Research projects of current students
- Julia Gödeke
- Start date: October 2007
- Nationality: German
- Bachelor thesis:
“The role of phosphatidylcholine in Agrobacterium tumefaciens” (2005). Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Master thesis:
“Characterization of differentially regulated genes of a phosphatidylcholine-deficient mutant in Bradyrhizobium japonicum” (2007). Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- Research group:
AG Thormann, Dept. of Ecophysiology, MPI
- Research project description
My research is focused on the identification of initial attachment events during biofilm formation in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, a metal ion-reducing gamma-proteobacterium. I performed transcriptomic analyses to investigate global expression pathways in response to cell-surface contact and to identify specifically surface-regulated genes and gene clusters during attachment. By using confocal laser scanning microscopy of fluorescently-tagged Shewanella wild type and mutant cells cultivated under hydrodynamic and static conditions I could also identify different factors such as pili, eDNA and phages mediating the attachment to the surface.
