Dr. L. Erik Daber
Telefon: +49 (0)761 203 96825
Email: erik.daber(at)cep.uni-freiburg.de
Postdoc
Professur für Ökosystemphysiologie
Institut für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften
Fakultät für Umwelt und natürliche Ressourcen
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Georges-Köhler-Allee 053 / 054
79110 Freiburg
Germany
Research Interests
GCMS-IRMS, PTR-MS-TOF, ecosystem physiology, plant ecophysiology, stable isotope ecology, soil-plant-atmosphere interactions, ecosystem fluxes, flux partitioning, tropical ecosystems.
University Education and Professional Experience
2023 - present
Akademischer Mitarbeiter im wissenschaftlichen Dienst (Postdoc), University of Freiburg, Ecosystem Physiology
2020 - 2023
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Environmental Sciences, University of Freiburg -"Biosynthesis and emission of isoprenoids of boreal and tropical tree species in response to drought" (summa cum laude)
2019 - 2020
Master of Science in Environmental Sciences, University of Freiburg -"Understanding drought induced responses in leaf CO2 and BVOC fluxes through position-specific isotope labelling"
2016
Exchange student at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2019 - 2020
Master of Science in Biology, University of Freiburg -"Beutefang bei Utricularia australis – Fanganalysen und funktionsmorphologische Untersuchungen"
Awards and Scholarships
2022
Travel scholarship of the “International Graduate Academy” (IGA) Freiburg for the Gordon Research Conference, Oxnard, CA, USA
Scholarship of the “Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Freiburg i.Br.“ for participating at the Gordon Research Seminar, Oxnard, CA, USA as a speaker
2021
Presentation prize of the German Association for Stable Isotope Research (GASIR) 2021
Links
Publications
- Meischner, M., Haberstroh, S., Daber, L. E., Kreuzwieser, J., Caldeira, M. C., Schnitzler, J. P., & Werner, C. (2022). Soil VOC emissions of a Mediterranean woodland are sensitive to shrub invasion. Plant Biology, 24(6), 967-978.
- Honeker, L. K., Hildebrand, G. A., Fudyma, J. D., Daber, L. E., Hoyt, D., Flowers, S. E., ... & Tfaily, M. M. (2022). Elucidating Drought-Tolerance Mechanisms in Plant Roots through 1H NMR Metabolomics in Parallel with MALDI-MS, and NanoSIMS Imaging Techniques. Environmental Science & Technology.
- Werner, C., Meredith, L. K., Ladd, S. N., Ingrisch, J., Kübert, A., van Haren, J., ...Daber, L. E.,... & Williams, J. (2021). Ecosystem fluxes during drought and recovery in an experimental forest. Science, 374(6574), 1514-1518.
- Ladd, S. N., Nelson, D. B., Bamberger, I., Daber, L. E., Kreuzwieser, J., Kahmen, A., & Werner, C. (2021). Metabolic exchange between pathways for isoprenoid synthesis and implications for biosynthetic hydrogen isotope fractionation. New Phytologist, 231(5), 1708-1719.
- Poppinga, S., Daber, L.E., Westermeier, A.S. et al. Biomechanical analysis of prey capture in the carnivorous Southern bladderwort (Utricularia australis). Sci Rep 7, 1776 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01954-3
Conferences
- Daber L. Erik, Philipp Nolte, Mirjam Meischner, Jürgen Kreuzwieser, Christiane Werner (2021). Unravelling shoot:root drought responses in VOC emissions through 13C-pyruvate labelling. ASI 2021, Darmstadt
- Linnea K Honeker, Giovanni Pugliese, Johannes Ingrisch, Jane Fudyma, Juliana Gil-Loaiza, Elizabeth Carpenter, Esther Singer, Gina Hildebrand, Lingling Shi, L. Erik Daber, Michaela Dipploid, Jürgen Kreuzwieser, S. Nemiah Ladd, Christiane Werner, Malak Tfaily, Laura Meredith (2021). Effect of drought on soil microbial metabolisms driving carbon allocation and volatile organic compound cycling in the tropical rainforest at Biosphere 2 AGU 2021, New Orleans
- Lia Crocker, Juliana Gil, L. Erik Daber, Christiane Werner, S. Nemiah Ladd, Laura Meredith, Jana U’Ren (2021) Composition and Diversity of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) from Leaf Litter in the Biosphere 2 Tropical Rainforest. AGU Fall Meeting 2021
- Meischner, Mirjam; Haberstroh, Simon; Daber, L. Erik; Kreuzwieser, Jürgen; Caldeira, Maria; Schnitzler, Jörg-Peter (2021). Shrub Encroachment alters Soil VOC Emission Pattern in a Mediterranean Cork Oak Ecosystem. Jahrestagung der DBG 2021. Bodenkunde
- Kübert Angelika, Kathrin Kühnhammer, Ines Bamberger, L. Erik Daber, Jason De Leeuw, Kinzie Bailey, Jia Hu, S. Nemiah Ladd, Laura Meredith, Joost van Haren, Matthias Beyer, Maren Dubbert, and Christiane Werner (2021). Tropical rainforests under severe drought stress: distinct water use strategies among and within species. EGU Vienna, April 2021 pico presentation
- Laura K Meredith, Jordan E. Krechmer, Juliana Gil-Loaiza, Joseph R Roscioli, Joanne H Shorter, Megan Claflin, L. Erik Daber, Jane Fudyma, Johannes Ingrisch, Kathiravan Meeran, Giovanni Pugliese, Thomas Kluepfel, Eva Y Pfannerstill, Jonathan Williams, Linnea K Honeker, Malak M Tfaily, S. Nemiah Ladd, Christiane Werner (2020) Exploring the role of volatile organic compounds in the rhizosphere interactome AGU, San Francsico Dec 2020.
- Ladd S. Nemiah, Daniel B. Nelson, Ines Bramberger, L. Erik Daber, Ansgar Kahmen, Carsten J. Schubert, Christiane Werner. Drought does not affect hydrogen isotope fractionation during lipid biosynthesis by the tropical plant Pachira aquatica. EGU 2020, Online 4–8 May
- Angelika Kübert, Kathrin Kühnhammer, Ines Bamberger, L. Erik Daber, Jason De Leeuw, Kinzey Bailey, Jia Hu, S. Nemiah Ladd, Laura Meredith, Joost van Haren, Matthias Beyer, Maren Dubbert, and Christiane Werner. Above ground response of rainforest functional groups to experimental drought. EGU 2020, Online 4–8 May
- Daber,L. Erik, Ines Bamberger , S. Nemiah Ladd, Jürgen Kreuzwieser, Laura Meredith, Christiane Werner. Plant carbon allocation in a tropical forest under drought stress - Shifting the balance between CO2 and VOC emissions. AGU Fall Meeting 2019, 9-13 December
- American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (Poster). Christiane Werner, L. Erik Daber, Ines Bramberge, Nemiah Ladd, Ana Maria Yáñez-Serrano, Lukas Fasbender, Pawel K Misztal, Laura K Meredith, Jürgen Kreuzwieser and "B2 WALD team”. Link between plant volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions and CO2 metabolism from sub-molecular to ecosystem scales by 13C-labelling (December 2019)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (Poster). Nemiah Ladd, Daniel B Nelson, Ines Bramberger, L. Erik Daber, Laura K Meredith, Ansgar Kahmen, Carsten Johnny Schubert and Christiane Werner. Position specific 13C pyruvate labeling demonstrates how drought responses affect hydrogen isotope fractionation during plant lipid biosynthesis (December 2019)