Press release

At this year’s Annual Meeting of the Max Planck Society two researchers from our institute will be honored for their outstanding achievements.

Clara Martínez-Pérez receives this year's "MARUM Research Award for Marine Sciences".

EMBO, an organization that promotes excellence in the life sciences, announced today that Nicole Dubilier has been elected to its membership, joining a group of more than 1800 of the best researchers in Europe and around the world.

SUP05 bacteria are often found in places where there is really no basis for life for them. Researchers in Bremen have now discovered that they are even quite active there – possibly with consequences for the global nitrogen cycle. The bacteria travel with a “reserve pack”. In addition, the resear...

Invitation to the MPI seminar

In a new study published by Nature, an international team of researchers led by Uppsala University in Sweden proposes a new evolutionary origin for mitochondria – also known as the ‘powerhouses of the cell’. Mitochondria are energy-converting organelles that have played key roles in the emergence...

Studie zeigt, dass Mikroben in der Erdkruste vertilgen, was für andere unverdaulich ist

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Die MPI-Wissenschaftlerin Greta Reintjes wird für ihre herausragenden wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten, die sie im Zuge ihrer Doktorarbeit ausgeführt hat, mit dem Promotionspreis der Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie ausgezeichnet.

The deep-sea scientist, leader of one of MPI’s research groups and director of AWI, receives the prestigious award for her groundbreaking contributions to biogeosciences and spearheading research on methane-based metabolisms and the marine carbon cycle.

INVITATION 

Thursday, April 5, 2018 

in the New Auditorium (4012) at 3:00 p.m. (15:00h) 

AJINKYA KULKARNI (Microbial Ecophysiology, AG Friedrich, Uni Bremen)

will give a seminar with the title: 

"DNA-SIP reveals distinct iron reducing populations in methanic sediment incubations of Helgoland m...

INVITATION 

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 
in the New Auditorium (4012) at 4:00 p.m. (16:00h) 

MATTHEW SULLIVAN (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)

will give a seminar with the title: 

"Ocean viruses: Re-imagining patterns, processes and paradigms in the global oceans"

Methane stimulates massive nitrogen loss from freshwater reservoirs in India: An international team of researchers has identified an unusual pathway that predominantly facilitates loss of reactive nitrogen from freshwater lake waters, according to the results of the collaborative study now publis...

Dr. Greta Reintjes und Tobias Vonnahme vom MPI Bremen gehören zu den diesjährigen Preisträgern der Annette-Barthelt-Stiftung

INVITATION 

Thursday, March 8, 2018 
in the New Auditorium (4012) at 3:00 p.m. (15:00h) 

Assaf Vardi(Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

will give a seminar with the title: 

The metabolic cross talk during host-virus arms race at sea

The aim of the expedition is to explore life at 8,000 m water depth and to understand the importance of the trench for regional carbon and nitrogen cycling.

Young scientists exploring the North Sea

Wind and waves, cries of seagulls, rain and occasionally a little bit of sunshine. That’s how we experience the North Sea at the beach walk. But what happens behind the beach in the sea? Children, youngsters and also adults can now find out with the onlin...

INVITATION 

Friday, February 23, 2018 
in the New Auditorium (4012) at 3:00 p.m. (15:00h) 

Susanne Erdmann (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

will give a seminar with the title: 

Virus infecting archaea from "extreme" environments: what we can learn from them

Scientists from Oldenburg, Bremen and Bremerhaven verify theory of the role of the South Pacific in natural atmospheric CO2 fluctuations.

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Am 14. Februar 2018 ist es soweit: An der Universität Bremen findet der erste Bremer Ocean Day statt.

Storing carbon dioxide (CO₂) deep below the seabed is one way to counteract the increasing concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere. But what happens if such storage sites begin to leak and CO₂ escapes through the seafloor? Answers to this question have now been provided by a study dealing with the...

Soeren Ahmerkamp is awarded the BRIESE-Award for Marine Science

INVITATION 

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 
in the New Auditorium (4012) at 3:00 p.m. (15:00h) 

CHRISTOPHER LAUMER (EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, United Kingdom) 

will give a seminar with the title: 

"Can we resolve the animal tree of life in the era of genomics?"

Invitation to the MPI seminar

A single sand grain harbours up to 100,000 microorganisms from thousands of species.

Sams­tag, 2. De­zem­ber 2017

Wis­sen um 11

Haus der Wis­sen­schaft,

„Verdauungsenzyme im Ozean und dem menschlichen Darm“

"A new way to fix CO₂ without ATP consumption, a lesson from methanogenic archaea"

Dr. Tristan Wagner, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg

INVITATION 

Thursday, November 16, 2017 

in the New Auditorium (room 4012) 

at 3:00 p.m. (15:00h) 

There will be a small receptio...

”Trace metal redox cycling under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, reactive oxygen species and why we are interested in kinetics”

Dr. Maija Heller

Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, Brest, France

Thursday, November 9, 2017 15:00h

New Auditorium (4th floor), MPI

Samstag, 4. November 2017

Wissen um 11

Haus der Wissenschaft,

Scientists have discovered that a ‘rare’ type of marine bacteria is much more widespread than previously thought – and possesses a remarkable metabolism that could contribute to greenhouse gas production.

Am 19. Oktober 2017 findet in München das Max-Planck-Forum in München statt. Nicole Dubilier, geschäftsführende Direktorin unseres Instituts, und Peter Fratzl, Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, sprechen darü...

Invitation to the MPI seminar

Invitation to the MPI seminar

Invitation to the MPI seminar

Climate change poses a real threat to coral reefs. How this threat actually affects the reefs can be assessed only with considerable staff and technical effort. A team of marine researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in ...

A global partnership

Invitation to the MPI seminar

Scientists from Germany and the USA have discovered deep-sea animals living in symbiosis with bacteria that use oil as an energy source. At asphalt volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico that spew oil, gas and tar, mussels and sponges live in symbiosis with bacteria that use short-chained alkanes in the...

Da­ni­el Glo­bisch - "New bio­mar­ker dis­co­very ap­proa­ches for pan­crea­tic can­cer"

In freshwater lakes, large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane are oxidized by bacteria before it can be emitted into the atmosphere. A study in Lakes Rotsee and Zug has now shown that the bulk of this work is done, not by “classical” methane consumers, but by filamentous bacteria previously kn...

Für sei­ne Dis­ser­ta­ti­on "Re­gu­la­ti­on of oxy­gen dy­na­mics by trans­port pro­ces­ses and mi­cro­bi­al re­spi­ra­ti­on in san­dy se­di­ments" er­hält Soe­ren Ah­mer­kamp jetzt den MA­RUM For­schungs­preis.

Microbes living under rapidly changing oxygen conditions can respire both oxygen and nitrate simultaneously. This way, they ensure that they can breathe at all times, even if they run out of oxygen.

On the 11^th and 12^th of May, some doctoral researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiologie and Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiologie met in Marburg for the first Max Planck Conference for Environmental Microbiology: "It MaTer(s)".

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

04:00pm, New Auditorium

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen

Prof.Em. Dieter Gerlich, Technical University Chemnitz

Recent applications of low temperature ion traps in spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and cold chemistry

The prize promotes the compatibility of science and family.

From burning hot to ice cold, from energy-rich to an exhausted desert - environmental conditions at deep-sea hot vents change dramatically at very small scales. Nevertheless, resident bacteria know exactly what they like best. Each one has their own ecological niche.

Die Bremer Pro­fess­orin er­hielt am 5. Mai 2017 die Gaußmedaille der Braun­sch­wei­gis­chen Wis­senschaft­lichen Gesell­schaft.

Samstag, 6. Mai 2017

How marine bacteria utilise polysaccharides

Consider a snow globe. When shaken, the tiny flakes and particles are set into motion and “it snows”. What lights up kid’s eyes has been a long standing puzzle for scientists.

Two new studies present exciting details on seafloor bacterial life in the North Sea.

Invitation to the MPI seminar

Glaciers might seem rather inhospitable environments. However, they are home to a diverse and vibrant microbial community. It’s becoming increasingly clear that they play a bigger role in the carbon cycle than previously thought.

Einladung zum MPI Seminar

Dr. Sören Thomsen 

GEOMAR, KielandLOcean, Paris

Physical-biogeochemical coupling within the Peruvian upwelling regime

Periodic oscillations of bottom-water oxygen concentrations can alter benthic communities and carbon storage for decades, reveals a new study published in Science Advances. This is particularly relevant as low oxygen conditions are on the rise in the world’s oceans.

The deep sea is a vast and seemingly uninhabitable place, except for some small oases of life. Sunken wood logs, so-called wood falls, can form such oases and provide for rich life for limited periods. A new study by researchers from the MPI Bremen takes a close look at the deep-sea organisms inh...

MPI-Di­rek­tor Fried­rich Wid­del er­hält die Ber­gey-Me­dail­le

Biologists discover a new octopus species at more than 4000 metres depth that guard their eggs, likely for years prior to hatching, and a community which may not survive without hard substrate such as manganese nodules 
Bremerhaven, 19 December 2016. Manganese nodules on the seabed of the Pacific ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and their colleagues from the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) in Leipzig discovered microbial communities thriving on the hydrocarbon butane without the help of molecular oxygen. The microbial consortia, obtai...

A study published in Nature Microbiology shows for the first time that a small nitrogen-fixing symbiosis contributes extensively to the total nitrogen fixation in the tropical North Atlantic. Nitrogen fixation is the largest source of nitrogen to the open ocean, and this symbiosis is thus a key p...

At the margins of oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) at ultralow oxygen concentrations, aerobic ammonium and nitrite oxidizers compete for nitrogen with anaerobic microorganisms. Thus they play an important but so far overlooked role in controlling nitrogen loss in OMZs.

Tropical Porites corals adjust their internal pH to enable themselves to form calcium carbonate and grow under elevated carbon dioxide concentrations – even for a longer period of time. New investigations reveal that the corals’ adaptability has its limits.

Hydrothermal vents in the deep sea are hundreds and thousands of kilometers apart and their inhabitants are isolated and not directly connected to each other. And yet there is clearly some sort of exchange between individual vents as similar species can be found at vents that are very far apart f...

Climate change has focused attention on burgeoning oxygen minimum zones. Newly discovered SAR11 bacteria deplete nitrogen, essential life nutrient.

1.000 Bürgerinnen und Bürger werden am heutigen myOSD Teil eines bundesweiten Bürgerwissenschaftsprojektes auf der Suche nach dem Leben im Wasser.

Bacteria may play a larger role in the melting of glaciers than previously suspected, according to a paper published in Nature Biofilms and Microbiomes. Scientists from Montana State University and MPI Bremen show how the spatial organisation of microbes leads to an efficient transfer of nutrient...

Day in, day out, in the smallest of spaces with your greatest enemy. Sounds unbearable? In the world of microbes, this has been everyday life for billions of years. This supposedly direful proximity can lead to unusual partnerships, as a study by researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Marine...

From June 1, 2016, our institute is excited to welcome a new research group: Headed by Boran Kartal, the new group is dedicated to the field of microbial physiology.

Invitation to the MPI Seminar

We cor­di­al­ly in­vi­te you to join an ex­cit­ing talk of the ame­ri­can sci­en­tist Mitchell L. Sogin from Jo­se­phi­ne Bay Paul Cen­ter, Ma­ri­ne Bio­lo­gi­cal La­bo­ra­to­ry (Woods Hole, USA) on Monday, May 30. 

No two bacteria are identical – even when they are genetically the same. A new study reveals the conditions under which bacteria become individualists and how they help their group grow when times get tough.

An international research team around director Nicole Dubilier are on their way to investigate the life around hydrothermal vents on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. A videoblog provides exciting details from board.

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Every spring, algae bloom in the North Sea. In these blooms, different algae can come out on top each year. Nevertheless, within the bacteria subsequently degrading the algae, the same specialised groups prevail year after year.

Invitation to the MPI seminar

If your favourite pub moves – would you move too or look for another pub? For bacteria living in symbiosis with marine worms it all depends on whether they sit outside or inside the pub. Scientifically speaking: bacteria living on the body surface of their hosts are loyal to those, while bacteria...