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Curriculum vitae Dipl. Biol. Verena Witt Research interests: Microbial diversity Indicators of water quality Quorum sensing Global nitrogen cycling Environmental and anthropogenic effects on water quality PhD thesis: Microbial diversity and activity in biofilms and calcareous sediments along a water quality gradient in the Australian Great Barrier Reef

Working experience and Internships:
Since 07/2008	Based at the Australian Institute of Marine Science Townsville, Australia
Since 04/2008	PhD Candidate in the CORE Work Group of Dr. Christian Wild at the Geo-Biocenter of Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich in collaboration with Dr. Sven Uthicke from the Water Quality Management Team at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia Changes in microbial diversity and activity in calcareous sediments and biofilms along a water quality gradient in the Australian Great Barrier Reef
10/2007	Research Assistant in the Work Group Microbial
02/2008	Habitats of Prof. Antje Boetius at the Max-Planck-Institut for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
09/2007	Internship in aquaculture at Sealife aquarium, Munich, Germany
07-09/2007	Research Assistant in the Work Group Coral Reef Ecology (CORE) at the GeoBio-Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), München

Education:
04/2007	Diploma in Biology at the LMU, Munich Major: Humangenetics Minors: Cell Biology and Biochemistry
07/2006- 04/2007	Diploma thesis at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich Department for Anthropology and Humangenetics Research group of Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Cremer; Supervisor: PD Stefan Müller Nuclear topology of the Bcl11a locus and flanking ultra-conserved sequences in vertebrate development
2001-2006	Biology studies at the LMU
Memberships: Member of the Foundation board of the Thomas-Witt-Foundation of Sponsorship for Scientific Research in Zoological Systematics (since 2000)
Field experience: 09/2005 Systematic botany- excursions to France (Mycology) 10/2006 and Thailand (Orchids) May 2009 field trip to Heron Island 2008-2010 several field trips on the RV Cape Ferguson, RV Apollo and RV Aquila to the Whitsunday Islands, and Magnetic Island
List of publications:
Grasser F. & Witt V. & Lanctôt C. & Thormeyer T. & Cremer T. & Müller S. 2007. Nuclear topology of trans-dev genes and flanking ultra-conserved non-coding sequence clusters in mouse and chicken development. 16th ICC - International Chromosome Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 25-29.8.2007. Vol. 15: 240. Witt V. 2008. Diversity and function of biofilm bacteria as indicators for water quality in the Australian Great Barrier Reef. 2nd CORE Mini-Symposium on Biogeochemical Coral Reef Research, Munich, Germany, 2.5.2008. p?. Witt V. 2009. (AIMS/CORE): Diversity and activity of microbial biofilm communities in the Great Barrier Reef. BWG Workshop on Coral reefs and Climate Change, Heron Island, Australia, 18.05-30.05.2009.