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14.03.2011 Algae in darkness – Survival strategy unraveled

Mar 14, 2011

The world’s oceans teem with unicellular algae that carry out photosynthesis in the sunlight. It has been known for some time that the particularly abundant diatoms (unicellular algae with a silicate frustule) are also able to survive in the dark bottom of the ocean, where neither photosynthesis ...

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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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21.01.2013 Wood on the seafloor

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28.01.2013 How Antarctica turned white

Weathering of Antarctic rocks lowers atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration during the Eocene-Oligocene transition

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15.02.2013 Award for Marine Scientist

Jillian M. Petersen, Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, has been selected by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography(ASLO) to receive the 2013 Raymond Lindeman Award

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18.03.2013 Microbes in the Mariana Trench

Microbes in the Mariana Trench
Highly active communities of bacteria in the world’s deepest oceanic trench.

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