Dirk Redecker

UMR Microbiologie du Sol et de l'Environnement
INRA/Université de Bourgogne

BP 86510, 17 rue Sully
21065 Dijon cedex
France

Phone: +33 (0)3 80 69 36 42
Fax: +33 (0)3 80 69 32 24

Email:
dirk.redeckerdijon.inra.fr

Short CV:

1985-1991	Studies of Biology in Marburg (Germany)
1990-1991	Diplom thesis about light harvesting complexes of red algae (phycobilisomes)
1992-1995	PhD thesis in the lab of Prof. Dietrich Werner (Marburg, Germany) and at CIAT (Cali, Colombia):
1995-1997	Postdoc in the lab of Prof. Dietrich Werner (Marburg, Germany)
1997-2000	Postdoc in the lab of Prof. Tom Bruns (Berkeley, USA)
2000	Postdoc in the lab of Prof. Dave Rizzo (Davis, USA)
2001-2009	Principal investigator, research associate and lecturer at the Institute of Botany, University of Basel (Switzerland)
2003	Habilitation in Botany
2004	Alexopoulos prize of the Mycological Society of America
	Associate editor of Molecular Ecology, editorial board member of Mycological Progress.
2009	Professor of Environmental Microbiology (Dijon, France)

Teaching (2001-2009):

Summer semester

Plant physiology and botanical microbiology course
Lecture: Biology of the fungi (see also:Mycological field week of ETH Zürich ,Valbella, 2005)

Winter semester

Plant Biology course
Lecture: Biology of the algae

Research:

Molecular ecology of mycorrhiza group at Basel (Switzerland).

Favorite nature photography

Publications:

Journal articles:

BLASZKOWSKI, J., RYSZKA, P., OEHL, F., KOEGEL, S., WIEMKEN, A., KOVACS, G.M., REDECKER, D. (2009): Glomus achrum and G. bistratum, two new species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) found in maritime sand dunes. Botany 87, 260-271.
BÖRSTLER, B., RAAB, P.A., THIERY, O., MORTON, J.B., REDECKER, D. (2008): Genetic diversity of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices as determined by mitochondrial large subunit rRNA gene sequences is considerably higher than previously expected. New Phytologist 180, 452-465.
APPOLONI, S., LEKBERG, Y., TERCEK, M. T., ZABINSKI, C. A., REDECKER, D. (2008): Molecular community analysis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots of geothermal soils in Yellowstone National Park (USA). Microbial Ecology 56, 649-559.
MATHIMARAN, N., FALQUET, L., INEICHEN, K., PICARD, C., REDECKER, D., BOLLER, T., WIEMKEN, A. (2008): Microsatellites for disentangling underground networks: Strain-specific identification of Glomus intraradices, an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 45, 812-817.
SYKOROVA, Z., WIEMKEN, A., REDECKER, D. (2007): Co-occurring Gentiana verna and Gentiana acaulis and their neighboring plants in two Swiss upper montane meadows harbor distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73, 5426-5434.
SYKOROVA, Z., INEICHEN, K. WIEMKEN, A., REDECKER, D. (2007): The cultivation bias: different communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi detected in roots from the field, from bait plants transplanted to the field, and from a greenhouse trap experiment, Mycorrhiza,18, 1-14.
REDECKER, D., RAAB, P., OEHL, F., CAMACHO, F.J., COURTECUISSE, R. (2007): A novel clade of sporocarp-forming glomeromycotan fungi in the Diversisporales lineage. Mycological Progress 6, 35-44.
REDECKER, D., RAAB, P. (2006): Phylogeny of the Glomeromycota (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi): recent developments and new gene markers. Mycologia 98, 885-895.
HIJRI I., Z. SYKOROVA, F. OEHL, K. INEICHEN, P. MÄDER, A. WIEMKEN, D. REDECKER (2006): Communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in arable soils are not necessarily low in diversity. Molecular Ecology 15, 2277-2289.
OEHL, F., Z. SYKOROVA, D. REDECKER, A. WIEMKEN, E. SIEVERDING (2006): Acaulospora alpina, a new arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species characteristic for high mountainous and alpine regions of the Swiss Alps. Mycologia 98, 286-294.
RAAB, P., A. BRENNWALD, D. REDECKER (2005): Mitochondrial large ribosomal subunit sequences are homogeneous within isolates of Glomus (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, Glomeromycota). Mycol. Res., 109, 1315-1322
ROESTI, D. , K. INEICHEN, O. BRAISSANT, D. REDECKER, A. WIEMKEN, M. ARAGNO (2005): Bacteria associated with spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Glomus geosporum and Glomus constrictum. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71, 6673-6679.
OEHL, F., D. REDECKER, E. SIEVERDING (2005): Glomus badium, a new sporocarpic mycorrhizal fungal species from european grasslands with higher soil pH. J. Appl. Bot. 79, 38-43
REDECKER, D., I. HIJRI, A. WIEMKEN. (2003): Molecular identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots: perspectives and problems. Folia Geobotanica 38, 113-124.
BIDARTONDO, M. I., D. REDECKER, I. HIJRI, A. WIEMKEN, T. D. BRUNS, L. DOMINGUEZ, A. SERSIC, J. R. LEAKE, D. J. READ (2002): Epiparasitic plants specialized on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nature 419, 389-392.
(Abstract of article, PDF file of article, accompanying News&Views article by David Hibbett, Erläuterungen zu dieser Studie auf Deutsch)
BRUNS, T., J. TAN, T. M. SZARO, M. BIDARTONDO, D. REDECKER. (2002): Survival of Suillus pungens and Amanita francheti ectomycorrhizal genets was rare or absent after a stand-replacing wildfire. New Phytologist 155, 517523.
HIJRI, M., D. REDECKER, J. A. MACDONALD-COMBER PETETOT, K. VOIGT, J. WÖSTEMEYER, I. R. SANDERS (2002): Identification and isolation of two ascomycete fungi from spores of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Scutellospora castanea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68, 4567-4573.
REDECKER, D., T. M. SZARO, R. J. BOWMAN, T. D. BRUNS. (2001): Small genets of Lactarius xanthogalactus, Russula cremoricolor and Amanita francheti in late-stage ectomycorrhizal successions. Molecular Ecology 10: 1025-1034.
MORTON, J. B., D. REDECKER (2001): Two new families of Glomales, Archaeosporaceae and Paraglomaceae, with two new genera, Archaeospora and Paraglomus, based on concordant molecular and morphological characters. Mycologia 93: 181-195 (abstract available).
REDECKER, D., R. KODNER, L. E. GRAHAM (2000): Glomalean fungi from the Ordovician. Science 289: 1920-1921. (see press release, abstract and pdf, or the Ordovician cartoon ).
REDECKER, D. (2000): Specific PCR primers to identify arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomales) within colonized roots. Mycorrhiza 10: 73-80 (abstract available).
REDECKER, D., J.B.MORTON, T. D. BRUNS (2000): Ancestral lineages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 14: 276-284 (abstract available).
REDECKER, D., J. B. MORTON, T. D. BRUNS (2000) Molecular phylogeny of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Glomus sinuosum and Sclerocystis coremioides. Mycologia 92: 282-285 (abstract available).
REDECKER, D., M. HIJRI, H. DULIEU, I.R.SANDERS (1999) Phylogenetic analysis of a dataset of fungal 5.8S rDNA sequences shows that highly divergent copies of Internal Transcribed Spacers reported from Scutellospora castanea are of Ascomycete origin. Fungal Genetics and Biology 28, 238-244 (abstract and dataset available)
REDECKER, D., I.S.FEDER, P. VINUESA, T. BATINIC, U. SCHULZE, K. KOSCH, D. WERNER (1999): Biocontrol strain Pseudomonas sp. W34: specific detection and quantification in the rhizosphere of Cucumis sativus with a DNA probe and genotypic characterization by DNA fingerprinting. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung 54c: 359-370. (abstract available).
REDECKER, D., H. THIERFELDER, C. WALKER, D. WERNER (1997): Restriction analysis of PCR-amplified internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of ribosomal DNA as a tool for species identification in different genera of the Glomales. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63: 1756-1761.
REDECKER, D., P. v. BERSWORDT-WALLRABE, D. P. BECK, D. WERNER (1997): Influence of inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the 15N/14N ratio in Phaseolus vulgaris. Biology and Fertility of Soils 24: 344-346.
ABRECHT, H., D. REDECKER, H. THIERFELDER and D. WERNER (1996): Alpha-Mannosidase activity increase in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis of Allium schoenoprasum. Mycorrhiza 6: 31- 34.
REDECKER, D., H. THIERFELDER and D. WERNER (1995): A new cultivation system for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on glass beads. Angew. Bot. 69: 189-191
REDECKER, D., W. WEHRMEYER, W. REUTER (1993): Core substructure of the hemiellipsoidal phycobilisome from the red alga Porphyridium cruentum. European Journal of Cell Biology 62: 442-450.

Comments:

REDECKER D. (2006): Evolution of metazoa and fungi. Comment on Rokas et al. (Science 310, 1933-1937). Science 312, 53.
MATHIMARAN, N., FALQUET, L., INEICHEN, K., PICARD, C., REDECKER, D., WIEMKEN, A., BOLLER, T. (2008): Unexpected vagaries of microsatellite loci in Glomus intraradices: length polymorphisms are rarely caused by variation in repeat number only. New Phytologist 180, 568-570.

Reviews:

REDECKER, D (2002): New views on fungal evolution based on DNA markers and the fossil record. Research in Microbiology, 153, 125-130.
REDECKER, D (2002): Molecular identification and phylogeny of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Plant and Soil 244, 67-73.

Book sections:

REDECKER, D. (2006): Molecular ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: a review of PCR-based techniques. In : "Molecular Techniques for Soil and Rhizosphere Microorganisms",( J. Cooper, J. R. Rao, eds.) CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK., in press.
REDECKER, D., H. THIERFELDER, D. WERNER (1998): Production of biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the glass bead compartment system. In: Mycorrhiza manual (Ed.: A. Varma). Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 495-498.
REDECKER, D., W. STREIT, H. THIERFELDER, A. PARRA, D.P. BECK and D. WERNER (1996): Interactions between vesicular-arbuscular fungi and rhizobia in the symbiosis with Phaseolus vulgaris. In: Mycorrhizas in integrated systems from genes to plant development. (C. Azcon-Aguilar, J.M.Barea, eds.) Office for official publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 653-656.

Book review:

J. C. Avise: Molecular Markers, Natural History and Evolution, 2nd ed. Ecoscience 12, 147 (2005)

Journal titles:

American Journal of Botany, December 2000 (thanks to Annette Kretzer for managing this)

Microbial Ecology, January 2009

Miscellaneous:

....and the other side of Dirk: a website with his artwork