Marine microbes are central to life on Earth. Thanks to their unique metabolisms, they drive key steps in biogeochemical cycles that other organisms cannot perform.
Microbial oceanography studies how open-ocean Bacteria and Archaea function and how their communities shape biogeochemical fluxes. This work is inherently interdisciplinary, connecting microbial and molecular ecology with biogeochemistry and the physical transport of water masses.
Two new papers involving members of the Microbial Oceanography group are out:
Symbiosis reshapes metabolism of sulfate-reducing bacteria in gutless…
Valerie De Anda, together with Gerhard Herndl, Valentin Göldner, and Marc Brooks, has received seed funding from the University of Vienna's…
We are happy to welcome Anna Fischbeck, a BSc student in Biology, to the group. Under the supervision of Valerie De Anda, Anna will investigate…
A new paper from our group has been published.
Microbial degradation of jellyfish detritus promotes phytoplankton growth in coastal marine ecosystems
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Former postdoc of Gerhard, Dr. Marta Varela from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC), visited us giving a talk about the diversity and…
Two brand-new papers from our group are just out.
Rapid microbial production of long-lived dissolved organic carbon in the global ocean
(Cai et al.,…
