Tabea Platz
Tabea Platz, Ph.D. student
Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32 IFZ
D-35392 Giessen
E-Mail: Tabea.Platz
Fields of interest and focus of work
- Role of coral-associated bacteria in the functional ecology and health of corals
- Microbiome diversity
Scientific career
- Since 2024 Ph.D. student at the Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
- 2023 Research assistant Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
- 2021 Research assistant Plankton Ecology Lab, ICBM Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Formal education
- MSc in Marine Environmental Science, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg, Germany
Thesis: "Individual physiological plasticity of low and high heat tolerant Acropora digitifera colonies within a population in Palau during a mild bleaching event - BSc in Biology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany, Field Studies Council Millport, Scotland
Thesis: Analysis of covering behaviour in the intertidal sea urchins Echinus esculentus and Psammechinus miliaris
Publications
- ResearchGate profile
Conference contributions
2022: 15th ICRS International Coral Reef Symposium 2022, Bremen, Poster.