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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, have uncovered the molecular secrets of a methane-generating microbe that can transform sulfate into sulfide – a ready-to-use cellular building block. This discovery opens up exciting opportunities in biofuel produ...

The seafloor is home to around one-third of all the microorganisms on the Earth and is inhabited even at a depth of several kilometers. Only when it becomes too hot does the abundance of microorganisms appear to decline. But how, and from what, do microorganisms in the deep seafloor live? How do ...

Seawater is full of bacteria, hundreds of thousands live in every litre. But the sheer number of bacteria living in the water does not necessarily mean a lot. More important is how active they are and how quickly they duplicate, as demonstrated in a study by researchers from the Max Planck Instit...

Algal blooms in the ocean play a pivotal role in global carbon cycling. Such blooms entail successive blooms of specialized bacteria that collectively remineralize gigatons of algal biomass on a global scale. This biomass is largely composed of distinct polysaccharides, and the microbial decompos...

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Phytosterols are good for your health, but humans and other animals are not able to make them themselves. To acquire phytosterols, humans are increasingly turning to supplements, green smoothies, or a Mediterranean diet with plenty of plant-based foods. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute f...

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Zukunftstag am MPI 2022

Scientist Eileen Kröber, currently a PostDoc in the Symbiosis Department at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, has successfully applied for the establishment of an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group. The German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund the new group fo...

Sina Schorn receives this year's MARUM Research Award for her dissertation "Microbial activities and interactions in anoxic methane-rich environments". The award is presented to young marine scientists who have written outstanding master's or doctoral theses.

The HIFMB-MPG-Bridging Group for Marine Omics, led by Prof. Dr. A. Murat Eren, is a cooperation between the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity.

Tuesday, April 18, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 4012 at 11:30 a.m. (11:30 Uhr) 

Noelle Held (Institute of Pollution and Biogeochemistry, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH-Z & Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag)

“Microbial decision-making and the link to marine biogeoche...

Wednesday, March 22, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 4012 at 3:00 p.m. (15:00 Uhr) 

Sukhwan Yoon (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea)

"Microbial reduction of nitrous oxide: the decade-long ecophysiologica...

Reactive oxygen species – very reactive molecules containing oxygen – have a great impact on mineralization processes in tidal sandflats, study finds. Their investigation is thus important for understanding marine carbon cycling.

Disconnected from the energy of the sun, the permanently ice-covered Arctic deep sea receives miniscule amounts of organic matter that sustains life. Bacteria which can harvest the energy released from submarine hydrothermal sources could thus have an advantage. On research missions with the rese...

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Johan Decelle (University of Grenoble, France)

will give a digital seminar with the title:

"Exploring the intimacy of cell-cell interactions in plankton at the nanoscale"

You are welcome to join.

Wednesday, February 22, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 4012 at 3:00 p.m. (15:00 Uhr) 

Alexander Probst (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

will give a seminar with the title:

"Rogue 1b: An archaeal CRISPR Cas story"

You are welcome to join.

Thursday, February 2, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 4012 at 3:00 p.m. (15:00 Uhr) (Don´t forget to bring a mask!!!)

Karen Wiltshire (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Host: Rudolf Amann)

will give a seminar with the title:

"The North Sea in the fast lane of Clim...

Tuesday, January 31, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 1112 at 2:00 p.m. (14:00 Uhr) (Don´t forget to bring a mask!!!)

Maria Chuvochina (The University of Queensland, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, Host: Bernhard Fuchs)

will give a seminar with the title:

"Navigating the space of prokaryotic taxonomy ...