One of our key goals is to better understand how abiotic dynamics but also biotic interactions affect microbial diversity, activity, and metabolic strategies. Currently we are focusing on how different inorganic electron donors and electron acceptors and their availability influence chemosynthetic microorganisms and element turnover.
Head of the research group
"Benthic Geomicrobiology":
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Perner
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre
for Ocean Research Kiel
Building 12
Wischhofstrasse 1-3
D-24148 Kiel
Tel.: +49 (0) 431-600-2837
Fax: +49 (0) 431-600-2941
E-mail: mperner(at)geomar.de
Team assistance / Office Management:
Marion Liebetrau
Tel.: +49 (0) 431-600-2847
Fax: +49 (0) 431-600-2941
E-Mail: mliebetrau(at)geomar.de
Find out more about the geomicrobiology team here
You can find information on our teaching programmes here
!!! Bachelor and Master Theses !!!
There are numerous exciting projects available in our working group raising questions that can also be investigated in the context of bachelor and master theses. Feel free to contact us and find a suitable topic for your thesis together with us!
March 2021 <<< Dr. Katja Laufer published her new paper on the importance of Fe cycling in Arctic fjord sediments and the potential impacts of glacial retreat in Nature Communications >>>
March 2021 <<<Our new project Emden FM has been kicked-off. We are looking forward to exciting research in a great consortia (coordinator: Julia Gebert, TUDelft )>>>
December 2020 <<<Dr. Nicole Adam receives the Prof. Dr. Werner Petersen-Preis 2020 for outstanding doctoral theses at GEOMAR>>>
