Sarah Unrath, née Haenelt

PhD student in ProVIS group .

Contact / Address:

E-mail:
sarah.haenelt@ufz.de

Phone:
+49 (0) 341 235 482393


Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Sarah Haenelt

In the PhD college FATE we want to improve our understanding of the fate and effects of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance along the pathways from environmental source to sink compartments.

I am working in the FATE project III - Surface waters - since June 2020, studying the Holtemme river in the Harz mountain region in central Germany. Antibiotics in surface waters are an immediate concern primarily due to the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Little is known, however, about how antibiotics are affecting microbial functions and the ecology of natural microbial communities. An equally important aspect of the environmental dimension is the fate of antibiotics in the aquatic environment. In this context, this PhD project is using stable isotope labeling combined with molecular biology and single-cell approaches to address these knowledge gaps in field studies and lab-scale experiments.


06/2020 - now PhD student
Fate and effects of antibiotics in surface waters.
PhD College FATE
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Department Isotope Biogeochemistry
Leipzig, Germany
02/2020 - 05/2020 Lab assistant
Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology
Group MicroDiagnostics
Leipzig, Germany
10/2017 - 01/2020 Master of Science Biotechnology
Grade 1.4

Saarland University
Saarbrücken, Germany
06/2019 - 01/2020 Master student
Development of a detection method for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease using Tau proteins.
Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology
Group MicroDiagnostics
Leipzig, Germany
01/2018 - 09/2018 Lab assistant
Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research
Group Biogenic Nanotherapeutics
Saarbrücken, Germany
10/2014 - 09/2017 Bachelor of Science Biotechnology
Grade 1.3
University of Applied Sciences
Mittweida, Germany
03/2017 - 09/2017 Bachelor student
Evaluation of homogenous and heterogenous immunoassays regarding their suitability for the detection of the biomarker TIMP-1 in urine.
Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology
Group MicroDiagnostics
Leipzig, Germany
03/2016 Internship
Investigations on stability and response time of iridium-coated pH electrodes.
Kurt-Schwabe-Institut für Mess- und Sensortechnik
Meinsberg, Germany

  • Quantitative real-time PCR
  • epicPCR
  • 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and microbial community analyses
  • HPLC-MS
  • EA-IRMS
  • Homogeneous and heterogeneous immunoassays
  • Cell culture techniques

  • Fate of antibiotics in aquatic environments
  • Effect of antibiotics on microbial community structure and function    
  • Spread of antibiotic resistance in aquatic environments
  • Development and spread of antibiotic resistance in aquatic biofilms

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Theses

Master thesis (Saarland University, 2020)

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Bachelor thesis (University of Applied Sciences, 2017)

Bachelorthesis_SarahHaenelt_DE (1.4 MB)