Sickel, Wiebke (MSc)
Wiebke Sickel
PhD student
PhD completed in the MBD group January 2017.
Research
I am interested in how microbial communities interact with their surroundings and hosts, especially higher organisms. I am looking at how the structure of a bacterial community changes with certain factors, for example between plant tissues, and how bacteria influence their environment/hosts and vice versa.
From the make up of microbial communities I am trying to draw conclusions on potential functional roles and to identify new potential symbiotic bacteria. I am also taking into account the presence of potential pathogens and how they might be controlled or suppressed by other members of the community.
Publications
2016[ to top ]
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DNA-Metabarcoding – ein neuer Blick auf organismische Diversität in BioSpektrum (2016). 22 147–150.
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Bacterial Diversity and Community Structure in Two Bornean Nepenthes Species with Differences in Nitrogen Acquisition Strategies in Microbial Ecology (2016). 71 938–953.
2015[ to top ]
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Reptiles as reservoirs of bacterial infections: real threat or methodological bias? in Microbial Ecology (2015). 70(3) 579–84.
