Michaela A. Dippold
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Michaela A. Dippold
@michaeladippold.bsky.social
Geo-Biosphere Interactions (Prof @uni_tue: biogeochemist, microbial/soil ecologist): curious about biota driving element cycles and geo-bio-systems' trajectories - from single cell metabolism to global scale
Close cooperation with @leibnizipk.bsky.social Gatersleben & our partner groups & field locations @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de & JOOUST Kenya: Please retweet across East Africa: #AcadmicTwitter, #PhDPosition, #PhDOpportunity, #EastAfrica, #AfricaResearch, #Scholarship, #AcademicJobs!
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Next #job hire: Our own PhD position within #MultiStress to be funded as KAAD scholarship @unituebingen.bsky.social is out: You're East African scholar interested in #maize #root & #rhizosphere traits +their response to #biotic & #abiotic stress? Ready to perform work in #Germany & #Kenya? APPLY NOW
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Please forward and share, specifically across East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia), where we specifically search for candidates #PhDPositions, #PhDOpportunity, #AcademicJobs, #Scholarship, #EastAfrica, #AfricaResearch, #CallForApplications, #HigherEducation, #ResearchOpportunity, #GraduateResearch
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Great news: the #MultiStress team passed the review process - so we now search PhD candidates for #KAAD scholarships for our project on co-occuring biotic & abiotic stress in #maize. First, our central project @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social needs sbd. highly interested in #metabolomics
November 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Happy to announce that Sara Loftus successfully defended her PhD thesis @uni-goettingen.de. Starting from Day-1 of the #MoreCropPerDrop project, she performed excellent work in advancing our understanding of key #sorghum #belowground #root and #rhizosphere traits under #stress.
Very proud today 🍾.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
JOB ALERT - LAST CALL: You like the keywords you see below? Your heart beats for bioinformatics? Keep in mind, that it's only 5 days till deadline: Join the #GBI group @unituebingen.bsky.social & apply for our Postdoc position to join the SoilSystems project EcoEnergetics: uni-tuebingen.de/de/222828
October 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
#Grassland are key, biodiverse & not well understood. Study on Kenyan #savannah grasses in P&S reveals key #root & #rhizosphere traits for restoration. Great collaboration led by Moses Ngugi with B. Mweu & R. Munene in Kevin Mganga's field trial at South Eastern Kenya University tinyurl.com/29czkasa
October 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Used the opportunity of #DBG2025 for the first in-person meeting with @diegomiga.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social. From an excellent presentation in the #GBI group up to evenings with (nearly) uruguayan barbacues: all centered around Diego inspiring us for the secrets of his managed grasslands!
September 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The @unituebingen.bsky.social orga team of the #DBG2025, Thomas, Yvonne, @peterkuehn37.bsky.social, Callum, Harald & myself, say Bye to all participants: We enjoyed hosting you and hope the meeting was memorable. Looking forward to seeing many at the 100-year-event of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social again
September 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
On time with the end of our #DFG funded project on the impact of #biochar in #soils, we could present our major outcomes: @iraloginova.bsky.social gave an excellent talk on root-biochar interactions and Prashanth Prasanna closed #DBG2025 with the impact of #mucilage on biochar stability: congrats 👋
September 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
At #DBG2025, our #SPP2322 & #Storage projects target #bioenergetics in #soils: @lingling1000.bsky.social assessed C & energy use efficiencies, @nbilyera.bsky.social the metabolic costs of enzyme production, & Yang Ding the interrelation of grassland C & N input on microbial storage: Excellent Job👋
September 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
...and even more about #RootWayS project at the #DBG2025: Yijie Shi (Ada) & Henrik Füllgrabe presented on #microzymography and the subsoil labeling methods (or #Soils dating #CoverCrops ). Congrats to the two for wrapping up the outcomes of the first phase so nicely in their excellent presentations
September 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Monday was our #GBI Poster-Party-Day at #DBG2025: 2 times #RootWayS (BMBF) project with Jiangyuzhuo Wang's #subsoil labeling and Yihan Pu's mesh tubes show #intercropping benefit. Yuxuan Zhang of #BNI-2030 (@bmleh.de) added #nitrification inhibition & Ningkang Sun #AMF driven P mobilization on top 👏
September 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Proud of my "root-&-rhizosphere" team at #DBG2025 on Tuesday: Nipuna Withanage reported from #RootWayS (#BMFTR), Moses Ngugi from the #TERRA pre-project on functions of biodiverse Kenyan grasslands & Rozy Munene + Manisha Koirala from the #MoreCropPerDrop project in sub-Saharan Africa. Great Job 👍
September 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Dear all (members of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social, of @unituebingen.bsky.social & citizens of #Tübingen):

Happy to announce that our academic celebration event of the #DBG2025 is open for public - offering 2 invited scientific presentations (engl.) & awarding ceremonies (ger).

Feel warmly invited!
September 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Interested in the Dark Side? Check our new publication in #SBB on dark Fenton reaction: Fenton-type oxidation adds a nonmicrobial flux to total soil CO2 emissions:
tinyurl.com/4fsenunr

Was fun continuing work with our long-term Chilean collaborator Carolina Merino, ykuzyakov.bsky.social & others!
August 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Late-summer GBI group trip jointly with the @kylemojo.bsky.social SMI team: 1) hiking to viewpoint over the Neckartal, 2) passing Stuttgart formation sandstone quarry, 3) walking along marvellous "Märchensee" hosting endangeoured frog species, & 4) finishing with a great barbacue: a local highlight!
August 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM
#biomarker studies sometimes remind of solving a crime: different molecular indicators & proxies brought in context tell the story: long climatic/elevation gradients like at Mt. #Kilimanjaro are predestinated: check tinyurl.com/5n86rczz in #Catena journal of J. Becker, @ykuzyakov.bsky.social, et al.
August 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Your #DBG2025 Icebreaker Service Team of the Geo-Biosphere Interactions Group #GBI of @unituebingen.bsky.social is seriously practicing all required services (having fun doing so). We will be best prepared to welcome all @soilsdbg.bsky.social members at the GUZ on 14th of Sept. Looking forward 🥗🌭🥨🍻🥂
July 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We’re proud that Aleksandra, the 1st apprentice of the
@unituebingen.bsky.social's apprenticeship program (tinyurl.com/3jvcw9pm), has successfully completed her final state examination & had her first working day in our group. She’s best qualified to operate our new #isotope ratio mass spectrometer
July 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I love microbes but not all #soil processes are microbial - not even biotic. Check out the addition to our ferrous wheel story (prev.: tinyurl.com/26j2whpk) published in J. Environ. Man. tinyurl.com/ympthbv3. Pretty clear: volcanic soils are different & abiotic #nitrogen fixation is central for them
July 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Impressive invited talk at #rhizosphere6 of @mutezahmed.bsky.social: visualization of the #rhizosphere interface has progressed soo rapidely, so that we can indeed now observe #drought reponses of the soil-plant system on such a small scale. Congrats: looking forward to first outcomes of your new CT
June 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Oh, in case you want to see another horrible soil (lowest fertility but in this case ferralic with low pH) visit Rozi Munene from @unituebingen.bsky.social at poster 282 at #rhizosphere6 and see, how #rhizosphere traits explain #drought resistance of #Sorghum growing under these miserable conditions
June 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Besides orals on marginal tropical #soils, you also find us - Yihan Pu (Nr 248) & Zakaria Ziche (Nr 156) - in the poster hall: they demonstrate, how to exploit #subsoils, their #AMF & facilitation for future agriculture in mid Europ. Ongoing projects open for discussion: step by at #rhizosphere 6 😀
June 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Have to admit: for #DBG2025 @unituebingen.bsky.social we cannot offer similar location than #rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh 😅 We give our best to fill the impressive halls here with some impressive outcomes: Thanks Sara for unraveling the role of #root hairs in mobilizing #phosphorus from alkaline #soils
June 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM