Specializace

Coexistent orchids, mycorrhizal fungi, niche facilitating, NGS sequencing

Stručný životopis

Education

2017-2021: Ph.D. student at University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic – Current position

2016-2017: M.Sc. "Ecosystems and Anthropisation" at University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

2015: B.Sc. "Biology of Organisms, Populations and Ecosystems" at University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Internships

2019 – 9 weeks: Exploration of orchid mycorrhizal fungal communities of the Colombian Paramos. In collaboration with Yasmin Amparo Alomia, Ph.D. student, and under the supervision of Pablo Stevenson and Joel Tupac Otero at the Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

2016 – 2 months: Restoring orchid populations in agricultural landscapes: does the availability of nutrients and mycorrhizal fungi matter? Under the supervision of Hélène Vogt-Schilb and Jana Jersáková at South Bohemia University, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

2015 – 6 weeks: Molecular characterization and fungi cultures. Under the supervision of Patricia Jargeat at the EDB laboratory (Evolution and Biology Diversity), at University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Další informace

Scientific presentations

- Sophie Mennicken, Milan Kotilínek, Alžběta Novotná, Hélène Vogt-Schilb, Tamara Těšitelová, Bertrand Schatz, Jana Jersáková. Structure of orchid-fungus bipartite networks in two climatically different regions (Talk). Plant Biology conference CS 2019, České Budějovice.

- Sophie Mennicken, Jiří Bárta, Alžběta Novotná, Hélène Vogt-Schilb, Tamara Těšitelová, Bertrand Schatz, Jana Jersáková. Exploring endohyphal bacteria communities within orchid-fungus network (Poster). The 7^th International Orchid Conservation Congress, London.

- Sophie Mennicken, Hélène Vogt-Schilb, Jana Jersáková. Endohyphal bacteria communities within the orchid-fungus network (poster). The 6^th International Orchid Workshop in Bialystok, Poland.

Publications

• Brown, J. J.*, Mennicken, S.*, Massante, J. C., Dijoux, S., Telea, A., Benedek, A. M., ... & Hrček, J. (2019). A novel method to predict dark diversity using unconstrained ordination analysis. Journal of Vegetation Science. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12757
• Mennicken, S., Kondratow, F., Buralli, F., Manzi, S., Andrieu, E., Roy, M., & Brin, A. (2020). Effects of past and present-day landscape structure on forest soil microorganisms. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 118.
• Novotná, A., Mennicken, S., de Paula, C. C. P., Vogt-Schilb, H., Kotilínek, M., Těšitelová, T., ... & Jersáková, J. (2023). Variability in Nutrient Use by Orchid Mycorrhizal Fungi in Two Medium Types. Journal of Fungi, 9(1), 88.
• Mennicken, S., Vogt‐Schilb, H., Těšitelová, T., Kotilínek, M., Alomía, Y. A., Schatz, B., & Jersáková, J. (2023). Orchid‐mycorrhizal fungi interactions reveal a duality in their network structure in two European regions differing in climate. Molecular Ecology.