MitarbeiterInnen - staff
Mitarbeiter der AG
FACHGEBIETS-LEITUNG/HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT
Prof.Dr. Jens Boenigk
Research interests
Evolutionary ecology & Organismic interactions
Biodiversity & Systematic biology
Environmental change & biogeography
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 a.m. - 11:30 a.m
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. 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. Christina Bock
Research interests
Phylogeny and Systematics of chlorophytes and chrysophytes
Biodiversity of Protists
Diversity patterns
Contact
Room: S05 V05 F39
Telephone: +49 201 183 4514
E-mail: christina.bock@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
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
Contact
Room: S05 V05 F30
Telephone: +49 201 183 3200
E-mail: aman.deep@uni-due.de
Dana Bludau
Research interests
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 F30
Telephone: +49 201 183 3200
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
Contact
E-mail: siegfried.jahnke@uni-due.de
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Bruno Mies
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" |
