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5. Bre­men Oce­an Day

Feb 25, 2025

More than 300 pupils from Bremen and Lower Saxony took part in the  4th Bremen Ocean Day yesterday and were introduced into the world of marine science by internationally renowned researchers.

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Secret life underground: Animal life beneath the seafloor

Oct 15, 2024

Scientists discovered significant numbers of animals living in cavities and caves below the deep-sea seafloor, some growing up to half a meter of length. The discovery, which underlines how many secrets still hide in the inaccessible deep sea and how important it is to protect this ecosystem, was...

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Antje Boetius transfers to MBARI in California

Oct 15, 2024

In spring 2025, Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute and Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, will be appointed president of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California. MBARI is one of the most esteemed institutes for ma...

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Vagabonds and homebodies: Niches of bacterial life in the seabed

Oct 11, 2024

In the ocean‘s sandy seafloor, bacterial residents have neatly organized their housing space. Some enjoy the hustle and bustle in the pore water between the grains of sand and are specialized to use the fresh organic matter from the seawater flushing through the sediment. The majority of bacteria...

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From the very small to the big picture: A new era in microbiology

Sep 19, 2024

Microbes were the only life form on Earth for most of the history of our planet. Even today, they still make up the majority of species that are vital to the health of our planet. They produce much of our oxygen, help plants grow, maintain biogeochemical cycles and thus sustain our ecosystems. A....

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New research group "Protist Virology"

Aug 22, 2024

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.

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Bacteria in lakes fight climate change

Aug 13, 2024

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. 

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Making sugars in the lab to understand how algae capture carbon

Jun 27, 2024

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 ...

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New Rhizobia-diatom symbiosis solves long-standing marine mystery

May 9, 2024

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...

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4. Bre­men Oce­an Day

Feb 27, 2024

More than 300 pupils from Bremen and Lower Saxony took part in the  4th Bremen Ocean Day yesterday and were introduced into the world of marine science by internationally renowned researchers.

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Polarstern reaches North Pole – MPI-scientists on board

Sep 8, 2023

Five weeks after setting sail from Tromsø, Norway, the Alfred Wegener Institute's research vessel Polarstern makes a stop at the northernmost point on Earth. On board are scientists from the HGF-MPG Joint Research Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Mi...

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Breathing poison: Microbial life on nitric oxide respiration

Jul 10, 2023

Nitric oxide (NO) is a central molecule in the global cycling of nitrogen, and also toxic. Little is known about if and how microbes can use NO as a substrate for growth. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, have now managed to grow a microbial comm...

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What you count is not necessarily what counts

May 22, 2023

Seawater is full of bacteria, hundreds of thousands live in every litre. But the sheer number of bacteria living in the water does not necessarily mean a lot. More important is how active they are and how quickly they duplicate, as demonstrated in a study by researchers from the Max Planck Instit...

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An Ocean of tiny wonders

May 15, 2023

Algal blooms in the ocean play a pivotal role in global carbon cycling. Such blooms entail successive blooms of specialized bacteria that collectively remineralize gigatons of algal biomass on a global scale. This biomass is largely composed of distinct polysaccharides, and the microbial decompos...

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We welcome Bruna Imai to the group

Apr 30, 2023

Hello everyone! My name is Bruna and I will be working on the sea4soCiety project investigating the role of dissolved organic compounds present in coastal ecosystems. More specifically, I will apply Mass spectrometry techniques to identify compounds exuded by Salt Marshes plants and found in pore...

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MARUM Research Award for Sina Schorn

Apr 20, 2023

Sina Schorn receives this year's MARUM Research Award for her dissertation "Microbial activities and interactions in anoxic methane-rich environments". The award is presented to young marine scientists who have written outstanding master's or doctoral theses.

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We welcome our new PhD student, Malin Stüwe

Apr 18, 2023

Hey everyone! My name is Malin. I joined the MS group of the symbiosis department for my PhD. My research will be focused on the characterization of the gut microbiome and metabolic interactions occurring between the host and microbes. The project will be conducted in close collaboration with Kie...

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Sukhwan Yoon: "Microbial reduction of nitrous oxide: ..."

Mar 22, 2023

Wednesday, March 22, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 4012 at 3:00 p.m. (15:00 Uhr) 

Sukhwan Yoon (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea)

"Microbial reduction of nitrous oxide: the decade-long ecophysiologica...

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Life in the smoke of underwater volcanoes

Mar 9, 2023

Disconnected from the energy of the sun, the permanently ice-covered Arctic deep sea receives miniscule amounts of organic matter that sustains life. Bacteria which can harvest the energy released from submarine hydrothermal sources could thus have an advantage. On research missions with the rese...

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We welcome our new intern, Adrian Stolfa

Mar 1, 2023

Hello! As a new laboratory assistant at Business Academy Aarhus in Denmark, I am thrilled to be embarking on a journey of discovery and exploration in the field of GC-MS. I am eager to gain hands-on experience in the laboratory and contribute to ongoing research projects. Throughout my internship...

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Turning a poison into food

Jan 19, 2023

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology reveal how a methane-generating microbe can grow on toxic sulfite without becoming poisoned. 

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Peter Stief: Marine snow under pressure

Jan 12, 2023

Thursday, January 12, 2023

in the new MPI lecture hall 4012 at 3:00 p.m. (15:00h) (Don´t forget to bring a mask!)

Peter Stief (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)

will give a seminar with the title

"Marine snow under pressure: Mineralization, bacterial colonization, and diatom li...

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Slime for the climate, delivered by brown algae

Dec 26, 2022

Brown algae take up large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and release parts of the carbon contained therein back into the environment in mucous form. This mucus is hard to break down for other ocean inhabitants, thus the carbon is removed from the atmosphere for a long time, as researchers...

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Jasmine Berg: The new frontier of anoxia

Nov 24, 2022

Thursday, November 24, 2022
in the new MPI lecture hall 4012 at 3:00 p.m. (15:00 Uhr) (Don´t forget to bring a mask!!!)

Jasmine Berg (Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Host: Soeren Ahmerkamp)

will give a seminar with the title:

"The new frontier of anoxia"

You...

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Breaking nitrogen while generating methane

Nov 21, 2022

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have successfully enhanced cultivation of a microorganism that can fix nitrogen (N2) while producing methane (CH4) and ammonia (NH3) and investigated exciting details of its metabolism

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Researching the environmental impacts of deep-seabed mining

Nov 11, 2022

To what extent does polymetallic nodule mining impact the ecosystem in the deep sea? This is what the MiningImpact expedition SO295 with the research vessel SONNE is investigating for the next two months in the exploration contract areas of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific. During...

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Antje Boetius receives Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsäcker-Prize

Nov 10, 2022

AWI Director Antje Boetius will receive the Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsäcker-Prize 2022 for her many years of work as a marine researcher and microbiologist. Endowed with €50,000, the award from the Stifterverband and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina is presented for valuable scien...

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Start of the third funding phase for marine proteome research

Oct 6, 2022

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a third funding phase for the research group FOR 2406 "Proteogenomics of Marine Polysaccharide Degradation" (POMPU). In this research group, researchers from Bremen and Greifswald work together in an interdisciplinary and cross-locational manner t...

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Welcome to the MarMic Class of 2027!

Sep 26, 2022

On September 26, 2022, we welcomed 15 new MarMics (students in our International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology) to our institute, the second largest class ever.

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