Guillaume Lentendu

Dr. Guillaume Lentendu is a PostDoctoral Researcher at the Department of Soil Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany. His academic career spans institutions including the University of Leipzig and Toulouse 3 University.

• Education: PhD in Soil Ecology (2010-2014), MSc in Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity (Toulouse 3 University), BSc in Biology.

Research Interests: Dr. Lentendu specializes in microbial cross-kingdom interactions in the rhizosphere, bioinformatic development of amplicon pipelines, and fertilization-driven soil microbial diversity shifts. His work integrates flow cytometry and molecular ecology to study soil eukaryotic microbes in agroecosystems and subtropical forests.

Publication Trends: His research focuses on soil microbial diversity under long-term fertilization, method development for meta-barcoding, and functional roles of fungal communities in decomposition. He employs NGS technologies and cross-kingdom interaction analysis in his studies.

• Review Activities: Regular reviewer for journals including Molecular Ecology and Scientific Reports.
• Invited Talks: Presented methods for high-throughput soil microbe analysis at institutions like the University of Köln and iDiv Leipzig.

Collaborations: Works with the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and contributes to soil biodiversity databases through GFBio (German Federation for Biological Data).