Dr. Miriam Schalamun

Head of Research & Development

Miriam is a biotechnologist specialising in innovative sequencing technologies and bioinformatic data analysis. She established nanopore sequencing in her master's thesis on plant systems at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Her doctorate at the Vienna University of Technology was dedicated to cellular signalling in fungi. There she deepened her understanding of fungi and their interaction with the environment. She carried out her practical work at the AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology.

Today, Miriam contributes her extensive expertise and passion for fungal research as Head of Research and Development at MyPilz.

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Schalamun, M., Li, G., Hinterdobler, W., Großkinsky, D., Compant, S., Dreux-Zigha, A., Schmoll, M. 2026. Plant recognition by Trichoderma harzianum elicits upregulation of a novel secondary metabolite cluster required for colonisation. Scientific Reports.

Schalamun, M., Hinterdobler, H., Schinnerl, J., Brecker, L., Schmoll, M. 2024. The transcription factor STE12 influences growth on several carbon sources and production of dehydroacetic acid (DHAA) in Trichoderma reesei. Scientific Reports. 14(1):9625.

Schalamun, M., Molin, E., Schmoll, M. 2023. RGS4 impacts carbohydrate and siderophore metabolism in Trichoderma reesei. BMC Genomics. 24:372.

Schalamun, M., Beier, S., Hinterdobler, W., Wanko, N., Schinnerl, J., Brecker, L., Engl, D.E., Schmoll, M. 2023. MAPkinases regulate secondary metabolism, sexual development and light dependent cellulase regulation in Trichoderma reesei. Scientific Reports. 13:1912.

Schalamun, M. and Schmoll, M. 2022. Trichoderma - genomes and genomics as treasure troves for research towards biology, biotechnology and agriculture. Frontiers in Fungal Biology, 3:1002161.

Hinterdobler, W., Li, G, Turrà, D., Schalamun, M., Kindel, S., Sauer, U., Beier, S., Iglesias, AR., Compant, S., Vitale, S., Di Pietro, A., Schmoll, M. 2021. Integration of chemosensing and carbon catabolite repression impacts fungal enzyme regulation and plant associations. bioRxiv.

Wang, W., Das, A., Kainer, D., Schalamun, M., Morales-Suarez, A., Schwessinger, B., Lanfear, R. 2020. The draft nuclear genome assembly of Eucalyptus pauciflora: a pipeline to comparing de novo assemblies. GigaScience, 9, 2020, 1-12.

Schalamun, M., Nagar, R., Kainer, D., Beavan, E., Eccles, D., Rathjen, J. P., Lanfear, R., Schwessinger, B. 2019. Harnessing the MinION: An example of how to establish long-read sequencing in a laboratory using challenging plant tissue from Eucalyptus pauciflora. Molecular Ecology Resources, 19: 77- 89.

Lanfear, R., Schalamun, M., Kainer, D., Wang, W., Schwessinger, B. 2019. MinIONQC: fast and simple quality control for MinION sequencing data. Bioinformatics, 35(3): 523-525.

Wang, W., Schalamun, M., Morales-Suarez, A., Kainer, D., Schwessinger, B., Lanfear, R. 2018. Assembly of chloroplast genomes with long- and short-read data: a comparison of approaches using Eucalyptus pauciflora as a test case. BMC Genomics, 19(1).

Kleine Impulse, große Wirkung – Wie Pilze auf ihre Umgebung reagieren. Auditorium, Pilzfestspiele, Vienna, Austria, 2025.

Harnessing natural fungal diversity for modern circular economy applications. Mycobiomics Final Meeting. EU Horizon 2020 RISE Project, 2025. Pretoria, South Africa.

Advances and Challenges of NGS Technologies. Westerdijk Spring Symposium „DNA Sequences as Type“, 2025. Utrecht, Netherlands, Lecture.

DNA Barcoding – Hintergründe, Methoden und moderne Anwendungen. Austrian Mycological Society, 2025. Austria, Online lecture.

Light dependent regulation of plant cell wall degradation and secondary metabolism via the HOG-pathway in Trichoderma reesei. 17th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, 2025. Dublin, Ireland, Lecture.

Genome wide insights into signal integration by the G-protein pathway for regulation of carbon- and secondary metabolism in Trichoderma reesei. 56th Scientific Conference of the German-speaking Mycological Society, 2022. Vienna, Austria, Lecture.

Genome wide insights into signal integration by the G-protein pathway for regulation of carbon- and secondary metabolism in Trichoderma reesei. 14th OEGMBT Annual Meeting, 2022. Vienna, Austria, Lecture.

Genome wide insights into signal integration by the G-protein pathway for regulation of carbon- and secondary metabolism in Trichoderma reesei. Fungal Genetics Conference, California, United States, 2022. Lecture.

Schalamun, M., Hinterdobler W., Benocci T., Wanko N., Schinnerl J., Schmoll M. Genome wide insights into signal integration by the G-protein pathway for regulation of carbon- and secondary metabolism in Trichoderma reesei. Westerdijk Spring Symposium Rise of the Fungi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2022.

Shalamun, M.Hinterdobler W., Benocci T., Wanko N., Schinnerl J., Schmoll M. Genome wide insights into signal integration by the G-protein pathway for regulation of carbon- and secondary metabolism in Trichoderma reesei. Fungal Genetics Conference, California, United States, 2022.