The Challenges in Forest Ecology seminar series, featuring top scientists from around the world, provides a unique opportunity to discuss the state of the art in forest ecology from different perspectives and approaches with the leading experts in the field.

13 March 2024 at 16:00 CET / CEST (GMT+1/+2), Andrea Polle (University of Göttingen, Germany) – Mycorrhiza and the wood wide web: facts, fiction and uncertainties

online via Zoom

Meeting ID: 922 7946 9748

Passcode 446421

In person: Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, 61300 Brno, Czech Republik, Room B106

Andrea Polle (University of Göttingen, Germany)

Andrea Polle has been working as Professor of Forest Botany and Tree Physiology at Georg-August Universität of Göttingen since 1996. Her major research interests are molecular ecophysiology of stress adaptation in trees and tree-biotic interactions under globally changing environmental conditions. A focus is on tree-mycorrhizal associations. Her lab uses molecular methods and isotopes to study the functional diversity of ecomycorrhizal fungi. Andrea Polle is a leading scientist in the field of plant science. She has published more than 300 scientific articles that have been cited over 34000 times. She is an editor of the journals New Phytologist (environmental section) and Tree Physiology (review editor) She has been afiliated as visiting scientist with Beijing Forestry University. She has been elected as fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Lower Saxony (2006), where she is currenty serving as the vice-president.

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The Seminar Series is held within the project ERA Chair: Striving for Excellence in the Forest Ecosystem (EXCELLENTIA), receiving funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe.

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