News!
New member
01.01.2024
Marit Renken joins the group as a PhD student
Welcome Marit!
Scientific Expedition
May 2023
During May 2023, we went to Denmark to sample fjord waters at different oxygen concentration from a unique anoxic basin. We performed onboard incubations and experiments with microbes and dissolved organic matter (DOM). This expedition included scientists from six different nationalities (Danish, German, Turkish, French, Australian and Spanish) and the represented research institutions and universities were the Ludwig-Maximilians University (Munich, Germany), the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Bremen, Germany) and the Center for Electromicrobiology of Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark).
Thank you to our fantastic collaborators and special thanks to the Mariager Sailing Club for their help in the field!
Conference
We presented our results at the EGU23 Conference in Vienna:
"Dissolved organic sulfur utilization by marine benthic microbial communities revealed by qSIP"
Coskun, Orsi, D´Hondt, Gomez-Saez
"Spatial dynamics of marine DOM in the Benguela upwelling system"
Gomez-Saez, Coskun, Oertel, Niggemann, Dittmar, Ferdelman, Orsi
22-28.04.2023
Paper
First paper out of the group!
"Carbon metabolism and biogeography of candidate phylum “Candidatus Bipolaricaulota” in geothermal environments of Biga Peninsula, Turkey"
Check it out here: (Coskun et al., 2023)
01.03.2023
Award
Ömer got awarded with the Best PhD Thesis prize from Munich GeoCenter for his thesis:
"Quantifying carbon fixation in microbial dark matter from low-temperature hydrothermal settings: experimental validation using quantitative stable isotope probing".
Here in the photo together with our close collaborators Bill Orsi and Vanessa Helmbrecht (award for best MSc thesis!)
27.01.2023
Invited talk
21.10.2022
Together with several scientists and three more Emmy-Noether awardees, Gonzalo introduced the project during an invited talk at the:
"SYMPOSIUM 20 years GeoBio-CenterLMU - Past, Present and Future" in the beautiful lecture hall of the Botanical Institute in Munich.
New member
Katharina Muschel joins the group as a Master Student!
Welcome Kathi!
01.11.2022
New member
01.10.2022
Dr. Ömer K. Coskun joins the group as a Postdoc.
Welcome Ömer!
Launch of the OXYGEDOM project
01.08.2022
Dr. Gonzalo V. Gomez-Saez started the OXYGEDOM DFG Emmy Noether Project
at the LMU University in München.
Postdoc and PhD positions will be available soon!