» Biodiversity Experiments
Funding: DFG | Project term: 2020 - 2023 (sixth phase)
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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
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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
» Oak – an important forest tree: physiology, traits, biotic/abiotic interactions, adaption under a changing environment
Funding: DAAD | Project term: 2017 - 2021
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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
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
» GCEF – Global Change Experimental Facility: exploring ecosystem processes under climate and land use-specific changes
Funding: Ministry of Higher Education Egypt | Project term: 2017 - 2021
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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
» Biological Data / Bioinformatics
Funding: iDiv (DFG) | Project term: 2017 - 2021
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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: iDiv / FlexPool (DFG) | Project term: 2020 - 2021
- 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. Anna Heintz-Buschart , Christina Weißbecker
Cooperation: Prof. Nico Eisenhauer (iDiv, Leipzig University), Dr. Carlos Guerra (iDiv, MLU Halle), Prof. Kirsten Küsel (iDiv, FSU Jena)
» Further Projects
DFG Priority Program 2089 “Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organization – a Key to Rhizosphere Functions”
Funding: DFG (TA 290/5-1) | Project term: 2018 - 2021 (first phase)
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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 - Rootgenes
“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 , Dr. Mika Tarkka