Associated students of the DK+

The following PhD students participate in the educational measures and opportunities of the DK+:

Ecophysiology of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in the oxygenated water column of the ocean 

- PI: Gerhard Herndl, PhD student: Barbara Bayer

Next-generation bioinformatics for genome-based diagnostics 

- PI: Thomas Rattei, PhD student: Patrick Hyden

Metabolic versatility of globally relevant nitrifiers 

- PI: Michael Wagner, PhD student: Katharina Kitzinger

Microdiversity of uncultured Nitrospira 

- PI: Holger Daims, PhD student: Michael Lukumbuzya

Metabolism and Physiology of mesophilic and thermophilic Thaumarchaeota 

- PI: Christa Schleper, PhD student: Michael Melcher

Identifying the key players of N₂ fixation in terrestrial ecosystems 

- PI: Dagmar Woebken, PhD student: Maximilian Nepel

Environmental controls of microbial organic nitrogen cycling in soils 

- PI: Wolfgang Wanek, PhD student: Lisa Noll

Molecular mechanisms of Deinococcus radiodurans survivability in outer space 

- PI: Wolfram Weckwerth & Tetyana Milojevic, PhD student: Emanuel Ott

Influences of Rhizobium symbiosis on N-metabolic processes during tungsten and molybdenum induced stress in Soybean – possible role in stress alleviation 

- PI: Stefanie Wienkoop, PhD student: Julian Preiner

Chromosome segregation in animal associated bacteria 

- PI: Silvia Bulgheresi, PhD student: Philipp Weber

The interdependent effects of the pathogen Didymella pinodes and the symbionts rhizobia and mycorrhiza on Pisum sativum 

- PI: Stefanie Wienkoop, PhD student: Reinhard Turetschek