Biography:
Viviane Radl studied microbiology and immunology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2001) and got her PhD in microbial ecology at the Technische Universität München (2005), where she did a postdoc on the Influence of the cultivation of transgenic plants and soil microbial communities. Lately she went back to Brazil (Embrapa Agrobiologia-2010-11) where she started to work on the selection and characterization of rhizobial strains to be used as inoculant for cowpea, where she described a novel rhizobial strains. Since 2011 she is working as a research associate at the Helmholtz Zentrum München on plant-microbe interactions.
Title : From seeds to roots: The role of seed-borne endophytes for the composition of the active microbiome of barley roots