Judit Laufer
Contact
Judit Laufer
PhD Student
Department of Environmental Microbiology
Working Group Microbial Systems Ecology
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Phone +49 341 235-1377
judit.laufer@ufz.de
CV / Scientific Career
since July 2017
PhD student
in the project P3: People, Pollution and Pathogens Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Department of Environmental Microbiology
2013 - 2016
Technical assistant
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Müncheberg, Institute of Landscape Biogeochemistry
2010 - 2013
University Jena
Master thesis: The effect of biochar on soil microbial biomass and carbon and nitrogen cycling: a greenhouse experiment – at Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena, Department Biogeochemical Processes
2010 - 2012
Student assistant
Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena
2006 - 2010
Bachelor of Science (BioGeoSciences)
University Jena
Bachelor thesis: Digital maps of soil pollution maps in the region Könitz-Goßwitz, Thuringia, Germany.
Research interests
My work focusses on the microbial community composition and interactions between bacteria, micro-eukaryotes and fungi in high mountain lake ecosystems. Correlations between the environmental microbiome characteristics and the presence of emerging amphibian pathogens (Ranavirus and the fungus Batrachochytrium dentrobatitis, primarily responsible for the worldwide decline of amphibian populations), are expected and will be studied in relation to aspects of environmental change, biotic and abiotic factors. The overall aim of the P3-project "People, Pollution, Pathogens" is to establish mountains as sentinels of change. Here you find the Project-webpage including a blog: https://www.p3mountains.org/
Publications
Thuille A., Laufer J., Höhl C., Gleixner G.: Carbon quality affects the
nitrogen partitioning between plants and soil microorganisms.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Vol. 81, Feb. 2015, S. 266-274.