Renate Radek
PD Dr. Renate Radek | |
---|---|
Alma mater | University of Bonn |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Protistology |
Doctoral advisor | Karl-Ernst Wohlfarth-Bottermann (de) |
Renate Radek is a protistologist and an associate professor at the Freie Universität Berlin.[1]
Education
Radek received a Diploma in biology from the University of Bonn in 1985. She received her PhD in 1987 at the University of Bonn's Institute of Cytology, supervised by Karl-Ernst Wohlfarth-Bottermann (de).[1]
Career
Radek worked as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Bonn (1987-1988), Freie Universität Berlin (1989-1996), the University of Heidelberg (1996-1999), and again at the Freie Universität Berlin (2000-2008), where she worked under the protistologist Klaus Hausmann. In 2008, upon completing her Habilitation, she was promoted to associate professor.[1]
Radek has been an editorial board member at the European Journal of Protistology[2] and an external reviewer for Acta Protozoologica[3] since 2005, and a member of the board of reviewers at the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology[4] since 2012.[1] She is managing director of the German Society for Protozoology[5] and is also a member of the Berlin Microscopical Society, the German Society for Parasitology, the International Society of Protistologists, and the Society for Invertebrate Pathology.[1]
Research
Over the course of her career, Radek has published almost 100 scientific papers, eleven book chapters, and two protistology textbooks.[1][6][7] One of these textbooks, Protistology,[6] has been translated into Chinese, Russian, and Korean.[1] In 1991, she created a scientific film about termite flagellates with Klaus Hausmann.[8]
Her current focus is on the biology and morphology of protists that live as symbionts and parasites in diverse insect hosts, notably termite gut flagellates and spore-forming protists (some of which, like the nephridiophagids,[9] are now thought to be fungi) in cockroaches and beetles. She is also interested in the relationship between protists and their prokaryotic symbionts.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Renate Radek - Rolff Group - Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy". Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ↑ "European Journal of Protistology Editorial Board". Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ↑ "Acta Protozoologica". www.ejournals.eu (in Polish). Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ↑ "Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology". onlinelibrary.wiley.com. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ↑ "Vorstand". Deutsche Gesellschaft für Protozoologie (in German). Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- 1 2 Hausmann, Klaus; Hülsmann, Norbert; Radek, Renate (2003). Protistology (3rd, completely rev. ed.). Berlin: Schweizerbart. p. 379. ISBN 978-3-510-65208-2.
- ↑ Hausmann, Klaus; Radek, Renate, eds. (2014). Cilia and Flagella, Ciliates and Flagellates Ultrastructure and cell biology, function and systematics, symbiosis and biodiversity. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart Science Publishers. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-510-65287-7.
- ↑ Hausmann, Klaus; Radek, Renate (1992). "Symbiotic Flagellates in Termites" (Video). TIB AV-PORTAL. IWF (Göttingen). doi:10.3203/IWF/C-1790eng. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ↑ Radek, Renate; Wurzbacher, Christian; Gisder, Sebastian; Nilsson, R. Henrik; Owerfeldt, Anja; Genersch, Elke; Kirk, Paul M.; Voigt, Kerstin (10 July 2017). "Morphologic and molecular data help adopting the insect-pathogenic nephridiophagids (Nephridiophagidae) among the early diverging fungal lineages, close to the Chytridiomycota". MycoKeys. 25: 31–50. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.25.12446.