Press releases

Antje Boetius will receive the Ernst Ludwig Winnacker Award from the Bayer Foundation.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology reveal how a methane-generating microbe can grow on toxic sulfite without becoming poisoned. 

Thursday, January 12, 2023

in the new MPI lecture hall 4012 at 3:00 p.m. (15:00h) (Don´t forget to bring a mask!)

Peter Stief (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)

will give a seminar with the title

"Marine snow under pressure: Mineralization, bacterial colonization, and diatom li...

Brown algae take up large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and release parts of the carbon contained therein back into the environment in mucous form. This mucus is hard to break down for other ocean inhabitants, thus the carbon is removed from the atmosphere for a long time, as researchers...

Thursday, February 27, 2020

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Mirko Basen
Mikrobielle Physiologie/Mikrobiologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany

will give a seminar with the title:
"Ancie...

Thursday, January 30, 2020

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg
Department of Biochemistry & Synthetic Metabolism

will give a seminar with the title:
"Understanding and engineering marine proteobacterial m...

Thursday, November 21, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

KLAUS KOREN
Department of Bioscience; Aarhus University Centre for Water Technology; Aarhus University; Denmark

will give a seminar with the title:
"Optical sensing in aquatic environments; from materials development to applications"

Thursday, October 10, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 11:00 a.m.

GERALD HAUG (MPI for Chemistry, Mainz)

will give a seminar with the title:
"Ice Ages, Interglacials and a 450ppm CO2 world"

Wednesday, September 28, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

BRENDAN BOHANNAN (University of Oregon, Eugene, USA)

will give a seminar with the title: 
"Host-Microbiomes as Metacommunities: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications"

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

SAMANTHA B. JOYE  (University of Georgia, Athens, USA)

will give a seminar with the title: 
"The Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem - Microbial and biogeochemical dynamics revealed through tracking the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil b...

Monday, August 19, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

GERHARD HERNDL  (University of Vienna, Austria)

will give a seminar with the title: 
"Dark ocean microbes and the carbon cycle: mismatch indicates major gaps in knowledge"

Monday, August 19, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

JULIE LAROCHE (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada)

will give a seminar with the title: 
"Dynamics of microbial community structure and marine dinitrogen fixation at a microbial observatory in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean"

Friday, July 5, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

NICOLE M. KOROPATKIN (University of Michigan, USA)

will give a seminar with the title: 
"Molecular details of glycan scavenging at the bacterial cell surface: The bacteroidetes sus-like paradigm"

Thursday, July 4, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

ALLISON SCHAAP
Senior Research Engineer, Microfluidic Sensors
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK

will give a seminar with the title: 
"Lab-on-chip sensors for autonomously measuring nutrients and carbonate parameters"

Thursday, May 23, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

KYLIE ALLEN
Virginia Tech University, USA

will give a seminar with the title: 
"Coenzyme F430 variants and Radical SAM enzymes in methanogens and anaerobic methanotrophs"

Thursday, May 9, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

MARTIN ACKERMANN
ETH Zurich and Eawag

will give a seminar with the title: 
"A single-cell perspective on metabolic interactions in bacterial communities"

Thursday, March 14, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

BEATE SLABY
Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel

will give a seminar with the title: 
"Exploring the sponge microbiota of Langseth Ridge as part of the H2020 EU project SponGES"

Thursday, February 28, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

COLLEEN HANSEL
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

will give a seminar with the title: 
"Dynamics and consequences of extracellular superoxide in marine systems"

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

WILLIAM ORSI
Professor for Geomicrobiology Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Paleontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

will give a seminar with the title: 
"Deciphering population-specific a...

Thursday, January 17, 2019

in Lecture Hall 2 (4012) at 3:00 p.m.

FILIP HUSNIK
University of British Columbia, Biodiversity Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada

will give a seminar with the title: 
Convergent evolution of bacterial symbionts interacting with mitochondria in marine protists