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Master Thesis

09.2024

Katharina Muschler successfully defended her Master Thesis from the MGAP program under the title "Microbial Activity under Deoxygenation Conditions in the Water Column of Mariager Fjord (Denmark)

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Congratulations Kathi!

2-years group anniversary!

01.08.2024

We celebrated our 2-years anniversary with amazing pistachio-croissants and the coolest group photo in the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology of the LMU, where our offices and laboratories are located.

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New member

Marina García Llorca joins the group as a PhD student! Welcome Marina!

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01.08.2024

Visiting scientist
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22.07.2024

David Velázquez (UAM, Madrid) joins the group as a Visiting Scientist from the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS-LMU).

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Thank you CAS and welcome David!

Emmy-Noether retreat

Gonzalo attended in Potsdam to the Year Retreat of Emmy-Noether, this year the 25th anniversary of the program.

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Very interesting workshops, talks and people!

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18-20.07.2024

Conference

We presented in the Deep Biosphere and Beyond 2024 workshop at Tutzing, Germany

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Identifying the active microbes driving organosulfur cycling in marine sediment

Coskun, Orsi, D´Hondt, Gomez-Saez

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8-10.07.2024

Press article about Antarctica

10.06.2024

"Warming in the cooler" - press article on our research about how climate change and raising temperatures are leaving its mark in Antarctica - including insights and photos from the "Journey to Antarctica" voyage from Lindblad Expeditions - National Geographic, where Gonzalo joined and took water, ice and soil samples as a visiting scientist - together with David Velázquez, a National Geographic Explorer from UAM, Madrid.
 

Excellent job by the LMU press team - thank you Monika Gödde and Dominic Anders! Looking forward to working with you again!

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Here the links in English:

https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/polar-research-warming-in-the-cooler.html

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and in German:

https://www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/newsuebersicht/news/polarforschung-erwaermung-in-der-kaeltekammer.html

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More details about this project in this link to our research.

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Paper
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17.04.2024

Our latest paper! 

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"Quantifying genome-specific carbon fixation in a 750-meter deep subsurface hydrothermal microbial community"

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Check it out here: (Coskun et al., 2024)

New member

Marit Renken joins the group as a PhD student

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Welcome Marit!

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01.01.2024

Parental leave

Jun - Nov 2023

There is a new boss for the Group Leader! 

Gonzalo is taking Parental Leave ("Elternzeit" in German) to enjoy the time with the little one.

See you in November!

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Special thanks to DFG Equity and Diversity principles:

https://www.dfg.de/en/basics-topics/basics-and-principles-of-funding/equal-opportunities

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).

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Thank you to our fantastic collaborators and special thanks to the Mariager Sailing Club for their help in the field! 

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Conference
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22-28.04.2023

We presented our results at the EGU23 Conference in Vienna:

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"Dissolved organic sulfur utilization by marine benthic microbial communities revealed by qSIP"

Coskun, Orsi, D´Hondt, Gomez-Saez

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"Spatial dynamics of marine DOM in the Benguela upwelling system"

Gomez-Saez, Coskun, Oertel, Niggemann, Dittmar, Ferdelman, Orsi

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First paper out of the group! 

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"Carbon metabolism and biogeography of candidate phylum “Candidatus Bipolaricaulota” in geothermal environments of Biga Peninsula, Turkey"

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Check it out here: (Coskun et al., 2023)

01.03.2023

Award
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27.01.2023

Ömer got awarded with the Best PhD Thesis prize from Munich GeoCenter for his thesis:

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"Quantifying carbon fixation in microbial dark matter from low-temperature hydrothermal settings: experimental validation using quantitative stable isotope probing".

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Here in the photo together with our close collaborators Bill Orsi and Vanessa Helmbrecht (award for best MSc thesis!)

New member

Katharina Muschel joins the group as a Master Student!

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Welcome Kathi!

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01.11.2022

Invited talk
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21.10.2022

Together with several scientists and three more Emmy-Noether awardees, Gonzalo introduced the project during an invited talk at the:

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"SYMPOSIUM 20 years GeoBio-CenterLMU - Past, Present and Future" in the beautiful lecture hall of the Botanical Institute in Munich.

New member

01.10.2022

Dr. Ömer K. Coskun joins the group as a Postdoc.

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Welcome Ömer!

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Launch of the OXYGEDOM project

01.08.2022

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Dr. Gonzalo V. Gomez-Saez started the OXYGEDOM DFG Emmy Noether Project at the LMU University in München.

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Postdoc and PhD positions will be available soon!

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