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 | | Stockholm University | in person | 1:15 p.m | 5 -1.213 – PAZIFIK | |
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23/04/2026 | NN | | | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK | ||
30/04/2026 | Prof. Xi Yu | | | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 - Lecture Hall East | |
07/05/2026 | Prof. Xiyang Dong | | | virtual | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK | |
21/05/2026 | Dr. Janina Rahlff | University of Jena | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 - Lecture Hall East | ||
28/05/2026 | Dr. Nina Therkildsen | | Cornell University, Ithaka USA | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 - Lecture Hall East | |
04/06/2026 | Dr. Maren Wellenreuther | University of Auckland, NZ | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK | ||
11/06/2026 | Dr. Sophie Valke | | University of Wageningen, NL | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK | |
18/06/2026 | Sabine Schueckel & | National Park Wadden Sea | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK | ||
25/06/2026 | Prof Dr. Meric Albay |
| 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 | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK | |
09/07/2026 | | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 - Lecture Hall East | ||||
16/07/2026 |
| University of Vienna | in person | 1:15 p.m. | 5-1.213 - PAZIFIK | ||
23/07/2026 | 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 | Dr. Gerhard Herndl | | 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 | NN | | | | 1:15 p.m. | 8A-002 - Hörsaal Ostufer / Lecture Hall East | |
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, 5 - 1.213 | |
27/11/2025 | Dr. Bettina Glasl | | | In person | 1:15p.m. | Room ATLANTIC | |
04/12/2025 | 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 | |
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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 predato | Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington | virtual | 1:15 p.m. | | |
22/01/2026 | Dr. Ulisse Cardini |
| Genoa Marine Centre | 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 | TBD | 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 | 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 |
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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 | CRC 1182 Symposium |
| 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 | |
05/06/2025 | Christian Damgaard | Fish physiology | Aarhus University, DK | in person | 1.15 p.m. | 8A-002 – Hörsaal Ostufer / Lecture Hall East | |
| 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 | | | 1:15 p.m. | Large conference room 5 -1.214 | ||
10/07/2025 | NN | | Large conference room 5 -1.214 | ||||
17/07/2025 | Nicole Trefault | The Primitive Gut in Extreme Environments: Symbiosis Between Antarctic Sponges and Their Microorganisms | Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology | in person | 1:15 p.m. | Large conference room 5 -1.214 |
