The Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology is located in Bremen, Germany. It was founded in 1992, almost a year after the foundation of its sister institute, the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology at Marburg.[1] In 1996, the institute moved into new buildings at the campus of the University of Bremen. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft).
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Currently, the institute consists of three departments with several associated research groups:
- Biogeochemistry (headed by Dr. Marcel Kuypers)
- Molecular Ecology (headed Prof. Dr. Rudolf Amann)
- Symbiosis (headed by Prof. Dr. Nicole Dubilier)
Additionally, the following research groups reside in the institute.[2]
- Microbial Physiology (headed by Dr. Boran Kartal)
- Greenhouse Gases (headed Dr. Jana Milucka)
- Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics (headed by Prof. Dr. Frank Oliver Glöckner)
- Flow Cytometry (headed by Dr. Bernhard Fuchs)
- Metabolic Interactions (headed by Dr. Manuel Liebeke)
- Microsensors (headed by Dr. Dirk de Beer)
- HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology (headed by Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius)
- MARUM MPG Bridge Group Marine Glycobiology (headed Dr. Jan-Hendrik Hehemann)
- Max Planck Research Group Microbial Metabolism (headed by Dr. Tristan Wagner)
- Marine Geochemistry Group (headed by Prof. Dr. Thorsten Dittmar)
- Max Planck Research Group for Marine Isotope Geochemistry (headed by Dr. Katharine Pahnke-May)
Degree programme
edit- The MPI for Marine Microbiology offers the PhD programme "International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS) of Marine Microbiology" (Marmic) together with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, the University of Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen.
References
edit- ^ Prospectus of MPI-Bremen
- ^ "Departments and Groups". www.mpi-bremen.de. Archived from the original on 2005-02-14.
External links
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