We are pleased and excited to welcome a new research group to our institute as of January 2025: Under the heading of Dr. Matthias Fischer, the researchers will explore the biology of giant viruses and their parasites.
Methane-oxidizing bacteria could play a greater role than previously thought in preventing the release of climate-damaging methane from lakes, researchers from Bremen report. They also show who is behind the process and how it works.
On 22 July, we welcomed a group of pupils from the Japanese province of Öta to our institute.
Fucoidan, a sugar released by algae, can trap carbon dioxide (CO2) for centuries but remains poorly understood due to its complex and diverse molecular structure. Dr. Conor Crawford developed an automated method to recreate fucoidan to study which types are most effective at storing carbon. With ...
How and what do microorganisms in deep-sea soils live on? How do their metabolic cycles work, and how do the individual members of these buried communities interact?
Lucinid clams, inconspicuous inhabitants of the seafloor and one of the most diverse group of animals in the ocean, rely on symbiotic bacteria for their survival. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, now reveal the evolutionary journey of these tiny ...
It MA(t)TERs is a conference that focuses on MArine and TERrestrial microbiology, organized jointly by the PhD Reps from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg and the MPI for Marine Microbiology in Bremen. This year, it included a contest to choose a new logo to a...
The BRIESE Prize 2023 goes to Dr Hagen Buck-Wiese from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen. The jury honours his outstanding research, which makes a significant contribution to understanding what happens to the carbohydrates that marine algae produce through photosynthesis ...
Marine microbes control the flux of matter and energy essential for life in the oceans. Among them, the bacterial group SAR11 accounts for about a third of all the bacteria found in surface ocean waters. A study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germa...
Exciting facts and beautiful pictures about our research on seagrasses can currently be seen in several television programmes.
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ocean. The newly-discovered bacterial symbiont is closely related to the nitrog...
Scientists take a leap towards estimating the number of strains that make up a natural bacterial population
Decoding the conversations between microbes of hypersaline environments reveals deep insights into the origins of complex life.
On February 27, 2024, the 4th Ocean Day will allow 500 pupils to dig deep into marine science in Bremen.
Researchers from Bremen, Germany, studied the composition and function of bacteria in the seabed off Svalbard, during alternating periods of polar night and midnight sun. To do this, they specially developed a sampling device, the Ellrott grab. Contrary to bacterial communities in the overlying w...
By tightly regulating nitrogen uptake, microorganisms avoid overeating nitrogen and thus wasting energy. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology now reveal how some methanogenic archaea manage to do so.
Joint declaration of the Bremen research institutions united in the U Bremen Research Alliance and the State Rectors' Conference