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Exciting facts and beautiful pictures about our research on seagrasses can currently be seen in several television programmes.

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Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ocean. The newly-discovered bacterial symbiont is closely related to the nitrog...

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Zukunftstag am MPI 2022

Scientists take a leap towards estimating the number of strains that make up a natural bacterial population

Decoding the conversations between microbes of hypersaline environments reveals deep insights into the origins of complex life.

On February 27, 2024, the 4th Ocean Day will allow 500 pupils to dig deep into marine science in Bremen.

Researchers from Bremen, Germany, studied the composition and function of bacteria in the seabed off Svalbard, during alternating periods of polar night and midnight sun. To do this, they specially developed a sampling device, the Ellrott grab. Contrary to bacterial communities in the overlying w...

By tightly regulating nitrogen uptake, microorganisms avoid overeating nitrogen and thus wasting energy. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology now reveal how some methanogenic archaea manage to do so.  

Joint declaration of the Bremen research institutions united in the U Bremen Research Alliance and the State Rectors' Conference

Tuesday, December 12, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 1112 at 11:00 a.m. 

Alicia L. Bruzos (University of Caen, Normandy, France)

"Contagious cancers and their spread among marine bivalves"

Wednesday, November 29, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 4012 at 10:00 a.m. 

David Richardson (University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom)

"Respiring Rocks - solving the conundrum of electron transfer to the microbe-mineral interface"

Tristan Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology wins an ERC Consolidator Grant.

Wednesday, November 22, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 4012 at 10:00 a.m. 

Jose M Martin Duran (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)

"The symbiosis of Osedax worms and the genomic adaptation to digest vertebrate bones"

Researchers around Susanne Erdmann from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen take a look at data that has so far been mostly discarded as contamination, revealing the previously underestimated role of extracellular vesicles (EVs). These are important for the exchange of gene...

North German researchers are developing a method that reveals the chemical communication between microbes and their host.

Some bacteria are able to tap into unusual sources of nutrients in the surface water of the oceans. This enables them to increase their primary production and extract more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In doing so, however, they release the potent greenhouse gas methane.

Forty employees of our institute took the opportunity to visit the Science Campus Braunschweig-Süd, which bundles expertise and infrastructure against infectious diseases, yesterday as part of a work excursion.

How do marine bacteria convert sugar into energy? This question is the subject of a new Emmy Noether junior research group at the University of Bremen. The German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund the team led by marine biologist Dr. Greta Reintjes with around one million euros over the next si...