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Courses of the institute

Summer semester
  • Bachelor's module "Field Ecology"
  • Bachelor's module "Applied Ecology Project"
  • Master's module "Landscape Ecology / Biodiversity / Nature Conservation"
  • Master's module "Biotope and Landscape Management"
  • Master's module "Ecophysiology / Ecosystem Analysis / Management"
Winter semester
  • Master's module "Aquatic Ecology and Nature Conservation in Practice"
Winter semester
  • Bachelor's module "Introduction to the Principles of Biology and Ecology"
  • Bachelor's module "Fundamentals of Nature Conservation"
  • Bachelor's module "Applied Ecology Project"
  • Master's module "Ecosystems"
  • Master's module "Landscape Ecology / Biodiversity / Nature Conservation"
  • Master's module "Biotope and Landscape Management"
  • . and Landscape Management"
  • Master's module "Ecophysiology / Ecosystem Analysis / Management"
  • Master's module "Stress Physiology and Rhizosphere Chemistry"

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Summer semester
  • Bachelor's module "Introduction to Biohydrometallurgy"
  • Master's module "Biotechnological Production Processes"
Winter semester
  • Master's module "Biotechnology of Metal Extraction and Recycling"
  • Master's module "Molecular Ecology of Microorganisms"
  • Master's module "Extremophiles - Lifestyle and Biotechnological Applications"
  • Master's module "Enzymes. Lifestyle and Biotechnological Applications"
  • Master's module "Enzymes: Purification/Characterisation/Mechanisms" (Lectureship Dr. Oelschlägel)

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Summer semester
  • Bachelor's module "Fundamentals of Biochemistry and Microbiology"
Winter semester
  • Bachelor's module "Environmental Microbiology"
  • Master's module "Biotechnology in Mining"
  • Master's module "Introduction to Genetics"
  • Master's module "Microbiology for Research Scientists" (Lecture and Lab Course)

Doctorates of the institute

  • Melvice Ngalle Epede, M.Sc. (PhD): Assessing Plants Capacity to take up Metal(oid)s. (2018-2023)
  • Nazia Zaffar, M.Sc. (PhD): Energy balance and cost effective analysis of perennial energy crop though anaerobic digestion process. (04/2018-03/2024)
    Scholarship from the funds of the Free State of Saxony

  • Mareike Fritze, M.Sc. (PhD): Development and optimisation of biohydrometallurgical methods for the recycling of industrial residues. (10/2022-09/2025)
  • Helena Fuchs, M.Sc. (PhD): Generation of a new exoelectrogenic bacterium by expression of the electron transfer pathway of iron reduction of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. (01/2022-12/2024 DBU doctoral scholarship)
  • Tina Krießlich, M.Sc. (PhD): Identification and Development of a Design of tailor-made Peptides for polymer treatment prior of the plastic metallisation. (03/2020-03/2024) Helmholtz Institute Freiberg (HIF)
  • Luise Malik, M.Sc. (PhD): Iron reduction mechanisms in acidophiles. (09/2020-08/2023)

  • Christian Hintersatz, M.Sc: Investigation of siderophores as agents for selective binding of gallium, germanium and indium. (11/2019-05/2023) Dr Pollmann, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
  • Sabine Kaiser: Biomimetic process for the production of new germanium-containing biocomposites. (06/2013-03/2024)
  • Andreas Keller, M.Sc: Functional stability of syntrophic consortia involved in anaerobic contaminant degradation. (03/2013-12/2020 submitted) Dr Vogt, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig
  • Julius Kramer, M.Sc: Microbial ore leaching of chalcopyrite. Improvement of leaching by targeted influencing of microbial consortia using chloride ions. (11/2019-12/2024)
    (12/2019-06/2023 BMBF project "ReAK")
  • Katarzyna Kwiecien, M.Sc: Isolation and characterisation of cloride-tolerant, mesophilic or moderately thermophilic, acidophilic iron oxidizers and their use for leaching metals from carbonate-containing ores. (07/2020-10/2024 DBU doctoral scholarship)
  • Benjamin Monneron, M.Eng.: Use of chloride-tolerating acidophiles for bioleaching of metals from primary and secondary resources. (09/2018-06/2024)
    (09-12/2018 BHMZ-Projekt, 01/2019-12/2022 Krüger-Stiftung, 01/2023-12/2023 SAB-Fond)
  • Mauricio Nuñez Rodriguez, M.Sc: Effect of ROS on the adherence and antioxidant response of Leptospirillum sp. CF-1 in sulfur minerals. (03/2018-12/2022) Prof. Gloria Levican, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
  • Cristian Jorquera Román, M.Sc: Arsenite oxidation by acidophilic iron-oxidising bacteria. (12/2019-09/2024)
    (12/2019-06/2023 BMBF project "ReAK")
  • Shalini Singh, M.Sc: Cost effective production of siderophores (Desferrioxamines B and Bisucaberin) by genetic manipulation for metal recovery. (10/2021-10/2024) Dr Pollmann, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
  • Wei Yuan, M.Sc: Microbial leaching of arsenic-containing ores and concentrates by thermophilic bacteria. (12/2019-12/2024)
    (12/2019-06/2023 BMBF-Projekt "ReAK")