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Work & education
December 2008 - current Working as Postdoctoral Research Fellow (FNRS grant - 1 year) at the Department of Microbiology of the Animal and Microbial Biology Unit at the FUSAGx - Agricultural University of Gembloux (Belgium).
September 2007 - November 2008 Working as Research Associate and later as Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PostDoc) at different projects in the soil laboratory of Prof. Zak 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, “not defined yet”, email 2005-2006 Nico Jehmlich, “Immunologischer Nachweis pilzlicher Laccasen”, email 2005 Christian Plischke, “Molekulare Untersuchungen zur Systematik der Pezizales.” email
Conferences and schools
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) January 2001 Practical course at civil service of nature conservation, Gotha (Germany)
Talks
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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