Position: Ph.D. Student
Research interests
Molecular interactions and adaptions of microbes and plants are not only an interesting field but also one with huge environmental and evolutionary relevance. My study focuses on identification of resilient microbes within the phyllosphere of wheat, their community structure and influences on plant health. The goal is to characterize specific genetic adaptions of resilient bacteria and fungi in response to fungal infection of wheat by the plant-pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici and subsequent induced plant immune reaction together with the importance of seed-borne microbiota for plant- health in wild and domesticated wheat.
Short CV
2020 – present: PhD student in Eva Stukenbrock’s group, Environmental Genomics, Christian-Albretchs University Kiel and Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany.
2016 – 2018: M.Sc. in Biogeoscience (Specification microbiology); Faculty for microbiology (microbial communication) at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
2013 – 2016: B.Sc. in Biogeoscience, Faculty for biological sciences (aquatic geomicrobiology) at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena