Current Projects
Microbial Oceanography of ChemolithoAutotrophic planktonic Communities (MOCA)
Funded by the ESF-Eurocores Program EuroEEFG (Ecological and Evolutionary Functional Genomics)
PI: Gerhard J. Herndl
Post Doc in project: Eva Sintes
Ph.D. in project: Kristin Bergauer & Simone Muck
Partners:
Christa Schleper, Dept. of Genetics in Ecology, Faculty Center of Ecology, Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Klaus Jürgens (Institute of Baltic Sea Research at Warnemünde, Germany
Jarone Pinhassi, Univ. of Kalmar, Sweden
Jose Gonzalez, Univ. de Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Crenarchaeota ecology and nutrient utilization in the subsurface ocean (CAENEUS)
Funded in the 7th Framework program of the EU, Marie Curie Fellowship
Post Doc in project: Itziar Lekunberri-Garcia
Heterotrophic activity and ecology of abundant versus rare marine bacterial phylotypes (HERA)
Funded in the 7th Framework program of the EU, Marie Curie Fellowship
Post Doc in project: Alejandra Calvo-Diaz
GEOTRACES, Global Change and Microbial Oceanography in the West Atlantic Ocean
Funded by NWO-ALW
PI: Hein de Baar, Royal Netherlands Insitute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands
Co-PI: Gerhard J. Herndl
Post Doc in project: Taichi Yokokawa
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
PhD student in project: Adam Klimiuk
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