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Work & Education
Current
Working as Postdoctoral Research Fellow on EU-funded project “Novel and more robust fungal peroxidases as industrial biocatalysts (PEROXICATS)”, at the Department of Environmental Biotechnology, International Graduate School (IHI) Zittau (Germany)
December 2008 - November 2010
Working as Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1 year, Belgian FNRS grant no. 2.4503.08) at the Department of Microbiology of the Animal and Microbial Biology Unit at the FUSAGx - Agricultural University of Gembloux, now: Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (GxABT), part of University of Liege (Belgium). Topic: “Identification of new functions, from prokaryote and eukaryote origins, by soil metagenomic approaches.” Then working on own project “Identification of new fungal genes, encoding lignocellulolytic enzymes, in soil metatranscriptomic libraries”.
September 2007 - November 2008
Working as Research Associate and later as Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PostDoc) at different projects in the Soil Research Group of the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan (USA).
November 2007
Finishing of my PhD thesis at University of Leipzig and the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Halle-Leipzig GmbH, Department of Soil Ecology with topic “Diversity and expression of fungal and bacterial laccase genes in soils and cultures". The topic was embedded in the DFG joined research program SPP 1090 "Soils as source and sink for CO2".
June 2003
Diploma degree in Biology at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena (Germany). Major subject was Ecology combined with Plant Sciences, Marine Biology and Environmental Law as minor subjects. Topic of the diploma thesis was: "Investigations on the biology and systematics of the Morchellaceae".
1999-2000
Two semesters at Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki (Greece) supported by the ERASMUS program.
July 1995
Baccalaureate at Grammar School 7 „Albert Schweitzer”, Erfurt (Germany).
Teaching practice
2003-2006
Scientific assistant of practical course “Molecular Ecology”, Leipzig
2003
Scientific assistant at project SPP1090, Leipzig
2002
Scientific assistant of practical course “Molecular Methods in Ecology”, Jena
2001-2002
Scientific assistant of practical courses “GPS/GIS” and “Major Practical Course II”, Jena
Coaching of graduate student work
2009
Vincent Depryck, “Screening of metatranscriptomic libraries”
2005-2006
Nico Jehmlich, “Immunologischer Nachweis pilzlicher Laccasen”, email
2005
Christian Plischke, “Molekulare Untersuchungen zur Systematik der Pezizales.” email
Conferences and schools
April 2011
Ecology of Soil Microorganisms, Prag, Czech Republic
August 2010
International Mycological Congress - IMC9, Edinburgh, Scotland; talk
June 2010
OxiZymes, Leipzig, Germany; talk
May 2010
Yeasterday 2010, Leuven, Belgium; talk
August 2009
EMBO Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands; poster
December 2006
5th Leipzig Research Festival for Life Sciences, Leipzig (Germany); poster
March 2006
Final workshop - DFG priority program 1090, Thurnau (Germany); poster
December 2005
4th Leipzig Research Festival for Life Sciences, Leipzig (Germany); poster
April 2005
General Assembly of European Geosciences Union, Vienna (Austria); poster
September 2004
International Congress of German Mycological Society (DGfM), Friedrichroda (Germany); talk
September 2004
Annual Conference of the Ecological Society "Eco-complexity and dynamics of the cultural landscape", Giessen (Germany); talk
June 2004
Summer school "Functions of microbial communities in soils and aquifers", GSF Munich (Germany)
October 2003
International Conference "Mechanisms and Regulation of Organic Matter Stabilisation in Soils", Munich 2003 (Germany)
September 2003
International Symposium "Structure and Function of Soil Microbiota", Marburg (Germany)
February 2003
Practical course "Molecular Phylogeny Reconstruction“, University of Tübingen (Germany)
Invited talks
August 2011
Mycological Society of America Meeting, Fairbanks, USA
January 2011
Goodwater Winterschool, LabMET, Ghent University, Belgium
September 2010
Unit of Bioengineering, University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL), Belgium
November 2009
Unit of Bioengineering, University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL), Belgium
November 2009
Peatland Microbiology Group, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland
June 2009
Mycorrhiza Group, Microbial Ecology Unit, University of Lyon, France
June 2007
School of Natural Resources and Environment, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Novmber 2006
PhD colloquium, IHI-Zittau, Germany
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