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Almud Lonsing
Almud Lonsing
Department: Molecular Ecology
Exam Date: Friday, December 6, 2024
Topic of the dissertation:
"Characterization of a limonene-degrading methanogenic enrichment culture"
Joris Krull
Joris Krull
Department: MARUM MPG Bridge Group Marine Glycobiology
Exam Date: Thursday, November 28, 2024
Topic of the dissertation:
"Diatom mannan - a sulfated glycan shapes surface ocean microbiomes"
Abiel Kidane
Abiel Kidane
Department: Biogeochemistry
Exam Date: Thurday, November 7, 2024
Topic of the dissertation:
"Iron leads to divergent responses in N2-fixing microorganisms in the oligotrophic ocean"
Saskia Kalenborn
Saskia Kalenborn
Department: Molecular Ecology
Exam Date: Monday, October 7, 2024
Topic of the dissertation:
"Complex algal polysaccharides as substrates for Maribacter strains"
Daniel Doherty Weason
Daniel Doherty Weason
Department: (former) Microsensor Group
Exam Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Topic of the dissertation:
"The far-reaching effect of the production, degradation, and trophic transfer of organic arsenic species in the cycle of arsenic"
Olivia Bourceau
Olivia Bourceau
Department: Molecular Ecology
Exam Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Topic of the dissertation:
"The impact of electron acceptor variation and reactive oxygen species on microbial respiration rates"
Ashley Isaac
Ashley Isaac
Department: Molecular Ecology
Exam Date: Friday, July 12, 2024
Topic of the dissertation:
"The mechanism of bacterial colonization of phytoplankton phycospheres"
Jan Brüwer
Jan Brüwer
Department: Molecular Ecology
Exam Date: Friday, May 3, 2024
Topic of the dissertation:
"Using fluorescence in situ hybridization to study intracellular properties"
Fengqing Wang
Fengqing Wang
Department: Molecular Ecology
Exam Date: Thursday, May 2, 2024
Topic of the dissertation:
"Polysaccharide utilization by bacteria associated with micro- and macroalgae"
Joshua Mills
Joshua Mills
Department: Max Planck Research Group Archaeal Virology
Exam Date: Friday, January 26, 2024
Topic of the dissertation:
"The Ecology and Evolution of the Extracellular Vesicles of Halophilic Archaea"
Caroline Zeidler
Caroline Zeidler
Department: Symbiosis
Exam Date: Monday, December 11, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Bioplastic-eating animals: Polyhydroxyalkanoate degrading enzymes in a chemosymbiotic worm"
Patric Bourceau
Patric Bourceau
Department: Symbiosis
Exam Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Establishing a model system to unravel metabolic interactions in the Bathymodiolin symbiosis"
Paloma Garrido Amador
Paloma Garrido Amador
Department: Research Group Microbial Physiology
Exam Date: Thursday, November 30, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Microbial physiology of nitric-oxide transforming microorganisms"
Farooq Moin Jalaluddin
Farooq Moin Jalaluddin
Department: Biogeochemistry
Exam Date: Monday, November 20, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Microscale insights into marine biogeochemical cycling: Linking microbial activity and mass transfer"
Hanna Zehnle
Hanna Zehnle
Department: HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology
Exam Date: Friday, October 20, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Characterization of microorganisms mediating anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation in marine sediments"
Laura Johanna Gebhard
Laura Johanna Gebhard
Department: Max Planck Research Group Archaeal Virology
Exam Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Genetic and Biochemical Characterisation of Plasmid Vesicles & Other Virus-Like Elements in Archaea"
Jan von Arx
Jan von Arx
Department: Biogeochemistry
Exam Date: Thursday, September 21, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Nitrous oxide formation and consumption in contrasting oxygen-depleted environments"
Tomas Alarcon Schumacher
Tomas Alarcon Schumacher
Department: Max Planck Research Group Archaeal Virology
Exam Date: Monday, September 18, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Virus-host interactions during chronic infections and the diversity and evolution of Pleolipoviruses"
Marion Jespersen
Marion Jespersen
Department: Max Planck Research Group Microbial Metabolism
Exam Date: Thursday, August 24, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Structural and biochemical characterization of enzymes used by anaerobic energy extremophiles for sulfur and carbon transformation"
Nevena Maslac
Nevena Maslac
Department: Max Planck Research Group Microbial Metabolism
Exam Date: Thursday, August 10, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Structural and biochemical characterisation of N2-assimilation system and its regulation in thermophilic methanogenic archaea"
Hagen Buck-Wiese
Hagen Buck-Wiese
Department: MARUM MPG Bridge Group Marine Glycobiology
Exam Date: Friday, June 16, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Enzymatic diversification and brown algae as sources of complex glycans in the marine dissolved organic carbon reservoir"
David Benito Merino
David Benito Merino
Department: HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology
Exam Date: Friday, January 17, 2023
Topic of the dissertation:
"Exploring the upper temperature limit of microbial alkane degradation"