The DIVERSITY Group within the Dep. of Microbiology (Prof. Dr. F. Widdel) offers several themes for diploma, master or bachelor theses or as praxis term project (Praxissemester):

Biochemistry and physiology: Characterization of the physiology of anaerobic microorganisms (cultivation of anaerobes, metabolite characterization and quantification by GC and HPLC techniques)

Genetics: Construction of deletion mutants and physiological characterization, overexpression of proteins

Physiology and taxonomy: Isolation and characterization of microorganisms (cultivation of aerobes and anaerobes, genetic characterization by 16S rRNA gene sequencing)

Molecular microbial ecology: Method development in terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism or T-RFLP analysis of environmental samples. Molecular characterization of environmental samples with 16S rRNA derived clone libraries.

Please send your complete application per e-mail as one pdf-file to: jharder at mpi-bremen.de

PD Dr. Jens Harder