With about 1 million euros, the foundation is supporting an international team of researchers led by Susanne Erdmann from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in the project "A plasmid goes viral".
Two new vehicles are available for transports and expeditions.
When the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen was founded in 1992, the handful of employees at that time did not even have their own building. Almost 30 years have passed since then and after the institute building was constructed in 1996, it has grown steadily. Now, we are goin...
The scientist Dr. Katharina Kitzinger from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology is one of the winners of this year's MARUM Research Award. She receives the award for her outstanding research on key processes in the nitrogen cycle in the sea, the microorganisms involved and the peculia...
Plastic debris can be found even in the most remote regions of the oceans. Usually it is impossible to determine how long it has been lying on the seabed. Up to now, this has also hampered any attempt to estimate how long plastic degradation might take. Scientists from Kiel and Bremen have now, f...
In several online exhibitions, an international team of researchers, under the direction of cruise leader Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bohrmann from MARUM – Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, takes visitors to the internet platform Google Arts & Culture on an expedition.
"Together we’re stronger" – The motto of the Bremen Town Musicians, is especially true in these difficult times. But it is not only since the outbreak of the corona pandemic that a picture of the famous sculpture in the center of Bremen adorns the profile picture at WhatsApp of marine chemist Car...
Brown algae are important players in the global carbon cycle by fixing large amounts of carbon dioxide and thus extracting this greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. Moreover, because microbial decomposition of dead brown algae is slower than that of other marine plants, carbon dioxide fixed by bro...
No excuses anymore. Whenever you look for our institute, now you can easily find it: Since today it is labelled, well visible to everyone. MPI – these three letters at the wall of our building welcome both staff and guests. Just move your eyes up, and you will see it. The meaning of MPI might be ...
The U Bremen Research Alliance makes the research strength of the university and its non-university partners – amongst them the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology – visible across the globe: The collaboration with the eleven regional research institutes will now be perpetuated: The U Br...
It was only relatively recently that tiny, single-celled thaumarchaea were discovered to exist and thrive in the pelagic ocean, where their population size of roughly ten billion quintillion cells makes them one of the most abundant organisms on our planet. A team of researchers from the MARUM – ...
Deep-sea mining could provide a way to address the increasing need of rare metals. However, its environmental impact is only partially known. In addition, there is a lack of clear standards to regulate mining and set binding thresholds for the impact on the organisms living in affected areas. Res...
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen have discovered a microbe that feeds on ethane at deep-sea hot vents. They also succeeded in cultivating this microbe in the laboratory. What is particularly remarkab...
In February, PhD-students conducted a mini-conference on microbiology. This year it took place in Bremen and was a great success for scientific and personal exchange. Here, one of the participants reports from the conference.
by Merle Ücker
Zukunftstag am MPI 2020
The oceans are a very important reservoir for carbon in the system of the earth. However, many aspects of the marine carbon cycle are still unknown. Scientists from Bremen and Bremerhaven now found out that sugar plays an important role in this process. At the same time, the sweet energy source i...
Katharina Kitzinger is awarded the BRIESE-Award for Marine Science
The German Marine Research Alliance introduces itself to guests from the domains of politics, business, science and civil society.
Marine microbes like to play hide and seek. Some bacteria often appear in samples but do not grow in the lab. At the same time, they are too few to be discovered via genetic analysis. Scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology now succeeded in finding a method to locate them n...