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02.09.2015 Learning from Nature

Learning from Nature: Genomic database standard alleviates search for novel antibiotics
Penicillin and other secondary metabolites

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01.10.2015 Deep-sea hot vents and climate

How deep-sea hot vents affect our climate – new “Nature Geosciences” publication

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09.11.2015 MPI Seminars

Invitation to the MPI seminar
Friday, November 13, 3:00 pm
Prof. M. Holmer: Sulfide intrusion and sulfide tolerance in seagrasses

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TREAD - European workshop on Bremen

At the 13th and 14th of October the "European workshop on heavy metal contaminated, marine sediments" will take place in Bremen. The workshop will be organized by the Max Planck Institue for Marine Microbiology and the participating scientists.

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21.11.2005: Bacteria Which Sense the Earth's Magne

Max Planck researchers uncover how a nanoscale "compass" inside bacteria orients them to the Earth's magnetic field

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International Workshop “Marine Genomics meets Marine Diversity”

International Workshop “Marine Genomics meets Marine Diversity” in Bremen, 8 – 9 June 2006: On the road to integration

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Microorganisms on a Starvation Diet

International Research Team: Natural Radioactivity may supply Life Energy for Deep Biosphere Microbes

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Happy New Year 2007

We wish you a happy New Year.

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Marine Genomics Europe Training in Bioinformatics

Introduction course in sequence and genome analysis for European students

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In the middle of the atlantic ocean: Research vessel Maria S. Merian

Third cruise report from the German research vessel Maria S. Merian

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On board of Research Vessel Meteor in the Black Sea

The expedition M72/2 “MICROHAB” is dedicated to the study of anoxicmicrobial habitats on the continental margin of the Black Sea. The Black Sea is the largest anoxic basin on earth and provides unique conditions for the study of microbial habitats and controls on key anaerobic microbial processes...

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EU Project COSA

COSA - Coastal Sands as Biocatalytical Filters
A brochure about the EU project COSA is available.

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Sailing the Black Sea

MPI researchers and their colleagues on board of the German research vessel METEOR.

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MEDECO

MEDECO – Cruising the Mediterranean Sea
International Research Team studies the sea floor in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

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The Settling of Porous Particles in Water

The Max Planck Society supports a scientific collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and the Massachussets Institute of Technology, MIT.

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11.07.2008 Linking deep sea biodiversity and climate dynamics

Does the biodiversity and functioning of deep-sea organisms play a role in the Earth’s climate? Science blog: METEOR Expedition M76/3 GUINECO - MARUM research on fluid and gas seepage off West Africa

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10.12.2008 Tiny knights in shining armor – bacteria detoxify deadly seawater

Some marine bacteria produce hydrogen sulphide, which is toxic to animals. Scientists now discovered that bacteria also protect marine animals from this toxic gas. A bacterial bloom detoxified a vast expanse of hydrogen sulphide-containing water off the coast of Namibia, before it could unfold it...

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31.03.2009 Advanced colour photography – a new method of spectral analysis gets to the bottom of single cells and biofilms

Investigations of the inner life of single cells usually require the destruction of these cells in order to extract and quantify their content. Until now this rendered repeated measurements and studies of temporal developments impossible. A recent development at the Max-Planck-Institute for Marin...

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08.06.2009 Sequencing the unseen majority in the World´s Oceans

Research Saling Yacht Sorcerer II visits Helgoland to cooperate with German marine researchers

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21.08.2009 What sponges, beards and the lung have in common

Max Planck mathematicians and their colleagues in Poland developed a novel criterion for the calculation of mass and energy transport in porous systems

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