Jessica Finck

Microbial ecologist

Work in progress...


Sep 16, 2025

Hello from the 4th MINT Festival in Jena, where we managed the ATTO booth 🌳🗼🌳 It was exciting to share our field site and campe with children and students via VR 🥽




Jul 16, 2025

Excited to be in Milano 🇮🇹 for the FEMS MICRO conference, and to give a talk about what we can learn about the impact of drought on rainforest microbiomes! 🦠☀️




Apr 22, 2025

It was a pleasure answering questions about the rainforest and becoming and being a researcher for these curious children from the German Kindergarden Shanghai! 🇨🇳 😊




Feb 26, 2025

Hello again from our internal IMPRS retreat in Heldrugen. 🇩🇪🏰 Despite the hurdles and bad weather, we made the best of it




Sep 30, 2024

Currently at the DACH Geobiology Symposium in Bayreuth, presenting my data on how seasonal drought impacts pristine rainforest microbiomes, and their functional potential. 🦠☀️




Sep 2, 2024

After 2 months, my time at the Huttenhower group (or Hutlab) comes to a close 🇺🇸 I am grateful to my supervisor Kelsey Thompson for all they've tought me during my time at Harvard U!




Apr 18, 2024

Back from my talk at the EGU General Assembly 2024 🇦🇹 Vienna was – as always – an absolute marvel! 🏛️




Feb 18, 2024

Greetings from our institute's annual IMPRS retreat from the water castle Heldrungen to foster networking amongst PhDs! 🏰




Nov 1, 2023

Nothing major, just a hearty hello from my current work place at the ESALQ/USP in Piracicaba 🇧🇷🤭 It is always a pleasure to be here for lab work! 🧬




Oct 24, 2023

Had a great time in Brazil 🇧🇷 for this year's sampling campaign, and the ATTO workshop in Manaus. Many thanks to the ATTO project and MPI-BGC for making this possible! 🌳🗼🌳




Oct 13, 2023

Thank you to the CRC AquaDiva and the Kuesel lab for organizing this years DACH Geobiology Symposium in Jena! 🇩🇪🦠 It was amazing to present some first results from my PhD.




Sep 27, 2023

It was great meeting old and new faces during this year's ATTO workshop! 🍽️🐟




Apr 30, 2023

Finished our 2nd wet season ATTO sampling campaign, and the 1st campaign during the El Nino year. 🇧🇷 ☀️ It was – unsurprisingly – wet.




Nov 25, 2022

Happy to help at this year's Long Night of Science to bringour research to adults and children alike. 👨‍👩‍👦🔬




Oct 6, 2022

Last day of this year's ATTO workshop in Manaus. 🇧🇷 Thank you for a great scientific and personal exchange! 🌳🗼🌳




Sep 26, 2022

New project, new samples! Finished the first sampling campaign in the rainforest for my PhD research. 🤩




Jun 17, 2022

Back from Summer School! Thanks to the amazing team of instructors from the hutlab in Boston, MA, wo thaught us about the possibilities of multi'omics for microbial studies. 🦠

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