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Silke Wetzel

TechnicianSymbiosis Group
Address:Silke Wetzel
MPI for Marine Microbiology
Celsiusstr. 1
D-28359 Bremen
Germany
Phone:+49 421 2028 - 942
Fax:+49 421 2028 - 580

Specialization

  • Multiple Displacement Amplification (MDA)
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Techniques in molecular biology (in particular nucleic acid techniques)
  • Work with radioactive isotopes

Technical qualifications

  • DNA/RNA extraction
  • Sequencing (supervision of ABI 3130xl Sequence Analyzer)
  • Different techniques of Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH)
  • Different Gel electrophoresis techniques
  • Cloning/clone libraries
  • Expression experiments
  • Analysis software for sequence data

Publications

Kleiner et al. (2012). Metaproteomics of a gutless marine worm and its symbiotic microbial community reveal unusual pathways for carbon and energy use PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print April 18, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1121198109

Expeditions

July 2011Hydra-Institute, Elba, Italy
sampling gutless oligocheates
October 2007Hydra-Institute, Elba, Italy
sampling gutless oligocheates
January - February 2007FS Maria S. Merian
hydrothermal vent field Logatchev (Mid Atlantic Ridge)
May-June 2004Hydra-Institute, Elba, Italy
sampling gutless oligochaetes

Projects

DU 419/1-2Geobiological coupling between hydrothermal vent fluids and symbiotic primary producers at spreading axes