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Defenses 2020

Recently defended: Mi­guel Ángel Gon­zá­lez Por­ras
Congratulations: Miguel got his hat! (© N. Leisch)

Mi­guel Ángel Gon­zá­lez Por­ras

Department: Symbiosis 

Exam Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Topic of dissertation:

"Molecular biology of the bacterial intranuclear parasite Ca. Endonucleobacter"

Recently defended: Nadine Gerlach
Congratulations: Julia got her hat! (© K. Kitzinger)

Julia Dürschlag

Department: Biogeochemistry

Exam Date: Friday, November 20, 2020

Topic of dissertation:

"Highly adapted microbial communities drive dinitrogen fixation and export production in the South Pacific Gyre"

Recently defended: Nadine Gerlach
Congratulations: Nadine got her hat! (from left to right: Jan-Hendrik Hehemann, Dennis Jakob, Nadine Gerlach, Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera (Marum), Bernhard Fuchs (© Jaagni Parnami))

Nadine Gerlach 

Research Group: HGF MPG Research Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology

Exam Date: Thursday, October 8, 2020

Topic of dissertation:

"Macroalgal polysaccharides  - a bittersweet feast for marine bacteria"

Recently defended: Nina Bartlau (née Heinzmann)
Congratulations: Nina got her hat! (from left to right: Andreas Dotzauer (University of Bremen), Georg Krohne (Biocenter of the university of Würzburg), Anneke Heins, Rudolf Amann, Cedric Hahn, Nina Bartlau, Antje Wichels (AWI - BA Helgoland), Bernhard Fuchs, Lisa Bauer und Cristina Moraru (University Oldenburg) (© Greta Giljan))

Nina Bartlau, née Heinzmann

Department: Molecular Ecology

Exam Date: Monday, October 5, 2020

Topic of dissertation: 

"Diversity and function of phages modulating North Sea bacteria"

Recently defended: Thomas Ben Francis
Congratulations: Ben Francis got his hat! (from left to right: Prof. Dr. Katharina Riedel (Uni Greifswald), Dr. Ben Francis (MPI), Prof. Dr. Thomas Schweder (Uni Greifswald), Prof. Dr. Rudi Amann (MPI), (© Anneke Heins))

Thomas Ben Francis

Department: Molecular Ecology 

Exam Date: Thursday, September 3, 2020 (at University of Greifswald)

Topic of dissertation: 

"Proteogenomics of Marine Polysaccharide Utilisation"

Recently defended: Greta Giljan
Congratulations: Greta Giljan got her hat! (from left to right: Bernhard Fuchs, Carol Arnosti, Dennis Jakob, Greta Giljan, Michael Friedrich, Andreas Dotzauer, NIna Bartlau (© Dennis Jakob))

Greta Giljan 

Department: Molecular Ecology

Exam Date: Monday, July 13, 2020

Topic of dissertation: 

"Flow sorting of marine bacteria for targeted metabolic studies"

Recently defended: Benedikt Geier
Recently defended: Benedikt Geier (© Max Planck Institut for Marine Microbiologie)

Benedikt Geier 

Department: Symbiosis

Exam Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Topic of dissertation: 

"Correlative mass-spectrometry imaging of animal-microbe symbiosis"

Recently defended: Nadine Lehnen & Alexander Khachikyan
Recently defended: Nadine Lehnen & Alexander Khachikyan (© Max Planck Institut for Marine Microbiologie, Sina Schorn)

Nadine Lehnen &
Alexander Khachikyan

Department: Biogeochemistry 

Exam Date: Friday, March 13, 2020

Topic of dissertation of Nadine Lehnen:

"Symbiotic N2 fixation in the Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica"

Topic of dissertation of Alexander Khachikyan:

"Physical and chemical properties of single microbial cells"

Andreas Sichert
Andreas Sichert (© Max Planck Institut for Marine Microbiologie, A. Esken)

Andreas Sichert

 

Exam Date: Friday, January 31, 2020

Topic of dissertation:

"Degradation of recalcitrant algal polysaccharides by marine microbes"

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