Tesfaye Wubet, Ph.D.

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Tesfaye Wubet, Dr. rer. nat.

Senior Scientist in Environmental Genomics

Department of Community Ecology
Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ
Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4 | D-06120 Halle (Saale)
Germany

Tel: +49 341 6025 4204

Tesfaye Wubet


Research Interest

My scientific research focused on unraveling the mechanisms of plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions with a particular emphasis on the effect of drivers of global change such as land use intensity, climate change, as well as plant species identity and genetic diversity on the plant associated and rhizosphere soil microbiomes.

My work also focuses in understanding the role of microbes in maintaining healthy ecosystems including: pollinators, soil, and plant health. Thus, my research projects mainly aim to investigate the relationship between above ground plant species co-existence and below ground inter- and intra-kingdom microbial co-occurrence patterns, interaction networks and their functional gene profiles to maintain healthy and productive ecosystems.

I employ a range of meta-omics approaches including meta-barcoding, comparative meta-genomics and meta-transcriptomics in the frame of interdisciplinary and integrated research projects to link structural and functional diversity of microbes with diversity and community composition of plant communities in different ecosystems.


since 2018


2010 - 2017

Senior Scientist in Environmental Genomics, Department of Community Ecology

Environmental Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing group leader, Department of Soil Ecology

2007-2009

Postdoctoral research associate - Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany. Research topic: Construct soil metagenomic libraries from forest and grassland soils along land use gradients and screen for fungal functional genes. Including supervision of PhD students. Project: Biodiversity Exploratories http://www.biodiversity-exploratories.de

2004-2007

Postdoc - Department of Systematic Botany and Mycology, University of Tuebingen, Germany. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Franz Oberwinkler and Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kottke. Research Topic: Molecular diversity and community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with indigenous tree species in a mountain forest in Ethiopia.

2000-2004

Ph.D. in Botany (Mycology, Molecular Biology), Department of Systematic Botany and Mycology, University of Tuebingen, Germany. (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kottke and Prof. Dr. Franz Oberwinkler).


TreeDi - Tree Diversity Interactions

Rhizosphere soil and root associated microbiomes

Rhizosphere soil and root associated microbiomes is a project within the frame of an International Research Training Group - TreeDì (GRK 2324) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). TreeDi investigates the role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests, where our sub project focuses on the role of root associated and rhizosphere soil microbiomes. Our studies focus on the BEF China and MyDiv experimental research platforms.


Impact of pesticide exposure to pollinator health

Gut microbiomes as indicators

In close collaboration with Robert Paxton, Oliver Schweiger and Christophe Dominik, we investigate the consequences of pesticide exposure to pollinators, specifically honey and bumble bees, health and their ecosystem services. We investigate shifts in gut microbiome composition in response to pesticide exposure as indicators of bee health. Different research platforms at the lab and landscape scales are in use.


Global Change Experimental Facility (GCEF)

Soil microbiomes

Shifts in taxonomic and functional diversity, community composition and distribution patterns of soil microbiomes with main focus on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and other microbes along land use and simulated drought senarios.


DFG Priority program SPP1374 - Biodiversity Exploratories

Core project - Microorganisms

Soil fungal diversity and community composition of grassland and forest ecosystems along land use gradients in three German Biodiversity Exploratories.


DFG Research Unit FOR 918 - Carbon flow in below ground food webs assessed by isotope tracers

Soil fungi as link between plant derived carbon and soil food webs (Funlink-II). 



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