About the Researcher and her Research
How our research foci arose
Our research on mycorrhizas started in 1978 when mycorrhiza research was established in Tübingen - and re-established in Germany after many years of neglect - during the so called “Schönbuch-Project” (Ecological research project in the Schönbuch Nature Park, DFG, ed. G. Einsele, 1986).
Although the obligate, mutualistic fungus-root interaction was realized and named in an ingenious publication by B. Frank in 1885, general acceptance and knowledge was low until the 1970s.
Research impact
Our basic scientific findings on ectomycorrhizal structures and development are now standard knowledge in lecture books, and we still consider structural understanding as fundamental for functional explications of the complex mutualistic interactions – thus this work is not “merely descriptive”.
Research Funding
Funding came from DFG (German Research Foundation), State of Baden-Württmeberg (PEF), BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), EU (European Union) and others.
Scope of the Website
The summarized  results presented on this website were obtained by the mycorrhiza research group guided by Ingrid Kottke from 1978 until 2007 at the Institute of Systematic Botany, Mycology and Botanical Garden, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen ( places).
Curriculum
Ingrid Kottke, née Fiala, studied geology, biology, chemistry and geography at Universities Braunschweig, Bonn and Tübingen, and received her doctoral degree at Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen in 1968. She than spend three years as teacher at high school and took a sabtical to raise her three children. She came back to University Tübingen in 1978 starting the mycorrhizal research and establishing a research group.
She took habilitation in 1991 and was awarded apl. Prof. in 1999. 15 dissertations were superwised by her. She retired from teaching in April 2004, but still continues with research.
Honors and Professional Service
Professora Honoraria de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja.
Editorial Board of the Journal Mycological Progess and the Journal Mycorrhiza.
She was member of the Advisory Board of the Research Unit 402 "Functionality in a Tropical Mountain Rainforest: Diversity, Dynamic Processes and Utilization Potentials under Ecosystem Perspectives" (2002-2006).
Memberships
Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft
(German Botanical Society, DBG)
Sektion Mykologie und Lichenologie in der DBG
(Section Mycology and Lichenology of the DBG)
Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie
(German Tropical Ecological Society, GTÖ)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mykologie
(German Mycological Society, DGfM)
International Mycorrhiza Society (IMS)
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