Department of Natural Sciences

Unit
Department of Natural Sciences
Location
Rheinbach
Room
A105/A107
Address
Von Liebig Straße 20
53359, Rheinbach
Telephone
+49 2241 865 756Profile
Research:
Applied, environmental and clinical microbiology, microbial genetics and genomics
Methods:
PCR (qRT-PCR, 16SrRNA-PCR, inverse PCR, long-range PCR), multilocus sequence typing, STR typing, next generation sequencing (Illumina Miseq), whole genome mapping (Optical Mapping, Argus, Opgen), DNA fragment analysis (Tape Station, Agilent), genome analysis, bioinformatics (CLC Genomics and Geneious), proteomics, flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence in situ hybridization
Teaching:
NGS elective courses (Parts 1 & 2) in MSc Biomedical sciences, 2nd and 3rd Semesters
Content:
- Fundamentals of NGS
- Assessing quality of sequence runs and sequence data
- 16-rRNA metagenomic sequencing
- Shotgun metagenomic sequencing
- Whole genome sequencing
- Targeted amplicon and panel sequencing
- Forensics NGS
- RNA-seq
Projects
2018 - FunForGen
Functional and Forensic Genomics using Next Generation Sequencing (Project coordination at H-BRS Prof Dr Richard Jäger)
2021 - LowGHGWatt
Reduction green-house gas emissions in the water treatment sector by integrated technologies for biofouling mitigation (Project coordination at H-BRS Prof Steffen Witzleben)
2022 - RNA-seq
Establishment of a transcriptomics competence platform "Transcriptomics in biomedicine, forensics and microbiology" (Förderprogramm "Startförderung")