The expedition M72/2 “MICROHAB” is dedicated to the study of anoxicmicrobial habitats on the continental margin of the Black Sea. The Black Sea is the largest anoxic basin on earth and provides unique conditions for the study of microbial habitats and controls on key anaerobic microbial processes...

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EU Project COSA

COSA - Coastal Sands as Biocatalytical Filters
A brochure about the EU project COSA is available.

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Sailing the Black Sea

MPI researchers and their colleagues on board of the German research vessel METEOR.

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MEDECO

MEDECO – Cruising the Mediterranean Sea
International Research Team studies the sea floor in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

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The Settling of Porous Particles in Water

The Max Planck Society supports a scientific collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and the Massachussets Institute of Technology, MIT.

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11.07.2008 Linking deep sea biodiversity and climate dynamics

Does the biodiversity and functioning of deep-sea organisms play a role in the Earth’s climate? Science blog: METEOR Expedition M76/3 GUINECO - MARUM research on fluid and gas seepage off West Africa

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10.12.2008 Tiny knights in shining armor – bacteria detoxify deadly seawater

Some marine bacteria produce hydrogen sulphide, which is toxic to animals. Scientists now discovered that bacteria also protect marine animals from this toxic gas. A bacterial bloom detoxified a vast expanse of hydrogen sulphide-containing water off the coast of Namibia, before it could unfold it...

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31.03.2009 Advanced colour photography – a new method of spectral analysis gets to the bottom of single cells and biofilms

Investigations of the inner life of single cells usually require the destruction of these cells in order to extract and quantify their content. Until now this rendered repeated measurements and studies of temporal developments impossible. A recent development at the Max-Planck-Institute for Marin...

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Press releases

21.11.2005: Bacteria Which Sense the Earth's Magne

International Workshop “Marine Genomics meets Marine Diversity”

Microorganisms on a Starvation Diet

Happy New Year 2007

Marine Genomics Europe Training in Bioinformatics

In the middle of the atlantic ocean: Research vessel Maria S. Merian

On board of Research Vessel Meteor in the Black Sea

EU Project COSA

Sailing the Black Sea

MEDECO

The Settling of Porous Particles in Water

11.07.2008 Linking deep sea biodiversity and climate dynamics

10.12.2008 Tiny knights in shining armor – bacteria detoxify deadly seawater

31.03.2009 Advanced colour photography – a new method of spectral analysis gets to the bottom of single cells and biofilms

08.06.2009 Sequencing the unseen majority in the World´s Oceans

21.08.2009 What sponges, beards and the lung have in common

02.09.2009 Science Train stops in Bremen

19.11.2009 Bremen Marine Science Team wins IEEE - OES Award

02.02.2010 The greatest Chemists

24.03.2010 Bacteria produce oxygen even without light