FB3 Seminars
FB3 Marine Ecology Seminar
Summer 2026
Location: Location varies weekly due to scheduling conflicts with seminar rooms. Please see the location description in the table below.
Time: Usually Thursdays 1:15 pm. In some cases special times are used. See table below.
Contact: Christopher Monk cmonk(a)geomar.de or David Ngugi dngugi(at)geomar.de :
| Date | Speaker | Topic/Title | Institution | Format | Time | Location |
16/04/2026 | Dr. Agnes Karlson | Cyanobacteria-fish and hypoxia-fish interactions in the Baltic Sea: stable isotope studies in field and lab experiments | Stockholm University | in person | 1:15 p.m | 5 -1.213 – PAZIFIK |
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23/04/2026 | NN | No presenter available! | | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK | |
30/04/2026 | Prof. Xi Yu | From pressure to products: Deep-sea fungal resources, life processes, and bioactive discovery. | Shanghai Ocean University | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 - Lecture Hall East |
07/05/2026 | Prof. Xiyang Dong | Discovery of genetic resources from deep-sea cold seep microbes and their viruses | Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China | virtual | 1:15 p.m. | |
21/05/2026 | Dr. Janina Rahlff | Connected viral metagenomic patterns across the ocean-atmosphere interface from surface waters to clouds | University of Jena | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 - Lecture Hall East |
28/05/2026 | Dr. Nina Therkildsen | Hidden diversity in the sea: Genomic insights into connectivity, adaptation, and resilience in marine populations | Cornell University, Ithaka USA | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 - Lecture Hall East |
04/06/202 | Dr. Maren Wellenreuther | Adaptation in highly connected species: Linking wild population patterns to experimental fitness trade-offs | University of Auckland, NZ | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK |
11/06/2026 | M.Sc. Sophie Valk | A molecular foundation for native oyster restoration | University of Wageningen, NL | in person | 1:15p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK |
18/06/2026 | Sabine Schueckel & | TBD | National Park Wadden Sea | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK |
25/06/2026 | Prof Dr. Meric Albay | TBD | Istanbul University | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK |
02/07/2026 | Dr. Isabell Klawonn | Fungal parasites infecting phytoplankton: molecular mechanisms, cell-cell interactions, and cross-kingdom element transfer | IOW Rostock | in person | 1:15p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK |
09/07/2026 | TDB | TDB | | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 - Lecture Hall East | |
16/07/2026 | Dr. Elizabeth Hambleton | TBD | University of Vienna | | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK |
23/07/2026 | TBD | TBD | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK |
Winter 2025/2026
Location: Location varies weekly due to scheduling conflicts with seminar rooms. Please see the location description in the table below.
Time: Usually Thursdays 1:15 pm. In some cases special times are used. See table below.
Contact: Christopher Monk cmonk(a)geomar.de or David Ngugi dngugi(at)geomar.de :
| Date | Speaker | Topic/Title | Institution | Format | Time | Location |
16/10/2025 | Dr. Matthias Fischer | Giant viruses, virophages and polintoviruses: Parasites, guardians, and genome architects of unicellular eukaryotes | MPI, Bremen | In person | 1:15 p.m | Room PACIFIC |
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23/10/2025 | Dr. Alaia Morell | Bioenergetics and ecosystem models | University of Washington | In person | 1:15p.m. | Room PACIFIC |
29/10/2025 | Laura Trethewey | "Seeing the Unseen”: A dive into deep-sea mapping and the race to mine the ocean. | MARE Verlag | In person | 1:15p.m. | 8A-002 - Hörsaal Ostufer / Lecture Hall East |
30/10/2025 | Prof. Dr. Gerhard Herndl | Understanding deep-sea organic carboncycling by microbes: progress and enigmas | University of Vienna | In person | 1:15 p.m. | Room PACIFIC, |
06/11/2025 | Dr. Jan Bruewer | Seeing is believing: SAR11 activity and phage infection in environmental samples | MPI, Bremen | In person | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 - Hörsaal Ostufer / Lecture Hall East |
13/11/2025 | Dr. Tobias Kaiser | A marine insect and its entangled temporal, spatial and ecological niches | MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön | In person | 1:15 p.m. | Room PACIFIC, |
20/11/2025 | Dr. Sarina Niedzwiedz | The Dark Side of Polar Day – the influence of coastal run-off on polar macroalgal ecosystems | University of Bremen | In person | 1:15 p.m. | Room PACIFIC, |
27/11/2025 | Dr. Bettina Glasl | Ammonia-oxidising archaeal symbionts in marine sponges | University of Vienna | In person | 1:15p.m. | Room ATLANTIC |
04/12/2025 | Prof. Dr. Tina Keller-Costa | The Octocoral Holobiont: From symbiotic functioning to climate change responses | University of Lisbon | In person | 1:15 p.m. | Room PACIFIC, |
11/12/2025 | | No Seminar (Xmas Party) |
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18/12/2025 | | | | 1:15p.m. | Room PACIFIC, | |
08/01/2026 | | | | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 - Hörsaal Ostufer / Lecture Hall East | |
15/01/2026 | Dr. Jason Hodin | Shooting for the stars: Protecting coastal ecosystems (and learning a lot) through restoration of a top benthic predator | Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington | Virtual | 1:15 p.m. | |
22/01/2026 | Dr. Ulisse Cardini | The significance of microbial symbioses in seagrass blue carbon ecosystems | Genoa Marine Center, Italy | In person | 1:15p.m. | Room PACIFIC, |
29/01/2026 | Dr. Sinja Rist | Effects of multiple stressors on marine zooplankton – from Denmark to the Arctic | DTU, National Institute for Aquatic Resources, Section for Ocean and Artic | In person | 1:15p.m. | Room PACIFIC, |
05/02/2026 | Dr. Jan Koschorreck | CANCELED | Umweltbundesamt Berlin | In person | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 – Hörsaal Ostufer / Lecture Hall East |
12/02/2026 | Prof. Dr. Christian Jogler | TBD | Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena | In person | 1:15 p.m | Room PACIFIC, |
19/02/2026 | Dr. Calla Raymond | TBD | University of British Columbia | In person | 1:15 p.m. | room tba |
Summer 2025
Location: Location varies weekly due to scheduling conflicts with seminar rooms. Please see the location description in the table below.
Time: Usually Thursdays 1:15 pm. In some cases special times are used. See table below.
Contact: Christopher Monk cmonk(a)geomar.de or David Ngugi dngugi(at)geomar.de :
| Date | Speaker | topic | Institution | Format | Time | Location | |
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10/04/2025 | Thomas Mock | Plankton | University of East Anglia | in person | 1:15 p.m. | Large conference room 5 -1.214 | |
24/04/2025 | seminarroom tba | ||||||
08/05/2025 | Beatriz Vinha | Cold-water corals of West Africa: habitat mapping and trophic ecology | University of Barcelona | in person | 1:15 p.m. | Large conference room 5 -1.214 | |
15/05/2025 | Manuel Aranda | CRC1182 Symposium | KAUST | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 – Hörsaal Ostufer / Lecture Hall East | |
22/05/2025 | Sybille B. Unsicker | The chemical ecology of plant-environment interactions. | Kiel University, CAU | in person | 1:15 p.m. | Large conference room 5 -1.214 | |
06/06/2025 | Gabriele Procaccini | Seagrass genomics | Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn | | | Large conference room 5 -1.214 | |
| 12/06/2025 | Large conference room 5 -1.214 | ||||||
19/06/2025 | Tony Gutierrez | | Large conference room 5 -1.214 | ||||
26/06/2025 | | | Large conference room 5 -1.214 | ||||
03/072025 | NN | | Large conference room 5 -1.214 | ||||
10/07/2025 | NN | | Large conference room 5 -1.214 | ||||
17/07/2025 | Nicole Trefault |
| Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology | in person | 1:15 p.m. | Large conference room 5 -1.214 |
