Danuta Kapturska

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Danuta Kapturska
PhD Student

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

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Danuta Kapturska

PhD Topic

Fungal peroxidases in soils: functional and taxonomic diversity and enzymatic activities under varying land use regimes in the German Biodiversity Exploratories.
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Education

since April 2008

PhD Student in the Department of Soil Ecology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ Halle and in the Environmental Biotechnology at the International Graduate School in Zittau (Germany)

December 2007

Diploma thesis at the International Graduate School in Zittau (Germany) with major in genetics and enzymology and minors in plant physiology and microbiology. Topic: "Studies on the expression of flowering genes of Malus domestica Borkh." Laboratory workplace: Julius Kühn-Institute, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Breeding Research on Horticultural and Fruit Crops (The Institute of Fruit Breeding) in Dresden (Germany)

2004-2007

Environmental Technology Student at the International Graduate School in Zittau (Germany)

March-August 2006

Practical semester theses at the International Graduate School in Zittau (Germany). Topic: "Production and partial purification of extracellular oxidoreductases of Coprinus verticillatus."

June 2004

Bachelor’s degree at the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice (Poland) - college of the universities: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and The European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder (Germany). Topic: "Gradation problem of Cameraria ohridella and endotherapy as injective precaution of Aesculus hippocastanum in Europe."

2001-2004

Environmental Protection Student at the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice (Poland)

June 2001

Baccalaureate at grammar school Władysław Broniewski in Krosno Odrzańskie (Poland)


Conferences

Kapturska D (2011) How to Trust Sequence-based Fungal Diversity in Soils? HIGRADE Conference 7, Leipzig, Germany (lecture)

Kapturska D, Wubet T, Krüger D. (2010) Comparing new and old rDNA primers for detecting basidiomycetes in soils. International Symposium on Advances in Extraction Technologies 12, Poznań, Poland (poster)

Kapturska D, Wubet T, Krüger D. (2010) The hidden diversity of Agaricomycotina in broadleaf forests of the German Hainich-Dün Biodiversity Exploratory revealed by using new 28S rDNA primers. International Mycological Congress 9 „The Biology of Fungi”, Edinburgh, UK (poster)

Krüger D, Kapturska D, Wubet T. (2010) Comparing new and old rDNA primers for detecting basidiomycetes in soils. International Mycological Congress 9 „The Biology of Fungi”, Edinburgh, UK (poster)

Kapturska D, Pecyna M, Hofrichter M, Krüger D. (2010) Diversity of ligninolytic basidiomycetes along a land use gradient in beech and spruce forests. International Symposium on Peroxidases 9 and European Meeting in OxiZymes 4, Leipzig, Germany (poster)

Kapturska D, Krüger D, Hofrichter M. (2009) Uncultured basidiomycete diversity along a land use gradient in beech and spruce forests of the German Hainich-Dün Biodiversity Exploratory. GfÖ 2009 39 „Dimensions of ecology - from global change to molecular ecology”, Bayreuth, Germany (poster)

Kapturska D (2008) HIGRADE Conference (Doc Days 2008) Fungal peroxidases in soils. 5, Dessau, Germany (lecture)

International Peroxidase Symposium 8 (FESPB 2008) Tampere, Finland


Publications

Hättasch C., Flachowsky H., Kapturska D., Hanke M-V. (2008)
Isolation of flowering genes and seasonal changes in their transcript levels related to flower induction and initiation in apple (Malus domestica).
Tree Physiology 28:1459-1466
doi:10.1093/treephys/28.10.1459

Gröbe, G., Ullrich, R., Pecyna, M.J., Kapturska, D., Friedrich, S., Hofrichter, M., Scheibner, K. (2011)
High-yield production of aromatic peroxygenase by the agaric fungus Marasmius rotula.
AMB Express 1(31)
doi:10.1186/F2191-0855-1-31

Krüger, D., Kapturska, D., Fischer, C., Daniel, R., Wubet, T. (2012)
Diversity measures in environmental sequences are highly dependent on alignment quality - Data from ITS and new LSU primers targeting Basidiomycetes.
PLoS ONE 7(2): e32139
doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0032139

Purahong, W., Kapturska, D., Pecyna, M.J., Schulz, E., Schloter, M., Buscot, F., Hofrichter, M., Krüger, D. (2014)
Influence of different forest system management practices on leaf litter decomposition rates, nutrient dynamics and the activity of ligninolytic enzymes: a case study from Central European forests.
PLoS ONE 9(4): e93700
doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0093700

Kellner, H., Luis, P., Pecyna, M.J., Barbi, F., Kapturska, D., Krüger, D., Zak, D.R., Marmeisse, R., Vandenbol, M., Hofrichter, M. (2014)
Widespread occurrence of expressed fungal secretory peroxidases in forest soils.
PLoS ONE 9(4): e95557
doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0095557

Purahong, W., Schloter, M., Pecyna, M.J., Kapturska, D., Däumlich, V., Mital, S., Buscot, F., Hofrichter, M., Gutknecht, J.L.M., Krüger, D. (2014)
Uncoupling of microbial community structure and function in decomposing litter across beech forest ecosystems in Central Europe.
Scientific Reports 4, art. 7014
doi:10.1038/srep07014

Purahong, W., Kapturska, D., Pecyna, M.J., Jariyavidyanont, K., Kaunzner, J., Juncheed, K., Uengwetwanit, T., Rudloff, R., Schulz, E., Hofrichter, M., Schloter, M., Krüger, D., Buscot, F. (2015)
Effects of forest management practices in temperate beech forests on bacterial and fungal communities involved in leaf litter degradation.
Microbial Ecology 69(4):905-913
doi:10.1007/s00248-015-0585-8