Marine Microbial Ecology with emphasis on structure and function relationships
in microbial communities (particularly viruses, bacteria, archaea)
Production and transformation of dissolved organic matter in the sea
Microbial Oceanography (linking the thermohaline circulation to the
biogeography of prokaryotes and to biogeochemical cycling of organic
matter particularly in the meso- and bathypelagic realm)
Services
Head of Department of Marine Biology, University of Vienna (2008-present)
Head of Department Biological Oceanography at the NIOZ (1997-2008)
Professor for Biological Oceanography at the University of Groningen
(1999-present)
Co-organizer of the IMBER-IMBIZO workshop on the Bathypelagic, Miami, Florida, USA, Nov 08 (together with Dennis Hansell)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Sea at the Univ. of Oldenburg, Germany, 2008-2011
Member of the Steering Committee of the International Census of Marine Microorganisms (ICoMM) as part of the Census of Marine Life (CoML) from 2005-2010
Member of the IMBER/SOLAS working group on Carbon Research from 2005-2008,
expert for the meso- and bathypelagic
Associate Member of the SCOR working group 126: Role of viruses in
marine ecosystems.
Herndl, G. J., H. Agogué, F. Baltar, T. Reinthaler, E. Sintes and M. M. Varela. 2008. Regulation of aquatic microbial processes: the 'microbial loop' of the sunlit surface waters and the dark ocean dissected. Contribution to the SAME-10 Special Issue. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 53: 59-68.
Gasol, J.M., J. Pinhassi, L. Alonso-Sáez, H. Ducklow, G.J. Herndl, M. Koblizek, M. Labrenz, Y. Luo, X.A.G. Moran, T. Reinthaler, M. Simon. 2008. Towards a better understanding of the microbial carbon flux in the sea. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 53:21-38
Varela, M.M., H.M. van Aken, G.J. Herndl, 2008: Abundance and activity of Chloroflexi-type SAR202 bacterioplankton in the meso- and bathypelagic waters of the (sub)tropical Atlantic. Environ. Microbiol., 10: 1903-1911
Reinthaler, T., E. Sintes, G.J. Herndl, 2008: Dissolved organic matter and bacterial production and respiration in the sea-surface microlayer of the open Atlantic and the western Mediterranean Sea. Limnol. Oceanogr., 53: 122-136
Varela, M.M., H.M. van Aken, E. Sintes, G.J. Herndl, 2008: Latitudinal trends of Crenarchaeota and Bacteria in the meso- and bathypelagic water masses of the North Atlantic. Environ. Microbiol., 10: 110-124
Baltar, F., J. Aristegui, J.M. Gasol, S. Hernandez-Leon, G.J. Herndl, 2007: Strong coast – ocean and surface – depth gradients in prokaryotic assemblage structure and activity in a coastal transition zone region. Aquat. Microb. Ecol., 50: 63-74
Parada, V., E. Sintes, H.M. van Aken, M.G. Weinbauer, G.J. Herndl, 2007: Viral abundance, decay and diversity in the meso- and bathypelagic waters of the North Atlantic. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 73: 4429-4438
Sintes, E., G.J. Herndl, 2006: Quantifying substrate uptake of individual cells of marine bacterioplankton by catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization combined with microautoradiography. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 72: 7022-7028
Wuchter, C., B. Abbas, M.J.L. Coolen, L. Herfort, J. van Bleijswijk, P. Timmers, M. Strous, E. Teira, G.J. Herndl, J.J. Middelburg, S. Schouten, J.S. Sinninghe Damsté, 2006: Archaeal nitrification in the ocean. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.USA, 103: 12317-12322
Sogin, M.L., H.G. Morrison, J.A. Huber, D.M. Welch, S.M. Huse, J.M. Arrieta, G.J. Herndl, 2006: Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the under-explored “rare biosphere”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103: 12115-12120
Teira, E., P. Lebaron, H. v. Aken, G.J. Herndl, 2006: Distribution
and activity of Bacteria and Archaea in the deep water masses of the
North Atlantic. Limnol. Oceanogr., 51: 2131-2144
Winter, C., A. Smit, T. Szöke-Dénes, G.J. Herndl, M.G. Weinbauer, 2005:
Modelling viral impact on bacterioplankton in the North Sea using artificial
neural networks. Environ. Microbiol., 7: 881-893
Reinthaler, T., C. Winter, G.J.
Herndl, 2005: Relation between bacterioplankton richness, respiration,
and production in the southern North Sea. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.,
71: 2260-2266
Reinthaler, T., G.J. Herndl, 2005: Seasonal dynamics of bacterial growth
efficiencies in relation to phytoplankton in the Southern North Sea.
Aquat. Microb. Ecol., 39: 7-16
Moeseneder, M.M., J.M. Arrieta, G.J. Herndl, 2005: A comparison of
DNA- and RNA-based clone libraries from the same marine bacterioplankton
community. FEMS Microb. Ecol., 51: 341-352