Wednesday, February 22, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 4012 at 3:00 p.m. (15:00 Uhr)
Alexander Probst (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
will give a seminar with the title:
"Rogue 1b: An archaeal CRISPR Cas story"
You are welcome to join.
Thursday, February 2, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 4012 at 3:00 p.m. (15:00 Uhr) (Don´t forget to bring a mask!!!)
Karen Wiltshire (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Host: Rudolf Amann)
will give a seminar with the title:
"The North Sea in the fast lane of Clim...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
in the MPI lecture hall 1112 at 2:00 p.m. (14:00 Uhr) (Don´t forget to bring a mask!!!)
Maria Chuvochina (The University of Queensland, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, Host: Bernhard Fuchs)
will give a seminar with the title:
"Navigating the space of prokaryotic taxonomy ...
Antje Boetius will receive the Ernst Ludwig Winnacker Award from the Bayer Foundation.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology reveal how a methane-generating microbe can grow on toxic sulfite without becoming poisoned.
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...
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...
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.
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...