Vincent Kendlbacher
E-mail: a01602903@unet.univie.ac.at
Position
Master-Student
Research Interest
My research focuses on the description of a novel ciliate-species of the genus Zoothamnium and the search for symbiotic bacteria on its surface or inside its body. For the species-description I try to find morphological characters as well as attributes on a molecular level that differ from all already described Zoothamnium-species. Concerning the symbionts, my goal is to identify them, to find out where and in which quantities they occur on or inside the ciliate and to investigate their morphology.
Education and research activities
08/2022 fieldwork in Piran, Slovenia
Sampling; microscopic studies on living organisms; taking sediment cores; measurement of O2-concentration, salinity, pH and temperature
07/2022 field course in Rovinj, Croatia
(Fauna and Flora of marine environments)
04/2020 B.Sc., Environment and Bioresources Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Title: ‘Küsten im Wandel der Erderwärmung’
Skills
labwork: DNA-Extraction; PCR; Light-Microscopy
fieldwork: snorkeling; taking sediment cores; Measurement of O2-concentration, salinity, pH and temperature
statistics: R, excel