Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an die Jungforscherinnen Julia Lenger und Leila Jürß! 👏 🎉 Die beiden Schülerinnen vom Mariengymnasium Papenburg haben im Bereich Biologie den 1. Landessieg beim Landeswettbewerb von Jugend forscht errungen und reisen nun zum Bundeswettbewerb Stiftung Jugend forscht e. V.! In Zusammenarbeit mit Silke Wetzel vom unserem Institut untersuchten die beiden erstmals die Verbreitung der Marine Bivalve Transmissible Neoplasie (MarBTN) bei Muscheln in der Nordsee. Neben der epidemiologischen Analyse befassten sie sich mit einer möglichen Therapie dieser infektiösen Krebserkrankung mit antimikrobiellen Peptiden. 🦪 🌊 "Wir sind überglücklich über diesen großen Erfolg! Dieser wäre ohne die Unterstützung des MPI und insbesondere Silkes Begleitung nicht möglich gewesen", sagt Julia Lenger. Wir freuen uns auf den Bundeswettbewerb und drücken die Daumen!! 🤞 Foto von Sabine Panzer

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Open-rank professorship in Marine Geology The Faculty of Geosciences and the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen are jointly seeking to fill a professorship in Marine Geology. For more details, see the advertisement: https://lnkd.in/eZdfdnQY

Danke für den tollen Tag! 🤩 Mit tollen Vorträgen von Julian Kiefer vom Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Elena Schiller vom MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Jonas Geburzi vom Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) GmbH, und einigen anderen helfenden Händen, wurde der 5. Bremer Ocean Day gestern ein großer Erfolg! Danke an fast 500 Schüler*innen für ihren Besuch und ihre rege Beteiligung! 🧑🎓 👏 🙋♀️ 🏫 #Wisskomm #UnitrifftSchule #MachMINT #transfer #Bremen #Meeresforschung #Meeresbiologie #scicomm #OceanDay

Resilient algae may speed up Greenland ice melt The tiny ice inhabitants darken the glacier surface and can thus accelerate its melting. Tiny algae darken the surface of glaciers and thus accelerate their melting. This is the case, for example, on the Greenland Ice Sheet, which plays an important role in our climate and is already melting increasingly fast due to global warming. A study by the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, and the Aarhus University, Denmark, now shows that the ice algae grow extremely efficiently, despite the fact that there are hardly any nutrients available to them on the ice. "I wanted to understand how such algal blooms can develop in Greenland,” explains lead author Laura Halbach from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology. Using new methods, Halbach was the first researcher ever to measure how the algae absorb and store nutrients. "The algae can grow and colonize the ice despite the scarcity of nutrients. In view of the fact that the climate is getting warmer and ever more snow-free areas and thus more potential habitat for the algae appears on the Greenland Ice Sheet, the algae’s ability to efficiently absorb and store nutrients is particularly significant.” Learn more about this research on our website! #icealgae #climatechange #greenland #marinescience #WomeninSTEM #microbiology #science

#PhDone! To have coincidentally defended my thesis on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science made crossing the finish line even more meaningful. Extremely grateful to everyone who supported and guided me on this journey! #firstgen #WomenInScience

👉 #JobAlert #PhD 🧑🎓 In our HGF-MPG Joint Research Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology we are searching for a #PhD #Student on the project "Functional diversity and connectivity of microbiomes in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans over space and time" The project addresses the diversity, function and activity of microbial communities in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans across seasonal and environmental gradients. Key points are the ecological and biogeochemical roles of microbes for the biological carbon pump across sea-ice, oceanographic, and primary productivity regimes. To achieve these objectives, the candidate will analyze metabarcoding and meta’omic datasets, as well as study bacterial model isolates. The work includes bioinformatic analyses of sequence data in the environmental context, bacterial cultivation, and ecological statistics. Within an interdisciplinary framework, the project will determine key microbial populations and functions in the seasonal biological carbon pump, from both sea-ice and pelagic realms. If you are interested, learm more about the position and find the application link on our website. Apply by March 16, 2025

ICoN9 notepads are in, and waiting for you to register and submit your abstracts! Please follow this link for registration and follow the instructions: https://lnkd.in/e7Pm9fRz Please follow this link for abstract submission: https://lnkd.in/eSJizw7R We are looking forward to hosting you in Bremen this June!

Call for Lise Meitner Research Groups open The Max Planck Society offers excellent Researchers the possibility to apply for a position as a Leader of a Lise Meitner Research Group in all areas of science. Applications are possible between February 12th to April 08th, 2025: https://lnkd.in/eTst38J #Scientists #MaxPlanckSociety #ResearchGroup #HerCareer #WomenInScience