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Within my Diploma thesis and also partially during my PostDoc in Graz, I worked on different topics of environmental microbiology.
That included the Quorum sensing regulation of the interaction of root-associated bacteria with plant-pathogenic fungi and the plant itself.
More recently, I was involved in a project examining the survival rate of human oral biofilms after being transplanted to a flow chamber,
to which I contributed the image and data analysis.
I still keep my interest in this scientific area, although at present I am not persuing research related to environmental microbiology.
[1] H. Mueller, C. Westendorf, E. Leitner, L. Chernin, K. Riedel, S. Schmidt, L. Eberl, G. Berg, FEMS Microbiol Ecol, 67, 468–478c (2009). [2] C. Zachow, H. Pirker, C. Westendorf, R. Tilcher and G. Berg, Eur J Plant Pathol, 125, 367–376 (2009). [3] B. Klug, E. Santigli, C. Westendorf, S. Tangl, G. Wimmer and M. Grube, Frontiers in Microbiology, 7, 1448 (2016). |
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Bacteria volatiles acting on fungi. The plant-pathogenic fungus Rhizoctonia solani growing undisturbed on agar (top) with visible sclerotia and in a dual culture (bottom).
The dual culture does not allow for physical contact, such that the effect of volatiles from bacteria (spread on the other half of the dish) can be investigated.
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