Kornelia Smalla
Kornelia Smalla (* 1956 ) is a chemist and biotechnologist at the Julius Kühn Institute in Braunschweig and a professor for microbiology at the Technical University of Braunschweig
Live and act
After school education, she studied chemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (1975–1980) with a diploma as a chemist. Smalla became a research associate at the Institute for Biochemistry in the Medical Faculty of the same university with a doctorate to Dr. rer nat in Biochemistry 1985 and Habilitation with Venia legendi in Microbiology 1999.
From 1984–1991 Smalla was head of the reference laboratory for hygienic risks of biotechnological processes at the District Hygiene Institute in Magdeburg. 1991-2007 she was a research assistant at the Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry in Braunschweig, since 2008 she has been in the successor institution: Julius Kühn Institute, Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants, at the Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics as head of the working group for microbial ecology and bacterial phytopathogens active.
Since 2006 Smalla has been an adjunct professor for microbiology at the TU Braunschweig. She received an honorary doctorate in agricultural sciences from the Swedish University of Agriculture in Uppsala. In the EU project Biofector , she represents her specialist field of structural and functional diversity of microbial communities and their interaction in the rhizosphere.
Work areas
- Development and use of cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent molecular detection methods for bacterial pathogens
- Epidemiology of bacterial pathogens using molecular detection methods
- Interaction of antagonists, pathogens and microbial communities in the rhizosphere
- Effects of soil, plant species and cultivar, agricultural practice on the structural and functional diversity of microbial communities in the rhizosphere
- Adaptation and diversification of bacteria (including bacterial pathogens) through plasmids
- Bacterial Resistance Genes Ecology.
Appreciation
Since 1991 Kornelia Smalla has been researching in her special field of microbial ecology at the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) or its predecessor organization, the Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry. Her main research interests include the interactions of pathogens and their antagonists in the root space of plants and the diversity of microbial communities in the rhizosphere as a whole. It also deals with the effects that soils, plant species, cultivars and agricultural cultivation or use have on the structural and functional diversity of microbial communities. To this end, Kornelia Smalla develops and uses molecular detection methods. The results of their work have contributed significantly to a better understanding of the soil microbiome of cultivated plants.
Memberships
- Member of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)
- American Society of Microbiology
- International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME)
- SETAC
- German Phytomedical Society (DPG)
- Editor of
- FEMS Microbiology Ecology
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- BMC Microbiology
- Editorial board:
- Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- ISME Journal
- Ad hoc reviewer for various trade journals:
- Microbial Ecology,
- Soil Biology and Biochemistry,
- Plasmid,
- Microbiology,
- Applied Soil Ecology,
- New Phytologist,
- Environmental Microbiology
Awards
- Honorary doctorate from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala in (2011)
- Badge of Honor of the Julius Kühn Institute (2016)
- Science award of the German Phytomedical Society eV (DPG) presented by Johannes Hallmann (2017)
Publications (selection)
- Kornelia Smalla is involved in 187 publications which were cited 10,407 times; her h-index is 52 (8/2016)
- Link to the selection of publications by Kornelia Smalla
Web links
- Kornelia Smalla at the Julius Kühn Institute
- Kornelia Smalla at the German Research Foundation
- Kornelia Smalla in an interview with NDR ( Memento from September 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Kornelia Smalla at the Asian PGPR ( Memento from April 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kornelia Smalla on the JKI website
- ↑ CV of Kornelia Smalla at Inia.uy pdf accessed on July 9, 2017
- ↑ Kornelia Smalla at Springer on antibiotic resistance genes in arable soil
- ↑ Kornelia Smalla in the EU project Biofector
- ↑ DPG Science Prize 2017 to Kornelia Smalla
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Smalla, Kornelia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German microbiologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |