Prof. Dr. Erika Kothe
erika.kothe@uni-jena.de www.mikrobiologie.uni-jena.de
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Doctoral researchers
Dr. rer. nat. Oluwatosin Abdulsalam
Geosmin in the mycorrhizosphere of tricholoma vaccinum
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Marc-Benjamin Aurin
How do phytoplasmas generate? zombie plants?? Interaction of the bacterial effector protein SAP54 with floral homeotic proteins
Friedrich Schiller University
Matthias Schleiden Institute - Genetics
Ana Barrera-Palacio
Filamentous microbial co-culture for biotechnological production of natural products
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Bio Pilot Plant
Dr. rer. nat. Andrea Beyer
Tracing groundwater origin by using bacterial groundwater populations in the Thuringian Basin, Germany
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Tsilla Boisselet
Chemical and biological factors influencing heavy metal mobilisation in the rhizosphere : implications for phytoremediation
Dr. rer. nat. Hanka Brangsch
Control of heavy metal resistance genes in Streptomyces
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Melanie Brunsch
Deletion of dhc1 to investigate mating-dependent nuclear migration in the basidiomycete Schizophyllum commune
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Glen D´Souza
The evolution of metabolic dependency in bacteria
Dr. rer. nat. Franziska Dolke
Synthesis of Structurally Diverse Ascarosideds and the Role of very Long Chain Fatty Acids in their Biosynthesis
Dr. rer. nat. Jens Esken
Induction of tetrachloroethene respiration in Sulfurospirillum multivorans
Marycolette Ezediokpu
Volatiles in the root-mycorrhiza interaction
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Daniela Freihorst
Microarray analyses and new pheromone receptors in Schizophyllum commune
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Benjamin Funai
Combinatorial effects in the heavy metal resistance of streptomycetes
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
David Fürst
Influence of microorganisms on the phytoremediation-potential of different plants on heavy-metal contaminated soils
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Ramses Gallegos Monterrosa
Cellular interactions in single- and mixed-species biofilms of Bacillus subtilis
Dr. rer. nat. Catarina Henke
Ectomycorrhizal signaling
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Janine Hofmann
Investigation of the biosynthesis of the microbial compounds ebelactone A and B
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry
Sheila Hoshyaripour
Biophysical modelling of the bacterial cell wall
Friedrich Schiller University
Theoretical Microbial Ecology
Evans Iyamu
Hydrophobicity for exchange of signals
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Syed Ali Komail Raza
The effect of climate-relevant temperature shifts on leaf microbiota colonization
Friedrich Schiller University
Junior Research Group Plant Microbiosis
Thomas Krauße
Signaling in heavy metal resistant acinomycete communities
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Mario Krespach
Communication between Streptomyces iranensis and Aspergillus - the streptomycete´s inducing principle?
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Molecular and Applied Microbiology
Dr. rer. nat. Francesca Langella
Characterisation of the microflora at heavy metal contaminated sites
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Stefanie Lawrinowitz (neé Scheide)
stefanie.lawrinowitz@uni-jena.de
Secondary metabolome dynamics in structured artificial microhabitats
Friedrich Schiller University
Pharmaceutical Microbiology
Dr. rer. nat. Anita Mac Nelly
Expression control and biosynthesis of dehalogenating enzymes from anaerobic soil bacteria in response to the interaction with aerobic halogenating fungi
Dr. rer. nat. Soumya Madhavan
Schizophyllum commune - functional genomics
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Ashish Malik
Organic matter degradation: Linking microbial identity to metabolic function
Dr. rer. nat. Arno Märten
How do microbes influence the bioavailability of metals? A bioremediation study
Dr. rer. nat. Sathish Mayanna
Microbial influence on formation/dissolution of Fe-/Mn-oxi (hydroxides) and sorption/co-precipitation of heavy metals
Dr. rer. nat. Teresa Mayer
Whose microbiome is it? Adaptive interactions of keystone species in plant microbiomes
Friedrich Schiller University
Junior Research Group Plant Microbiosis
Dr. rer. nat. Tilottama Mazumdar
Using fluorescent Enterococcus mundtii to study the variation in its gene expression, spatially and temporally, in the gut of Spodoptera littoralis larva
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry
Pooja Mehta
Recruitment and maintenance of the Nicotiana attenuata root microbiome
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Department of Molecular Ecology
Dr. rer. nat. Riya Menezes
Analysis of nuclear migration in Schizophyllum commune by high resolution by in vivo microscopy/spectroscopy
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Eisha Mhatre
Phenotypic heterogeneity in bacterial biofilms
Mariana Murillo Roos
mariana.murillo-roos@jsmc.info
Community resource availability as a driver of convergent microbe-microbe interaction types and microbial community structures
Friedrich Schiller University
Junior Research Group Plant Microbiosis
Dr. rer. nat. Pyniarlang Nongbri
Role of Piriformospora indica in the iron/sulphur metabolism of Arabidopsis
Friedrich Schiller University
Matthias Schleiden Institute - Plant Physiology
Dr. rer. nat. Alexey Novoseloy
Impact of plant toxins on the gut microbiota community of Lepidoptera
Dr. rer. nat. Vincensius Oetama
Chlorophyll degradation in Spodoptera littoralis
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry
Dr. rer. nat. Keziah Omenge
Reverse zombification: suppressor mutagenesis of plants overexpressing phytoplasma effector proteins to identify host factors of disease phenotype
Friedrich Schiller University
Matthias Schleiden Institute - Genetics
Dr. rer. nat. Samay Pande
Ecological mechanisms that determine the maintenance of cooperative interactions
Dr. rer. nat. René Phieler
Microbial impact on phytoremediation at heavy metal contaminated soils
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Sebastian Pietschmann
sebastian.pietschmann@jsmc.info
Microbial succession in heavy-metal contaminated soils during in-situ phytoremediation
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Jessica Pötschner
Lipid rafts in fungi
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Daniel Preußger
The evolution of metabolic cooperation within bacterial communities: causes and consequences
Dr. rer. nat. Martin Reinicke
Identification of microbial consortia in heavy metal polluted soils
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Dominik Sammer (né Senftleben)
A surface hydrophobin in ectomycorrhiza interaction
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Doreen Schachtschabel
Apocarotenoids as signaling compounds in zygomycetes
Kristina Schädel
Pea aphids and their facultative bacterial endosymbionts: exploring the occurrence, effects and mechanism of a widespread symbiosis
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Department of Biochemistry
Dr. rer. nat. Frank Schindler
Vertical relocation processes within the test field Gessenwiese" in the former uranium mining area Ronneburg/Thuringia
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Eileen Schütze
Impact of streptomycetes on metal availability
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Yongqi Shao
From plant metabolites to the active core of the gut microbiota of cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis
Dr. rer. nat. Shraddha Shitut
Unraveling the dynamics of metabolite production in cross-feeding populations and study its effect on the interactions
Kerstin Unger
Pathogenicity factors as public goods - rethinking the role of “pathogens” in beneficial plant microbiomes
Friedrich Schiller University
Junior Research Group Plant Microbiosis
Dr. rer. nat. Annekatrin Voit
Quantification of Streptomycetes in metal-contaminated soil
Dr. rer. nat. Sophia Wirth
Volatilome of Schizophyllum commune
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Lukas Zehner
Molecular mechanisms involved in the induction of the ors-gene cluster of Aspergillus nidulans by Streptomyces iranensis
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Molecular and Applied Microbiology
Dr. rer. nat. Wafaa Zidan
Interaction of microorganisms with sheet silicates