Fatou Tall MBOW, M.Sc. - PhD student
Education
10/2017-present: PhD candidate: “Microbial community assembly in subsurface habitats” - University Duisburg-Essen - Aquatic microbiology - Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology
2015-2017: Masters “Molecular Microbiology, Pathogeny, Microbial Ecology” - University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
2013-2015: Bachelors in Microbiology - University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
2011 -2013 Bachelors in Mathematics and bioinformatics (MIV) - University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
Research Focus
- Microbial ecology
- Molecular microbiology
- Microbial spatial distribution
- Subsurface habitats
Publications
Mark Pannekens; Lisa Kroll; Hubert Müller; Fatou Tall Mbow; Rainer U. Meckenstock (2019) Oil reservoirs, an exceptional habitat for microorganisms, New Biotechnology, 49, 1-9, DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2018.11.006
Hazard C, Kruitbos L, Davidson H, Mbow FT, Taylor AFS and Johnson D (2017) Strain Identity of the Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Laccaria bicolor Is More Important than Richness in Regulating Plant and Fungal Performance under Nutrient Rich Conditions. Front. Microbiol. 8:1874. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01874
Conferences: poster contributions and oral presentation
How homogeneous are microbial communities distributed in subsurface sediment layers? Fatou Tall Mbow, Ali Akbari, Rainer U. Meckenstock
Poster presentation at the 7th International Symposium on Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oil Systems (ISMOS-7) June 2019, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Experience
2017: Masters Research Project on “Biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen: nitrogen source utilization by Ectomycorrhizal Fungi”
Environmental Microbial Genomics Group, Ampère laboratory, Ècole Centrale de Lyon, Université de Lyon, France
2016: Masters Research project on “Biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen: the role of fungi in denitrification processes”
Environmental Microbial Genomics Group, Ampère laboratory, Ècole Centrale de Lyon, France
Fatou Tall Mbow
PhD Student
Faculty of Chemistry - EMB
University of Duisburg-Essen
Universitätsstr. 5
Room S05 V07 E87
45141 Essen
Germany