MitarbeiterInnen - staff

FACHGEBIETS-LEITUNG/HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT

Prof.Dr. Jens Boenigk

Research interests

Evolutionary ecology & Organismic interactions        

Biodiversity & Systematic biology

Environmental change & biogeography

Publications

 

Contact

Room: S05 V05 E32

Telephone: +49 201 183 3118/4302

E-mail: jens.boenigk[at]uni-due.de

 

SEKRETARIAT/OFFICE

SEKRETARIAT/OFFICEHeike Todenhöfer

Opening hours for secretariat office

Mon-Fri: 7:30 am - 11:30 am                  

 

Contact

Room: S05 V05 E29

Telephone: +49 201 183 3118

Fax: +49 201 183 4290

E-mail: heike.todenhoefer [at]uni-due.de

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/Scientists

Dr. Christina Bock

Research interests

Phylogeny and systematics of chlorophytes and chrysophytes

Biodiversity of Protists                                                

Diversity patterns

Publications

Contact

Room: S05 V05 F39

Telephone: +49 201 183 4514

Email: christina.bock@uni-due.de

Dr. Sara Beszteri

Research interests

Complex chemical compounds and their effects on protists

 

Contact

Room: S05 V05 F28 

Telephone: +49 201 183 2441

E-mail: sara.beszteri@uni-due.de

Dr. Guido Sieber

Research interests

Water and soil protists and their potential indication

 

 

Contact

Room: S05 V05 F28                                       

Telephone: +49 201 183 2441

email: guido.sieber@uni-due.de

Dr. Michael Kloster

Research interests

Automated diatom taxonomy

Imaging, Analysis, and Deep learning

 

Contact

Room: S05 V05 E35                                       

Telephone: +49 201 183 4513

email: michael.kloster@uni-due.de

Doktoranden/innen/PhD students

Manan Shah

Research interests

Understanding microbial diversity using multi-omics approach.

Next generation sequencing and data analysis

More about me:  https://bioinformatics-india.dev/about 

 

Contact

Room: S05 V05 F28

Telephone: +49 201 183 2441

E-mail: manan.shah@uni-due.de

Lisa Boden

Research interests

Stressor modulated community responses and functional redundancy of microbial predator-prey interactions

 

 

Contact

Room: S05 V05 F30

Telephone: +49 201 183 3200

E-mail: lisa.boden@uni-due.de

Aman Deep

Research interests

The roles of bacteria and fungi for CPOM degradation during stressor increase and release
 
Amplicon and Metatrascriptomics Data Analysis
 

 

Contact

Room: S05 V05 F30

Telephone: +49 201 183 3200

E-mail: aman.deep@uni-due.de

Dana Bludau

Research interests

Bioaccumulation and effects of microplastic and tire abrassion particles in river biofilms.
 
 

Contact

Room: S05 V05 F30

Telephone: +49 201 183 3200

E-mail:  dana.bludau@uni-due.de

Technisches Personal/Technical staff

Susann Chamrad

Tasks/Duties           

Maintenance culture collection                            

Supervision of student lab work           

Molecular lab work

General lab work

Contact

Room: S05 V05 F41                            

Telephone: +49 201 183 2450

email: susann.chamrad@uni-due.de        

 

Simone Engelskirchen

Tasks/Duties           

Supervision of student lab work           

Ecophysiological experiments

General lab work

 

Contact

Room: S05 V05 F41                            

Telephone: +49 201 183 2450

email: simone.engelskirchen@uni-due.de    

Assoziierte Wissenschaftler/Associated scientists

Dr. Daniela Beisser

Research interests

Next-generation sequence analysis in biodiversity research

Metagenome and transcriptome studies for freshwater habitats

Transcriptome and genome assemblies of microbial species (eg Chrysophyceae)

Assessment of molecular reactions and responses to environmental stressors 

Network analysis using different *omics datasets in conjunction with biological networks

More information and publications can be found here 

Contact

E-mail: daniela.beisser@w-hs.de

 

Dr. Siegfried Jahnke

Research interests

Non-invasive approaches in plant research (eg MRI-PET)

Automation and robotics in plant phenotyping

Gas exchange and carbon transport

Seed phenotyping

Publications

Contact

E-mail: siegfried.jahnke@uni-due.de

More information

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Bruno Mies

Teaching/Classes

Tropical botany                                                   

Vegetation of Central Europe

 

Contact

E-mail: bruno.mies@uni-due.de

Alumni

Prof. Dr. Nosratollah Ale-Agha Scientist: Microfungi

Sonja Amri

Master Thesis: Effects of the Antibiotics Doxycycline and Sulfamethazine on Diatoms
Yesim Attak Bachelor thesis: Morphological and molecular analysis of plankton diversity in European lakes
Franziska Baier Bachelor thesis: Biodiversity and environmental change: Does biodiversity reduce the risk of extinction?
Marisa Bartling PhD Student: Molecular evolution and phylogeny of the Excavates
Elif Demir Master's thesis: Biodiversity of Chrysophyceae in Lakes NRW: Morphological and Molecularbiological Analysis
Sarah Dinglinger Bachelor thesis: Ecophysiological classification of the mixotroph Chrysophyceae Dinobryon divergens , with aspects of silver stress
Dr. Steffen Jost Scientist: Molecular methods for protist diversity studies
Kathrin Fegers Bachelor thesis: Systematics of Chrysophycea based on

rbcL gene phylogenies; Cyst formation in Spumella spec.

Thais Garcia da Silva PhD student:

Phylogenetic analyses, systematics and taxonomy of Selenastraceae; Diversity and biogeography of green algae

Philipp Giesemann Bachelor thesis: Physiological ecology analysis and silver toxicity in Synura sphagnicola (Chrysophyceae)
Dr. Edward Glucksman Scientist: Next-generation gene sequencing to explore the ecology and biodiversity of protists

Nadine Graupner

PhD Student: Functional diversity of protists based on '-omics' data; Diversity and ecology of protists at the water-soil boundary
Dr. Lars Grossman PhD student:

Biogeographic and ecological patterns of protist diversity; Molecular and microscopic methods of chrysophycean identification; Phylogenetic analyses, systematics and taxonomy

Verena Haarhaus State examination: Examination of environmental data in relation to the individual frequencies of the expressed genes  
Christopher Hempel Bachelor thesis: Development of analytical tools for molecular biodiversity assessments
Jan Hoffmann Bachelor thesis: Ecophysiological characterization of Spumella vulgaris
Dr. Manfred Jensen scientific staff
Leah Sura Bachelor thesis: Pigment analysis of Chrysophyceae
Frida Klein Bachelor thesis: Influence of light intensity on the growth of mixotrophic algae
Michaela Klein State examination: Examination of environmental samples with regard to bacterial abundance
Saskia Kling Bachelor thesis: Ecophysiological characterization and silver stress response of the heterotrophic chrysomonad Spumella
Dr Stephan Majda PhD student
Dr. Sabina Marks (née Wodniok) Research assistant
Michael Neugebauer Technician
Dr. Julia Nuy PhD student
Jana Olefeld PhD student

Geoffrey Ong'ondo

PhD Student: Limnology and aquatic ecology
Sven Schulz Bachelor's thesis: Resource-efficient wastewater treatment with Tetrahymena pyriformis as an additional biological purification stage.
Jenny Spangenberg Bachelor thesis: Phylogenetic Analysis of Chrysophyceae
Hannah Marie Stappert Bachelor thesis:The dark side ‐ Influence of low light intensities on the ecophysiology of phototrophic Chrysophyceae
Meike Strybos Master's thesis: Phylogeny and seasonal diversity of Chrysophyceae
Marion van den Boom Lecturer
Sarah Völker Bachelor thesis:

Celina Wessel

Bachelor thesis: hot or cold? How temperature affects the ecophysiology of mixotrophic protists
Marius Welzel Master's thesis: "Development of an Amplicon Snakemake Workflow including a Novel K-Mer
Based Detection Method for Chimeric Sequences"

 

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