Why are healthy plants, especially leaves, colonized by microorganisms? How do microbial interactions shape that colonization and plant health? What plant traits drive these processes? Why does it matter?
We're working to find out!
We are a diverse group of creative problem-solvers, thinkers, experimentalists and artists knitted together into a dynamic group. We do microbiology and microbial ecology, but we cross the boundaries of many fields. This is science!
11.12.2024
Kerstin was awarded the Microverse PhD student award for her scientific accomplishments, outreach and leadership in the Microverse and JSMC. Congrats Kerstin we are proud!
22.11.2024
Outreach - We had a fun time exhibiting some of our work to the public at the Long Night of Science 2024 in Jena!
October 2024
Matt, Tobias Engl and Ingrid Richter organized the Symbiosis in Context Symposium 2024. It was a lot of fun and science! (Photos Tobias Engl)
2024
Meetings - Plant Microbiome, Micrope, MiCom 2024, and others - we shared our work quite a bit this year and learned aobut the fascinating work of many others!
Hellfedsches Haus in 1908
Pre-2014 renovations
Post-2014 renovation