HIGRADE Conference

At the HIGRADE Conference, doctoral researchers in their final year present their work and HIGRADE alumni receive their HIGRADE Certificates.

- 08 May 2019, UFZ Leipzig: KUBUS -

We invite all UFZ colleagues and our cooperation partners.

Registration: Please register here by 29 April!

Programme

2:00 pm

~3:00 pm Open Poster Session

4:30 pm Award Ceremony - Chair: Dr. Iris Köhler

Awarding of HIGRADE certificates and poster prizes
Keynote speaker: Dr. Hendrik Huthoff (Scientific Manager, Jena School for Microbial Communication):

"Failure sucks but it instructs" - what a polished CV doesn't tell you

~5:30 pm Get-together

1 Andrea Ebert (AUC) "From permeability to toxicity"
2 Anne Mendler (IMMU) "Chlorpyrifos treatment of commensal gut bacteria alters their modulation of MAIT cell activity in vitro"
3 Erik Müller (WANA) "Computational models for pattern analysis of environmental mixtures"
4 Isabel Kratochvil (MOLSYB) "Proteomics to develop nanomaterial grouping strategies in vitro and in vivo"
5 Jannike Lea Krause (IMMU/MOLYSB) "Changes in pH can modify the ability of bacteria to stimulate MAIT cells"
6 Katharina Halbach (ANA) "Toxicokinetic investigations on µm scale in the zebrafish embryo"
7 Konstantinos Giannopoulos (ANA) "Characterization of nanoparticles and their coatings in complex media"
8 Laura Krieg (MOLSYB) "Analysis of obesity-related biomarkers in human serum using LC-MS/MS"
9 Rohit Budhraja (ISOBIO) Comparative metalloproteomics of different anaerobically respiring microorganisms
10 Sebastian Henz (OEKOTOX) "Modelling the effects of pesticides on the survival of aquatic macroinvertebrates"
11 Stephanie Schäpe (MOLSYB) "SIHUMIx – an in vitro model of the human intestine to investigate environmental stressors"
12 Weiying Ouyang (ISOBIO) "Microbial degradation of antibiotic sulfamethoxazole under aerobic and anaerobic conditions"

13 Charlotte Wiederkehr (CLE) "Environmental change and human migration - insights from synthesis approaches"
14 Eleonore Slabbert (BZF) "Scale-dependent impact of land management on above- and below-ground biodiversity"
15 Julia Palliwoda (CLE) "Tree cover and the use of ecosystem services in urban green infrastructure in the city of Leipzig"
16 Juliane Groth (CLE) "Why farmers choose to migrate under changing environmental conditions in the Ethiopian highlands – a qualitative comparative analysis"
17 Lisanne Hölting (CLE) "Towards maintaining multiple ecosystem services in European landscapes"
18 Luis Daniel Prada Salcedo (BOOEK) "Influence of tree species richness on fungal communities and their ecosystem functions in different types of European forests"
19 Maik Lucas (BOSYS) "Roots change the pore structure only if they have to – development of biopores and compaction around roots"
20 Marija Milanovic (BZF) "Trait-environmental relationship between native and non-native plant species"
21 Niklas Hase (CLE) "Measurements and simulations of seasonal changes in canopy reflectance of a deciduous forest"
22 Peter Hofmann (UMB/PHYDIV) "Phytoplankton trait shifts along environmental gradients in a species specific way"
23 Peter Dietrich (PHYDIV) "How does biodiversity loss affect the response of plant species to global change?"
24 Sara Wahdan (BOOEK) "Metabolically active and total microbiome in rhizosphere soil response to climate change in grassland ecosystem"

25 Felix Reutter (OEKON) "Minimum distances for wind turbines – a model-based ecological-economic analysis"
26 Jingxia Wang (SUSOZ) "Urban green infrastructure matters!"
27 Julian R. Massenberg (OEKON) "Is there such a thing as 'social values of ecosystem services' ?"
28 Juliane Schicketanz (SUSOZ) "Walking or being brought to school by car? Understanding activity behavior of children through LINA cohort data, neighborhood analysis and walking interviews"
29 Matthias Jordan (BIOENERGIE) "Smart heating systems to fulfill climate targets in the German heat sector: findings from optimization modelling"

30 Bin Liu (UMB) "The best bet to boost reactor microbiomes not being lazy"
31 Federica Calabrese (ISOBIO) "Single-cell metabolic heterogeneity in monoclonal microbial populations"
32 Mariam Karagulyan (UBT) "Impact of bacterial biomass on the surface wettability of soil particles"
33 Michaela Löffler (ISOBIO) "Tracking hydrogenase activity with hydrogen stable isotopes"
34 Samuel Eziuzor (ISOBIO) "Anaerobic benzene mineralization by natural microbial communities from Niger Delta"
35 Sarah Sühnholz (TUCHEM) "New particles for protecting groundwater"

36 Lukas Egli (OESA) "Temporal effects of climate, crop diversity and inputs on the variability of global agricultural production"
37 Meike Will (OESA) "Count on insurance or on your friends? Modelling the effects of formal protection on risk-sharing networks"

38 Alexander T. L. Vosshage (FLOEK) "Bottom-up control of the top-down control: Biofilm’s food quality alters the foraging behavior of grazers"
39 Izabela Bujak (CATHYD) "Integrative isotope techniques to quantify nitrogen fate and transport across agricultural catchments"
40 Jarno Rouhiainen (CATHYD) "What can we learn form water transient times and nitrate isotopes in river catchments"
41 Larisa Tarasova (CATHYD) "The flood cookbook: ingredients and regional flavor across Germany"
42 Philipp Keller (SEEFO) "Greenhouse gas emissions from dry inland waters: mechanisms and quantification on local and global scale"
43 Daniele Frascareli (SEEFO) "Heterogeneity of land use and soil chemistry explain longitudinal differences in surface sediment geochemistry"
44 Chenxi Mi (SEEFO) "The formation of a metalimnetic oxygen minimum exemplifies how ecosystem dynamics shape biogeochemical processes"