Doreen Fischer

Doreen Fischer is post-doc at the Research Unit Environmental Genomics of Prof. Dr. Michael Schloter at the Helmholtz Center Munich since April 2010, focusing on the microbial community structure and function in different habitats of subsoils and their role in nutrient mobilization and plant growth (DFG FOR 1320). Since October 2011 she is also involved in the project Sustainable Bioeconomy, since 2014 in the project Phyto2Energy. Main expertises: bacterial diversity and function in soil, rhizosphere, drilosphere, plants, pgpr, BNF, biocontrolShe studied biology at the University of Regensburg, Germany from 2000 to 2003, at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany from 2003 to 2006, her main subjects being microbiology, plant physiology and ecology. She did her PhD thesis at the research unit Microbe-Plant Interactions at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) in Munich from 2006 to 2010.In her Diploma thesis, performed in the group Biology of Geological Processes of Prof. Dr. Meinhard Simon at the Institute for chemistry and biology of the marine environment (ICBM), she focused on the characterization of marine myxobacteria and their distribution.In her PhD thesis, performed in the Research Unit Microbe-Plant Interactions of Prof. Dr. Anton Hartmann at the HelmholtzZentrum Munich, she focused on the molecular analyses of diazotroph bacteria in sugarcane.