Name Arbeitsgebiet
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Agerer MYK
Mycology
PD Dr. Ehrentraud Bayer *BOT
History of economic plants
Dr. Andreas Beck *BOT
Systematics of, and coevolution between, the algal and fungal partners of lichen associations
Dr. h.c. Josef Bogner *BOT
Evolution and systematics of Araceae
Dr. Bernhard Dickoré *BOT
Taxonomy and biogeography of vascular plants in subtropical, temperate and alpine Eurasia
Dr. Peter Döbbeler MYK
Bryophilous Ascomycetes
Dr. Matthias Erben BOT
Systematics of Limonium and Viola , with a focus on karyotype evolution
Dr. Hans-Joachim Esser *BOT
Euphorbiaceae worldwide; Araliaceae and Rutaceae of southeastern Asia; flora of Thailand
Dr. Eva Facher BOT
German flora and vegetation; morphology and anatomy of vascular plants; development and modification of investigation methods, preparation techniques and special approaches for studies with light- and electron microscopy
Dr. Günter Gerlach *BOT
Evolution and systematics of neotropical orchids
PD Dr. Marc Gottschling BOT
Systematics, phylogenetics, and evolution of boraginales, dinoflagellates, and human papilloma viruses
Prof. Dr. Jürke Grau BOT
Evolution of dry-adapted plant clades in Chile
Dr. Andreas Gröger *BOT
Floristics of the Guayana Highlands and the Caucasus region
Prof. Dr. Günther Heubl BOT
Systematics and evolution of carnivorous angiosperm clades; plant evolution on the Canary Islands
Dr. Wolfgang Lippert *BOT
Flora of Bavaria and the Alps, Systematics of the genera Alchemilla (Rosaceae), Crataegus (Rosaceae), Festuca (Poaceae), Hyssopus (Lamiaceae)
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Podlech *BOT
Floristics of the Near East; systematics of Astragalus
Prof. Dr. Susanne Renner BOT
Angiosperm phylogenetics, sexual system evolution, and biogeography
Dr. Konstanze Schubert *MYK
Phytopathogenic fungi
Dr. Franz Schuhwerk *BOT
European floristics; Hieracium
Dr. Dagmar Triebel *MYK
Ascomycetes; lichenicolous fungi; biodiversity informatics
Dr. Markus Weiß *MYK
Secondary metabolism of tree roots, colonized by mycorrhizal and pathogenic fungi; Ecology and identification of ectomycorrhizae
Name Arbeitsgebiet
Dr. Stefan Abrahamczyk *
BOT
Dr. Philomena Bodensteiner MYK
Anatomical and molecular studies on relationships and evolution of cyphelloid basidiomycetes
Dr. Christian Bräuchler BOT
Phylogenetic relationships within Menthinae (Lamiaceae, Nepetoideae, Mentheae) with special focus on the Satureja complex
Dr. Natalie Cusimano BOT
DFG-fundet project: Ph.D. research on "Extremes in chromosome numbers in closely
related taxa: A combined approach to studying the underlying karyotype evolution"
Dr. Florian Jabbour BOT
Phylogeny, biogeography and floral development in the tribe Delphinieae (Aconitum and Delphinium (including Consolida and Aconitella ); Ranunculaceae)
Dr. Derek Peršoh MYK
Fungal diversity and evolution; Factors determining fungal community structure; Fungus-Arthropod interaction
Dr. Mathieu Piednoël *BOT
Genome characterization of non-photosynthetic parasitic plants (Orobanchaceae) using 454 pyrosequencing
Dr. Juan Carlos Villarreal *BOT
Evolution of hornworts: Building a world-wide phylogeny to resolve all major clades
Name Arbeitsgebiet
Dr. Natalia Filipowicz BOT
DAAD scholarship: Moderne Anwendungen der Biotechnologie
Dr. Shi-Xiao Luo
BOT
Dr. Luo is a researcher at the South China Botanical Garden in Guanghjou. Shixiao worked on the reproductive biology of Phyllanthaceae, of Illicium , and Clerodendrum , all in a comparative phylogenetic framework.
Dr. Ryan Oyama
BOT
Dr. Ryan Oyama now a manager at Pioneer Hi-Bred in Hawaii. In the Renner
lab, Ryan worked on sex-linked loci in Bryonia (Cucurbitaceae).
Dr. Hanno Schäfer
BOT
Dr. Hanno Schäfer now a postdoc with Charles Davis in Organismic and
Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. In the Renner lab, Hanno worked
on Cucurbitaceae and Ctenoplectra bees.
Dr. Boris Schlumpberger BOT
Herrenhäuser Gärten , Herrenhäuser Str. 4, 30419 Hannoverboris.schlumpberger
hannover-stadt.de
Dr. Ewa Siedlecka
BOT
DAAD project: Expression of the Gy/gy candidate gene for sex determination in four species of Cucurbitaceae
Name Arbeitsgebiet
Sidonie Bellot BOT
Ph.D. research on "Using next-generation-sequencing to study the organellar genomes of holoparasitic Pilostyles (Apodanthaceae) and to investigate horizontal gene exchange with its legume hosts"
Fernanda Antunes Carvalho BOT
Ph.D. research on "Evolution, biogeography, and a monograph of the Cariaceae"
Juliana Chacón BOT
Ph.D. research on "Inferring the biogeography of the Colchicaceae, the non-Neotropical sister clade to the mainly Neotropical Alstroemeriaceae"
Andreas Fleischmann BOT
Ph.D. research on "Phylogeny of Genlisea (Lentibulariaceae)"
Norbert Holstein BOT
Ph.D. research on "Evolution, biogeography, and monographic treatment of Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae)"
Stefan Kattari BOT
Ph.D. research on "The phylogenetics and biogeography of Teucrium (Lamiaceae)"
Agnes Scheunert BOT
Ph.D. research on "Molecular phylogeny, character evolution, and biogeography of the genus Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae)"
Sylvia Söhner BOT
Ph.D. research on "The evolution of dinoflagellates"
Aretuza Sousa BOT
Ph.D. research on "Inferring karyotype evolution in Araceae and Cucurbitaceae, focusing on polyploidy and sex chromosomes"
Florian Turini BOT
Ph.D. research on "Systematics of the genera Ancistrocladus (Ancistrocladaceae) and Ononis (Fabaceae)"
Rita Verma MYK
Ph.D. research on "Diversity and ecology of ectomycorrhizae in Bistorta vivipara (L.) Delarbre (Polygonaceae)"
Carmen Zinßmeister BOT
Ph.D. research on "The evolution of dinoflagellates"
