Tasks

• Research Associate/Post-Doc in the group Bacteriology/Microbial Ecology (AG Babin)
• Molecular analysis of structure and diversity of soil and rhizosphere microbiomes
• Ecology of soil microorganisms and plant pathogens
• Evaluation of effects of agricultural management practices on microbial communities, plant and soil health, soil suppressiveness
• Microbial-plant interactions in the rhizosphere
• Bacterial interactions
• Metagenomics and Bioinformatics
• Machine learning algorithms in amplicon sequencing data for improving agriculture
• Synthetic microbial communities for improving plant health
• Ecology of antimicrobial resistance

Projects:

• Implications of soil management practices and application of biocontrol strains on soil disease suppressiveness for improved soil health and sustainable plant production (DiControl- BonaRes)

• Http://dicontrol.igzev.de/de/
  http://www.bonares.de/de/