Tasks

• Research Associate in the group Bacteriology/Microbial Ecology (AG Babin)
• DFG funded research project “SuppressSoil”
• Microbiology, molecular ecology, plant-microbe interaction, soil suppressiveness
• Microbial communities in bulk, rhizosphere and rhizoplane soils
• Effects of agricultural systems (climate change, plant management) on soil microbial communities and plant health
• Molecular analysis of structure and composition of microbial communities in the wheat rhizosphere and rhizoplane
• Agroecosystem experimentation (setting up and running field trials and greenhouse experiments)
• DNA-based strategies to microbiome analyses and characterization, next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics