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  Our swiss colleague Gianna Pitsch finished her PhD study (University of Zurich, Switzerland) at the end of May 2019. We wish her all the best!

Our fourth meeting was held end of April 2019 by our german partners in Kaiserslautern (Germany). We discussed the progress of the project and of our data sets, planned and scheduled manuscript drafts. The meeting was organized by Thorsten Stoeck, Dominik Forster and Zhishuai (Dex) Qu of the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany).

The latest results of the project were presented at the annual meeting of the German Society of Protozoology (DGP) in Vienna (Austria, February 20- 22, 2019): Dominik Forster (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) presented HTS data and network analyses of Lake Zurich: “Learning from social networks: be connected, be discovered, be in the trophic web.” Barbara […]

Zhishuai “Dex” Qu finished his PhD study at the Ocean University of China. During his study he worked together with our german cooperation partners in Kaiserslautern. We wish him all the best!

Kuimei Qian (Xuzhou University of Technology, China) is visiting the Research Department for Limnology in Mondsee (Austria) for six month (Sept. 2018 – Feb. 2019). She is conducting first lab experiments and will test two ciliate species commonly found in Lake Mondsee (i.e., Coleps sp. and Urotricha castalia) and will fed them with different food […]

Urotricha castalia is a small (~30×30 µm) but fast swimming ciliate and mainly feeding on small algae. (Photocredit: Barbara Kammerlander)

  One year left after our last meeting in Mondsee (Austria) and in June 2018, we met for a small meeting of the team members in Zurich (Switzerland) to discuss preliminary data, manuscript drafts and future plans. The meeting was organized by Thomas Posch, Gianna Pitsch and Estelle Bruni at the Limnological Station of the […]

(picture from https://www.dgp2018-cologne.de/programme/) The project team presented first data at the annual meeting of the German Society of Protozoology (DGP) in Cologne (Germany, February 27- March 2, 2018): The idea and the workflow of the project was presented by a poster of Barbara Kammerlander (University of Innsbruck, Austria). Additionally, first morphological data of the ciliate […]

Claus-Peter Stelzer (chair person), Barbara Kammerlander (supervisor, examiner), Laura Nachbaur, Bettina Sonntag (supervisor), Josef Wanzenböck (examiner) (photo: S. Wanzenböck) Our diploma student Laura Nachbaur has recently finished her diploma thesis on ”Explorative approach investigating life (microorganisms) in a drop of water – planktonic ciliates as model organisms in lake microbial food webs.”