Gabriele Berg

After graduating from the Helmholtz-Gymnasium, Potsdam in 1981 Frau Berg studied biology at the University of Rostock. She graduated with honours (1986) and then spent a research study year in Microbiology and Biotechnology at the University of Greifswald. In 1995 she obtained the qualification Dr. rer nat with „magna cum laude“ and in 2001 the Venia Legendi for Microbiology with her dissertation Antagonistic Micro-organisms. In 2003 she was awarded a Heisenberg-Stipendium by the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Community). In 2005 she became the first female professor of natural science at the Technical University of Graz.[4]

• Senate of the TU Graz
• International Verticillium Steering Committee
• Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGBMT), Vorsitz der Sektion Süd
• Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft (DPG – German Phytomedical Society), chairperson of the working group Biologische Bekämpfung (Biological Control, 2004-2012)
• Editorial Board FEMS Microbial Ecology (2000-2010), MPMI, ISME Journal (2007-)

Frau Berg‘s research is focused on the environmental biotechnology, in particular the development of sustainable biotechnological methods to improve the microbiological performance potential of soil that has been intensively used for agriculture, and for biological plant protection with plant fortifiers and Biostimulants.

• Science2Business Award Austria
• ÖGUT Umweltpreis
• Fast Forward Award Styria

Gabriele Berg has been an author on 289 publications which have been cited 10.998 times; her h-Index is 56 (3/2016), there follows a small selection of this literature.[5]

• Berg, G. et al.: Plant-dependent genotypic and phenotypic diversity of antagonistic rhizobacteria isolated from different Verticillium host plants. In: Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68, 2002. S. 3328–3338.
• Berg, G., Eberl, L., Hartmann, A.: The rhizosphere as a reservoir for opportunistic human pathogenic bacteria. In: Environ. Microbiol. 71, 2005. S. 4203–4213.
• Lottmann, J. et al.: Influence of transgenic T4-lysozyme-producing plants on beneficial plant-associated bacteria. In: FEMS Microb. Ecol. 29, 1999. S. 365–377.
• Smalla, K., Berg, G. et al.: Bulk and rhizosphere soil bacterial communities studied by Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis: plant dependent enrichment and seasonal shifts. In: Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67, 2001. S. 4742–4751.
• Opelt, K., Berg, G. et al.: High specificity but contrasting biodiversity of Sphagnum-associated bacterial and plant communities in bog ecosystems independent of the geographical region. In: The ISME Journal 1, 2007. S. 502–516.
• Müller, H., Berg, G. et al.: Quorum-sensing effects in the antagonistic rhizosphere bacterium Serratia plymuthica HRO-C48. In: FEMS Microb. Ecol. 67, 2009. S. 468–467.
• Grube, M., Berg, G. et al.: Species-specific structural and functional diversity of bacterial communities in lichen symbiosis. In: The ISME J. 3, 2009. S. 1105–1115.
• Ryan, R.P., Berg, G et al.: Versatility and adaptation of bacteria from the genus Stenotrophomonas. In: Nature Microbiol. Rev. 7, 2009. S. 514–525.
• Bragina A, Berg C, Berg G. 2015. The core microbiome bonds the Alpine bog vegetation to a transkingdom metacommunity. Molecular Ecology 24, 2015, S. 4795–4807
• Mahnert A, Moissl-Eichinger C, Berg G. 2015. Microbiome interplay: plants alter microbial abundance and diversity within the built environment. Front Microbiol. 2015, 6:887.

• Members of the Technischen Universität Graz