Linda Rigerte

Contact / Address


Linda Rigerte
PhD Student

Department of Soil Ecology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4 | D-06120 Halle/Saale
Germany

Linda Rigerte

Current Research Project

Investigation of mechanisms of interactions between a synthetic bacterial community and barley (Hordeum vulgare) under drought stress, focusing at the levels of bacterial and barley gene expression and measures of barley drought tolerance.

CV / Scientific Career

since 2022

Doctoral researcher at Soil Ecology department, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ

2021

Scientific research assistant, Dept. Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne, Germany

2020

Scientific research assistant, Dept. Forest Botany and Tree Physiology, Georg-August-Universität Göettingen, Göttingen Germany

2019

Scientific research assistant, Dept. Wildlife Sciences, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

2018

M.Sc. in Tropical International Forestry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Thesis topic: Identification and characterization of root fungal endophyte antagonists against Heterobasidion parviporum (white rot fungus) from coniferous hosts

2014

B.Sc. in Environmental Science, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia


Publications

Rigerte, L., Blumenstein, K., Terhonen, E. (2019): New R-Based Methodology to Optimize the Identification of Root Endophytes against Heterobasidion parviporum. Microorganisms 7(4), 102, https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7040102

Raghavan, V., Kraft, L., Mesny, F., Rigerte, L. (2022): A simple guide to de novo transcriptome assembly and annotation. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 23(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbab563


Conference Contributions

Posters

Rigerte, L., Reitz, T., Heintz-Buschart, A., Tarkka, M.T. (2024): Drought tolerant synthetic bacterial community from barley and wheat rhizosphere. ISRR 12th International Symposium 2024. Leipzig, Germany

Rigerte, L., Reitz, T., Heintz-Buschart, A., Tarkka, M.T. (2024): Drought tolerant synthetic bacterial community from barley rhizosphere. The 52nd annual conference of the GfÖ. Leipzig, Germany