30 years Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy

Already 30 years – in 1992 a hand­ful of re­search­ers set sail in Bre­men on an ex­ped­i­tion into the world of mi­croor­gan­isms. At that time, the two found­ing dir­ect­ors Bo Barker Jør­gensen and Friedrich Wid­del led the quest into the still young re­search field of mar­ine mi­cro­bi­o­logy. Today, more than 200 em­ploy­ees are work­ing here and the in­sti­tute‘s build­ing has been ex­pan­ded sev­eral times. The re­search field of mar­ine mi­cro­bi­o­logy has lost none of its rel­ev­ance. Our re­search­ers con­tinue to ad­dress new ques­tions in or­der to bet­ter un­der­stand the in­ter­con­nec­tions and func­tion­ing of our blue planet and its smal­lest in­hab­it­ants, and their im­port­ance in our lives.

On the oc­ca­sion of the 30th an­niversary of the Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, cur­rent and former staff mem­bers, col­lab­or­at­ors and re­search friends from all over the world met on Au­gust 22 and 23 for a sci­entific sym­posium and in­formal get-to­gether. It was an in­spir­ing, en­rich­ing and de­light­ful event – manythanks to the or­gan­iz­ing team, all help­ers and par­ti­cipants for cel­eb­rat­ing this an­niversary with us. We are already look­ing for­ward to the next 30 years packed with ex­cit­ing re­search!