Department of Biology, Indiana University

Andrea Scheibe

Department of Biology, Indiana University

1001 E Third Street

Bloomington, Indiana 47405

Education

since June 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Department of Biology

November 2014 PhD at the Max Plank Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena (Germany)

“Effects of tree species identity and diversity on soil processes and microbial community composition in a temperate deciduous forest”

Advisors: apl. Prof. Dr. G. Gleixner & Prof. Dr. G. Büchel

April 2008 Friedrich Schiller University Jena, degree in Biology

Major field of study: Ecology

Minor fields of study: Phytopathology, Zoology

2006-2008 Diploma thesis (in german):

“Änderung der Aktivität und Gemeinschaft nitrifizierender Mikroorganismen in Biofilmen kleiner Fließgewässer: ein Fließrinnenexperiment“

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Scheibe A., C. Langenbruch, J. Seven, A. Jacob, D. Hertel, C. Leuschner & G. Gleixner (2015): Tree species identity effects dominate over tree species diversity effects on the soil microbial community structure. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 81, 219–227.

Scheibe A. & G. Gleixner (2014): Influence of litter diversity on dissolved organic matter production and soil carbon formation in a mixed beech forest. Plos One, 9, e114040.

Malik A., A. Scheibe, P.A. LokaBharathi & G. Gleixner (2012): Online stable isotope analysis of dissolved organic carbon size classes using size exclusion chromatography coupled to an isotope ratio mass spectrometer. Environmental Science & Technology, 46, 10123-10129.

Scheibe A., L. Krantz & G. Gleixner (2012): Simultaneous determination of the quantity and isotopic signature of dissolved organic matter from soil water using high-performance liquid chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 26, 173-180.

Herrmann M., A. Scheibe, S. Avrahami & K. Küsel (2011): Ammonium availability affects the ratio of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria to ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in simulated creek ecosystems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77, 1896-1899.

Participation at international conferences

Poster presentation at the European Confederation of Soil Science Society (EUROSOIL) 2012, 4th International Congress, Bari, Italy, July 2012

Poster presentation at the European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, April 2012

Poster presentation at the “Function and Services of Biodiversity” conference of the University of Göttingen, Germany, June 2011

Poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA, December 2010

Poster presentation at the Isocompound, Potsdam, Germany, June 2008

Poster presentation at the annual conference 2007 of the German Association of Limnology (DGL) and the German section of the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL), Münster, Germany, October 2007

Lectures

04/2013 Data analysis using Canoco 5.0 - in the framework of the IMPRS course “Analytical Techniques”