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IMPRS Graduates

Since its foundation in year 2002, the International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology (MarMic) successfully graduated around 100 students. So far 97% of the Master students finished the M.Sc. programme, of which more than 90% entered our Ph.D. programme. Therefore MarMic is an excellent stepping stone for first-class junior scientists.

For a database containing the titles and abstracts of our M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis please follow the links below:

Ph.D. Thesis

Name Date Title
Ingrid Torres Monroy May 2013 Identification of bacterial genes required for diatom-bacteria interactions
Stefan Thiele May 2013 The role of specific microbial communities in the biological carbon pump
Abdul R. Sheik December 2012 Viral regulation on nutrient assimilation by algae and prokaryotes
Manuel Kleiner December 2012 Metabolism and evolutionary ecology of chemosynthetic symbionts from marine invertebrates
I Gusti N.A. Suryaputra October 2012 Fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM) in the coastal ocean: characterization, biogeochemical processes, and the possibility of in situ monitoring
Cecilia Wentrup October 2012 Acquisition and activity of bacterial symbionts in marine invertebrates
Anna Klindworth October 2012 RNA based research - development, application and analysis within the MIMAS project
Petra Pop Ristova July 2012 Biogeochemical activity and associated biodiversity at reduced deep-sea hotspot ecosystems
Tim Kalvelage July 2012 Nitrogen losses and nutrient regeneration in oxygen minimum zones
Pier Buttigieg July 2012 Investigating environment-specific signatures of marine pelagic microbes: Insights from comparative genomics
Dennis Enning June 2012 Bioelectrical corrosion of iron by lithotrophic sulfate-reducing bacteria
Sara Kleindienst May 2012 Hydrocarbon-degrading sulfate-reducing bacteria in marine hydrocarbon seep sediments
Chia-I Huang March 2012 Molecular ecology of free-living chemoautotrophic microbial communities at a shallow-sea hydrothermal vent
Shalin Seebah March 2012 Molecular and ecological analysis of cellular attachment and induction of transparent exopolymeric particle formation in diatom-bacterie interactions
Alexandra Meziti February 2012 Molecular diversity of bacterial communities from the digestive tract of Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) individuals in natural and reared populations
Pelin Yilmaz December 2011 Improving the usage of ribosomal RNA genes in microbiology and microbial ecology - Importance of standardization and biocuration
Elmar Prüsse December 2011 Scaleable bioinformatic methods and resources for ribosomal RNA based studies
Julia Rosa de Rezende November 2011 Thermophilic endospores in Aarhus Bay and Svalbard sediments: Insight into the dispersal of marine microorganisms
Ulrike Jaekel October 2011 Anaerobic oxidation of short-chain and cyclic alkanes by sulfate-reducing bacteria
Mariette Kassabgy October 2011 Diversity and abundance of gammaproteobacteria during the winter-spring transition at station Kabeltonne (Helgoland)
Dennis Fink October 2011 Dynamics in symbiont abundance in bathymodiolin deep-sea symbioses
Jan Erik Rau July 2011 Characterisation of inhibitory substances produced by two Pseudoalteromonas species and the cyanobacterial strain Flo 1
Kyoko Kubo July 2011 Autecology of crenarchaeotal and bacterial clades in marine sediments and microbial mats
Clelia Dona July 2011 Mobilization of sulfur by green sulfur bacteria – Physiological and molecular studies on Chlorobaculum parvum DSM 263
Joanna Sawicka June 2011 Arctic to tropic - adaptation and response of anaerobic microorganisms to temperature effects in marine sediments
Wolfgang Hankeln May 2011 Data integration in microbial genomics: Contextualizing sequence data in aid of biological knowledge
Ivaylo Kostadinov May 2011 Marine Metagenomics: From high-throughput data to ecogenomic interpretation
Sabine Lenk March 2011 Molecular ecology of key organisms in sulfur and carbon cycling in marine sediments
Basak Öztürk March 2011 Assessing the genetic accessibility of Rhodopirellula baltica SH 1
Sonja Oberbeckmann March 2011 Vibrio spp. in the German Bight
Jana Milucka February 2011 Dissimilatory sulfur metabolism coupled to anaerobic oxidation of methane
Eva Käppel January 2011 Taxonomic and genetic analysis of Marinobacter sp. HP15 and its chemotactic behaviour towards the diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii
Ilaria Pizzetti December 2010 Abundance, distribution and diversity of planktonic Planctomycetes in coastal zones
Thomas Holler December 2010 Physiological investigation of the anaerobic oxidation of methane
Petra Brandt December 2010 The bacterial community of marine copepods
Mohammad Al-Najjar December 2010 Flow of light energy in benthic photosynthetic microbial mats
Rita Dunker December 2010 Motility of the giant sulfur bacteria Beggiatoa in the marine environment
Angélique Gobet December 2010 Microbial community ecology of temperate coastal sands
Sandra Schöttner December 2010 Bacterial habitat differentiation in cold- and warm-water coral reef ecosystems
Luciana Raggi Hoyos October 2010 Bacterial-bivalve associations, from an asphalt cold seep to shallow waters
Lars Schreiber August 2010 Assessing the genetic potential of uncultivated sulfate reducing bacteria
Maya Robert July 2010 Importance of polysaccharides for the cycling of minerals and trace elements in the ocean
Karina Stucken Marin June 2010 Physiogenomics of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and Raphidiopsis brookii (Cyanobacteria) with Emphasis on Evolution, Nitrogen Control and Toxin Biosynthesis
Astrid Gärdes May 2010 A bilateral model system for the molecular investigation of diatom-bacteria interactions
Paola Gomez April 2010 Marine Bacteroidetes: distribution patterns and role in the degradation of organic matter
Caroline Verna April 2010 Phylogeny and diversity of symbionts from whale fall invertebrates
Melissa Duhaime March 2010 Exploring the Marine Virosphere - From genome context to content
Cristina Moraru March 2010 Fluorescence in situ hybridization of genes in environmental microbiology
Laura Wehrmann March 2010 Early diagenetic signals in modern & ancient cold-water coral reef sediments
Britta Knefelkamp January 2010 An investigation of the eukaryotic picoplankton community in the German North Sea by different methods
Annina Hube December 2009 Molecular Biological and Physiological Investigations on Heterotrophic Bacteria associated with Marine Filamentous Cyanobacteria
Janine Felden October 2009 Methan fluxes and associated biogeochemical processes in cold seep ecosystems
Julia Arnds September 2009 Molecular characterization of microbial populations in methane-rich marine habitats
Alberto Robador September 2009 Temperature control of bacterial carbon mineralization processes in marine sediments
Torben Stürmann September 2009 Der bakterielle Schwefelkreislauf im Benguela-Auftriebssystem
Jillian Petersen September 2009 Diversity and ecology of chemosynthetic symbioses in deep-sea invertebrates
Wilbert Serrano July 2009 A multi-gene approach in the systematics of the phototrophic purple sulfur bacteria genera Marichromatium and Allochromatium with description of the new species Allochromatium humboldttianum and the new biotype Marichromatium gracile biotype thermosulfidiphium
Amelia Rotaru June 2009 Anaerobic degradation of limonene and p-xylene in fresh-water enrichment cultures
Frank Schreiber May 2009 Detecting and understanding nitric oxide formation during nitrogen cycling in microbial biofilms
Renzo Kottmann May 2009 Data integration for marine ecological genomics
Daria Zhurina March 2009 Identification and partial characterization of transcriptional regulators involved in temperature-dependent expression of levansucrase in Pseudomonas syringae
Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen March 2009 Carbon turnover in sinking particles in the marine environment
YAN Shi February 2009 Molecular ecology of the NOR5/OM60 group of Gammaproteobacteria
Frank Zielinski September 2008 Geobiological coupling of hydrothermal vent fluids with endosymbiotic primary producers of Bathymodiolus mussels from hydrothermal vents on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Sebastian Steigenberger April 2008 The effect of acidic polysaccarides on the biogeochemistry of iron in the marine environment
Maya Shovitri April 2008 Bacterial communities in the burrow of the lugworm Arenicola marina and community changes on the intertidal muddy sediments by applying terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism
Hoa Nhu
Tran
April 2008 New organic substrates for anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria
Susanne Liebner February 2008 Adaptation, spatial variability, and phylogenetic characterization of methanotrophic communi- ties in permafrost soils of the Lena Delta, Siberia
Elsabé Julies January 2008 Microbial ecology of anaerobic carbon mineralization in Namibian self sediments
Jacob H.
Jacob
September 2007 Regulation of anaerobic catabolism of aromatic compounds and sulfate reduction in Desulfobacula toluolica Tol2
Rosa García Novoa September 2007 Organic matter and meiobenthos in submarine canyons of the Iberian continental margin
Enoma Omoregie July 2007 Function and diversity of marine and hypersaline mat forming microbial communities
Dagmar Wöbken May 2007 Diversity and ecology of marine Planctomycetes with focus on Anammox bacteria
Clemens Borkenstein December 2006 Bioavailability of elemental and biogenic sulfur and biotechnological sulfide removal by green and purple sulfur bacteria
Maren Nickel December 2006 Mineralization pathways and thermophilic sulfate reduction in Arctic sediments, Svalbard
Birte Gerdes July 2006 Impact of crude oil and bioremediation treatments on the composition and degradation efficiency of polar bacterial sea-ice communities
Niculina Musat June 2006 Molecular characterization of symbiotic associations between chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing microorganisms and nematodes in shallow marine sediments
Tina Lösekann March 2006 Molecular characterization of methanotrophic and chemoautotrophic communities at cold seeps
Nils Volkenborn Dec. 2005 Ecosystem enigineering in intertidal sand by the lugworm Arenicola marina
Sebastian Duperron Nov. 2005 Bacterial symbioses in mytilid bivalves associated with cold seeps and hydrothermal vents: diversity, nutritional role and influence of the environment
Cecilia Alonso Oct. 2005 Identity and activity of marine microbial populations as revealed by single cell techniques
Helge Niemann July 2005 Rates and signatures of methane turnover in sediments of continental margins


M.Sc. Thesis

Name Date Title
Jimena
Barrero Canosa
March 2012 Combination of GeneFISH and super-resolution microscopy on bacterial pure cultures
Laura
Gallego Valle
March 2012 Microdiversity of free-living and host-associated symbionts in Bathymodiolus spp. mussels from the North Mid Atlantic Ridge
Emmo
Hamann
March 2012 Nitrate respiration by small predatory protists from marine tidal flat sediments
Robert
Marmulla
March 2012 A novel purification for, and biochemical studies on linalool dehydratase-isomerase
Joseph
Marshall
March 2012 Solid phase phosphate reservoirs from sediment of the South Pacific Gyres
Oluwatobi
Oni
March 2012 Microbial reductive dehalogenation of tetrachloroethene in marine sediments
Kin
Ovanesov
March 2012 Abundance, distribution, and first insights into metabolism of an environmentally important group of sulfate-reducing bacteria
Fabian
Ruhnau
March 2012 Further improvements of geneFISH, a method to study single microbial cells in environmental samples
Lizbeth
Sayavedra Camacho
March 2012 Comparative genomics of symbiotic and free-living chemoautotrophic bacteria
Marion
Stagars
March 2012 Ecophysiology of key sulfate-reducing bacteria involved in anaerobic degradation of hydrocarbons at marine gas and oil seeps
Antje
Stahl
March 2012 Molecular analysis of the exoproteome of the marine aggregate-inducing bacterium Marinobacter adhaerens HP15
Maria Gabriela
Alfaro Espinoza
March 2011 Isolation and molecular characterization of nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with mangroves roots
Veronique Beckers March 2011 Metabolic flux analysis for Rhodopirellula baltica SH1T
Mar Fernandez
Mendez
March 2011 Primary productivity of sea ice algae under different environmental conditions
Philipp Hach March 2011 Dissolved organic matter remineralization in the subtropical north Atlantic oxygen minimum zone
Viola Krukenberg March 2011 Characterization of thermophilic anaerobic methanotrophy associated with sulfate reduction in Guaymas Basin enrichment cultures
Olga Matantseva Aug. 2011 Nitrogen and oxygen isotope effects during anammox
Megan McLaren March 2011 Degradation of chlorophyll by marine microorganisms
Mira Okshevsky March 2011 An initial investigation of biofilm formation in Marinobacter adhaerens HP15: Characterization of biofilm structure and generation of a luxR mutant library
Christian Pfeffer March 2011 Biogeoelectricity in marine sediments: Physical characteristics of conductive elements
Bastian Piltz March 2011 Nitrogen fixation and diversity of benthic cyanobacteria in a Caribbean coral reef
Petra Pjevac March 2011 Metabolism of elemental sulfur and pyrite in intertidal sediments
Elizabeth Robertson March 2011 Nitrogen cycling, remineralisation and the influences of manganese in arctic fjord sediments
Julia Schnetzer March 2011 Genomic investigations of Pseudoalteromonas Phages
Saar Sztejrenszus March 2011 NanoSIMS imaging of carbon and nitrogen assimilation by unicellular cyanobacteria in the Subtropical North Pacific Ocean
Juliane Wippler March 2011 Analysis of mobile DNA in endosymbionts of the gutless marine oligochaete worm Olavius algarvensis
Elisa
Bayraktarov
March 2010 The pH-dependence of sulfate reduction in shallow submarine hydrothermal CO2-venting sediments (Milos Island, Greece)
Zainab
Beiruti
March 2010 Sulfur isotope effects caused by sulfide-oxidizing bacteria: Model meets reality
Jessika
Füssel
March 2010 Nitrite oxidation in the Benguela upwelling system
Miriam
Grace
March 2010 Exploring microbial community responses to marine pollution: insights from ecological genomics
Stefan
Häusler
March 2010 Metabolic activity of cyanobacterial mats in the sulfide springs emerging from the Frasassi cave system, Italy
Sandra
Havemeyer
March 2010 Bacterial polyphosphate storage and phosphate release
Andreas
Krupke
March 2010 Nutrient and carbon transfer between sulfate reducing and phototrophic sulfur bacteria within the chemocline of the meromictic Lake Cadagno, Switzerland
Hannah
Marchant
March 2010 The effects of ocean acidification on nitrogen cycling in permeable coastal sediments
Ingrid
Torres Monroy
March 2010 Growth characteristics of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic strains of the NOR5/OM60 clade
Pier Luigi
Buttigieg
March 2009 Investigating habitat-specific signatures of the marine bacterioplankton: insights from comparative genomics
Rebecca Carstensen March 2009 Photophysiological responses of the calcifying, green macroalga Halimeda opuntia to shifting pH regimes
Marianne Jacob March 2009 Development and validation of community fingerprinting tools to analyze microbial diversity in marine sediments
Tim Kalvelage March 2009 Nitrogen losses and nutrient regeneration in oxygen deficient waters
Judith Klatt March 2009 Role of light in oxygen and carbon cycling by anoxygenic phototrophs in microbial mats
Petra
Pop Ristova
March 2009 Biogeochemical activity and associated biodiversity at reduced deep sea hotspot ecosystems
Shalin Seebah March 2009 Molecular analysis of diatom-bacteria interactions: Role of bacterial flagella and pili in the initial steps of bacterial attachment and its temperature dependence
Abdul Rahiman
Sheik
March 2009 The effect of viruses on eukaryotic and prokaryotic nutrient assimilation
Pelin Yilmaz March 2009 Application of statistical methods for the analysis of geo-referenced sequence data in their environmental context
Dennis Enning March 2008 Anaerobic corrosion of metallic iron by cultures of sulfate-reducing bacteria
Dennis Fink March 2008 Biological response on change of hydrothermal fluid flow: Quantification of bacterial endosymbionts in deep-sea mussels with 3D-FISH and qPCR
Wolfgang Hankeln March 2008 MetaBar – A Tool for consistent contextual Data Acquisition
Ulrike Jaekel March 2008 Characterization of gaseous alkane-degrading sulphate-reducing enrichment cultures from marine hydrocarbon seeps
Pascal Kriwy March 2008 Microbial diversity in biofilms grown along a water quality gradient on the Great Barrier Reef
Basak Öztürk March 2008 Metatranscriptomic analysis in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
Karina Röse March 2008 Symbiosis between bacteria and bathymodioline mussels at hydrothermal vent and cold seep sites
Julia Rosa de Rezende March 2008 Thermophilic sulfate reducers in cold Wadden Sea sediments
Zane Zaleska March 2008 Detection of nmsA transcripts in naphthalene- vs. 2-methylnaphthalene-grown cells of the NaphS2, NaphS3 and NaphS6 strains
Mohammad Al-Najjar March 2007 An approach to measure the flow of energy in benthic photosynthetic mats, tested on an artificial film of Diatoms
Melissa Duhaime March 2007 Marine virus population dynamics and genomics: Lessons from the North Atlantic and North Sea
Astrid Gaerdes March 2007 Molecular investigation of marine algae - bacteria interactions
Paola Gomez March 2007 Diversity and ecological role of marine planktonic Cytophaga/Flavobacteria-like bacteria
Ivaylo Kostadinov March 2007 Detection of group specific genes in the phyla Planctomycetes and Bacteroidetes – from comparative genomics to metagenomics
Alexandra Meziti March 2007 Diversity and detection of Archaea in deep-sea sediments
Ann Puschell March 2007 Enumeration and cultivation of microorganisms from oligotrophic marine sediments of the South Pacific Gyre
Luciana Raggi March 2007 Molecular studies of two different bacterial symbioses in invertebrates: Diversity and biogeography
Joanna Sawicka March 2007 Freeze-thaw effects on sulfate reduction rates and microbial community dynamics in Arctic sediments
Sandra Schöttner March 2007 Microbial habitats in cold-water coral reef ecosystems: Exploring diversity, structure and dynamics of associated prokaryotic communities
Lars Schreiber March 2007 Development of a novel screening method for screening large metagenomic libraries for low-abundance genes
Chibola Chikwililwa March 2006 Toxin production in Alexandrium tamarense: Investigating clonal variation and extra-cellular bacterial effects
Chishimba Kantu March 2006 Pharmacological studies of bioactive substances from Alexandrium ostenfeldii
Sabine Lenk March 2006 Diversity and abundance of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria in wadden sea sediments revealed by DsrAB phylogeny and dsrAB-targeted real-time PCR
Cristina Moraru March 2006 Development of protocols for in situ detection of genes in microorganisms
Jillian Petersen March 2006 Molecular studies of Deep-Sea invertebrate symbiosis: Characterisation, geobiological coupling, and biogeography
Frank Schreiber March 2006 Detection and function of nitrite oxide in microbial communities
Katarzyna Wojciechowska March 2006 Cryptophyceae diversity by sequencing 18S rDNA clone libraries
YAN Shi March 2006 Biogeography of NOR5 clade, a wide-spread group of gammaproteobacteria
Rita Dunker April 2005 Microsensor studies on a Beggiatoa mat under changing oxygen concentrations
Janine Felden April 2005 Tracing changes in the community structure in sediments of the Håkon Mosby mud volcano (HMMV) by molecular and biogeochemical methods
Jacob Jacob April 2005 Regulation of anaerobic toluene and benzoate metabolism in sulfate-reducing Desulfobacula toluolica, strain Tol2
Renzo Kottmann April 2005 Data acquisition, design and implementation of an integrative database for metagenomics
Susanne Liebner April 2005 Dynamic, adaptation and phylogenetic characterisation of methanotrophic communities in Siberian permafrost soils
Alberto Robador April 2005 Responses in activity and community composition of sulfate-reducing bacteria to moderate temperature changes in Svalbard sediments (Arctic Ocean)
Amelia Rotaru April 2005 Genomic analysis of the endosymbiotic community of a gutless marine worm (Olavius algarvensis)
Wilbert Serrano April 2005 Characterization of a purple sulfur bacterium, strain SW 26 isolated from Sylt (Wadden sea)
Maya Shovitri April 2005 Biogeochemistry and molecular ecology of sandy sediment from a North Sea gas seep