Rita Verma
Curriculum Vitae
Education and position
| 2008 – present | Research Assistant in the Agerer lab, DFG-funded SFB 607 (Sonderforschungsbereich / Collaborative Research Centre) "Growth and Parasite Defense – Competition of Resources in Economic Plants from Forestry and Agronomy", project B7 "Change in space occupation and space exploitation by mycorrhizae and their extrametrical mycelia under stress conditions, and possible effects on the nutrient supply to the plants" |
| 2007 – 2008 | Ph.D. scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung |
| 2004 – present | Ph.D. student with Prof. Reinhard Agerer, Systematic Mycology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), München, Germany |
| 2004 | University degree (Diploma) in Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), München, Germany Diploma thesis: "Do changes in extracellular phosphate level affect the motile tubular vacuole system in Pisolithus microcarpus?" Supervisor: Prof. Reinhard Agerer, Systematic Mycology, LMU |
| 2003 | Research for diploma thesis in the Mycorrhizal Studies Group of Prof. Anne Ashford, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia |
| 2000 – 2001 | Postgraduate Practicum with Prof. Anne Ashford, Mycorrhizal Studies Group, UNSW, Sydney, Australia Project: Effects of changes in extracellular phosphate level on the motile tubular vacuole system in Pisolithus microcarpus |
| 1996 – 2004 | Diploma course in Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), München, Germany Subject: Systematic Botany, Ecology, Zoology, Palaeontology |
| 1996 | Highschool degree (Abitur) |
| 1976 | Born in Munich, Germany |