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Full professor and Head of section

E-mail: bengt.soderstrom@mbioekol.lu.se; Phone: +46-46-2228617; Fax: +46-46-2223800

Details: Professor of Microbial Ecology (since 1990)

Research interests: Ecophysiology of the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis

Other present academic activities: Head of The Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics

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Full professor

Contact: anders.tunlid@mbioekol.lu.se

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Full professor

Contact: erland.baath@mbioekol.lu.se

Background: Professor in Microbial Ecology

Primary interest: Soil microbiology, especially growth of fungi and bacteria in soil

Associate professor

Contact: hakan.wallander@mbioekol.lu.se

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Associate professor

Contact: tomas.johansson@mbioekol.lu.se

Background: PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology working on ligninolytic enzymes in white-rot fungi, at the Section of Biochemsitry, Lund University

Primary interest: Fungal-host interactions and specifically ectomycorrhiza

Methods: Fungal genomics and transcriptomics

Assistant professor

Contact: dag.ahren@mbioekol.lu.se

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Assistant professor

Contact: per.bengtson@mbioekol.lu.se

Background: PhD in Chemical Ecology and Ecotoxicology at Lund University: Microbial mobilization and immobilization of soil nitrogen

Primary interest: Processes and players in the soil carbon and nitrogen cycle, with special attention to archaea

Methods: Stable isotope probing, PLFA and PLEL analysis, qPCR, etc.

Technician

Contact: eva.friman@mbioekol.lu.se

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Lecturer, and recently graduated PhD-student supervised by Erland Bååth

Contact: johannes.rousk@mbioekol.lu.se

Research interest:

• The ecology of saprotrophic fungi and bacteria in soil: Biotic and abiotic control of growth rates (thesis link (pdf))

Toolbox:

• [14]C-acetate-incorporation-into-ergosterol to determine fungal growth

• [14]C, [3]H Leucine and Thymidine incorporation into bacteria to determine bacterial growth

• PLFA and [13]C-stable isotope probing (SIP) GC-IRMS-PLFA for community composition analysis, in addition to a standard set of microbial techniques including respiration and biomass methods.

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Professor emerita

Contact: birgit.hertz@mbioekol.lu.se

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Professor emeritus

Contact: charles.kurland@mbioekol.lu.se

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Postdoc in collaboration with Tomas Johansson & Anders Tunlid

Contact: francois_2.rineau@mbioekol.lu.se

Background: PhD in Forest Ecology (Liming and ectomycorrhizal community structure and functioning) at INRA, Nancy, France

Primary interests: Small secreted proteins and organic matter degradation by Paxillus involutus

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PhD student supervised by Anders Tunlid & Tomas Johansson

Contact: karl-magnus.andersson@mbioekol.lu.se

Background: Degree of Master of Science in Molecular Biology at Lund University

Primary interest: Characterize proteins from the nematode-trapping fungus Monacrosporium haptotylum that are involved in the infection and killing of nematodes

Methods: Protein expression in Pichia pastoris

PhD student supervised by Håkan Wallander & Erland Bååth

Contact: adam.bahr@mbioekol.lu.se

Background: Degree of Master of Science in Environmental Science at Lund University

Primary interest: The role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the carbon sequestration of forests. Also studying how ectomycorrhizal colonization affects nitrogen leakage.

Methods: Mainly using in-growth bags (mesh-bags) to quantify external mycelium growth in forest soils. Analyzes of isotopes, ergosterol and chitin will be used to determine growth and carbon sequestration of ectomycorrhizal mycelium.

PhD student supervised by Håkan Wallander & Tomas Johansson

Contact: christoffer.berner@mbioekol.lu.se

Background: Master of Science in Molecular Biology at Skövde University

Primary interest: What role does ectomycorrhizal fungi play in the weathering of apatite?

Methods: Gene expression analysis and community structure analysis

PhD student supervised by Håkan Wallander & Anders Tunlid

Contact: magnus.ellstrom@mbioekol.lu.se

Background: Degree of Master of Science in Environmental Science at Lund University

Primary interest: Effects of increasing nitrogen levels on the degradability of organic material by ectomycorrhizal fungi

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PhD student supervised by Håkan Wallander & Pål Axel Olsson (Plant Ecology, Lund University)

Contact: edith.hammer@mbioekol.lu.se

Specific interests: Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM), salinity & drought stress in AM fungi, nutrient relations in AM fungi and plants related to salinity. Carbon flow to the soil. Fertilizer and inoculum application in the field. Glomalin (AM fungi derived soil protein). C-P trade within the AM symbiosis.

Field work: Sahara border in Tunisia.

Special methods: Proton induced x-ray emission (PIXE) for mapping elemental composition of tissues.

PhD student supervised by Per Bengtsson & Tomas Johansson

Contact: anna.karlsson@mbioekol.lu.se

Background: Degree of Master of Science in Molecular Biology at Lund University

Primary interest: The role of archaea in soil carbon and nitrogen turnover

Methods: DNA preparation from soil, PCR techniques (qPCR)

PhD student supervised by Dag Ahrén & Anders Tunlid

Contact: tejashwari.merupati@mbioekol.lu.se

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PhD student supervised by Erland Bååth & Johannes Rousk

Contact: stephanie.reischke@mbioekol.lu.se

Background: Diploma degree in Biology at the University of Oldenburg, Germany (main focus on marine sediment microbiology)

Primary interest: Effect of environmental factors, especially temperature, on fungal and bacterial growth in soil

Methods: [14]C acetate incorporation into ergosterol to determine fungal growth [3]H leucine incorporation into bacteria to determine bacterial growth

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PhD student supervised by Anders Tunlid & Tomas Johansson

Contact: firoz.shah@mbioekol.lu.se

Background: Degree of Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Biotechnology at Delhi University, India

Primary interest: Enzymes and proteins secreted by ectomycorrhizal fungi, related transcriptome and the genes, role in C-sequestration in forest soils

Methods: Secretome and gene expression analysis

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Dr. Fredrik Demoling

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Dr. Pål Axel Olsson

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Former Postdoc in collaboration with Håkan Wallander

Primary interests:

• Fungal-mineral interactions of ectomycorrhizal fungi: spatial distribution of fungi; mineral surface (bio)chemistry; mineral weathering; role in soil formation; mineral induced fungal physiology

• Biogeology in low-input agricultural systems

Field work: Norway, Czech Republic

Special methods: petrographic microscopy, radio isotope labelling, atomic force microscopy, spectroscopic methods (FTIR, STXM/XANES)