Publications 2015

Molecular Ecology Group

Bizic-Ionescu, M., M. Zeder, D. Ionescu, S. Orlic, B.M. Fuchs, H.-P. Grossart, and R. Amann: Comparsion of bacterial communities on limnic versus coastal marine particles reveals profound differences in colonization. Environ. Microbiol., 17:3500-3514. (2015) PubMed

Elling F.J., M. Könneke, M. Mußmann, A. Greve, K.U. Hinrichs: Influence of temperature, pH, and salinity on membrane lipid composition and TEX 86 of marine planktonic thaumarchaeal isolates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 171, 238-255 (2015) ScienceDirect

Hahnke, R.L., C.M. Bennke, B.M. Fuchs, A.J. Mann, E. Rhiel, H. Teeling, R. Amann, and J. Harder: Dilution cultivation of marine heterotrophic bacteria abundant after a spring phytoplankton bloom in the North Sea. Environ. Microbiol., 17:3515-3526. (2015) PubMed

Korlević, M., P. Pop Ristova, R. Garić, R. Amann, and S. Orlić: Bacterial diversity in the South Adriatic Sea during a strong deep winter convection year. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 81:1715-1726. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Krupke, A., W. Mohr, J. LaRoche, B.M. Fuchs, R.I. Amann, and M.M.M. Kuypers: The effect of nutrients on carbon and nitrogen fixation by the UCYN-A-haptophyte symbiosis. ISME J., 9:1635-1647. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Lucas, J., Wichels, A., Teeling, H., Chafee, M., Scharfe, M., Gerdts, G.: Annual dynamics of North Sea bacterioplankton: seasonal variability superimposes short-term variation. FEMS Microbiol Ecol., 91:DOI:10.1093/femsec/fiv099. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Pizzetti, I.; Schulz, F.; Tyml, T.; Fuchs, B. M.; Amann, R.; Horn, M.& Fazi, S.: Chlamydial seasonal dynamics and isolation of “Candidatus Neptunochlamydia vexilliferae” from a Tyrrhenian coastal lake. Environmental Microbiology, November 1, (2015) PubMed

Pjevac, P., M. Korlević, J. Berg, E¬. Bura-Nakic, I. Ciglenecki, R. Amann, and S. Orlić: Community shift from phototrophic to chemotrophic sulfide oxidation following anoxic holomixis in a stratified seawater lake. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 81:298-308. (2015) ASM Full Text

Ruff, SE ; Biddle, JF ; Teske, AP ; Knittel, K ; Boetius, A ; Ramette: A Global dispersion and local diversification of the methane seep microbiome. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the United States of America 112: 4015-4020 (2015) PNAS Full Text

Rossello-Mora, R. And R. Amann: Past and future species definitions for Bacteria and Archaea. System. Appl. Microbiol., 38:209-216. (2015) PubMed

Schleifer, K.H., R. Amann, and R. Rossello-Mora: Taxonomy in the age of genomics. System. Appl. Microbiol., 38:207-208. (2015) PubMed

Serrano, W., J. Schruebbers, R. Amann, and U. Fischer: Allochromatium humboldtianum sp. nov., isolated from soft coastal sediments. Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol., (2015) PubMed

Thiele, S., B. Fuchs, R. Amann, and M. Iversen: Colonization in the photic zone and subsequent changes during sinking determined bacterial community composition in marine snow. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 81:1463-1471. (2015) ASM

Xing, P., R.L. Hahnke, F. Unfried, S. Markert, S. Huang, T. Barbyron, J. Harder, D. Becher, T. Schweder, F.O. Glöckner, R.I. Amann, and H. Teeling: Niches of two polysaccharide-degrading Polaribacter isolates from the North Sea during a spring diatom bloom. ISME J., 9:1410-1422. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Yamaguchi, T., B.M. Fuchs, R. Amann, S. Kawakami, K. Kubota, M. Hatamoto, and T. Yamaguchi: Rapid and sensitive identification of marine bacteria by an improved in situ DNA hybridization chain reaction (quickHCR-FISH). System. Appl. Microbiol., 38:400-405. (2015) PubMed

Marine Geochemistry Group

Arrieta J.M., Mayol E., Hansman R.L., Herndl G.J., Dittmar T. and Duarte C.M.: Response to comment on “Dilution limits dissolved organic carbon utilization in the deep ocean”. Science 350, 6267, 1483-b, 1-2. (2015) PubMed

Arrieta J.M., Mayol E., Hansman R.L., Herndl G.J., Dittmar T. and Duarte C.M.: Dilution limits dissolved organic carbon utilization in the deep ocean. Science 348, 6232, 331-333. (2015) PubMed

Benavides M., Moisander P.H., Berthelot H., Dittmar T., Grosso O. and Bonnet S.: Mesopelagic N2 fixation related to organic matter composition in the Solomon and Bismarck Seas (Southwest Pacific). PLOS One. 10 (12) e014377, 1-19. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Chmiel H., Niggemann J., Kokic J., Ferland M.-E., Dittmar T., Sobek S.: Uncoupled organic matter burial and quality in boreal lake sediments over the Holocene. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 9, 1751-1763. (2015) Wiley

De la Cruz F., Dittmar T., Niggemann J., Osburn C. and Barlaz M.A.: Evaluation of copper oxide oxidation for quantification of lignin in municipal solid waste. Environmental Engineering Science 32 (6), 486-496. (2015) Liebertpub.

Gomez-Saez G.V., Riedel T., Niggemann J., Pichler T., Dittmar T. and Bühring S.I.: Interaction between iron and dissolved organic matter in a marine shallow hydrothermal system off Dominica Island (Lesser Antilles). Marine Chemistry 177, 677-686. (2015) Sciencdirect

Hansman R.L., Dittmar T. and Herndl G.J.: Conservation of dissolved organic matter molecular composition during mixing of the deep water masses of the northeast Atlantic Ocean. Marine Chemistry 177, 288-297. (2015) Sciencdirect

Hawkes J.A., Rossel P.E., Stubbins A., Butterfield D., Connelly D.P., Achterberg E.P., Koschinsky A., Chavagnac V., Hansen C.T., Bach W. and Dittmar T.: Efficient removal of recalcitrant deep-ocean dissolved organic matter during hydrothermal circulation. Nature Geoscience 8, 856-860. (2015) nature

Kellerman A., Kothawala D.N., Dittmar T. and Tranvik L.J.: Persistence of dissolved organic matter in lakes related to its molecular characteristics. Nature Geoscience 8, 454-457. (2015) nature

Kim T.-H., Kim G., Lee S.-A. and Dittmar T.: Extraordinary slow degradation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in a cold marginal sea. Scientific Reports., 5 (13808) 1-6. DOI: 10.1038/srep13808. (2015) nature Full Text

Kleindienst S., Seidel M., Ziervogel K., Grim S., Loftis K., Harrison S., Malkin S.Y., Perkins M.J., Field J., Sogin M.L., Dittmar T., Passow U., Medeiros P.M. and Joye S.B.: Chemical dispersants can suppress the activity of natural oil-degrading microorganisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS 112 (48) 14900-14905. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Medeiros P.M., Seidel M., Powers L.C., Dittmar T., Hansell D.A. and Miller W.L.: Dissolved organic matter composition and photochemical transformations in the northern North Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters 42, 863-870. (2015) Wiley

Medeiros P.M., Seidel M., Ward N.D., Carpenter E.J., Gomes H.R., Niggemann J., Krusche A.V., Richey J.E., Yager P.L. and Dittmar T.: Fate of the Amazon River dissolved organic matter in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 29, 677-690. (2015) Wiley

Pohlabeln A. and Dittmar T.: Novel insights into the molecular structure of non-volatile marine dissolved organic sulfur. Marine Chemistry 168, 86-94. (2015) ScienceDirect

Reckhardt A., Beck M., Seidel M., Riedel T., Wehrmann A., Bartholomä A., Schnetger B., Dittmar T. and Brumsack H.J.: Carbon, nutrient and trace metal cycling in sandy sediments: A comparison of high-energy beaches and backbarrier tidal flats. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 159, 1-14. (2015) ScienceDirect

Rossel P.E., Stubbins A., Hach P.F. and Dittmar T.: Bioavailability and molecular composition of dissolved organic matter from a diffuse hydrothermal system. Marine Chemistry 177, 257-266. (2015) ScienceDirect

Roth V.-N., Dittmar T., Gaupp R. and Gleixner G.: The molecular composition of dissolved organic matter in forest soils as a function of pH and temperature. PLOS One 10 (3) e0119188, 1-23. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Santos I.R., Beck M., Brumsack H.J., Maher D.T., Dittmar T., Waska H. and Schnetger B.: Porewater exchange as a driver of carbon dynamics across a terrestrial-marine transect: Insights from coupled 222Rn and pCO2 observations in the German Wadden Sea. Marine Chemistry 171, 10-20. (2015) ScienceDirect

Schwedt A., Seidel M., Dittmar T., Simon M., Bondarev V., Romano S., Lavik G. and Schulz-Vogt H.N.: Substrate use of Pseudovibrio sp. growing in ultra-oligotrophic seawater. PLOS One 10 (3) e0121675, 1-16. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Seidel M., Beck M., Greskowiak J., Riedel T., Waska H., Suryaputra I.G.N.A., Schnetger B., Niggemann J., Simon M. and Dittmar T.: Benthic-pelagic coupling of nutrients and dissolved organic matter composition in an intertidal sandy beach. Marine Chemistry 176, 150-163. (2015) ScienceDirect

Seidel M., Yager P.L., Ward N.D., Carpenter E.J., Gomes H.R., Krusche A.V., Richey J.E. and Dittmar T. and Medeiros P.M.: Molecular-level changes of dissolved organic matter along the Amazon River-to-ocean continuum. Marine Chemistry 177, 218-231. (2015) ScienceDirect

Stubbins A. and Dittmar T.: Illuminating the deep: Molecular signatures of photochemical alteration of dissolved organic matter from North Atlantic Deep Water. Marine Chemistry 177, 318-324. (2015) ScienceDirect

Stubbins A., Spencer R.G.M., Mann P.J., Holmes R.M., McClelland J.W., Niggemann J. and Dittmar T.: Utilizing colored dissolved organic matter to derive dissolved black carbon export by Arctic Rivers. Frontiers in Earth Science 3, 63, 1-11. (2015) Frontiers

Suryaputra I.G.N.A., Santos I.R., Huettel M., Burnett W.C. and Dittmar T.:Non-conservative behavior of fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM) within a subterranean estuary. Continental Shelf Research 110, 183-190. (2015) ScienceDirect

Wagner S., Dittmar T. and Jaffé R.: Molecular characterization of dissolved black nitrogen via electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Organic Geochemistry 79, 21-30. (2015) ScienceDirect

Wagner S., Jaffe R., Cawley K., Dittmar T. and Stubbins A.: Associations between the molecular and optical properties of dissolved organic matter in the Florida Everglades, a model coastal wetland system. Frontiers in Chemistry 3, 66, 1-14. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Wagner S., Riedel T., Niggemann J., Vähätalo A.V., Dittmar T. and Jaffé R.: Linking the molecular signature of heteroatomic dissolved organic matter to watershed characteristics in world rivers. Environmental Science and Technology 49 (23), 13798–13806. (2015) PubMed

Waska H., Koschinsky A., Ruiz Chancho M.J. and Dittmar T.: Investigating the potential of solid-phase extraction and Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS) for the isolation and identification of issolved metal-organic complexes from natural waters. Marine Chemistry 173, 78-92. (2015) ScienceDirect

Zark M., Riebesell U. and Dittmar T.: Effects of ocean acidification on marine dissolved organic matter are not detectable over the succession of phytoplankton blooms. Science Advances 1 (9), e1500531, 1-7. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Microsensor Group

Abed, R., D. De Beer and P. Stief: Functional-Structural Analysis of Nitrogen-Cycle Bacteria in a Hypersaline Mat from the Omani Desert. Geomicrobiology Journal, 32(2): p. 119-129. (2015) TFO

Brocke, H.J., F. Wenzhoefer, D. de Beer, B. Mueller, F.C. van Duyl, and M.M. Nugues: High dissolved organic carbon release by benthic cyanobacterial mats in a Caribbean reef ecosystem. Scientific Reports, 5(8852). (2015) PubMed Full Text

Chennu Arjun, Alistair Grinham, Lubos Polerecky, Dirk de Beer and Mohammad A. A. Al-Najjar: Rapid Reactivation of Cyanobacterial Photosynthesis and Migration upon Rehydration of Desiccated Marine Microbial Mats. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6 (1472). (2015) PubMed Full Text

Heim, C., K. Simon, D. Ionescu, A. Reimer, D. de Beer, N.V. Quéric, J. Reitner, and V. Thiel: Assessing the utility of trace and rare earth elements as biosignatures in microbial iron oxyhydroxides. Front. Earth Sci., 3(6). (2015) Frontiers

Hofmann, L.C., A. Fink, K. Bischof, and D. de Beer: Microsensor studies on Padina from a natural CO2 seep: implications of morphology on acclimation to low pH. J. Phycol., 51(6): p. 1106–1115. (2015) Wiley

Ionescu, D., M. Bizic-Ionescu, A. Khalili, R. Malekmohammadi, R. Morad M., D. de Beer, and H.-P. Grossart: A new tool for long-term studies of POM-bacteria interactions: overcoming the century-old Bottle Effect. Scientific Reports, 5: p. 14706. (2015) nature Full Text

Ionescu, D., C. Heim, L. Polerecky, A. Ramette, S. Haeusler, M. Bizic-Ionescu, V. Thiel, and d.B. D.: Diversity of Iron Oxidizing and Reducing Bacteria in Flow Reactors in the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory. Geomicrobiology Journal, 32(2-3): p. 207-220. (2015) TFO

Ionescu, D., C. Heim, L. Polerecky, V. Thiel, and D. de Beer: Biotic and abiotic oxidation and reduction of iron at circumneutral pH are inseparable processes under natural conditions. Geomicrobiology Journal, 32(3-4): p. 221-230. (2015) TFO

Ionescu, D., S. Spitzer, A. Reimer, D. Schneider, J. Reitner, D. de Beer, and G. Arp: Calcium dynamics in microbialite-forming exopolymer-rich mats on the atoll of Kiritimati, Republic of Kiribati, Central Pacific. Gebiology, 13(2): p. 170–180. (2015) PubMed

Jones, D.S., L. Polerecky, S. Galdenzi, B.A. Dempsey, and J.L. Macalady: Fate of sulfide in the Frasassi cave system and implications for sulfuric acid speleogenesis. Chemical Geology, 410: p. 21-27. (2015) ScienceDirect

Klatt, J.M., M.A.A. Al-Najjar, P. Yilmaz, G. Lavik, D. de Beer, and L. Polerecky: Anoxygenic photosynthesis controls oxygenic photosynthesis in a cyanobacterium from a sulfidic spring. Appl Environ Microbiol, 81(6): p. 2025-2031 (2015) ASM Full Text

Klatt, J.M., S. Haas, P. Yilmaz, D. de Beer, and L. Polerecky: Hydrogen sulfide can inhibit and enhance oxygenic photosynthesis in a cyanobacterium from sulfidic springs. Environ. Microbiol., 17(9): p. 3301–3313 (2015) PubMed

Klatt, J.M., S. Meyer, S. Häusler, J.L. Macalady, D. de Beer, and L. Polerecky: Structure and function of natural sulphide-oxidizing microbial mats under dynamic input of light and chemical energy. ISME J., DOI10.1038/ismej.2015.167 (2015) ISME

Leefmann, T., C. Heim, J. Lausmaa, P. Sjövall, D. Ionescu, J. Reitner, and V. Thiel: An imaging mass spectrometry study on the formation of conditioning films and biofilms in the subsurface (Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, SE Sweden). Geomicrobiology Journal, 32: p. 197-206. (2015) TFO

Li, T., B. Piltz, B. Podola, A. Dron, D. de Beer, and M. Melkonian: Microscale Profiling of Photosynthesis-Related Variables in a Highly Productive Biofilm Photobioreactor. Biotech. Bioeng., DOI 10.1002/bit.25867: p. accepted. (2015) PubMed

Li, T., B. Podola, D. de Beer, and M. Melkonian: A method to determine photosynthetic activity from oxygen microsensor data in biofilms subjected to evaporation. J. Microb. Meth., 117: p. 100-107. (2015) ScienceDirect

Raulf, F.F., K. Fabricius, S. Uthicke, D. de Beer, R.M.M. Abed, and A. Ramette: Changes in microbial communities in coastal sediments along natural CO2 gradients at a volcanic vent in Papua New Guinea. Environ. Microbiol., 17(10): p. 3678–3691 (2015) PubMed

Schutting, S., T. Jokic, M. Strobl, S.M. Borisov, D. de Beer, and I. Klimant: NIR Optical Carbon Dioxide Sensors Based on Highly Photostable Dihydroxy-aza-BODIPY Dyes. J. Mater. Chem. C, 3: p. 5474-5483. (2015) RSC

Spitzer, S., N. Brinkmann, A. Reimer, D. Ionescu, T. Friedl, D. de Beer, and G. Arp: Effect of variable pCO2 on Ca2+ removal and potential calcification of cyanobacterial biofilms - an experimental microsensor study. Geomicrobiology Journal, 32(3-4): p. 304-315. (2015) TFO

Wu, C.S., H. Roy and D. de Beer: Methanogenesis in sediments of an intertidal sand flat in the Wadden Sea. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 164: p. 39–45. (2015) deepdive

Marine Isotopengeochemie

Basak, C., Pahnke, K., Frank, M., Lamy, F., Gersonde, R.: Neodymium isotopic characterization of Ross Sea Bottom Water and its advection through the southern South Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 419, 211-221. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.011. (2015) ScienceDirect

Böning, P., Shaw, T., Pahnke, K., Brumsack, H.-J.: Nickel as indicator of fresh organic matter in upwelling sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 162, 99-108. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.027. (2015) ScienceDirect

Doering, K., Ehlert, C., Grasse, P., Crosta, X., Fleury, S., Frank, M., Schneider, R.: Differences between mono-generic and mixed diatom silicon isotope compositions trace present and past nutrient utilization off Peru. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. (2015) ScienceDirect Full Text

Ehlert, C., Grasse, P., Gutiérrez, D., Frank, M.: Nutrient utilisation and weathering Inputs in the Peruvian upwelling since the Little Ice Age. Climate of the Past 11, 187-202. doi: doi:10.5194/cp-11-187-2015. (2015) CotP Full Text

Klawonn, I., Lavik, G., Böning, P., Marchant, H.K., Dekaezemacker, J., Mohr, W., Ploug, H.: Simple approach for the preparation of 15-15N2-enriched water for nitrogen fixation assessments: Evaluation, application and recommendations. Frontiers in Microbiology 6, 769. doi: doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00769. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Luguet, A., Behrens, M., Pearson, D.G., Konig, S., Herwartz, D.: Significance of the whole rock Re-Os ages in cryptically and modally metasomatised cratonic peridotites: Constraints from HSE-Se-Te systematics. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 164, 441-463. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.06.016. (2015) ScienceDirect

Stichel, T., Hartman, A.E., Duggan, B., Goldstein, S.L., Scher, H., Pahnke, K.: Separating biogeochemical cycling of neodymium from water mass mixing in the Eastern North Atlantic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 412, 245-260. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.12.008. (2015) ScienceDirect

Department of Microbiology

Beese-Vasbender, P.F., J.P. Grote, J. Garrelfs, M. Stratmann and K.J. Mayrhofer: Selective microbial electrosynthesis of methane by a pure culture of a marine lithoautotrophic archaeon. Bioelectrochemistry 102, 50-55. (2015) PubMed

Büsing, I., M. Kant, M. Dörries, L. Wöhlbrand and R. Rabus: The predicted σ(54)-dependent regulator EtpR is essential for expression of genes for anaerobic p-ethylphenol and p-hydroxyacetophenone degradation in "Aromatoleum aromaticum" EbN1. BMC Microbiol. 15, 251. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Büsing, I., H.W. Höffken, M. Breuer, L. Wöhlbrand, B. Hauer and R. Rabus: Molecular genetic and crystal structural analysis of 1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-ethanol dehydrogenase from 'Aromatoleum aromaticum' EbN1. J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 25:327-339. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Hahnke R.L., C.M. Bennke, B.M. Fuchs, A.J. Mann, E. Rhiel, H. Teeling, R.I. Amann and J. Harder: Dilution cultivation of marine heterotrophic bacteria abundant after a spring phytoplankton bloom in the North Sea. Environ. Microbiol. 17, 3515-3526. (2015) PubMed

Jarling, R., S. Kühner, J.E. Basílio, A. Gruner, M. Drozdowska, B.T. Golding, R. Rabus and H. Wilkes: Versatile transformations of hydrocarbons in anaerobic bacteria: substrate ranges and regio- and stereo-chemistry of activation reactions. Front. Microbiol. 6:880 (2015) PubMed Full Text

Kizina, J., M. Žure, E. Rhiel, C.B. Munn, M. Richter and J. Harder: Permanent draft genome of ´Rhodopirellula islandica´ strain K833. Marine Genomics 24, 249-251. (2015) PubMed

Kleiner, M., C. Wentrup, T. Holler, G. Lavik, J. Harder, C. Lott, S. Littmann, M.M.M. Kuypers and N. Dubilier: Use of carbon monoxide and hydrogen by a bacteria-animal symbiosis from seagrass sediments. Environmental Microbiology, doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12912. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Oni Oluwatobi E., Frauke Schmidt, Tetsuro Miyatake, Sabine Kasten, Matthias Witt, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs and Michael W. Friedrich: Microbial Communities and Organic Matter Composition in Surface and Subsurface Sediments of the Helgoland Mud Area, North Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6(1290). (2015) PubMed Full Text

Xing, P., R.L. Hahnke, F. Unfried, S. Markert, S. Huang, T. Barbeyron, J. Harder, D. Becher, T. Schweder, F.O. Glöckner, R.I. Amann and H. Teeling: Niches of two polysaccharide-degrading Polaribacter isolates from the North Sea during a spring diatom bloom. ISME J. 9,1410-1422. (2015) PubMed

Žure, M., C.B. Munn and J. Harder: Diversity of Rhodopirellula and related planctomycetes in a North Sea coastal sediment employing carB as molecular marker. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 362, doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnv127. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Microbial Genomics Group

Boeckmann, B., M. Marcet-Houben, J. A. Rees, K. Forslund, J. Huerta-Cepas, M. Muffato, P. Yilmaz, I. Xenarios, P. Bork, S. E. Lewis, et al.: Quest for Orthologs Entails Quest for Tree of Life: In Search of the Gene Stream. Genome Biology and Evolution 7:1988-1999. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Field, D., I. Friedberg, P. Sterk, R. Kottmann, F. O. Glöckner, L. Hirschman, G. M. Garrity, G. Cochrane, J. Wooley, and J. Gilbert: Meeting Report: “Metagenomics, Metadata and Meta-analysis” (M3) Special Interest Group at ISMB 2009. SIGS 1:278. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Kizina, J., M. Zure, E. Rhiel, C. B. Munn, M. Richter, and J. Harder: Permanent draft genome of 'Rhodopirellula islandica' strain K833. Mar Genomics 24 Pt 3:249-51. (2015) PubMed

Klatt, J. M., M. A. Al-Najjar, P. Yilmaz, G. Lavik, D. de Beer, and L. Polerecky: Anoxygenic photosynthesis controls oxygenic photosynthesis in a cyanobacterium from a sulfidic spring. Appl Environ Microbiol 81:2025-31. (2015) ASM Full Text

Klatt, J. M., S. Haas, P. Yilmaz, D. de Beer, and L. Polerecky: Hydrogen sulfide can inhibit and enhance oxygenic photosynthesis in a cyanobacterium from sulfidic springs. Environ Microbiol 17:3301-3313. (2015) PubMed

Kolinko, S., M. Richter, F. O. Glöckner, A. Brachmann, and D. Schüler: Single-cell genomics of uncultivated deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria reveals a conserved set of magnetosome genes. Environ. Microbiol. 18:21-37. (2015) PubMed

Kopf, A., M. Bicak, R. Kottmann, J. Schnetzer, I. Kostadinov, K. Lehmann, A. Fernandez-Guerra, C. Jeanthon, E. Rahav, M. Ullrich, et al.: The ocean sampling day consortium. GigaScience 4:27. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Kopf, A., I. Kostadinov, A. Wichels, C. Quast, and F. O. Glöckner: Metatranscriptome of marine bacterioplankton during winter time in the North Sea assessed by total RNA sequencing. Marine Genomics 19:45-46. (2015) ScienceDirect Full Text

Medema, M. H., R. Kottmann, P. Yilmaz, M. Cummings, J. B. Biggins, K. Blin, I. de Bruijn, Y. H. Chooi, J. Claesen, R. C. Coates, et al.: Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster. Nat Chem Biol 11:625-631. (2015) nature

Pafilis, E., P. L. Buttigieg, B. Ferrell, E. Pereira, J. Schnetzer, C. Arvanitidis, and L. J. Jensen: EXTRACT: Interactive extraction of environment metadata and term suggestion for metagenomic sample annotation. Proceedings of the fifth BioCreative challenge evaluation workshop:384–395. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Pafilis, E., S. P. Frankild, J. Schnetzer, L. Fanini, S. Faulwetter, C. Pavloudi, A. Vasileiadou, P. Leary, J. Hammock, K. Schulz, et al.: ENVIRONMENTS and EOL: identification of Environment Ontology terms in text and the annotation of the Encyclopedia of Life. Bioinformatics 31:1872–1874. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Panzer, K., P. Yilmaz, M. Weiß, L. Reich, M. Richter, J. Wiese, R. Schmaljohann, A. Labes, J. F. Imhoff, F. O. Glöckner, et al.: Identification of Habitat-Specific Biomes of Aquatic Fungal Communities Using a Comprehensive Nearly Full-Length 18S rRNA Dataset Enriched with Contextual Data. PLoS ONE 10:e0134377. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Richter, M., R. Rosselló-Móra, F. O. Glöckner, and J. Peplies: JSpeciesWS: a web server for prokaryotic species circumscription based on pairwise genome comparison. Bioinformatics:online. (2015) PubMed Full Text

ten Hoopen, P., S. Pesant, R. Kottmann, A. Kopf, M. Bicak, S. Claus, K. Deneudt, C. Borremans, P. Thijsse, S. Dekeyzer, et al.: Marine microbial biodiversity, bioinformatics and biotechnology (M2B3) data reporting and service standards. SIGS 10:1-10. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Xing, P., R. L. Hahnke, F. Unfried, S. Markert, S. Huang, T. Barbeyron, J. Harder, D. Becher, T. Schweder, F. O. Glöckner, et al.: Niches of two polysaccharide-degrading Polaribacter isolates from the North Sea during a spring diatom bloom. ISME J 9:1410-1422. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Yarza, P., R. Munoz, J. Euzéby, W. Ludwig, K.-H. Schleifer, R. Amann, F. O. Glöckner, and R. Rosselló-Móra: All-Species Living Tree Project. Encyclopedia of Metagenomics: Genes, Genomes and Metagenomes: Basics, Methods, Databases and Tools:25-33. (2015) ScienceDirect

Yilmaz, P., and F. O. Glöckner: Metagenomes: 23S Sequences. Encyclopedia of Metagenomics: Genes, Genomes and Metagenomes: Basics, Methods, Databases and Tools:396-402. (2015) Springer

HGF-MPG-Brückengruppe

Ahmerkamp S., Winter C., Janssen F., Kuypers M.M.M., Holtappels M.: The impact of bedform migration on benthic oxygen fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 120, 2229–2242, (2015) Wiley

Boetius A., Anesio A.M., Deming J.W., Mikucki J. & Rapp J.Z.: Microbial ecology of the cryosphere: sea ice and glacial habitats. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 13:677–690. doi:10.1038/nrmicro3522. (2015) PubMed

Brocke H.J., Wenzhöfer F., de Beer D., Mueller B., van Duyl F.C., Nugues M.N.: High dissolved organic carbon release by benthic cyanobacterial mats in a Caribbean reef ecosystem. Scientific Reporters 5: 8852 DOI: 10.1038/srep08852. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Buttigieg P.L., Ramette A.: Biogeographic patterns of bacterial microdiversity in Arctic deep-sea sediments (HAUSGARTEN, Fram Strait). Front Microbiol. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00660. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Degen R., Vedenin A., Gusky M., Boetius A., Brey T.: Patterns and trends of macrobenthic abundance, biomass and production in the deep Arctic Ocean. Polar Research 34, 24008, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.24008. (2015) Polar Research Full Text

Donis D., Holtappels M., Noss C., Cathalot C., Hancke K., Polsenaere P., Lorke A., Glud R.N., Wenzhöfer F., Meysman F.J.R., McGinnis D.F.: An assessment of the precision and confidence of aquatic eddy correlation. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 32, 642-655. (2015) AMS Full Text

Donis D., McGinnis D.F., Holtappels M., Felden J., Wenzhöfer F.: Assessing benthic oxygen fluxes in oligotrophic deep sea sediments (HAUSGARTEN observatory). Deep Sea Research I. 11: 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2015.11.007. (2016) ScienceDirect

Dowell F., Cardman Z., Dasarathy S., Kellermann M., Lipp J. S., Ruff S. E., Biddle J. F., McKay L., MacGregor B. J., Lloyd K. G., Albert D. B., Mendlovitz H., Hinrichs K.-U., Teske A.: Microbial communities in methane- and short chain alkane-rich hydrothermal sediments of Guaymas Basin. Frontiers in Microbiology. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00017 (2016) PubMed Full Text

Fernández-Méndez M., Katlein C., Rabe B., Nicolaus M., Peeken I., Bakker K., Flores H., Boetius A.: Photosynthetic production in the central Arctic Ocean during the record sea-ice minimum in 2012. Biogeosciences 12: 3525-3549. doi:10.5194/bg-12-3525-2015. (2015) Biogeosciences Full Text

Hassenrück C., Hofmann L.C., Bischof K., Ramette A.: Seagrass biofilm communities at a naturally CO2-rich vent. Environmental Microbiology Reports 7:516–525. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12282. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Hawkes J.A., Rossel P.E., Stubbins A., Butterfield D., Connelly D.P., Achterberg E.P., Koschinsky A., Chavagnac V., Hansen C.T., Bach W., Dittmar T.: Efficient removal of recalcitrant deep-ocean dissolved organic matter during hydrothermal circulation. Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo2543. (2015) nature

Ionescu D., Heim C., Polerecky L., Ramette A., Haeusler S., Bizic-Ionescu M., Thiel V., de Beer D.: Diversity of iron oxidizing and reducing bacteria in flow reactors in the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory. Geomicrobiology Journal 32:207-220. DOI: 10.1080/01490451.2014.884196. (2015) TFO

Katlein C., Arndt S., Nicolaus M., Perovich D.K., Jakuba M.V., Suman S., Elliott S., Whitcomb L.L., McFarland C.J., Gerdes R., Boetius A., German C.R.: Influence of ice thickness and surface properties on light transmission through Arctic sea ice. Journal of Geophysical Research doi: 10.1002/2015JC010914. (2015) Wiley Full Text

Lee Y.J., Matrai P.A., Friedrichs M.A.M., Saba V.S., Antoine D., Ardyna M., Asanuma I., Babin M., Bélanger S., Benoît‐Gagné M., Devred E., Fernández‐Méndez M., Gentili B., Hirawake T., Kang S.-H., Kameda T., Katlein C., Lee S.H., Lee Z., Mélin F., Scardi M., Smyth T.J., Tang S., Turpie K.R., Waters K.J., Westberry T.K.: An assessment of phytoplankton primary productivity in the Arctic Ocean from satellite ocean color/in situ chlorophyll‐a‐based models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. doi: 10.1002/2015JC011018. (2015) Wiley Full Text

Leduc D., Rowden A., Glud R.N., Wenzhöfer F., Kitazato H., Clark M.: Comparison between infaunal communities of the deep floor and edge of the Tonga Trench: possible effects of differences in organic matter supply. Deep Sea Research I. (2015) ScienceDirect

Lichtschlag A., Donis D., Janssen F., Jessen G.L., Holtappels M., Wenzhöfer F., Mazlumyan S., Sergeeva N., Waldmann C., Boetius A.: Effects of fluctuating hypoxia on benthic oxygen consumption in the Black Sea (Crimean shelf). Biogeosciences 12: 5075-5092. doi:10.5194/bg-12-5075-2015. (2015) Biogeosciences Full Text

Nolla-Ardèvol V., Strous M., Tegetmeyer H.E.: Anaerobic digestion of the microalga Spirulina at extreme alkaline conditions: biogas production, metagenome, and metatranscriptome. Frontiers in Microbiology 6(597): 597. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Nolla-Ardèvol V., Peces M., Strous M., Tegetmeyer H.E.: Metagenome from a Spirulina digesting biogas reactor: analysis via binning of contigs and classification of short reads. BMC Microbiology. 15:277. doi: 10.1186/s12866-015-0615-1. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Pafilis E., Buttigieg P. L., Ferrel B.l, Pereira E., Schnetzer J., Arvanitidis C., Jensen L. J.: EXTRACT: Interactive extraction of environment metadata and term suggestion for metagenomic sample annotation. Database. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Pop Ristova P., Wenzhöfer F., Ramette A., Felden J., Boetius A.: Spatial scaling of bacterial communities associated with cold seeps of the deep Eastern Mediterranean sea. ISME. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Raulf F.F., Fabricius K., Uthicke S., de Beer D., Abed R.M., Ramette A.: Changes in microbial communities in coastal sediments along natural CO2 gradients at a volcanic vent in Papua New Guinea. Environ Microbiol. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12729. (2015) PubMed

Rossel P.E., Stubbins A., Hach P., Dittmar T.: Bioavailability and molecular composition of dissolved organic matter from a diffuse hydrothermal system. Marine Chemistry. doi: org/10.1016/ j.marchem.2015.07.002. (2015) ScienceDirect

Ruff S. E., Biddle J. F., Teske A. P., Knittel K., Boetius A., Ramette A.: Global dispersion and local diversification of the methane seep microbiome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112(13): 4015-4020. (2015) PNAS

Wegener G., Krukenberg V., Riedel D., Tegetmeyer H.E., Boetius A.: Intercellular wiring enables electron transfer between methanotrophic archaea and bacteria. Nature 526 (7574):587-590. (2015) nature

Diploma theses / Master theses

Varliero, G.: Prokaryotic community structure in ultra-slow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge. University of Bologna/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology. (2015)

Ph.D. theses

Jessen Reyes, G. L.: Structural and functional changes in marine microbial communities associated with oxygen dynamics. 193 pp. University of Bremen. (2015)

Krukenberg, V.: Physiological and genomic characterization of thermophilic methanotrophic archaea and partner bacteria. 224 pp. University of Bremen. (2015)

Wulff, T.: Physics and ecology of the marginal ice zone of the Fram Strait – a robotic approach. University of Bremen. (2015)

Department of Biogeochemistry

Kalvelage, T., Lavik, G., Jensen, M. M., Revsbech, N. P., Löscher, C., Schunck, H., Desai, D. K., Hauss, H., Kiko, R., Holtappels, M., and Kuypers, M.K.: Aerobic Microbial Respiration In Oceanic Oxygen Minimum Zones. PloS one, v. 10, no. 7, p. e0133526. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Klatt, J. M., Al-Najjar, M. A., Yilmaz, P., Lavik, G., de Beer, D., and Polerecky, L.: Anoxygenic photosynthesis controls oxygenic photosynthesis in a cyanobacterium from a sulfidic spring. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, v. 81, no. 6, p. 2025-2031. (2015) ASM Full Text

Klawonn, I., Lavik, G., Böning, P., Marchant, H. K., Dekaezemacker, J., Mohr, W., and Ploug, H.: Simple approach for the preparation of 15− 15N2-enriched water for nitrogen fixation assessments: evaluation, application and recommendations. Frontiers in microbiology, v. 6. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Kleiner, M., Wentrup, C., Holler, T., Lavik, G., Harder, J., Lott, C., Littmann, S., Kuypers, M. M., and Dubilier, N.: Use of carbon monoxide and hydrogen by a bacteria–animal symbiosis from seagrass sediments. Environmental Microbiology, v. 17, no. 12, p. 5023-5035. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Löscher, C., Bange, H. W., Schmitz, R., Callbeck, C., Engel, A., Hauss, H., Kanzow, T., Kiko, R., Lavik, G., and Loginova, A.: Water column biogeochemistry of oxygen minimum zones in the eastern tropical North Atlantic and eastern tropical South Pacific Oceans. Biogeosciences Discussions, v. 12, no. 6, p. 4495-4556. (2015) Biogeosciences

Schwedt, A., Seidel, M., Dittmar, T., Simon, M., Bondarev, V., Romano, S., Lavik, G., and Schulz-Vogt, H. N.: Substrate use of Pseudovibrio sp. growing in ultra-oligotrophic seawater. PloS one, v. 10, no. 3, p. e0121675. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Svedén, J. B., Adam, B., Walve, J., Nahar, N., Musat, N., Lavik, G., Whitehouse, M. J., Kuypers, M. M., and Ploug, H.: High cell-specific rates of nitrogen and carbon fixation by the cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon sp. at low temperatures in the Baltic Sea. FEMS microbiology ecology, p. fiv131. (2015) PubMed

Anna L. Dörgens, Soeren Ahmerkamp, Jörg Müssig, Roman Stocker, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Arzhang Khalili and Kolja Kindler: A laboratory model of marine snow. Preparation and characterization of porous fiber particles. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, V. 13, I. 11, November Pages 664–671 (2015) Wiley

Danny Ionescu, Mina Bizic-Ionescu, Arzhang Khalili, Reza Malekmohammadi, Mohammad Reza Morad, Dirk de Beer & Hans-Peter Grossart: A new tool for long-term studies of POM-bacteria interactions: overcoming the century-old Bottle Effect. Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 14706 (2015) nature Full Text

Jana Milucka, Mathias Kirf, Lu Lu, Andreas Krupke, Phyllis Lam, Sten Littmann, Marcel MM Kuypers and Carsten J Schubert: Methane oxidation coupled to oxygenic photosynthesis in anoxic waters. The ISME Journal 9, 1991–2002; doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.12. (2015) nature Full Text

Kirsten Oswald, Jana Milucka, Andreas Brand, Sten Littmann, Bernhard Wehrli, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, and Carsten J. Schubert: Light-dependent aerobic methane oxidation reduces methane emissions from seasonally stratified lakes. PLoS One 10(7): e0132574; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132574. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Ahmerkamp, S., C. Winter, F. Janssen, M. M. M. Kuypers and M. Holtappels: The impact of bedform migration on benthic oxygen fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120(11): 2229-2242. (2015) Wiley

Donis, D., M. Holtappels, C. Noss, C. Cathalot, K. Hancke, P. Polsenaere, F. Wenzhöfer, A. Lorke, F. J. R. Meysman, R. N. Glud and D. F. McGinnis: An Assessment of the Precision and Confidence of Aquatic Eddy Correlation Measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 32(3): 642-655. (2015) AMS Full Text

Holtappels, M., C. Noss, K. Hancke, C. Cathalot, D. F. McGinnis, A. Lorke and R. N. Glud: Aquatic Eddy Correlation: Quantifying the Artificial Flux Caused by Stirring-Sensitive O2 Sensors. Plos One 10(1): e0116564. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Kalvelage, T., G. Lavik, M. M. Jensen, N. P. Revsbech, C. Löscher, H. Schunck, D. K. Desai, H. Hauss, R. Kiko, M. Holtappels, J. LaRoche, R. A. Schmitz, M. I. Graco and M. M. M. Kuypers: Aerobic Microbial Respiration In Oceanic Oxygen Minimum Zones. Plos One 10(7): e0133526. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Lichtschlag, A., D. Donis, F. Janssen, G. L. Jessen, M. Holtappels, F. Wenzhöfer, S. Mazlumyan, N. Sergeeva, C. Waldmann and A. Boetius: Effects of fluctuating hypoxia on benthic oxygen consumption in the Black Sea (Crimean shelf). Biogeosciences 12(16): 5075-5092. (2015) Biogeosciences Full Text

Hansel CM, TG Ferdelman, and BM Tebo: Cryptic cross-linkages among biogeochemical cycles: novel insights from reactive intermediates. Elements, 11, 409-414. (2015) GeoScienceWorld

D’Hondt S, F Inagaki, CA Zarikian, LJ Abrams, N Dubois, T Engelhardt, H Evans, T Ferdelman, B Gribsholt, RN Harris, BW Hoppie, J-H Hyun, J Kallmeyer, J Kim, JE Lynch, CC McKinley, S Mitsunobu, Y Morono, RW Murray, R Pockalny, J Sauvage, T Shiomono, F Shiraishi, DC Smith, CE Smith-Duque, AJ Spivack, BO Steinsbu, Y Suzuki, M Szpak, L Toffin, G Uramoto, YT Tamagusi, G Zhan, X-H Zhang and W Ziebis: Presence of oxygen and aerobic communities from sea floor to basement in deep-sea sediments. Nature Geoscience 8, 299-304. (2015) nature

Wehrmann LM, J Titschack, ME Böttcher, and TG Ferdelman: Linking sedimentary sulfur and iron biogeochemistry to growth patterns of a cold-water coral mound in the Porcupine Basin, S.W. Ireland (IODP Expedition 307). Geobiology, 13, 424-442. (2015) PubMed

A Krupke, W Mohr, J LaRoche, BM Fuchs, RI Amann, MMM Kuypers: The effect of nutrients on carbon and nitrogen fixation by the UCYN-A–haptophyte symbiosis. The ISME journal 9 (7), 1635-1647 (2015) PubMed Full Text

A Perfumo, A Elsaesser, S Littmann, RA Foster, MMM Kuypers: Epifluorescence, SEM, TEM and nanoSIMS image analysis of the cold phenotype of Clostridium psychrophilum at subzero temperatures. FEMS microbiology ecology 90 (3), 869-882 (2015) PubMed Full Text

MMM Kuypers: Microbiology: A division of labour combined. Nature 528 (7583), 487-488 (2015) PubMed

Symbiosis Group

Kleiner M, Wentrup C, Holler T, Lavik G, Harder J, Lott C, Littmann S, Kuypers MMM, Dubilier N.: Use of carbon monoxide and hydrogen by a bacteria – animal symbiosis from seagrass sediments. Environ. Microbiol. 17: 5023- 5035. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12912 (2015) PubMed Full Text

Sayavedra L, Kleiner M, Ponnudurai R, Wetzel S, Pelletier E, Barbe V, Shoguchi E, Satoh N, Reusch TBH, Rosenstiel P, Schilhabel MB, Becher D, Schweder T, Markert S, Dubilier N, Petersen JM.: Abundant toxin-related genes in the genomes of beneficial symbionts from deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels. eLife 2015;10.7554/eLife.07966. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.0796 (2015) PubMed Full Text

Dubilier N., McFall-Ngai M., Zhao L.: Create a global microbiome effort. Nature 526: 631-634 (2015) PubMed

Schimak MP, Kleiner M, Wetzel S, Liebeke M, Dubilier N, Fuchs BM.: Multilabeled fluorescence in situ hybridization (MiL-FISH) oligonucleotides improve visualization of bacterial cells. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. Online Early, October 16, 2015. doi:10.1128/AEM.02776-15. (2015) PubMed Full Text

Seah, B. K. B., & Gruber-Vodicka, H. R.: gbtools: Interactive Visualization of Metagenome Bins in R. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6, 1451.http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01451 (2015) PubMed Full Text

Liebeke, M.: Unique metabolites protect earthworms against plant polyphenols. Nature Communications 6, Article number:7869 doi:10.1038/ncomms8869 (2015) PubMed Full Text

Gruhl, A. & Schwaha, T.: Bryozoa (Ectoprocata). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A., Harzsch, S., Purschke, G. (eds.) Structure and Evolution of Invertebrate Nervous Systems. Oxford University Press, pp. 325 – 340 (2015) Oxford

Klose, J., Martin F. Polz, Michael Wagner, Mario P. Schimak, Sabine Gollnera, and Monika Bright: Endosymbionts escape dead hydrothermal vent tubeworms to enrich the free-living population. vol. 112 no. 36, 11300–11305, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1501160112 (2015) PubMed Full Text

MSc Theses

Miriam Brandt: "Characterization and comparative study of the chemosynthethic symbiosis in gutless marine oligochaetes from Belize and Bermuda". University of Bremen. (2015)

Miguel Angel Gonzalez Porras: "Probing the complexity of a deep-sea symbiosis: Establishing geneFISH as a technique to image symbiont strain-specific differences in metabolic potential". International MSc in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. MSc program of consortium of 6 European universities. (2015)

Benedikt Geier: "A correlative approach for combining multimodal imaging techniques in a 3D scenario". External student from the LMU Munich. (2015)

Anna Kemper: "Symbiont metabolic potential and host symbiont interactions in the lucinid chemosynthetic symbiosis from Elba, Italy. International Max Planck Research School for Marine Microbiology, University of Bremen. (2015)

Rahel Yemanaberhan: "Carbon incorporation and transfer in marine symbiotic worms". International Max Planck Research School for Marine Microbiology, University of Bremen. (2015)

PhD Theses

Judith Zimmermann: "Diversity, specificity and evolutionary history of marine invertebrate symbioses and functions of the sulfur-oxidizing symbionts". Fachbereich Biologie/Chemie, University of Bremen (2015)

MarMic

Master Thesis

Melanie Buß: The importance and difficulties of metadata acquisition and categorization for fungal 18S rRNA gene sequences. 123 pp. University of Bremen. (2015)

Aldo Gonzalez–Ortiz: Iron Reduction and Methanogenesis in Marine Subsurface Sediments from Helgoland. 164 pp. University of Bremen. (2015)

Kerry Latham: Nitrification in sandy coastal sediments. 48 pp. University of Bremen. (2015)

Nataly Guevara C.: Effects of ocean acidification and El Niño event on microbial communities and aggregate formation. 101 pp. University of Bremen. (2015)

Jennifer Pastor: Investigation of flux dynamics across three iron regimes and the spatio-temporal trends of a transient bloom in the Southern Ocean. 48 pp. University of Bremen. (2015)

Anna Kemper: Symbiont metabolic potential and host-symbiont interactions in the lucinid chemosynthetic symbiosis from Elba, Italy. 71 pp. Universität of Bremen (2015)

Chao Peng: Oxygen consumption and Denitrification rates in sorted sandy sediments. 58 pp. University of Bremen. (2015)

Rafael Laso Perez: Molecular insights into a butane-degrading thermopilic consortia. 68 pp. University of Bremen. (2015)

Birthe Zäncker: Persistence and dispersal of microbial populations in subsurface marine sediments. 67 pp. University of Bremen. (2015)

Caitlin Petro: Activity and assembly of sulfate-reducing microorganisms in subsurface marine sediments. 72 pp. Aarhus University. (2015)

Veronika Will: Identification of genes and gene products involved in diatom-bacteria interactions. 66 pp. Jacobs University. (2015)

Rahel Yemanaberhan: Carbon Incorporation and Transfer in Marine Worms. 72 pp. Jacobs University. (2015)