Peer-reviewed publications​

• A. Laimer-Digruber, T.V. Edelbacher, M. Alinaghi, M. S.C. Yu, d. M. Chiang, B. Kirchner, S. I. Wudy, W. Tschulenk, I. Walter, S. Kummer, C. Ludwig, J. Pribyl, M. Pfaffl, M. Ehling-Schulz. Bacterial extracellular vesicles as recyclable nutrient reservoirs. 2026. Nature Communications: 06 April 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71463-3
• M. Wiedmann, S. Sunil, A. I. Moreno-Switt, K. Vongkamjan, S. Johler. Balancing food safety and sustainability: trade-off risk assessments and predictive modeling. 2026. Frontiers Science: 4: 1720772. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsci.2026.1720772
• A. Fetsch, I. Esteban Cuesta, M. Alinaghi, M. Ehling-Schulz, S. Johler. Principles and approaches applied to foodborne microbial risk assessment: a scoping review on concepts, limitations and future directions. 2026. Food Microbiology: 138: 105081. 10.1016/j.mran.2024.100340
• A. Fetsch, N. Sarnino, K. Koutsoumanis, M. Nauta, M. Wiedmann, K. D. C. Stärk, M. Ehling-Schulz, R. Stephan, S. Johler. "Microbial risk analysis from a food industry perspective - insights from an international survey". Microbial Risk Analysis 29, June 2025, 100340: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mran.2024.100340
• M. Ehling-Schulz, M. Filter, J. Zinsstag, K. Koutsoumanis, M. Ellouze, J. Teichmann, A. Hilbeck, M. Tonolla, D. Etter, K. Stärk, M. Wiedmann, S. Johler. Risk Negotiation: a framework for One Health risk analysis. 2024. WHO Bulletin, 102(6), 453-456. http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.23.290672.
• J. Zinsstag, J. Maéva Meyer, B. Bonfoh, G. Fink, A. Dimov. One Health in human-environment systems: Linking health and sustainable use of natural resources. CABI One Health, 3 No 1.  https://doi.org/10.1079/cabionehealth.2024.0012
• D. Etter, M. Biggel, M. Greutmann, N. Cernela, S. Johler. 2024. New insights into Bacillus cytotoxicus sources, screening, toxicity, and persistence in food production facilities. Food Microbiology, 2024 Feb:117:104399. doi: 10.1016/j.fm.2023.104399.
• A. Bucher, A. Dimov, G. Fink, N. Chitnis, B. Bonfoh, J. Zinsstag. 2023. Benefit-cost analysis of coordinated strategies for control of rabies in Africa. Nature Communications, 14:5370.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41110-2

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Oral presentations 

• 2nd Research Workshop on Bacillus, Umea, Sweden (04.-06.03.2026)
  S. Johler: "Risk Negotiation - Leveraging AI to transform how we assess, manage, and communicate B. cereus related risks" (invited keynote)
• ISDI-Conference 2025: Food Safety Synergy: Navigating Risk Communication Across Borders, Brussels, Belgium, (16.10.2025)
  M. Ehling-Schulz: “Risk negotiation - a framework for One Health risk analysis." - invited talk
• Dairy Science Autumn Conference, TU Munich, Freising, Germany. (09.10. - 10.10.2025)
  M. Ehling-Schulz: “From detection to prevention: Bacillus cereus toxins in foods." - invited talk
• EuBIC-MS Seminar on Computational Mass Spectrometry 2025, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. (25.09.2025).
  M. Alinaghihossein, M. Kranzler, A. Wagner, M. Unterwurzacher, K. Kratochwill, P. Klimek, S.Jenull, T. Grunert, M. Ehling-Schulz: “Building protein network of Bacillus cereus, a food-borne pathogen.”
• Symposia on microbiological guideline values and warning values - German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM) in Science und Praxis 2025. Soest, Germany. (03.07.2025)
  M. Ehling-Schulz: “Bacillus cereus in the food industry: Innovative approaches to diagnosis and prevention." – Keynote lecture
• International Association for Food Protection European Symposium, Madrid, Spain (06.05.-08.05.2025)
  • A. Rajkovic, M. Ehling-Schulz, S. Johler: "Risk Negotiation - an AI-assisted participatory framework for risk analysis in a ONE Health context"
    • S. Johler: "Transforming microbial risk analysis through AI-assisted Risk Negotiation"
    • M. Ehling-Schulz: Navigating the complex terrain of microbial risk analysis exemplified by the Bacillus cereus group"
    • Leo Stathas (standing in for K. Koutsoumanis): "Balancing trade-offs in food industry: Risk Negotiation in setting microbiological criteria"
  • M. Ehling-Schulz, S. Johler, A. Rajkovic, D. Etter: "MicRISK2030" - marketplace project presentation
• FBTIS 2025: Foodborne Bacterial Toxins International Symposium, Paris, France. (02.04. - 04.04.2025). 
  • M. Ehling-Schulz: "From taxonomy to risk: Differential Bacillus cereus diagnostics" - invited keynote
  • S. Johler: "A fresh take on an old foe - foodborne bacterial toxins" - invited keynote
• Organisaton for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), The 13th Expert Gropu on BioPesticides Seminar on (25.02.-26.02.2025). Emerging Risk Assessment Approaches for Biopesticides. 
  • ​S. Johler: "Key considerations for assessing the hazard potential of B. thuringiensis strains detected in foods" -invited talk
  • ​S. Johler: "Foodborne outbreaks - can Bacillus thuringiensis approved strains play a role?" - panel discussion
• Medical Academy of the German Armed Forces (14.11.2024, München)
  ​S. Johler: "Risk Negotiation exemplified by the B. cereus group - new horizons in risk analysis" - invited keynote
• Annual Symposium of the German Veterinary Association (DVG Dreiländertagung, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 24.09.-27.09.2024). 
  • ​S. Johler: "AI-assisted Risk Negotiation - integrated risk analysis for One Health". 
  • D. Etter: "Bacillus thuringiensis and B. cytotoxicus - the taxonomic collapse on the B. cereus group and the rise of the underdogs"
• International Scientific Conference on "Global commodity chains from a risk assessment perspective" (27.05.-29.05.2024, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, BfR Berlin)
  S. Johler: "Risk Negotiation - Integrated risk analysis for One Health" - invited talk
• International Association for Food Protection Conference 2024 (30.04. - 02.05.2024, Geneva)
  • Opening speech by sounding board member M. Ellouze including "Risk Negotiation"
  • D. Etter: "Bacillus thuringiensis and B. cytotoxicus - the taxonomic collapse of the B. cereus group and the rise of the underdogs"
• CereNET-CircleU Meeting. Louvain-la-Neuve. Belgium. (10.01.-12.01.2024). M. Ehling-Schulz: Friend or Foe: Bacillus cereus s.l. in the spotlight of food microbiology. invited
• SIP 2024: International Congress on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control and the 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology. Vienna, Austria. (28.07. – 01.08.2024). M. Ehling-Schulz: Bacillus thuringiensis at the crossroads: Insights into enteropathogenicity of Bacillus cereus group.  invited keynote
• Symposium on Exploring the Frontiers of Microbial Food Safety organized by the ​International Committee on Food Microbiology and Hygiene (ICFMH) and Ghent University (Oct 10th, 2023, Ghent University, Ghent)
  S. Johler: ​"Rethinking microbial risk analysis" (invited talk)
• ​Veterinary Public Health Annual Conference jointly organized by the VPHI/ILS/ EPI (06.12.2023, Bern)
  A. Dimov: "Control of Rabies in Africa: From Transmission Dynamics Model to Game Theory"  
• Annual Conference of the Research Association of the German Food Industry (FEI), Bonn, Germany. (07.09. – 08.09.2022). M. Ehling-Schulz: Bacillus cereus toxins in foods: From detection to prevention. ​ invited keynote

Posters 

• APMRS 2025: Austrian Proteomic and Metabolomic Research Symposium Functional Proteomics and Metabolomics, Vienna, Austria (12.09. - 13.09.2025)
  M. Alinaghihossein, M. Kranzler, A. Wagner, M. Unterwurzacher, K. Kratochwill, P. Klimek, S.Jenull, T. Grunert, M. Ehling-Schulz: “Proteomic and Network Analysis of Bacillus cereus Adaptation: Impact of Plasmid Deletion on Cytosolic and Secretome Profile”
• EuPA 2025: Conference of the European Proteomics Association, (16.-20.06.2025, Saint-Malo, France)
  M. Alinaghihossein, M. Kranzler, A. Wagner, M. Unterwurzacher, K. Kratochwill, P. Klimek, S.Jenull, T. Grunert, M. Ehling-Schulz: “Proteomic and Network Analysis of Bacillus cereus Adaptation: Impact of Plasmid Deletion on Cytosolic and Secretome Profile.”
• BACELL 2025 (17.-18.06.2025, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  M. Trojańska, M. Biggel, S. Johler, M. Ehling-Schulz:.”Shifting from Taxonomy to Risk-Oriented Diagnostics – exemplified by the Bacillus cereus group”
• Annual Symposium of the German Veterinary Association (DVG Dreiländertagung, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 24.09.-27.09.2024). A. Fetsch, N. Sarnino, K. Koutsoumanis, M. Nauta, M. Wiedmann, K. D. C. Stärk, M. Ehling-Schulz, R. Stephan, S. Johler. "Microbial risk analysis from a food industry perspective - insights from an international survey"
• Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (ÖGHMP, May 2024, Salzburg) 
  M. Ehling-Schulz, M. Filter, J. Zinsstag, K. Koutsoumanis, M. Ellouze, J. Teichmann, A. Hilbeck, M. Tonolla, D. Etter, K. Stärk, M. Wiedmann, S. Johler: "AI-assisted Risk Negotiation - integrated risk analysis for One Health"
• Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (ÖGHMP, May 2024, Salzburg
  M. Trojanska, Michael Biggel, S. Johler, M. Ehling-Schulz: "Microbial diagnostics: moving from taxonomy to risk exemplified by Bacillus cereus group"

Outreach

• Public Guest Lecture organised by S. Johler at LMU Munich featuring Prof. Jacques Mahillon (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium): "Bacillus cereus sensu lato ​- where are we headed" (Munich, Germany, 28.03.2025).
• Exhibition "Sciencia a Contatto" featuring amongst others interviews with stakeholders. E. Veronesi (Mendrisio, Switzerland, 2025)

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