General and Soil Microbiology
- Professor for General and Soil Microbiology
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Prof. Dr. Sylvia Schnell
Diplom (Biology), University of Konstanz, 1988Dr. rer. nat. (Microbiology), University of Tübingen, 1991Postdoc (Microbial Ecology), University of Maine, 1991-1994Habilitation (Microbiology), Philipps University Marburg, 1998Research associate at the Department of Biogeochemistry at the MPI Marburg, 1995-1999Research associate at the MPI for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, January - October 2000Professor for General and Soil Microbiology at the University of Giessen since October 2000Newest Publications:
Soto-Varela Z.E., Orozco-Sánchez C.J., Bolívar-Anillo H.J., Martínez J.M., Rodríguez N., Consuegra-Padilla N., Robledo-Meza A. and Amils R. (2024) Halotolerant endophytic bacteria Priestia flexa 7BS3110 with Hg2+ tolerance isolated from Avicennia germinans in a caribbean mangrove from Colombia. Microorganisms 12: 1857.
Sacharow J., Ratering S., Schneider B., Österreicher Cunha-Dupont A. and Schnell S. (2024) Acanthamoeba castellanii alone is not a growth promoter for Hordeum vulgare. Access Microbiology 6:000761.v3
Quiroga S., Rosado-Porto D., Ratering S., Rekowski A., Schulz F., Krutych M., Zörb C. and Schnell S. (2024) Long-term detection of Hartmannibacter diazotrophicus on winter wheat and spring barley roots under field conditions revealed positive correlations on yield parameters with the bacterium abundance. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 100: fiae023
Cardinale M. and Schnell S. (2024) Is the plant microbiome transmitted from pollen to seeds? Front. Microbiol. Sec. Microbe and Virus Interactions with Plants 15: 1343795
Sacharow J., Ratering S., Quiroga S., Geißler-Plaum R., Schneider B., Österreicher Cunha-Dupont A. and Schnell S. (2024) Cercozoan diversity of spring barley grown in the field is strongly plant compartment specific. Front. Microbiomes Sec. Environmental Microbiomes 3:1352566
Research Topics:
Anaerobic MicroorganismsPlant Microbe InteractionsProtozoa Microbe InteractionsProtozoa EcologyMetal Microbe InteractionsFungal Bacteria InteractionsMicrobial Diversity (soil, wine..)