Andrea Scheibe
Department of Biology, Indiana University
1001 E Third Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
scheibea@indiana.edu
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
Mikroorganismen in Biofilmen
Fließrinnenexperiment“
Gemeinschaft nitrifizierender
kleiner Fließgewässer: ein
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”