Funding: DFG | Project term: 2020 - 2023 (sixth phase)
Web: Biodiversity Exploratories  

• Microorganisms (core project 8)
  

  "Soil microbial diversity and community composition of grassland and forest ecosystems along land use gradients in three German Biodiversity Exploratories"
  
  Contact: 
  Prof. Dr. François Buscot ,  Dr. Kezia Goldmann ,  Beatrix Schnabel
  Web: Microorganisms

• BLD-MFD-HZG III (contributing project)
  

  "BELongDead - Multitrophic functional diversity in deadwood"

  Contact:
  Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Julia Moll , Dr. Björn Hoppe
  Web: BLD-MFD-HZG III
  

Funding: DFG | Project term: 2020 - 2023 
Web: The Jena Experiment  


Biotic interactions, community assembly, and eco-evolutionary dynamics as drivers of long-term biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

• Subproject 1
  

  "Microbial root symbionts as drivers of eco-evolutionary dynamics and long-term biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in plant communities"
  
  Contact: 
  Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Anna Heintz-Buschart , Cynthia Albracht
  Web: The Jena Experiment - Subproject 1

Funding: ERC H2020-MSCA-IF | Project term: 2019 - 2021 

• OakMycEvo
  

  “Functional ecology of the plant-fungus interface: Harnessing evolutionary genomics, transcriptomics and experimental ecology to dissect communication and nutrient exchange in a mutualistic symbiosis”

  Contact:
  Dr. Jaqueline Heß , Dr. Sylvie Herrmann , Prof. Dr. François Buscot
  

  

  Research Platform
  
  

Funding: Ministry of Higher Education Egypt | Project term: 2017 - 2021
Web: Ministry of Higher Education

• Project
  

  "Environmental drivers of soil and plant microbiomes in agricultural and grassland ecosystems."
  

  Contact: Sara Fareed Mohamed Wahdan , Dr. Witoon Purahong , Prof. Dr. François Buscot
  Platform: GCEF

Funding: iDiv (DFG) | Project term: 2017 - 2021, 2021 - 2024
Web: iDiv

• Joint project at UFZ/Soil ecology and iDiv
  

  “Developing and adaption of bioinformatics analysis pipelines for metagenome and metatranscriptome data of highly diverse (micro)organisms communities. Performing bioinformatics and multivariate statistics. Providing guidance and training.”

  Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot
  

Funding: iDiv / FlexPool (DFG) | Project term: 2020 - 2021 (phase I)
                                                                          2021 - 2022 (phase II)

• Joint project at UFZ/Deptartment of Soil Ecology and iDiv/Metagemomics Support Unit (Metagen)
  
  “Diversity and scenario modelling of molecular markers of plant pathogens in plant, litter and soil metagenomes”
  
  Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Qicheng Bei
  Cooperation: Prof. Nico Eisenhauer (iDiv, Leipzig University), Dr. Carlos Guerra (iDiv, MLU Halle), Prof. Kirsten Küsel (iDiv, FSU Jena)
  

Funding: DFG (TA 290/5-1) | Project term: 2018 - 2021 (first phase)
                                                                    2022 - 2025 (second phase)
Web: SPP - Rhizosphere  

The Rhizosphere Priority Program aims at the identification of patterns in space and time in the volume of the soil affected by living roots, the rhizosphere. Its major goal is the explanation of the mechanisms behind and feedback processes between the soil, soil microorganisms and the plants during rhizosphere establishment. The overall hypothesis of the Priority Program is that resilience emerges from self-organized spatiotemporal pattern formation in the rhizosphere.

• contributing project P8 - Root Genes
  

  “Spatial and temporal analysis of maize root gene expression patterns as a tool to elucidate how the maize interacts with rhizosphere microbiome”
  
  Contact:  Minh Ganther (first project phase), Dr. Mika Tarkka

• contributing project P13 - Microzym (Kinetics & Microzymography)

  “Microbial life in the rhizosphere: kinetics and visualization of the functions”
  
  Contact: Negar Ghaderi Golezani (first project phase), Zeeshan Ibrahim (first project phase), Dr. Evgenia Blagodatskaya