RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in microbial ecology and in the interactions between microbes and macrobes. For my PhD project at GEOMAR I am studying the Red Alga Agarophyton vermiculophyllum (synonym: Gracilaria vermiculophylla), which is native to the North West Pacific and has been introduced to the European and North American coastal ecosystems. One of my goals is to learn how microbes support this organism to be a prolific invader. At the same time I aim to address fundamental questions related to microbial community ecology by combining descriptive and experimental approaches.
 

EDUCATION

MSc Biological Sciences: Limnology and Oceanography (2013 - 2016)
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

BSc Biology (2009 - 2012)
Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Bonthond G, Bayer T, Krueger-Hadfield SA, Barboza FR, Nakaoka M, Valero M, Wang G, Künzel S, Weinberger F. 2020. How do microbiota associated with an invasive seaweed vary across scales? Molecular Ecology. DOI 10.1111/mec.15470

Bonthond G, Merselis DG, Dougan KE, Graff T, Todd W, Fourqurean JW, Rodriguez-Lanetty M. 2018. Inter-domain microbial diversity within the coral holobiont Siderastrea siderea from two depth habitats. PeerJ. 6:e4323. DOI 10.7717/peerj.4323

Bonthond G, Sandoval-Denis M, Groenewald JZ, Crous PW. 2018. Seiridium (Sporocadaceae): an important genus of plant pathogenic fungi. Persoonia, 40:96-118. DOI 10.3767/persoonia.2018.40.04