Current Projects
Prokaryotic activity in dark ocean mixing zones (PADOM)
Funded by Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
PI: Thomas Reinthaler
PhD in project: Alexander Frank
Microbial Ecology of the Deep Atlantic (MEDEA)
Funded by ERC Advanced Grant
PI: Gerhard J. Herndl
Post Docs in project: Roberta Hansman, Juan Antonio Garcia
Microbial activity in the ocean's interior (Micro-Act)
Funded by Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
PI: Gerhard J. Herndl
Post Doc in project: Eva Sintes
PhD in project: Kristin Bergauer
Microbial Oceanography of ChemolithoAutotrophic planktonic Communities (MOCA)
Funded by the ESF-Eurocores Program EuroEEFG (Ecological and Evolutionary Functional Genomics)
PI: Gerhard J. Herndl
PhD in project: Simone Muck
Read more on the MOCA Homepage >>
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
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
PhD in project: Adam Klimiuk
Full Member of the SCOR working group ‘The Microbial Carbon Pump in the Ocean’
PI: Nianzhi Jiao (Xiamen University, PR China)
Co-PI: Farooq Azam (SIO-UCSD, California, USA)
The nitrogen cycle and changes in the carrying capacity of coastal waters (NICYCLE)
PI: Lucas Stal (NIOO-CEME)
Co-PI: Gerhard J. Herndl
PhD in project: Ishraga Usman
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