IMPRS Graduates
Since its foundation in year 2002, the International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology (MarMic) successfully graduated around 200 students. So far 99% of the Master students finished the MSc programme, of which more than 85% entered our PhD programme. Therefore MarMic is an excellent stepping stone for first-class junior scientists.For a list of PhD graduates and their thesis titles please see below:
PhD Thesis
| Name | Date | Title |
| Dominik Lücking | January 2024 | Mechanisms of genetic transfer between archaea and bacteria via membrane vesicles, plasmid vesicles and viruses |
| Joshua Mills | January 2024 | The ecology and evolution of the extracellular vesicles of halophilic archaea |
| Caroline Zeidler | December 2023 | Bioplastic-eating animals: Polyhydroxyalkanoate degrading enzymes in a chemosymbiotic worm |
| Patric Bourceau | December 2023 | Establishing a model system to unravel metabolic interactions in the Bathymodiolin symbiosis |
| Paloma Garrido Amador | November 2023 | Microbial physiology of nitric-oxide transforming microorganisms |
| Farooq Jalaluddin | November 2023 | Unraveling the interplay of microbial activity and transport at the microscale |
| Hannah Zehnle | October 2023 | Characterization of microorganisms mediating anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation in marine sediments |
| Laura Johanna Gebhard | October 2023 | Genetic and biochemical characterisation of plasmid vesicles & other virus-like elements in Archaea |
| Margarita Kniaziuk | October 2023 | Physiology and genomics of new marine methane-oxidizing bacteria |
| Jan von Arx | September 2023 | Nitrous oxide formation and consumption in contrasting oxygen-depleted environments |
| Tomas Alarcon Schumacher | September 2023 | Virus-host interactions during chronic infections and the diversity and evolution of Pleolipoviruses |
| Marion Jespersen | August 2023 | Structural and biochemical characterization of enzymes used by anaerobic energy extremophiles for sulfur and carbon transformation |
| Nevena Maslac | August 2023 | Structural and biochemical characterisation of N2-assimilation system and its regulation in thermophilic methanogenic archaea |
| Hagen Buck-Wiese | June 2023 | Enzymatic diversification and brown algae as sources of complex glycans in the marine dissolved organic carbon reservoir |
| Annika Schnakenberg | March 2023 | Marine microbial Fe(III) and Mn(IV) reduction in methanic sediments |
| David Benito Merino | February 2023 | Exploring the upper temperature limit of microbial alkane degradation |
| Sebastian Miksch | December 2022 | Microbial polysaccharide utilization in sandy surface sediments |
| Taylor Priest | November 2022 | Molecular ecological characterization of high latitude bacterioplankton |
| Magda Cardozo Mino | November 2022 | Microbial community dynamics in polar seas |
| Andrea Castillejos Sepulveda | September 2022 | Microscale cycling of arsenic and iron impacts the regulation of cyanobacterial photosynthesis |
| Tina Enders | July 2022 | Distribution and physiology of Alphaproteobacteria living in symbiosis with marine gutless oligochaetes |
| Bledina Dede | June 2022 | Microbial ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal plumes |
| Elisa Merz | June 2022 |
The dark side of diatoms: Diatoms link nitrate respiration to sulphide oxidation while fixing CO2 |
| Laura Zeugner | March 2022 | Visualization of cell-specific traits in marine picoplankton populations |
| Clarissa Karthäuser | December 2021 | The role of marine particles for nitrogen loss from oxygen minimum zones |
| Maximilian Franke | December 2021 | Changing perspectives – from ecology to cellular biology in the bathymodioline symbiosis |
| Stefanos Banos | November 2021 | Application of a developed high-throughput community analysis toolset to describe the spatial and temporal dynamics of aquatic mycoplankton communities |
| Anna Mankowski | November 2021 | From genomes to communities: Evolution of symbionts associated with globally distributed marine invertebrates |
| Cedric Hahn | November 2021 | Ecology and genomics of Archaea involved in anaerobic oxidation of ethane |
| Hendrikje Seifert | October 2021 | Biodiversity related (meta)data and their link to the Nagoya protocol: Integrative and semantic efforts towards FAIR data reveal and address data challenges around the Nagoya policy framework |
| Miriam Philippi | October 2021 | Moving beyond cyanobacteria: Biogeochemical role of elusive marine N2-fixers |
| Marit van Erk | September 2021 | Microbial activity in energy – rich and redox-variable ecosystems |
| Anneke Heins | August 2021 | Identification and isolation of heterotrophic marine particle-associated bacteria |
| Dolma Michellod | July 2021 | Investigating the lipid profile of animal-microbe symbioses |
| Chiara Vanni | July 2021 | A computational framework to study microbial genes of unknown function |
| Sina Schorn | July 2021 | Microbial methane metabolism in freshwater and marine environments |
| Merle Ücker | April 2021 | Metagenomic analyses of a deep-sea mussel symbiosis |
| Malin Tietjen | January 2021 | Physiology and ecology of deep-sea Bathymodiolus symbioses |
| Miguel Gonzalez Porras | November 2020 | Molecular biology of the bacterial intranuclear parasite Ca. Endonucleobacter |
| Julia Dürschlag | November 2020 | Highly adapted microbial communities drive dinitrogen fixation and export production in the South Pacific Gyre |
| Stefanie Elferink | October 2020 | Molecular diversity of microeukaryotes: linking biodiversity and functional diversity within the water column |
| Nina Bartlau | October 2020 | Diversity and function of phages modulating North Sea bacteria |
| Sidika Hackbusch | October 2020 | Potentially pathogenic Vibrio species in the German Bight, North Sea |
| Thomas Ben Francis |
September 2020 | Proteogenomics of Marine Polysaccharide Utilisation |
| Candice Thorstenson |
August 2020 | The Impact of Environmental Changes on the Microbial Community Dynamics and Abundance of Pathogenic Vibrio species in Coastal Ecosystems |
| Greta Giljan |
July 2020 | Flow sorting of marine bacteria for targeted metabolic studies |
| Benedikt Geier |
April 2020 | Correlative mass-spectrometry imaging of animal-microbe symbiosis |
| Nadine Lehnen |
March 2020 | Symbiotic N2 fixation in the Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica |
| Alexander Khachikyan |
March 2020 | Physical and chemical properties of single microbial cells |
| Andreas Sichert |
January 2020 | Degradation of recalcitrant algal polysaccharides by marine microbes |
| Alexa Garín Fernández |
October 2019 | Viruses in the North Sea: viromics and prophage genomics |
| Emiliano Pereira |
September 2019 | Improvements in natural product biosynthetic gene clusters research and functional trait-based approaches in metagenomics |
| Katharina Kitzinger |
August 2019 | In situ growth and organic nitrogen utilization by the main nitrifiers in the ocean |
| Clara Flintrop |
August 2019 | From microstructures to macroscale carbon export - influences of marine snow composition on settling velocity and microbial colonization |
| Doan Thanh Loan |
July 2019 | Microbial composition in biofloc-based shrimp aquaculture systems |
| Anissa Grieb |
June 2019 | Study of diversity and function of the marine key group Vis6 with cultivation-independent methods |
| Yin Xiuran |
June 2019 | Carbon metabolism of methylotrophic methanogens and Asgard archaea in marine sediments |
| Yustian Rovi Alfiansah |
May 2019 | Microbiome in shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei aquaculture: dynamic changes and bacterial lifestyles |
| Veronika Will |
May 2019 | Insights into the interaction of Marinobacter adhaerens with the diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii by comparative mutant analysis |
| Inga Kirstein |
May 2019 | It's all about the base: Marine biofilms in the plastic age |
| Rebecca Ansorge |
March 2019 | Strain diversity and evolution in endosymbionts of Bathymodiolus mussels |
| Jennifer Bachmann |
March 2019 | Particles in the spotlight: A measure of aquaculture impact |
| Karen Krüger |
March 2019 | Polysaccharide utilization loci and associated genes in marine Bacteroidetes - compositional diversity and ecological relevance |
| Rafael Laso Perez |
December 2018 | Unravelling the molecular basis of the anaerobic degradation of hydrocarbons in archaea |
| Eddie Fadeev | December 2018 | Dynamics of pelagic microbial communities in the Arctic Ocean |
| Oliver Jäckle | December 2018 | Evolution and physiology of the Paracatenula symbiosis |
| David Aromokeye | November 2018 | Iron oxide driven 'methane cycling' in Helgoland Mud Area methanic sediments |
| Burak Avci | September 2018 | Niches of abundant heterotrophic bacteria during North Sea spring algal blooms |
| Josephine Rapp | September 2018 | Diversity and function of microbial communities in the Arctic Ocean |
| Tanja Fischer | August 2018 | Surface structures and taxonomy of marine Flavobacteriia |
| Niels Schoffelen | June 2018 | The impact of phosphorus limitation on N2 fixation |
| Lennart Kappelmann | May 2018 | Some like it sweet - Genomic Analyses of Polysaccharide Utilization in Marine Flavobacteriia |
| Beatriz E. Noriega Ortega | May 2018 | Chemodiversity of marine dissolved organic matter and marine bacterial exometabolomes |
| Edinson Puentes Cala | April 2018 | The anaerobic monoterpene metabolism in Castellaniella defragrans |
| Jon Graf | January 2018 | Microbial oxidation of methane in stratified freshwater lakes |
| Clara Martinez Perez | November 2017 | Dominant marine diazotrophs and their impact on oceanic N2 fixation |
| Kwee Boon Brandon Seah | October 2017 | The bacterial ectosymbionts of the ciliate Kentrophoros |
| Cameron Callbeck | September 2017 | Cryptic sulfur cycling and denitrification in the Peruvian upwelling: key microbes and processes |
| Jana Kizina | September 2017 | Insights into the biology of Candidate Division OP3 LiM populations |
| David Probandt | September 2017 | Microbial Ecology of Subtidal Sandy Sediments |
| Meghan Chafee | June 2017 | The ecology and temporal dynamics of North Sea marine microbial communities |
| Katy Hoffmann | June 2017 | Identifying key bacteria and their ecological functions in Arctic deep-sea sediments |
| Greta Reintjes | April 2017 | Taxonomic and Function Analyses of Marine Microbial Polysaccharide Utilisation |
| Anny Cárdenas | January 2017 | Bacterial response to elevated dissolved organic carbon in coral reef ecosystems |
| Jasmine Berg | November 2016 | Transient intermediates in the microbial Fe & S cycles |
| Soeren Ahmerkamp | September 2016 | Regulation of oxygen dynamics in sandy sediments |
| Kin Ovanesov | July 2016 | Chlorophyll degradation by marine aerobic bacteria |
| Lizbeth Sayavedra Camacho | July 2016 | Host-symbiont interactions and metabolism of chemosynthetic symbiosis in deep-sea Bathymodiolus mussels |
| Dimitri Meier | June 2016 | Bacterial niche adaptation at hydrothermal vents |
| Christiane Hassenrück | June 2016 | Implications of ocean acidification for microbial life and for microbial interaction |
| Adrian Assie | June 2016 | Deep Se(a)quencing : Exploring a bathymodiolin ectosymbiosis |
| Juliane Wippler | June 2016 | Characterization of host-symbiont molecular interactions and evolutionary relationships in the gutless oligochaete Olavius algarvensis |
| Stefan Dyksma | April 2016 | Identification and activity of bacteria consuming key intermediates of carbon and sulfur cycling in coastal sands |
| Emmo Hamann | March 2016 | Syntrophy in anaerobic protist-bacterial communities |
| Saar Sztejrenszus | February 2016 | Effect of humic substances on microbial community composition and iron reduction in marine sediments |
| Mario Schimak | January 2016 | Transmission of bacterial symbionts in the gutless oligochaete Olavius algarvensis |
| Jimena Barrero Canosa | December 2015 | Systematic optimization of the detection of single genes in microorganism by fluorescence in situ hybridization (Gene FISH) |
| Marion Stagars | December 2015 | Ecophysiology and genomics of key sulfate-reducing bacteria involved in anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation at marine gas and oil seeps |
| Julia Schnetzer | December 2015 | On the feasibility to engage heterogeneous communities in data gathering, sharing and enrichment |
| Robert Marmulla | December 2015 | The linalool metabolism in Castellaniella defragrans 65Phen and Thauera linaloolentis 47Lol |
| Judith Klatt | December 2015 | Cyanobacteria and hydrogen sulfide: Insights into an (ancient) love-hate relationship |
| Viola Krukenberg | December 2015 | Novel insights into the physiology and genomics of thermophilic anaerobic methane-oxidizing consortia |
| Judith Lucas | November 2015 | Spatiotemporal dynamic of the bacterial community in the German Bight |
| Oluwatobi Oni | October 2015 | Structure and function of microorganisms in the methanic sediments of the Helgoland mud area, North Sea, Germany |
| Marina Zure | September 2015 | Biogeography of Rhodopirellula in European coastal sediments |
| Judith Zimmermann | July 2015 | Diversity, specificity and evolutionary history of marine invertebrate symbioses and functions of the sulfur-oxidizing symbionts |
| Gerdhard Jessen Reyes | June 2015 | Ecosystem response to hypoxia: what can marine benthos tell us? |
| Rene Erler | January 2015 | Identification and characterization of Vibrio species |
| Jasmin Seifried | December 2014 | Diversity and dynamics of bacterial populations in marine bioaerosols |
| Gabriela Alfaro Espinoza | November 2014 | A bacteria-plant model system to study nitrogen fixation in mangrove ecosystems |
| Mar Fernández Méndez | October 2014 | Primary productivity in Arctic sea ice and ocean |
| Stephanie Müller | September 2014 | Experimental evolution of Paracoccus denitrificans in anoxic chemostats |
| Zainab Beiruti | September 2014 | Selective effects of transient oxygen and nitrate exposure on sulfate reducing / fermentative consortia |
| Anna Hanke | September 2014 | Continuous cultivation of Janssand microbial communities response to varying oxygen concentrations and temperatures |
| Beate Kraft | September 2014 | Competition in nitrate-reducing microbial communities |
| Helena Osterholz | July 2014 | From freshly produced compounds to refractory molecules - tracing sources and fate of dissolved organic matter in the ocean |
| Petra Pjevac | May 2014 | Co-existence and niche differentiation of sulfur oxidizing bacteria in marine environments |
| Stefan Häusler | May 2014 | Springs of Life in the Dead Sea |
| Mina Bizic-Ionescu | April 2014 | Polyphasic comparison of limnic and marine particle-associated bacteria |
| Hannah Marchant | March 2014 | The coastal sand filter and its role as a biocatalyst of nitrogen transformations |
| Jessica Füssel | March 2014 | Nitrite oxidation in oceanic oxygen minimum zones |
| Christin Bennke | March 2014 | Distribution and function of marine Bacteroidetes |
| Stefano Romano | March 2014 | Response to phosphate limitation of Pseudovibrio sp. FO-BEG1, a versatile bacterium with the potential for a symbiotic lifestyle |
| Wenjin Hao | February 2014 | Bacterial communities associated with Jellyfish |
| Arjun Chennu | February 2014 | Hyperspectral mapping of the microscale dynamics of microphytobenthos |
| Emil Ruff | December 2013 | Microbial community ecology of marine methan seeps |
| Matthias Winkel |
December 2013 | Chemolithotrophic and chemohetero- trophic microorganisms in sediment - and rock-hosted hydrothermal systems |
| Andreas Krupke |
October 2013 | The role of unicellular cyanobacteria in nitrogen fixation and assimilation in subtropical marine waters |
| Sandra Havemeyer |
October 2013 | Polyphosphate storage in the family Beggiatoaceae with a focus on the species Beggiatoa alba |
| Richard Hahnke |
June 2013 | Cultivation of Flavobacteria and other in situ abundant bacteria from the North Sea |
| Ingrid Torres Monroy |
May 2013 | Identification of bacterial genes required for diatom-bacteria interactions |
| Stefan Thiele | May 2013 | The role of specific microbial communities in the biological carbon pump |
| Abdul R. Sheik | December 2012 | Viral regulation on nutrient assimilation by algae and prokaryotes |
| Manuel Kleiner | December 2012 | Metabolism and evolutionary ecology of chemosynthetic symbionts from marine invertebrates |
| I Gusti N.A. Suryaputra |
October 2012 | Fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM) in the coastal ocean: characterization, biogeochemical processes, and the possibility of in situ monitoring |
| Cecilia Wentrup | October 2012 | Acquisition and activity of bacterial symbionts in marine invertebrates |
| Anna Klindworth | October 2012 | RNA based research - development, application and analysis within the MIMAS project |
| Petra Pop Ristova |
July 2012 | Biogeochemical activity and associated biodiversity at reduced deep-sea hotspot ecosystems |
| Tim Kalvelage | July 2012 | Nitrogen losses and nutrient regeneration in oxygen minimum zones |
| Pier Buttigieg | July 2012 | Investigating environment-specific signatures of marine pelagic microbes: Insights from comparative genomics |
| Dennis Enning | June 2012 | Bioelectrical corrosion of iron by lithotrophic sulfate-reducing bacteria |
| Sara Kleindienst | May 2012 | Hydrocarbon-degrading sulfate-reducing bacteria in marine hydrocarbon seep sediments |
| Chia-I Huang | March 2012 | Molecular ecology of free-living chemoautotrophic microbial communities at a shallow-sea hydrothermal vent |
| Shalin Seebah | March 2012 | Molecular and ecological analysis of cellular attachment and induction of transparent exopolymeric particle formation in diatom-bacterie interactions |
| Alexandra Meziti | February 2012 | Molecular diversity of bacterial communities from the digestive tract of Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) individuals in natural and reared populations |
| Pelin Yilmaz | December 2011 | Improving the usage of ribosomal RNA genes in microbiology and microbial ecology - Importance of standardization and biocuration |
| Elmar Prüsse | December 2011 | Scaleable bioinformatic methods and resources for ribosomal RNA based studies |
| Julia Rosa de Rezende |
November 2011 | Thermophilic endospores in Aarhus Bay and Svalbard sediments: Insight into the dispersal of marine microorganisms |
| Ulrike Jaekel | October 2011 | Anaerobic oxidation of short-chain and cyclic alkanes by sulfate-reducing bacteria |
| Mariette Kassabgy | October 2011 | Diversity and abundance of gammaproteobacteria during the winter-spring transition at station Kabeltonne (Helgoland) |
| Dennis Fink | October 2011 | Dynamics in symbiont abundance in bathymodiolin deep-sea symbioses |
| Jan Erik Rau | July 2011 | Characterisation of inhibitory substances produced by two Pseudoalteromonas species and the cyanobacterial strain Flo 1 |
| Kyoko Kubo | July 2011 | Autecology of crenarchaeotal and bacterial clades in marine sediments and microbial mats |
| Clelia Dona | July 2011 | Mobilization of sulfur by green sulfur bacteria - Physiological and molecular studies on Chlorobaculum parvum DSM 263 |
| Joanna Sawicka | June 2011 | Arctic to tropic - adaptation and response of anaerobic microorganisms to temperature effects in marine sediments |
| Wolfgang Hankeln | May 2011 | Data integration in microbial genomics: Contextualizing sequence data in aid of biological knowledge |
| Ivaylo Kostadinov | May 2011 | Marine Metagenomics: From high-throughput data to ecogenomic interpretation |
| Sabine Lenk | March 2011 | Molecular ecology of key organisms in sulfur and carbon cycling in marine sediments |
| Basak Öztürk | March 2011 | Assessing the genetic accessibility of Rhodopirellula baltica SH 1 |
| Sonja Oberbeckmann | March 2011 | Vibrio spp. in the German Bight |
| Jana Milucka | February 2011 | Dissimilatory sulfur metabolism coupled to anaerobic oxidation of methane |
| Eva Käppel | January 2011 | Taxonomic and genetic analysis of Marinobacter sp. HP15 and its chemotactic behaviour towards the diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii |
| Ilaria Pizzetti | December 2010 | Abundance, distribution and diversity of planktonic Planctomycetes in coastal zones |
| Thomas Holler | December 2010 | Physiological investigation of the anaerobic oxidation of methane |
| Petra Brandt | December 2010 | The bacterial community of marine copepods |
| Mohammad Al-Najjar | December 2010 | Flow of light energy in benthic photosynthetic microbial mats |
| Rita Dunker | December 2010 | Motility of the giant sulfur bacteria Beggiatoa in the marine environment |
| Angélique Gobet | December 2010 | Microbial community ecology of temperate coastal sands |
| Sandra Schöttner | December 2010 | Bacterial habitat differentiation in cold- and warm-water coral reef ecosystems |
| Luciana Raggi Hoyos | October 2010 | Bacterial-bivalve associations, from an asphalt cold seep to shallow waters |
| Lars Schreiber | August 2010 | Assessing the genetic potential of uncultivated sulfate reducing bacteria |
| Maya Robert | July 2010 | Importance of polysaccharides for the cycling of minerals and trace elements in the ocean |
| Karina Stucken Marin | June 2010 | Physiogenomics of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and Raphidiopsis brookii (Cyanobacteria) with Emphasis on Evolution, Nitrogen Control and Toxin Biosynthesis |
| Astrid Gärdes | May 2010 | A bilateral model system for the molecular investigation of diatom-bacteria interactions |
| Paola Gomez | April 2010 | Marine Bacteroidetes: distribution patterns and role in the degradation of organic matter |
| Caroline Verna | April 2010 | Phylogeny and diversity of symbionts from whale fall invertebrates |
| Melissa Duhaime | March 2010 | Exploring the Marine Virosphere - From genome context to content |
| Cristina Moraru | March 2010 | Fluorescence in situ hybridization of genes in environmental microbiology |
| Laura Wehrmann | March 2010 | Early diagenetic signals in modern & ancient cold-water coral reef sediments |
| Britta Knefelkamp | January 2010 | An investigation of the eukaryotic picoplankton community in the German North Sea by different methods |
| Annina Hube | December 2009 | Molecular Biological and Physiological Investigations on Heterotrophic Bacteria associated with Marine Filamentous Cyanobacteria |
| Janine Felden | October 2009 | Methan fluxes and associated biogeochemical processes in cold seep ecosystems |
| Julia Arnds | September 2009 | Molecular characterization of microbial populations in methane-rich marine habitats |
| Alberto Robador | September 2009 | Temperature control of bacterial carbon mineralization processes in marine sediments |
| Torben Stürmann | September 2009 | Der bakterielle Schwefelkreislauf im Benguela-Auftriebssystem |
| Jillian Petersen | September 2009 | Diversity and ecology of chemosynthetic symbioses in deep-sea invertebrates |
| Wilbert Serrano | July 2009 | A multi-gene approach in the systematics of the phototrophic purple sulfur bacteria genera Marichromatium and Allochromatium with description of the new species Allochromatium humboldttianum and the new biotype Marichromatium gracile biotype thermosulfidiphium |
| Amelia Rotaru | June 2009 | Anaerobic degradation of limonene and p-xylene in fresh-water enrichment cultures |
| Frank Schreiber | May 2009 | Detecting and understanding nitric oxide formation during nitrogen cycling in microbial biofilms |
| Renzo Kottmann | May 2009 | Data integration for marine ecological genomics |
| Daria Zhurina | March 2009 | Identification and partial characterization of transcriptional regulators involved in temperature-dependent expression of levansucrase in Pseudomonas syringae |
| Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen | March 2009 | Carbon turnover in sinking particles in the marine environment |
| YAN Shi | February 2009 | Molecular ecology of the NOR5/OM60 group of Gammaproteobacteria |
| Frank Zielinski | September 2008 | Geobiological coupling of hydrothermal vent fluids with endosymbiotic primary producers of Bathymodiolus mussels from hydrothermal vents on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge |
| Sebastian Steigenberger | April 2008 | The effect of acidic polysaccarides on the biogeochemistry of iron in the marine environment |
| Maya Shovitri | April 2008 | Bacterial communities in the burrow of the lugworm Arenicola marina and community changes on the intertidal muddy sediments by applying terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism |
| Hoa Nhu Tran |
April 2008 | New organic substrates for anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria |
| Susanne Liebner | February 2008 | Adaptation, spatial variability, and phylogenetic characterization of methanotrophic communi- ties in permafrost soils of the Lena Delta, Siberia |
| Elsabé Julies | January 2008 | Microbial ecology of anaerobic carbon mineralization in Namibian self sediments |
| Jacob H. Jacob |
September 2007 | Regulation of anaerobic catabolism of aromatic compounds and sulfate reduction in Desulfobacula toluolica Tol2 |
| Rosa García Novoa | September 2007 | Organic matter and meiobenthos in submarine canyons of the Iberian continental margin |
| Enoma Omoregie | July 2007 | Function and diversity of marine and hypersaline mat forming microbial communities |
| Dagmar Wöbken | May 2007 | Diversity and ecology of marine Planctomycetes with focus on Anammox bacteria |
| Clemens Borkenstein | December 2006 | Bioavailability of elemental and biogenic sulfur and biotechnological sulfide removal by green and purple sulfur bacteria |
| Maren Nickel | December 2006 | Mineralization pathways and thermophilic sulfate reduction in Arctic sediments, Svalbard |
| Birte Gerdes | July 2006 | Impact of crude oil and bioremediation treatments on the composition and degradation efficiency of polar bacterial sea-ice communities |
| Niculina Musat | June 2006 | Molecular characterization of symbiotic associations between chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing microorganisms and nematodes in shallow marine sediments |
| Tina Lösekann | March 2006 | Molecular characterization of methanotrophic and chemoautotrophic communities at cold seeps |
| Nils Volkenborn | Dec. 2005 | Ecosystem enigineering in intertidal sand by the lugworm Arenicola marina |
| Sebastian Duperron | Nov. 2005 | Bacterial symbioses in mytilid bivalves associated with cold seeps and hydrothermal vents: diversity, nutritional role and influence of the environment |
| Cecilia Alonso | Oct. 2005 | Identity and activity of marine microbial populations as revealed by single cell techniques |
| Helge Niemann | July 2005 | Rates and signatures of methane turnover in sediments of continental margins |