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24.03.2010 Bacteria produce oxygen even without light

Bacteria produce oxygen even without light
The molecular secrets of a bacterium which produces its own oxygen to use the green house gas methane was unravelled.

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24.09.2010 Advances in Microbial Ecophysiology and Biochemistry – Symposium

Advances in Microbial Ecophysiology and Biochemistry – Symposium

Advances in Microbial Ecophysiology and Biochemistry the symposium with Martin Polz, Dianne K. Newman, Birgit Alber, Johannes Gescher, Frank E. Löffler and Matthias Boll will be held on 23. September 2010 at the Max-Planck Institute ...

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22.12.2010 Historic El Nino events 125 000 years ago

Historic El Nino events to blame for heavy rainfalls in the Northern Atacama Desert 125 000 years ago.

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26.01.2011 Climate secrets locked at the bottom of the Mariana Trench

The deepest part of the ocean traps amounts of carbon.

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12.05.2011 New standards for genomic data

How to handle priceless sequence data
MIMARKS and MIxS - novel minimum information standards for marker genes and any (x) sequence in environmental research

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08.06.2011 EuroMarine

EuroMarine - A new multidisciplinary marine network: From genes to ecosystems

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10.08.2011 Hydrogen highway in the deep sea

Max Planck Researchers discover hydrogen-powered symbiotic bacteria in deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels

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21.09.2011 Springs of Life in the Dead Sea

Scientists discover dense and diverse microbial communities in and around fresh water springs on the Dead Sea floor

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03.10.2011 Molecular mechanism of the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) unraveled

Nitric oxide and the rocket fuel hydrazine are key molecules in the anammox reaction

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13.10.2011 International research consortium sets new standards for genome research

12th GSC workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen

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24.11.2011 Young female Max Planck researcher wins UNESCO-L’Oréal sponsorship award

Judith Klatt of the Max Planck Intitute in Bremen is awarded sponsorship grant for mothers in research

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13.01.2012 From Genes to Ecosystem

EuroMarine General Assembly in Bremen
More than 100 international scientists of the EU multidisciplinary marine network EuroMarine meet on 17 January for three days in Bremen.

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28.02.2012 Introns found in bacterial 16S rRNA

Max Planck scientists from Bremen identify long pieces of non-coding DNA in the most important phylogenetic marker gene in bacteria

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02.04.2012 Finalists for Wissenschaft interaktiv

Three teams from Leipzig, Münster and Bremen are the finalists in the "Wissenschaft interaktiv" challenge.
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology will present the world of bacteria during the Science Summer in Lübeck.

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04.05.2012 Algal blooms in the North Sea

Nutrient supply after algal bloom determines the succession of the bacterial population

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07.06.2012 Publications in freshwater and marine biology: Max Planck scientists rank in the top positions

MPI biogeochemists, molecular ecologists and bioinformaticians among the most cited marine biologists

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13.08.2012 Marine Research and the Brazilian Rain Forest

Slash and Burn practice for centuries as source of stable carbon compounds in the oceans

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20.09.2012 Unusual symbiosis discovered among marine microorganisms

Tiny single-celled algae and nitrogen-fixing bacteria exchange carbon and nitrogen in a mutually beneficial relationship that helps fertilize the oceans.

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05.11.2012 Strange diet for methane consuming microbes

Strange diet for methane consuming microorganisms
Methane supplies the energy but is not the carbon source

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03.12.2012 Award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Max Planck researcher receives prestigious investigator award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

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