Current Projects
Full Member of the SCOR working group ‘The Microbial Carbon Pump in the Ocean’
PI: Nianzhi Jiao (Xamen University, PR China)
Co-PI: Farooq Azam (SIO-UCSD, California, USA)
Archaeal activity dynamics in marine snow vs. ambient water in coastal European Sea (ARCADIA)
Funded in the 7th Framework program of the EU, Marie Curie Fellowship
Post Doc in project: Dominique Lamy
Influence of deep ocean viruses on prokaryotes (VIPeR)
Funded by Earth and Life Science Branch, Dutch Science Foundation
PI: Gerhard J. Herndl
Co-PI: Christian Winter
Post Doc in project: Adam Klimiuk
PhD student in project: Daniele de Corte
Pelagic Archaea in the changing coastal Arctic (PACCA)
Funded by Earth and Life Science Branch, International Polar Year Program, Dutch Science Foundation
PI: Gerhard J. Herndl
Post Doc in project: Eva Sintes
The nitrogen cycle and changes in the carrying capacity of coastal waters (NICYCLE)
PI: Lucas Stal (NIOO-CEME)
Co-PI: Gerhard J. Herndl
PhD student in project: Ishraga Usman
International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM)
PIs: Mitchell L. Sogin (Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular
Biology and Evolution, MBL at Woods Hole) and Jan W. de Leeuw (NIOZ)
Marine Microbiology Initiative at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
Virome sequencing effort: sequencing of 2 deep-sea virome samples
PI: Christian Winter
Co-PI: Gerhard J. Herndl, Markus G. Weinbauer, Michael DuBow