Research Projects

DFG Collaborative Research Centre (Transregio-SFB 51) Roseobacter A2, The metabolic potential and the distribution of the Roseobacter clade in marine sediments   B1, Physiological response to energy limitation in the Roseobacter clade   Deep sea drilling projects (ODP/IODP) Impact of salinity changes on viral production during the paleoenvironmental history of Baltic Sea sediments 2014 - 2016   Viral impact on microbiology and geochemistry of extremly nutrient-depleted sediments 2011 - 2015 Viral infections as controlling factors of the deep biosphere 2009 - 2012 Influence of fluids from the ocean crust on growth and activity of deep-biosphere populations (IODP Leg 301) 2005 - 2008 High sensitivity analysis of growing deep-biosphere bacteria from ODP Leg 201 2002 - 2006   Meteor projects Cultivation and molecular characterization of bacteria from Eastern Mediterranean sapropels (Meteor Leg 51/3) 2002 - 2005   Origin of deep-biosphere bacteria in sediments of the Black Sea and the Namibian Upwelling Area 2009 - 20012   DFG Research group BioGeoChemistry of tidal flats 2001 - 2011   Bioreactor Janssand 2008 - 2011   Sulfate-reducing bacteria in tidal-flat sediments 2004 - 2008   Methane cycle in tidal flats 2004 - 2008   Gradients and microbial transformations in the anoxic zone 2001 - 2004   Other projects Achromatium   Ammonia-oxidizing archaea 2005 - 2008   Methane release from coal seams 2004 - 2011   Aerotaxis in Desulfovibrio 1999 - 2006   Nevskia ramosa 1997 - 2004   Finished PhD and Master theses