, M., De Maria, S., Puschenreiter, M., Fallmann, K., Wieshammer, G., Gorfer, M., Strauss, J., Rivelli,
A.R., and Sessitsch, A. (2010). Culturable bacteria from Zn and Cd-accumulating Salix caprea with differential
effects on plant growth and heavy metal availability. J. Appl. Microbiol.. 108:1471-1484)
# Erich Inselsbacher, Nina Hinko-Najera Umana, Florian C. Stange, Markus Gorfer, Elisabeth Schüller, Katrin
Ripka, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Rebecca Hood-Novotny, Joseph Strauss, and Wolfgang Wanek (2010).
Short-term competition between crop plants and soil microbes for inorganic N fertilizer. Soil Biol. & Biochem.
42: 360-372
2009 - 2006
IF 2009-2006: 64,2
# M. Gorfer, H. Persak, H, Berger, S. Brynda, D. Bandian, and J. Strauss (2009). Identification of heavy metal
regulated genes from the root associated ascomycete Cadophora finlandica using a genomic microarray.
Mycological Research 113: 1377-1388
# Jin Woo Bok, , Yi-Ming Chiang, Edyta Szewczyk, Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez, Ashley D. Davidson, James F.
Sanchez, Hsien-Chun Lo, Kenji Watanabe, Joseph Strauss, Berl R. Oakley, Clay C. C. Wang, and Nancy P.
Keller (2009). Chromatin-level regulation of cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters in Aspergillus nidulans. Nature
Chem. Biol. 5: 462-464
# Frederico Marianetti Soriani, Marcia Regina Kress, Paula Fagundes de Gouvêa, Iran Malavazi, Marcela
Savoldi, Andreas Gallmetzer, Joseph Strauss, Maria Helena de Souza Goldman and Gustavo Henrique Goldman
(2009). Functional characterization of the Aspergillus nidulans methionine sulfoxide reductases (msrA and
msrB). Fungal Genetics and Biology 46:410-417
# Inselsbacher E, Ripka K, Klaubauf S, Fedosoyenko D, Hackl E, Gorfer M, Hood-Novotny R, Von Wirén N,
Sessitsch A, Zechmeister-Boltenstern S, Wanek W and Strauss J (2009). A cost-effective high-throughput
microcosm system for studying nitrogen dynamics at the plant-microbe-soil interface. Plant and Soil 317: 293-
307
# Asjad Basheer, Harald Berger, Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez and Joseph Strauss (2009). A library-based method
to rapidly analyze chromatin accessibility at multiple genomic regions. Nucleic Acid Research 37:e42
# Alexander Urban, Markus Puschenreiter, Joseph Strauss and Markus Gorfer (2008). Diversity and structure
of ectomycorrhizal and co-associated fungal communities in a serpentine soil. Mycorrhiza 18: 339-345
# Harald Berger, Asjad Basheer, Sandra Böck, Thomas Dalik, Friedrich Altmann, and Joseph Strauss (2008).
Dissecting individual steps of nitrogen transcription factor cooperation in the Aspergillus nidulans nitrate cluster.
Mol. Microbiol 69: 1385 -1398
# Reyes-Dominguez, Y., Narendja, F., Berger, H., Gallmetzer, A., Fernandez, R., Garcia, I., Scazzocchio, C. and
Strauss, J. (2008) Nucleosome positioning and histone H3 acetylation are independent processes in the
Aspergillus nidulans prnD-prnB bidirectional promoter. Euk. Cell 7:656-63.
# Elke Kainz, Andreas Gallmetzer, Christian Hatzl, Juergen H. Nett, Huijuan Li, Thorsten Schinko, Robert
Pachlinger , Harald Berger, Tillmann Gerngross, Stefan Wildt and Joseph Strauss (2008). N-glycan

modification in Aspergillus species. Appl. Environ. Microbiol 74:1076-86.
# Rene Novotny, Harald Berger, Thorsten Schinko, Paul Messner, Christina Schäffer and Joseph Strauss
(2008). A temperature-sensitive expression system based on the Geobacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a
sgsE S-layer gene promoter. Biotechnol Appl Biochem. 49: 35-40
# Markus Gorfer, Sylvia Klaubauf, Dragana Bandian, and Joseph Strauss (2007). Cadophora finlandia and
Phialocephala fortinii: Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and functional GFP-expression. Mycological
Res. 111:850-855
# M.N. Dos Santos Utmazian, P. Schweiger, P. Sommer, M. Gorfer, J. Strauss, and W.W. Wenzel (2007).
Influence of Cadophora finlandica and other microbial treatments on cadmium and zinc uptake in willowsgrown
on polluted soil. Plant Soil Environ. 53: 158- 166
# Andreas Bernreiter, Ana Ramon, Javier Fernández-Martínez, Harald Berger, Lidia Araújo-Bazan, Eduardo A.
Espeso, Robert Pachlinger, Ingund Anderl , Claudio Scazzocchio and Joseph Strauss (2007). Nuclear export of
the transcription factor NirA is a regulatory checkpoint for nitrate induction in Aspergillus nidulans.
Mol.Cell.Biol. 27: 791-802
# Harald Berger, Robert Pachlinger, Igor Morozov, Mark Caddick, Sabine Goller, Frank Narendja and Joseph
Strauss (2006). The GATA factor AreA regulates localization and in vivo binding site occupancy of the nitrate
specific transcriptional activator NirA. Mol. Microbiol. 59: 433-446
#Mark X Caddick, Meriel G Jones, J. Martin van Tonder1, Hélène Le Cordier1,Frank Narendja, Joseph Strauss,
and Igor Y Morozov (2006) Opposing signals differentially regulate transcript stability in Aspergillus nidulans.
Mol.Microbiol. 62: 509–519
2005 - 2000
# Robert Pachlinger, Rudolf Mitterbauer, Gerhard Adam and Joseph Strauss (2005). Metabolically independent
and accurately adjustable Aspergillus sp. expression system. Appl. Environ. Microbiol 71: 672-678
# M.Isabel Muro Pastor, Joseph Strauss, Ana Ramón and Claudio Scazzocchio (2004). A paradoxical mutant
GATA factor. Eukaryot Cell 3:393-405
# René Novotny, Christina Schäffer, Joseph Strauss, and Paul Messner (2004). S-Layer glycan-specific loci on
the chromosome of Geobacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a and dTDP-L-rhamnose biosynthesis potential
of Geobacillus stearothermophilus strains. Microbiology 150: 953-65.
# F. Narendja, S. P. Goller, M. Wolschek and J. Strauss. 2002. Nitrate and the GATA factor AreA are
necessary for in vivo binding of NirA, the pathway-specific transcriptional activator of Aspergillus
nidulans. Mol. Microbiol. 44: 573-83.
# C. Galhaup, S. Goller, C. K. Peterbauer, J. Strauss, and D. Haltrich. (2002). Characterization of the major
laccase isoenzyme from Trametes pubescens and regulation of its synthesis by metal. Microbiology 148: 2159-
2169
# J. Hicks, R. A Lockington, J. Strauss, D. Dieringer, C. P. Kubicek, J. Kelly, and N. Keller. 2001. RcoA has
pleiotropic effects on Aspergillus nidulans cellular development. Mol.Microbiol 39:1482-93
# B. M Abdallah, T. Simões, A. R. Fernandes, J. Strauss, B. Seiboth, I. Sá-Correia, and C. P. Kubicek . 2000.
Glucose does not activate the plasma-membrane-bound H + -ATPase but affects pmaA transcript abundance in
Aspergillus nidulans. Arch Microbiol 174: 340-345
1999-1996

# M. Muro, R. Gonzalez*, J. Strauss, F. Narendja and C. Scazzocchio. 1999. The GATA factor AreA is essential
for chromatin remodelling in an eucaryotic bidirectional promoter. EMBO J. 18: 1584-1597 (*authors
contributed equally to the work
# J. Strauss, H. Horvath, B. M. Abdallah, J. Kindermann, R.L. Mach and C. P. Kubicek. 1999. The function of
CreA, the carbon catabolite repressor of Aspergillus nidulans, is regulated at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional
level. Mol. Microbiol 32: 169-178
# M. Wolschek, F. Narendja, J. Karlseder, C.P. Kubicek, C. Scazzocchio, and J. Strauss. 1998. In situ detection
of protein-DNA interactions in filamentous fungi by in vivo footprinting. Nucleic Acid Res. 26: 3862-3864
# J. Strauss, M. Muro-Pastor and C. Scazzocchio. 1998. The regulator of nitrate assimilation in ascomycetes is a
dimer which binds a non-repeated, asymmetrical sequence. Mol.Cell.Biol. 18: 1339-1348
# D. Turner, W. Kovacs, K. Kuhls, E. Lieckfeld, J. Strauss, G. J. Samuels and C.P. Kubicek. 1997.
Biogeography and phenotypic variation in Trichoderma sect. Longibrachiatum and associated Hypocrea species.
Mycol. Res. 101: 449 – 459
# R.L. Mach, J. Strauss, S. Zeilinger, M. Schindler and C.P. Kubicek. 1996. Carbon catabolite repression of
xyn1 (xylanase I - encoding) gene expression in Trichoderma reesei. Mol. Microbiol 21: 1273-1281
# M. Lorito, R.L. Mach, P. Sposato, J. Strauss, C.K. Peterbauer and C.P. Kubicek. (1996). Mycoparastic
interaction relieves binding of the Cre1 carbon catabolite repressor protein to promotor sequences of the ech-42
(endochitinase encoding) gene in Trichoderma harzianum. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 93: 14868-14872
1995 and before
# P.J. Punt, J. Strauss, R. Smit, J.R. Kinghorn, C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel and C. Scazzocchio. 1995. The
intergenic region between the divergently transcribed niiA and niaD genes of Aspergillus nidulans contains
multiple NirA binding sites which act bidirectionally. Mol.Cell.Biol 15: 5688-5699
# R.L. Mach, B. Seiboth, A. Myasnikov., R. Gonzalez, J. Strauss, A.M. Harkki and C.P. Kubicek. 1995. The
bgl1 gene of Trichoderma reesei QM 9414 encodes an extracellular, cellulose-inducible ß-glucosidase involved
in cellulase induction by sophorose. Mol. Microbiol. 16. 687-679
# J. Strauss, R.L. Mach, S. Zeilinger, G. Hartler, G. Stoeffler, M. Wolschek, and C.P. Kubicek. 1995. Cre1, the
carbon catabolite repressor protein from Trichoderma reesei. FEBS Letters 376, 103-107
# G. Burger, J. Strauss, C. Scazzocchio and F.B. Lang. 1991. nirA, the pathway specific regulatory gene of
nitrate assimilation in Aspergillus nidulans encodes a putative GAL 4-type zinc-finger protein and contains 4
introns in highly conserved regions. Mol.Cell.Biol. 12: 5746-5755
# J. Strauss and C. P. Kubicek. 1990. ß-glucosidase and cellulase formation by Trichoderma reesei mutant
defective in constitutive ß-glucosidase formation. J.Gen.Microbiology 136: 1321-1326
2. BOOK CHAPTERS
# C.P.Kubicek, R. Messner, C. Fritscher, J. Strauss and E.M. Kubicek-Pranz. 1990. Regulatory aspects of
formation and secretion of cellulases by Trichoderma reesei. In: Trichoderma reesei cellulases: Biochemistry,
genetics, physiology and applications. Kubicek et al. (eds). Royal Chem. Society, Cambridge, UK
# C. P. Kubicek, S. Zeilinger, R. L Mach,. and J. Strauss. (1998) Regulation of xylanase gene expression in
Trichoderma reesei. Proceedings of the Third TRICEL Symposium on Carbohydrases from Trichoderma
reesei and other Microorganisms, (Claeyssens, M., Piens, K., and Nerinckx, W.) pp. 274-279 The Royal
Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK
# B. Gesslbauer, W. Atzenhofer, Y. Halden, J. Strauss, A.J. Kungl.(2001). Purification, biophysical
characterisation and crystallisation of the DNA-binding domain of NirA. Proceedings of the 4th International

Conference on Molecular Structural Biology, A.J. Kungl & P.J. Kungl (Eds.), The Austrian Chemical Society
(Vienna): 79, 2001.
# Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez, Stefan Boedi and Joseph Strauss (2011) Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)
analysis in filamentous fungi. Methods in Molecular Biology
3. PATENTS
Robert Pachlinger and Joseph Strauss (2004): Steroid Receptor Modulation of Gene Expression (Patent Nr
WO2004/058947). published on July 15, 2004
4. INVITED LECTURES
(42)
2012
# Agnieszka Gacek and Joseph Strauss (2012). The chromatin code of fungal secondary metabolism. Invited
lecture, April 2012, Imperial College, Faculty of Medicine, Londen (UK)
# Stefan Boedi and Joseph Strauss (2012). Heterochromatin influences the secondary metabolite profile in the
plant pathogen Fusarium graminearum. Selected oral contribution to Fusarium Satellite meeting of the 11 th
European Fungal Genetics Conference, Marburg, (D), April 2012
2009 – 2011
# Joseph Strauss (2009) Epigenetics in Aspergillus? Aspergillus Satellite Meeting of the
25 th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, March 2009
# Joseph Strauss (2009) Integration of nitrate assimilation into the nitrogen regulatory network of Aspergillus
nidulans. 25 th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, March 2009 (invited plenary lecture).
# Joseph Strauss (2009) Gene regulation in an epigenetic context in Aspergillus nidulans. University of
Göttingen, Colloquium. April 2009.
# Joseph Strauss (2009) Metabolic gene regulation and the role of epigenetics in Aspergillus nidulans.
University of Jena Colloquium. May 2009.
# Joseph Strauss (2010) Chromatin-level regulation of metabolic gene clusters. Plenary Lecuture at the 10 th
European Conference of Fungal Genetics, Amsterdam (April 2010)
# Joseph Strauss (2010) Epigenetic regulation of fungal secondary metabolism. Gregor Mendel Institute of the
Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna (November 2010)
# Joseph Strauss (2010) Schimmelpilze als Quelle neuer bioaktiver Wirkstoffe. 3rd European Antibiotics
Awareness Day, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (November 2010).
Markus Gorfer and Joseph Strauss (2010). Genometalix – genomics for a cleaner environment. WWTF-
Science Day (November 2010, Vienna)
Joseph Strauss and Markus Gorfer (2010). Nitro-Genome – increasing nitrogen fertilizer efficiency. WWTF-
Science Day (November 2010, Vienna)

Agnieszka Gacek, Yazmid Reyes-Domínguez, Michael Sulyok and Joseph Strauss (2011). Histone H3 demethylases
are involved in regulating primary and secondary metabolism. Poster selected for oral presentation,
26 th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, CA (March 2011)
Ana T. Marcos, Thorsten Schinko, Joseph Strauss, and David Cánovas (2011) Nitric oxide (NO) is a
morphogenic signal in fungi. Poster selected for oral presentation, 26 th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar,
CA (March 2011)
# Joseph Strauss (2011) Gen-Ressource Mikroben oder: wie man verborgene Wirkstoff-Schätze entdecken
kann. eco-plus Innovationsdialog (April 2011,Tulln),
# Joseph Strauss (2011). Fungal Genomics – Models and Applications. AIT Brown-Bag Seminar Series (April
2011, Vienna).
2006 – 2008
# Harald Berger, Robert Pachlinger, Igor Morozov, Sabine Goller, Frank Narendja, Mark Caddick and Joseph
Strauss. The GATA factor AreA regulates loclaization and in vivo binding site occupancy of the nitrate activator
NirA. ECFG 8, Vienna, Austria , April 2006)
# Yazmid Reyes and Joseph Strauss. Nitrate utilization in Aspergillus: A small molecule with a large impact.
Symposium Nitrogen in ascomycetes. Mexico November 2006.
# Joseph Strauss et al. News from a lower eukaryote nitrate utilizer: molecular regulation by nuclear transport.
Invited Seminar University of Liverpool (UK), January 2007.
# Joseph Strauss et al. Nitrate assimilation in eukaryotes: from a model fungus to a model plant. Invited
Seminar MONSANTO Inc., St.Luis, USA. February 2007.
# Joseph Strauss et al. Control mechanisms of nitrate assimilation in Aspergillus nidulans . Fungal Genetics
Conference Asilomar, CA, USA. March 2007
# Joseph Strauss et al. Nitrogen assimilation in a lower eukaryote: molecular switches regulating nitrate and
ammonium assimilation in the model fungus Aspergillus nidulans. Invited Seminar, Inst. for Plant Nutrition,
Univ. of Hohenheim, Germany. April 2007
# Joseph Strauss et al. Nitrate regulation in Aspergillus. Symposium NTROGEN 2007. Lancaster (UK) July
2007.
# Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez and Joseph Strauss: Chromatin regulation of mycotoxin production in
Aspergillus nidulans. EUROFUNG Symposium, Wageningen (NL), June 2007
# Joseph Strauss et al. The fungal nitrate assimilation system. University of Cordoba, Spain, May 2008
# Joseph Strauss et al. The chromatin connection between primary and secondary metabolism. GORDON
RESEARCH CONFERENCE, June 2008, USA
# Joseph Strauss et al. The fungal transcription factors: functions, examples and gaps. Final meeting of the
EUROFUNG-BASE Project, Barcelona, Spain October 2008.
2000 – 2005
# J.Strauss. Natural and agriculturally influenced nitrogen cycling in soils and the consequences of fertilizer
input on soil and water ecology. Symposium at the Agricultural University of Vienna: "A Challenging New Role
of Modern Biotechnology in Sustainable Agriculture and Soil Fertility. Vienna/Austria (October 2000).

# J.Strauss et al: "News from a model fungus: Transkriptionsfaktoren, Chromatinstruktur und Regulation der
Nitrat-Assimilierung von Aspergillus nidulans". Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Graz
(Dez.2000).
# J.Strauss et al: " News from the Aspergillus nitrate utilization cluster: pathway-specific versus wide domain
regulators" Second International Symposium on Nitrogen Metabolism in Ascomycetes. Hacienda Vista Hermosa,
Mexico (March 2001).
# J.Strauss: " Aspergillus as a fungal model system". International Symposium of the Agricultural Universities
Vienna, Budapest and Prag. Vienna. (November 2001)
# J.Strauss: " The power of a model: studying transcription factors in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans. Invited
Lecture at Dartmouth College of Engineering, Hanover, USA. (February 2002).
# F. Narendja and J. Strauss. Characterization of adaB and ist role in the chromatin remodelling machinery of
A.nidulans. ECFG 6, Pisa, April 2002.
# Harald Berger, Robert Pachlinger, Sabine Goller, Frank Narendja, and Joseph Strauss. The regulators of
nitrate assimilation in Aspergillus nidulans. 5 th International Symposion on Nitrate Assimilation: Molecular and
Genetic Aspects (NAMGA), Cordoba, Spain (July 2002).
# J. Strauss: Transcriptional Regulation of Nitrogen Cycling and the Fungal Rhizosphere. University of
Hohenheim, Germany. (October 2003)
# J. Strauss et al: Studying transcriptional regulation in fungi: molecular tools for environmental questions and
biotech applications. Austrain Research Centers (May 2004)
# J. Strauss et al: News from the Aspergillus´ nitrate system. EUROFUNGBASE Meeting , Sevilla, Spain (Nov.
2005)
# C. Scazzocchio and J. Strauss: Aspergillus nidulans as a model to study chromatin structure and function .
EUROFUNGBASE Meeting , Sevilla, Spain (Nov. 2005)
1999 and before
# J. Strauss. Characterisation of the binding specificity of NirA, a transcriptional activator of Aspergillus
nidulans. 2 nd European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Lunteren, NL, 1994
# J. Strauss, R.L. Mach and C.P. Kubicek. Cre1, the carbon catabolite repressor protein from Trichoderma
reesei. 2 nd Conference on Fungal Molecular Biology in Berlin, 1995
# J. Strauss, R.L. Mach, S. Zeilinger, G. Hartler, G. Stöffler, M. Wolschek, and C.P. Kubicek. Cre1, the carbon
catabolite repressor protein from Trichoderma reesei. Conference on Fungal Molecular Biology, Berlin,
Germany, 1995
# J. Strauss. Nitrate Utilization in Aspergillus nidulans: An old model features new fashions. First International
Symposium Nitrogen Metabolism in Ascomycetes, San Jose Vistahermosa, Mexico, 1997
# J. Strauss: In vivo footprinting in filamentous fungi. UNESCO International Training Course for the
Manipulation of the Fungal Genome, Irapuato, Mexico, 1998
# J. Strauss. Nitrate utilization in Aspergillus nidulans. Invited Chairman and lecture at the 6 th International
Congress on Amino Acids (August 1999, Bonn)
# J.Strauss: The Nitrate utilization model in Aspergillus nidulans. Annual Meeting of the ÖBG/ÖGGGT.
(September 1999, Graz/Austria).
# J. Strauss: The nitrate assimilation system in Aspergillus nidulans as a model for studying eucaryotic
transcription factors. SFB – Kolloquium (November 1999, Innsbruck/ Austria)

5. CONGRESS AND SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION
# A CHALLENGING NEW ROLE OF MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
AND SOIL FERTILITY.
Symposium organized in the frame of the "Rhizosphere Management" project of the Agricultural University of
Vienna. October 4th 2000, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna.
Presentations by Yoram Kapulnik (Israel), Diane Williams (USA), Walter Wenzel (Austria), Donald Marx
(USA), Uri Rosenberg (Israel) and Luis Fanjul (Mexico).#
# EXPLOITING THE FUNGAL WORLD: FROM BASIC SCIENCE TO BIOTECHNOLOGICAL AND
AGRICULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES
Symposium organized in the frame of the International Congress of the Agricultural Universities Vienna, Prague
and Budapest. November 19-21, 2001, Vienna Hofburg.
Presentations by members of the University (Prillinger, Mattanovic, Adam, Strauss), M. Lemmens and H.
Bürstmayr (IFA Tulln) and F. Trail (Michigan State University, USA).
# 8 th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON FUNGAL GENETCIS “ECFG 8”. April 8-11, 2006. Vienna, Austria.
Co-organizer of the conference with more than 500 participants from all over the world. Presentation and
discussion forum for academics, industrialists, students and fungal experts.
6. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(52)
2010-2012
# Ana T. Marcos, Thorsten Schinko, María Ramos-Guelfo, Joseph Strauss, David Cánovas (2012). Cross-talk
between nitric oxide and light for the regulation of development. ECGF Germany April 2012
# Alexandra A. Soukup 1 , Joseph Strauss 2 , and Nancy P. Keller 3, 4 Suppressor mutagenesis reveals EsaA as
regulator of secondary metabolism. Poster selected for oral presentation, 26 th Fungal Genetics Conference,
Asilomar, CA (March 2011)
2007 - 2009
# Harald Berger, Asjad Basheer, Sandra Böck and Joseph Strauss (2007). Transcription independent chromatin
remodelling in Aspergillus nidulans. Fungal Genetics Conference 2007, Asilomar, USA.
# Andreas Bernreiter, Igor Morozov, Lidia Araujo-Bazan, Eduardo A. Espeso and Joseph Strauss (2007)
Characterization of NplA, a nucleoporin involved in the regulation of mRNA translation . Conference “Nitrogen
2007”, Lancaster, UK
# M. Puschenreiter, A. Sessitsch, M. Kuffner, P. Sommer, E. Netherer, J. Strauss and W.W. Wenzel (2007)
Inoculation of Salix caprea with rhizosphere bacteria enhances the phytoextraction capacity for Zn and Cd.
ICOBTE 2007 Conference
# Joseph Strauss (2007). The NITRO-GENOME Project: Increasing Nitrogen Fertilizer Use Efficiency by
Understanding Microbial Nitrogen Cycling. Conference “N2007 - Nitrogen 4th Conference, Bahia/Brazil,
October 2007
# Inselsbacher, E,; Hackl, E; Klaubauf, S; Ripka, K; Sessitsch, A; Strauss, J; Von Wirén, N; Wanek, W;
Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S (2007). “NITROGENOM” – A standardized microcosm system to study nitrogen
pathways and soil-plant-microbe relationships in agricultural soils. Conference “N2007 - Nitrogen 4th
Conference, Bahia/Brazil, October 2007

Ripka, K 1 ; Hackl, E 1 ; Inselsbacher, E 2,3 ; Klaubauf, S 4 ; Strauss, J 4 ; Wanek, W 2 ; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S 3 and
Sessitsch, A 1 . Abundance and community composition of nitrifiers and denitrifiers in various agricultural soil
habitats (Feb. 2008)
Inselsbacher E, Wanek W, Zechmeister-Boltenstern S, Hackl E, Hood R, Klaubauf S, Ripka K, Sessitsch A,
Strauss J, Von Wirén N
“NITROGENOM” – Studying nitrogen pathways and soil-plant-microbe relationships in agricultural soils within
a standardized microcosm system . EUROSOIL 2008
Igor Morozov, Rene Novotny, Harald Berger, Joseph Strauss and Mark Caddick. The PopB deadenylase
mediates nitrogen metabolite signalled transcript degradation. European Fungal Genetics Conference 2008.
Harald Berger, Asjad Basheer, Thomas Dalik, Sandra Böck, and Joseph Strauss.
Dissecting molecular steps of cooperativity between the wide-domain GATA factor and the pathway-specific Zncluster
activator in the Aspergillus nidulans nitrate cluster. European Fungal Genetics Conference 2008.
Yazmid Reyes-Domínguez, Jin Woo Bok, Asjad Basher , Elliot K. Schwab, Harald Berger, Andreas Gallmetzer,
Nancy.P Keller, Claudio Scazzocchio and Joseph Strauss Facultative heterochromatin is involved in switching
from primary to secondary metabolism in Aspergillus nidulans. European Fungal Genetics Conference 2008.
# Asjad Basheer, Harald Berger, Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez and Joseph Strauss. A library-based method to
rapidly analyze chromatin accessibility at multiple genomic regions. 25 th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar,
USA, March 2009
2004-2006
# Alexander Urban, Markus Puschenreiter, Walter Wenzel, Joseph Strauss and Markus Gorfer. Structure and
function of ectomycorrhiza-associated fungal communities of a mixed Scotts pine (Pinus silvestris) forest on
serpentine – a holistic perspective. Microbial Ecology Congress, Vienna, 2004
# Harald Berger, Robert Pachlinger and Joseph Strauss (2004). The activity of NirA, a nitrate-specific
transcription factor in Aspergillus, is regulated at the level of nuclear localization and binding site accessibility.
ECFG 7, Copenhagen, April 2004.
# Igor Morozov, Meriel G. Jones, Frank Narendja, Nicolas Ugarte, Ammar A. Razak, Joseph Strauss and Mark
X. Caddick. Differential transcript deadenylation mediates nitrogen and nitrate signalling in Aspergillus nidulans.
ECFG 7, Copenhagen, April 2004
# M. Puschenreiter, Dos Santos MN, Hauser M-T, Sommer P, Strauss J, Wieshammer G, Unterbrunner R,
Zivkovic M and Wenzel WW. Phytoremediation of contaminated soils using willows. Prag, October 2004.
# Mark X Caddick, Igor Morozov, Greg Fitzgibbon, Ammar Razak, Joseph Strauss and Meriel Jones. Nitrogen
metabolite and nitrate signalling. 23 rd Fungal genetics Conference Asilomar, March 2005.
# Türktas M, Puschenreiter M, Sommer P, Wenzel WW, Strauss J, Hauser M-T (2004) Molecular mechanisms
involved in heavy metal accumulation by Salix caprea. Joint Annual Meeting of the ÖGBM, ÖGGGT, ÖGBT
and ANGT. Innsbruck 20.-22.9.
(34) Markus Puschenreiter, Mine Türktas, Peter Sommer, Walter Wenzel, Josef Strauss and Marie-Theres
Hauser (2004) Heavy metal für Pflanzen. 1st prize at press release competition of “dialog gentechnik”, published
by APA OTS on Sept. 21st 2004 (OTS0108 5 CI 0411 NEF0007 WI).
# Puschenreiter M, Dos Santos MN, Hauser M-T, Sommer P, Strauss J, Wieshammer G, Unterbrunner R,
Zivkovic M, Wenzel WW (2004). Conference on "Sustain Life - Secure Survival II. Socially and
Environmentally Responsible Agribusiness. Prag 22. - 25. 9

# Puschenreiter M, Wieshammer G, Sommer P, Strauss J, Hauser M-T, Sessitsch A and Wenzel WW (2004)
Metal accumulation in Salix caprea: molecular background of plant processes and associated rhizosphere
microbes. Minisymposium on Microbial Ecology, University of Natural Ressources and Applied Life Sciences,
Vienna, March 22nd 2004, Poster.
# Türktas M, Puschenreiter M, Sommer P, Wenzel W, Strauss J Hauser, M-T (2005) Toward the determination
of the genetic basis of heavy metal accumulation in six wild metallicolous and non-metallicolous Salix caprea
populations. XVII International Botanical Congress. Wien 17-23.7.
# Andreas Bernreiter, Harald Berger, Ana Ramon, Javier Fernández-Martínez, , Lidia Araújo, Eduardo A.
Espeso, Robert Pachlinger, Ingund Anderl , Claudio Scazzocchio and Joseph Strauss (2006). Nuclear export of
the transcription factor NirA is a regulatory checkpoint for nitrate induction in Aspergillus nidulans. ECFG 8,
Vienna, Austria (April 2006)
# Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez, Harald Berger, Claudio Scazzocchio and Joseph Strauss. Heterochromatin protein
HepA regulates secondary metabolism gene expression in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans. ECFG 8,
Vienna, Austria (April 2006)
# René Novotny, Mario Wagner, Harald Berger, Michaela Wasinger, Iris Wille, Bernd Gesslbauer, Andreas
Kungl and Joseph Strauss A proteomic approach to study nitrate signalling in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus
nidulans.:2 nd FEMS CONGRESS, July 2006, Madrid
1998 - 2003
# J. Strauss, H. K. Horvath, B. M. Abdallah, R. L. Mach and C. P. Kubicek. Transcriptional and posttranscriptional
mechanisms regulate the function of the Aspergillus nidulans carbon catabolite repressor protein
CreA. Poster presented at the ECFG 4, Leon, Spain, 1998
# B.M. Abdallah, M. Gorfer, J. Strauss and C.P. Kubicek. Cloning and characterization of the plasma -
membrane - bound ATPase gene from Aspergillus nidulans. Poster presented at the FEBS Meeting, Copenhagen,
DK, 1998
# B.M. Abdallah, M. Gorfer, J. Strauss and C.P. Kubicek. Carbon catabolite regulation of the pmaA (plasmamembrane-bound
H+-ATPase encoding) gene of Aspergillus nidulans. Poster presented at the Gordon
Conference, New Hampshire, USA, 1998
# M. Gorfer, J. Strauss, R.L.Mach, and C.P. Kubicek. Cloning of gpdA from Boletus edulis and analysis of
protein-binding motifs in the corresponding promotor. Poster presentation at “Genetics and Cellular Biology of
Basidiomycetes” In Nijmegen, The Nederlands, March 1998
# F.Narendja, S.Goller, M.Wolschek and J.Strauss. Nitrate is necessary but not sufficient for binding of NirA,
the pathway-specific transcription factor in Aspergillus nidulans. ÖGGGT Meeting 2000, Innsbruck, Austria,
October 2000.
# P. Sommer, G. Burgera, G. Wieshammer, W. Wenzel and J. Strauss. Effects of mycorrhizal associations on
the metal uptake by willows from polluted soils: Implication for soil remediation by phytoextraction.
International BOKU Congress, Vienna, Austria, November 2001.
# F. Narendja and J. Strauss. Characterization of adaB and its role in the chromatin remodelling machinery of
A.nidulans. ECFG 6, Pisa, April 2002.
# F. Narendja, S. P. Goller, M. Wolschek and J. Strauss. Nitrate and the GATA factor AreA are necessary for in
vivo binding of NirA, the pathway-specific transcriptional activator of Aspergillus nidulans. ECFG 6, Pisa, April
2002.
# Harald Berger, Robert Pachlinger, Sabine Goller, Frank Narendja, and Joseph Strauss. Nitrate promotes
cellular translocation of the pathway specific activator in Aspergillus nidulans. 5 th International Symposion on
Nitrate Assimilation: Molecular and Genetic Aspects (NAMGA), Cordoba, Spain (July 2002).
1997 and before

# R. L. Mach, R. Gonzalez, J. Strauss, and C.P Kubicek., Cloning, characterisation and analysis of function of
the bgl-(ß-glucosidase) gene of Trichoderma reesei. Poster presented at: 1st European Conference on Fungal
Genetics, Nottingham, England, 1992
# J. Strauss and C. Scazzocchio. In vitro characterisation of the binding specificity of the NirA transcriptional
activator of Aspergillus nidulans. Poster presented at the EMBO Workshop on Fungal Genetics, Mallorca, Spain,
1993
# R.L. Mach, M. Schindler, J. Strauss and C.P. Kubicek. Cre 1- mediated glucose repression of xyn 1 (xylanase
I encoding) gene expression in Trichoderma reesei. Poster presented at the 2nd European Conference on Fungal
Genetics, Lunteren, NL, 1994
# R. Smit, J. Strauss, P.J Punt, C. Scazzocchio and C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel. Complex organisation of the
promoter region of the divergently transcribed niiA-niaD genes of A.nidulans. Poster presented at the 2nd
European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Lunteren, NL, 1994
# R.L. Mach, M. Schindler, J. Strauss, and C.P Kubicek. Cre1-mediated glucose repression of xyn1 (xylanaseIencoding)
gene expression in Trichoderma reesei. Poster presented at: 2nd European Conference on Fungal
Genetics, Lunteren,The Netherlands,1994
# J. Strauss, M. Wolschek, S. Zakeri, R. Mach, J. Karlseder, E. Wintersberger and C.P. Kubicek. Analysis of
transcriptional regulation of the Aspergillus nidulans creA gene mediating glucose repression. Poster presented at
the FGSC Conference Asilomar, California, 1995
# R.L Mach, J. Strauss, M. Schindler, S. Zeilinger, G. Adler, and C.P Kubicek. Glucose repression of xylanase
formation by Trichoderma reesei regulates xyn1 but not xyn2 gene expression and is mediated by the Cre1 gene
product. Poster presented at: 18th Fungual Genetics Conference, Asilomar CA, USA, 1995
# J. Strauss, M. Wolschek, R.L. Mach, S. Zakeri, J. Karlseder, E. Wintersberger, and C.P Kubicek. In vivo
analysis of transcriptional regulation of Aspergillus nidulans creA gene mediating glucose repression. Poster
presented at: 18th Fungual Genetics Conference, Asilomar CA, USA, 1995
# M. Schindler, R.L. Mach, J. Strauss, S. Zeilinger, G. Adler, and C.P. Kubicek. Differential effect of glucose
on Trichoderma reesei xyn1 and xyn2 gene expression. Poster presented at: 6th International Conference on
Biotechnology in Pulp and Paper Industry Vienna, Austria, 1995
# R.L. Mach J. Strauss, M. Schindler, S. Zeilinger, G. Adler, and C.P. Kubicek. Glucose repression of xylanase
formation by Trichoderma reesei regulates xyn1 but not xyn2 gene expression and is mediated by the Cre1 gene
product. Poster presented at: EMBO Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Filamentous Fungi, "Genome
Structure, Maintenance and Expression" Ambelside, UK, 1995
# R.L. Mach, J. Strauss, S. Zeilinger, M. Schindler and C.P. Kubicek. Glucose repression of xyn1 (xylanase Iencoding
gene) expression by Cre1 in Trichoderma reesei requires binding of a protein complex to an inverted
repeat of the Cre1 consensus sequence. Poster presented at: 3rd European Conference on Fungal Genetics,
Münster, Germany, 1996
# M. Lorito, R.L. Mach, P. Sposato, J. Strauss, C.K. Peterbauer, and C.P. Kubicek. Mycoparasitic interaction
relieves binding of the Cre1 carbon catabolite repressor protein to promoter sequences of ech-42 (endochitinase
encoding) gene in Trichoderma harzianum. Poster presented at: 3rd European Conference on Fungal Genetics,
Münster, Germany, 1996
# R.L. Mach, J. Strauss, S. Zeilinger, and C.P. Kubicek. Carbon catabolite repression of xylanase gene
expression in Trichoderma reesei interferes with xyn1 and xyn2 transcription in different ways. Poster presented
at: IUMS congresses 96, 8th International congress of Mycology Division, Jerusalem, Israel, 1996
# M. Lorito, R.L. Mach, P. Sposato, J. Strauss, C.K. Peterbauer, and C.P. Kubicek. Mycoparasitic interaction
relieves binding of the Cre1 carbon catabolite repressor protein to promoter sequences of ech-42 (endochitinase
encoding) gene in Trichoderma harzianum. Poster presented at: IUMS congresses 96, 8th International congress
of Mycology Division, Jerusalem, Israel, 1996

# R.L. Mach, J. Strauss and C.P. Kubicek. The carbon catabolite repressor Cre1 in Trichoderma reesei requires
phosphorylation for its binding to the corresponding consensus sequence. Poster presented at: 19th Fungual
Genetics Conference, Asilomar CA, USA 1997
# F.M. Narendja, M.F. Wolschek, J. Karlseder, C.P.Kubicek, C. Scazzocchio and J. Strauss. Nitrate utilisation
in Aspergillus nidulans: Binding of the pathway specific activator NirA to its target sequence in vivo is
dependent on induction and AreA. Poster presented at: 19th Fungual Genetics Conference, Asilomar CA, USA
1997
# M. I. Muro-Pastor, J. Strauss and C. Scazzocchio The regulator of nitrate assimilation in Aspergillus nidulans
binds a completely asymmetrical sequence as a dimer. Poster presented at: 19th Fungual Genetics Conference,
Asilomar CA, USA 1997
# R.L. Mach, J. Strauss, and C.P. Kubicek. Phosphorylation of the carbon catabolite repressor Cre1 of
Trichoderma reesei is required for its binding to the corresponding consensus sequence. Poster presented at: third
TRICEL meeting, Ghent, Belgium,1997