Funding: DFG | Project term: 2017 - 2020 (fifth phase)
Web: Biodiversity Exploratories  

• core project 8 - Microorganisms
  

  "Soil fungal diversity and community composition of grassland and forest ecosystems along land-use gradients in three German Biodiversity Explanatories"
  
  Contact: 
  Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Tesfaye Wubet , Dr. Kezia Goldmann , Ricardo Schöps , Beatrix Schnabel , Luise Kaiser
  Web: Microorganisms

• MicroSYSteM II (contributing project)
  

  "Microbial Data Synthesis and Meta-analysis for the Biodiversity Exploratories"

  Contact:
  Prof. Dr. François Buscot
  Web: MicroSYSteM II

• BLD-FFD-HZG II (contributing project)
  

  "BELongDead - Fungal Functional Diversity - Halle/Zittau/Grafenau (BLD-FFD-HZG). Fungal and     bacterial structural diversity and the expression and diversity of wood decay relevant genes in coarse     woody debris"

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

Funding: BiodivERsA | Project term: 2017 - 2019
Web: BiodivERsA


BiodivERsA - the network programming and funding research on biodiversity and ecosystem services across European countries and territories. It is an ERA-NET Co-fund, funded under the EU’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.

European Joint Call 2015-2016 – funded project:

• SoilForEurope - Predicting European forest soil biodiversity and its functioning under ongoing climate change
  

  contributing project
  "Determination of soil microbial communities and their ecosystem functions according to tree species richness in different types of European forests."

  
  Contact:
  Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Luis Daniel Prada Salcedo
  Web: SoilForEurope
  Platforms: FunDivEurope exploratories   and two TreeDivNet sites
  

Funding: iDiv – Flexpool (DFG) | Project term: 2017 - 2019 
Web: iDiv-Flexpool

• Flexpool project
  

  “How trees adapt to changing abiotic and biotic pressure during their long life? Using the endogenous rhythmic growth trait of oak trees to disentangle interplays between morphological, genetic and defence-metabolic plasticity.”

  Contact:
  Prof. Dr. François Buscot Dr. Sylvie Herrmann , Dr. Mika Tarkka , Dr. Iván Fernández López , Dr. Martin Schaedler ,
  

  

  Research Platform
  
  

Funding: DAAD | Project term: 2017 - 2019 
Web: DAAD

• Project in frame of a doctoral scholarship
  

  “Molecular characterization of the microbiome associated to roots of a clonal oak tree used as an indicator system (a phytometer) across different field sites in central Germany and in Europe”

  Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Sylvie Herrmann , Jean de Dieu Habiyaremye , Dr. Kezia Goldmann
  

  

  Research Platform

Funding: DBU (20015/391 | Project term: 2016 - 2019
Web: DBU

• Project in frame of the DBU Doctoral Scholarship Programme
  

  "Increasing the stress resistance of agricultural ecosystems through plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) using winter wheat (Triticum L.) production as a case study."

  Contact: Claudia Breitkreuz , Dr. Mika Tarkka , Dr. Thomas Reitz
  Platform: GCEF

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

• Project
  

  "Impact of climate change on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities under different land-use types."
  

  Contact: Sara Wahdan , Dr. Thomas Reitz , Prof. Dr. François Buscot
  Platform: GCEF

Funding: iDiv (DFG) | Project term: 2017 - 2020
Web: iDiv

• Joint project at UFZ/Soil ecology and iDiv/Bioinformatics Unit (BIU)
  

  “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 , Dr. Anna Heintz-Buschart
  

Funding: DFG | Project term: 2013 - 2015 (GFBio), 2015 - 2018 (GFBio II)
Web : GFBio

GFBio – a sustainable, service oriented, national data infrastructure facilitating data sharing for biological and environmental research

Contact: Prof. Dr. François Buscot , Dr. Anna Heintz-Buschart , Christina Weißbecker