Working groups

Environmental Antimicrobial Resistance

Environmental Antimicrobial Resistance

Head: Dr. Anja Worrich
Tel. +49 341 6025-2295
anja.worrich@ufz.de

  • Effects of single and combined factors of global change on microbial communities
  • Consequences of adaptation for soil functions
  • Modulation of the adaptive capacity of plants by microorganisms

Working group Environmental Antimicrobial Resistance


Bioavailability

Bioavailability

Head: Dr. Lukas Y. Wick
Tel. +49 341 6025-1316
lukas.wick@ufz.de

  • Quantification and process-based analysis of the effect of substrate bioavailability/ bioaccessibility on the autecology and ecology of contaminant biodegradation in soil
  • Process-based development of novel biotechnological remediation approaches for contaminated soil (‘fungal-highways, electro-bioremediation’)

Working group Bioavailability


Flow Cytometry

Flow Cytometry

Head: Prof. Dr. Susann Müller
Tel. +49 341 6025-1318
susann.mueller@ufz.de

  • Study of the life strategies of microbial populations
  • Optimisation of biotechnological and environmental processes based on single cell data which are obtained with multi-parameter flow cytometry

Working group Flow Cytometry


Microbial Data Science

Microbial Systems Data Science

Head: Dr. Ulisses Nunes da Rocha
Tel. +49 341 6025-1865
ulisses.rocha@ufz.de

  • Extending genome-scale microbial interaction models to the diversity observed in terrestrial environments
  • Prediction of the capacity of microbial ecosystems to handle disturbances using multi-omics analysis
  • Data mining for functional traits related with contaminant degradation

Working group Microbial Data Science


Microbial Interaction Ecology

Microbial Interaction Ecology

Head: Prof. Dr. Antonis Chatzinotas
Tel. +49 341 6025-1324
antonis.chatzinotas@ufz.de

  • Description of interactions within and between microbial trophic levels focusing on prokaryotes, viruses, protists and fungi
  • Emphasis on the importance of these interactions for the establishment, the stability and the resilience of microbial systems and services

Working group Microbial Interaction Ecology


Plant Biogeochemistry

Plant Biogeochemistry

Head: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Marie Muehe
Tel. +49 341 6025-1336
marie.muehe@ufz.de

  • Evaluation of how and to what extend climate changes contaminant bioavailability in soils and how that imprints on plant performance
  • Emphasis on characterising and optimising root growth and functioning, rhizobiome dynamics and soil geochemistry and mineralogy in rhizosphere

Working group Plant Biogeochemistry


Environmental Mycology

Environmental Mycology

Head: Dr. Dietmar Schlosser
Tel. +49 341 6025-1329
dietmar.schlosser@ufz.de

  • Exploration of mechanisms, conditions, and constrains of degradation and biotransformation of environmental pollutants (micropollutants, synthetic polymers, and polymer additives) in fungi of diverse habitats and lifestyles
  • Application of fungi in environmental biotechnology and lignocellulosic waste valorisation

Working group Environmental Mycology