GEOMAR  Bergauer, Kristin

Dr. Kristin Bergauer

Junior Gruppenleiter | Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel

Büro:

Raum: DW - 227
Telefon: +49 431 600-4404
E-Mail: kbergauer(at)geomar.de

Anschrift:
GEOMAR | Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Düsternbrooker Weg 20
24105 Kiel, Germany

Forschungsthemen

  • Marine mikrobielle Ökologie & Biochemie
  • Ökologie der Archaeen
  • Tiefsee Biologie | Pelagische Kreisläufe
  • Nährstoff-Zyklen
  • Das marine Metabolom (Genom, Transkriptom, Proteom)
  • Vitamine | mikrobielle Interaktionen

Forschungsgruppe

Bergauer Lab

Bergauer Lab | Ocean metabolome

Major biological processes involved in carbon cycling in the ocean (modified after Jiao et al., 2010)

Aktuelle Projekte (siehe englische Seite)

Ausbildung

  • 2010 - 2018: Ph.D in Bio-Oceanography, Department of Limnology & Bio-Oceanogrpahy, University of Vienna, Austria "Hetero and chemoautotrophic substrate utilisation in marine prokaryotic communities" Mentor: Dr. Gerhard J. Herndl
  • 2006 - 2008: M.Sc. of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria
    "Diversity and mode of transmission of Nitrospira in marine sponges"
    Mentors: Prof. Mag. Dr. Michael Wagner & Dr. Mike Taylor (University of Aukland, New Zealand)

Beruflicher Werdegang

Arbeit:

  • 09/2022 – present      Junior research group leader at the Ocean EcoSystems Biology Unit, RD3 | GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany.

  • 01/2019 – 09/2022     Post-doctoral researcher at the Ocean EcoSystems Biology Unit, RD3 | GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Alexandra Z. Worden

  • 01/2018 – 12/2018     Post-doctoral researcher, at the Microbial ecology research group of Alexandra Z. Worden, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), California, USA 

Lehre:

MNF-bioc-201

  • Tiefsee Mikrobiologie
  • Marine Archaeen
  • Multi-omics' Technologien in der mikrobiellen Ozeanographie

Publikationen

Eckmann, C. A., Eberle, J. S., Wittmers, F., Wilken, S., Bergauer, K., Poirier, C., ... & Worden, A. Z. (2023). Eukaryotic algal community composition in tropical environments from solar salterns to the open sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, Art-Nr.

Suffridge, C. P., Bolaños, L. M., Bergauer, K., Worden, A. Z., Morré, J., Behrenfeld, M. J., & Giovannoni, S. J. (2020). Exploring vitamin B1 cycling and its connections to the microbial community in the North Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 606342.

Biller, S. J., Berube, P.M., Dooley, K., Williams, M., Satinsky, B.M., Hackl, T., Hogle, S.L., Coe, A., Bergauer, K., Bouman, H.A., Browning, T.J., De Corte, D., Hassler, C., Jacquot, J.E., Maas, E.W., Reinthaler, T., Sintes, E., Yokokawa, T., and Chisholm, S.W., 2018. Marine microbial metagenomes sampled across space and time.  Scientific Data Nature.

Berube, P. M., Biller, S. J., Hackl, T., Hogle, S. L., Satinsky, B. M., Becker, J. W., Braakman, R., Collins, S. B., Kelly, L., Berta-Thompson, J., Coe, A., Bergauer, K., Bouman, H. A., Browning, T. J., De Corte, D., Hassler, C., Hulata, Y., Jacquot, J. E., Maas, E., Reinthaler, T., Sintes, E., Yokokawa, T., Lindell, D., Stepanauskas R., and Chisholm, S. W., 2018. Single cell genomes of Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, and sympatric microbes from diverse marine environments. Scientific Data Nature.

Bergauer, K., Fernández-Guerra, A., Garcia, JA., Sprenger, RR., Stepanauskas, R., Pachiadaki, M., Jensen, ON., Herndl, GJ., 2017. Organic matter processing by microbial communities throughout the Atlantic water column as revealed by metaproteomics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.

Pachiadaki, M., Sintes, E., Bergauer, K., Swan, B., Hallam, S., Record, N., Lopez-Garcia, P., Herndl, G., Stepanauskas, R., 2017. Major role of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in dark ocean carbon fixation. Science 358: 1046-1051.

Frade, P.R., Roll, K.R., Bergauer, K., Herndl, G.J., 2016. Archaeal and bacterial communities associated with the surface mucus of Caribbean corals differ in their degree of host specificity and community turnover over reefs. PLoS ONE 11(1): e0144702. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144702, 2011.

Bergauer, K., Sintes, E., van Bleijswijk, J., Witte, H., Herndl, GJ., 2013. Abundance and distribution of archaeal acetyl-CoA/propionyl-CoA carboxylase genes indicative for putatively chemoautotrophic Archaea in the tropical Atlantic's interior. FEMS Journal 84:461-473.

Sintes, E., Bergauer, K., De Corte, D., Yokokawa, T., Herndl, GJ., 2013. Archaeal amoA gene diversity points to distinct biogeography of ammonia-oxidizing Crenarchaeota in the ocean. Environmental Microbiology 15:1647-1658.

Grote, J., Bayindirli, C., Bergauer, K., de Moraes, PC., Chen, H., D'Ambrosio, L., Edwards, B., Fernandez-Gomez, B., Hamisi, M., Logares, R., Nguyen, D., Rii, YM., Schutte, C., Widner, B., Church, MJ., Steward, GF., Karl, DM., DeLong, EF., Eppley, JM., Schuster, SC., Kyrpides, NC., Rappe, MS., 2011. Draft genome sequence of strain HIMB100, a cultured representative of the SAR116 clade of marine Alphaproteobacteria. SIGS (Standards in Genomic Sciences) Journal 5:269-278.