MitarbeiterInnen

Wissenschaftler/Scientists	Lehrende/Lecturer
Doktoranden/Innen/PhD students	Studenten/Students
Technisches Personal/Technical staff	Alumni

FACHGEBIETS-LEITUNG/HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT Prof. Dr. Jens Boenigk

Kontakt/Contact

Raum: S05 V05 E32

Telefon: +49 201 183 3118/4302

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

Forschungsinteressen/Research Interests

Evolutionary ecology & Organismic interactions

Biodiversity & Systematic biology

Environmental change & Biogeography

Publications

SEKRETARIAT/OFFICE Heike Todenhöfer

Kontakt/Contact

Raum: S05 V05 E29

Telefon: +49 201 183 3118

Fax: +49 201 183 4290

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

Öffnungszeiten Sekretariat/

Office hours

Mo-Fr.:7:30-11:30Uhr

Dr. Daniela Beisser

Kontakt/Contact

Raum: S05 V05 F39

Telefon: +49 201 183 4514

E-mail:daniela.beisser[at]uni-due.de

more Informationen about Daniela

Forschungsinteressen/Research Interests

Next-generation sequencing analysis

Functional and taxonomic assessment in metatranscriptome sequencing data

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

Dr. Christina Bock

Kontakt/Contact

Raum: S05 V05 F39

Telefon: +49 201 183 4514

E-mail: christina.bock[at]uni-due.de

Forschungsinteressen/Research Interests

Phylogeny and Systematics of chlorophytes and chrysophytes

Biodiversity of Protists

Diversity patterns

Publications

Dr. Manfred Jensen

Kontakt/Contact

Raum: S05 V05 F41

Telefon: +49 201 183 2450

E-mail: manfred.jensen[at]uni-due.de

Forschungsinteressen/Research Interests

Physiology and occurrence of "lower plants"

Chlorophyll and fluorescence of lichens and

algae

drought tolerance of lichens

microfungi

Publications

Dr. Sabina Marks (geb. Wodniok)

Kontakt/Contact

Raum: S05 V05 F28

Telefon: +49 201 183 2441

E-mail: sabina.wodniok[at]uni-due.de

Studienberatung für die Lehramtsstudiengänge

Di: 13-14 Uhr

Raum: S05 R03 H05

Tel.: +49 201 183-4206

Forschungsinteressen/Research Interests

Evolution and ecological significance of plastid reduction in algae

Biodiversity and distribution patterns of protists

Publications

Stephan Majda

Kontakt/Contact

Raum: S05 V05 F20

Telefon: +49 201 183 3442

E-mail: stephan.majda[at]uni-due.de

Forschungsinteressen/Research Interests

Phylogenetics and evolution of chrysophytes, especially the loss of photosynthesis

Genome assemblies, further in metagenomics

Genome comparison of chrysophytes

Machine learning and algorithm in bioinformatics

Julia Nuy

Kontakt/Contact

Raum: S05 V05 F20

Telefon: +49 201 183 3442

email:julia.nuy[@]uni-due.de

Forschungsinteressen/Research Interests

Comparative diversity studies

Optimization of molecular methods for High-Throughput-Sequencing approaches

Bioinformatics and 'Meta-Omics'

Impacts of potential stressors and flooding on freshwater ecosystems

more information about the Future Water project

Jana Olefeld

Kontakt/Contact

Raum: S05 V05 F30

Telefon: +49 201 183 3200

email:jana.olefeld[@]uni-due.de

Forschungsinteressen/Research Interests

Biogeography, phylogeography and molecular protist diversity

Seasonal and spatial variations in protist community composition with special focus on the Chrysophyceae

Susann Chamrad

Kontakt/Contact

Raum: S05 V05 F28

Telefon: +49 201 183 2441

email: susann.chamrad[at]uni-due.de

Aufgaben/Duties

Maintenance culture collection

Supervision of student lab work

Molecular lab work

General lab work

Simone Engelskirchen

Kontakt/Contact

Raum: S05 V05 F28

Telefon: +49 201 183 2441

email: simone.engelskirchen[at]uni-due.de

Aufgaben/Duties

Maintenance culture collection

Ecophysiological experiments

Molecular analyses

General lab work

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Bruno Mies

Kontakt/Contact

E-mail: bruno.mies[at]uni-due.de

Lehre/Classes

Tropenbotanik

Vegetation Mitteleuropas

Guido Sieber

		Masterarbeit	Water and Soil Protists and their potential indication to plant associations

Masterarbeit

Water and Soil Protists and their potential indication to plant associations

Marius Welzel

		Masterarbeit	"Development of an Amplicon Snakemake Workflow including a Novel K-Mer Based Detection Method for Chimeric Sequences"

Nadine Graupner

Kontakt/Contact

Raum:

Telefon:

E-mail: nadine.nerat[at]uni-due.de

Forschungsinteressen/Research Interests

Functional diversity of protists based on '-omics' data:

Proteomic 'stress' response
Transcriptomic analyses of nutritional strategies
Metatranscriptomic community analyses

Diversity and ecology of protists at the water-soil boundary

Additional areas of responsibility and interest:

Project coordination 'AquaFlows'
Statistical analyses/programming in R
Molecular methods
Teaching: Practical training and excursions

Elif Demir

	Masterarbeit	Thema der Arbeit/ Topic of Thesis Biodiversity of Chrysophyceae in Lakes NRW: Morphological and Molecularbiological Analysis

Masterarbeit

Thema der Arbeit/

Topic of Thesis

Biodiversity of Chrysophyceae in Lakes NRW: Morphological and Molecularbiological Analysis

Franziska Baier

			Bachelorarbeit	Thema der Arbeit/ Topic of Thesis Biodiversity and environmental change: Does biodiversity reduce the risk of extinction?

Bachelorarbeit

Thema der Arbeit/

Topic of Thesis

Biodiversity and environmental change: Does biodiversity reduce the risk of extinction?

Christopher Hempel

	Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft

Lea Klar

			Bachelorarbeit	Thema der Arbeit/ Topic of Thesis Pigmentanalyse von Chrysophyceae

Bachelorarbeit

Thema der Arbeit/

Topic of Thesis

Pigmentanalyse von Chrysophyceae

Jenny Spangenberg

			Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft

Célina Wessel

		Bachelorarbeit	Thema der Arbeit/ Topic of Thesis Hot or cold? How temperature effects the ecophysiology of mixotrophic protists

Bachelorarbeit

Thema der Arbeit/

Topic of Thesis

Hot or cold? How temperature effects the ecophysiology of mixotrophic protists

		Forschungsinteressen/ Research Interests
	Yesim Attak Student	Morphologische und molekulare Analyse der Planktondiversität in europäischen Seen
	Prof. Dr. Nosratollah Ale-Agha Wissenschaftler/Scientist E-mail: nosratollah.ale-agha[at]uni-due.de	microfungi Publications
	Dr. Steffen Jost Wissenschaftler/Scientist E-mail: steffen.jost[at]uni-due.de	Molecular methods for protist diversity studies (Single cell PCR, High throughput Sequencing) Phylogeny and Systematic of chrysophytes Ecophysiology of chrysophytes Water quality assessment/ Waste water treatment Publications
	Sarah Dinglinger Student	Ecophysiological classification of the mixotroph Chrysophyceae Dinobryon divergens, with aspects of silver stress
	Kathrin Fegers Student	Systematik von Chrysophyceen basierend auf rbcL-Gen Phylogenien Zystenbildung bei Spumella spec.
	Philipp Giesemann Student	Physiological ecology analysis and silver toxicity in Synura sphagnicola (Chrysophyceae)
	Dr Edvard Glücksman Wissenschaftler/Scientist	Next-generation gene sequencing to explore the ecology and biodiversity of protists Diversity, ecology, and evolution of Apusozoa (Protozoa) Science policy and the public understanding of science
	Verena Haarhaus Student	Untersuchung von Umweltdaten in Bezug auf die einzelnen Häufigkeiten der exprimierten Gene
	Jan Hoffmann Student	Ecophysiological characterisation of Spumella vulgaris
	Michaela Klein Student	Untersuchung von Umweltproben in Bezug auf die Bakterienabundanz
	Saskia Klink Student	Ecophysiological characterization and silver stress response of the heterotrophic chrysomonad Spumella
	Michael Neugebauer Technischer Mitarbeiter	Maintenance of the culture collection (chrysophytes) Supervision of student lab work General lab work
	Geoffrey Ong’ondo PhD Student email: gongondo[at]gmail.com	Limnology and aquatic ecology Microbial food web interactions and diversity of ciliated protist in tropical saline – alkaline lakes Combining morphological and morphometric characteristics with molecular tools in taxonomy of ciliated protist
	Sven Schulz Student	Ressourcen effiziente Abwasseraufbereitung mit Tetrahymena pyriformis als zusätzliche biologische Reinigungsstufe.