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:
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-Quisaguano 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
Abdullaeva Y., Ratering S., Rosado-Porto D., Ambika Manirajan B., Glatt A., Schnell S. and Cardinale M. (2024) Domestication caused taxonomical and functional shifts in the wheat rhizosphere microbiota, and weakened the natural bacterial biocontrol against fungal pathogens. Microbiological Research 281: 127601
Sacharow J., Salehi-Mobarakeh E., Ratering S., Imani J., Österreicher Cunha-Dupont A. and Schnell S. (2023) Control of Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei on barley leaves by treatment with fungi-consuming protist isolates. Curr Microbiol. 80(12):384
Research Topics:
Anaerobic MicroorganismsPlant Microbe InteractionsProtozoa Microbe InteractionsProtozoa EcologyMetal Microbe InteractionsFungal Bacteria InteractionsMicrobial Diversity (soil, wine..)