04/2022-heute Postdoctoral Researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Ozeandynamik (Advisor: Prof. Arne Biastoch)

01/2022-06/2022 Postdoctoral Researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Deep-Sea Biology (Advisor: Dr. Henk-Jan Hoving)

2017-2022 PhD candidate at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, within the International Max-Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology (Advisors: Prof. Ute Hentschel, Dr. Lucía Pita)

2014-2017 M.Sc. Biological Oceanography, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Advisors: PD Frank Melzner, Prof. Thorsten Reusch)

2011-2014 B.Sc. Biology, Westfählische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Advisors: Prof. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Momir Futo)

Schmittmann L., Busch K., Kluger L.C. 2023 Spatial connectivity and marine disease dispersal: missing links in aquaculture carrying capacity debates. bioRxiv. 2023.06.20.545704. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.20.545704

Carrier TJ., Schmittmann L., Jung S., Pita L., Hentschel U. 2022 Maternal provisioning of an obligate sponge symbiont. Ecology and Evolution. 13:e10012. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10012

Schmittmann L., Rahn T., Busch K., Fraune S., Pita L., Hentschel U. 2022 Stability of a dominant sponge-symbiont in spite of antibiotic-induced microbiome disturbance. Environmental Microbiology. 1– 19. http://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16249

Podbielski I., Schmittmann L., Sanders T., Melzner F. 2022. Towards a mechanistic understanding of low salinity acclimation ability in marine invertebrates – a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9:934378. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.934378

Carrier TJ., Maldonado M., Schmittmann L., Pita L., Bosch TCG., Hentschel U. 2022. Symbiont transmission in marine sponges: reproduction, development and metamorphosis. BMC Biology. 20:100. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01291-6

Schmittmann L. 2022. Establishing the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea as an experimental model for sponge symbioses. Dissertation. macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/macau_mods_00002685

Schmittmann L., Franzenburg S., Pita L. 2021. Individuality in the immune repertoire and the induced response of the sponge Halichondria panicea. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 1. http://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.689051

Schmittmann L., Jahn M. T., Pita L., Hentschel U. Decoding cellular dialogues between sponges, bacteria and phages in “Cellular dialogues in the holobiont (Bosch & Hadfield eds.)”. 2020. CRC Press. http://doi.org/10.1201/9780429277375-4

Sanders, T., Schmittmann, L., Nascimento-Schulze, J. C., Melzner, F. 2018. High calcification costs limit mussel growth at low salinity. Frontiers in Marine Sciences. 5:352, 1-9. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00352

2023 Native Oyster Restoration Allicance Meeting, Middelburg, Netherlands: Quantifying the risk of disease dispersal to European flat oyster restoration sites by ocean modelling (talk)

2022 Sponge Conference, Leiden, Netherlands: Stability of a dominant sponge-symbiont during antibiotic-induced microbiome disturbance (talk)

2022 Ocean Health Symposium, Kiel, Germany: Modelling dispersal of marine diseases (poster)

2021 Annual Conference of the Society for Experimental Biology, online: How low can you go? Capacity for salinity tolerance in marine osmoconformers under hypo-osmotic stress. (talk, presented by I. Podbielski)

2021 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, ASLO, online: Temporal abundance dynamics of sponge-associated bacteria after microbiome manipulation and recolonization (talk)

2020 Annual retreat of the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology, online: On establishing the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panciea as an experimental model for sponge symbioses. (talk)

2019 Gordon Research Seminar for animal-microbe symbioses and Gordon Research Conference for animal-microbe symbioses, Vermont, USA: The sponge model on the runway of symbiosis: aposymbiotic sponges offer great potential for in vivo experimentation (poster)

2019 Young investigator day 2019, Kiel, Germany: Aposymbiotic sponges offer great potential for understanding host-bacteria interactions (poster)

2019 Organizer and presenter at the annual retreat of the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology, Oeversee, Germany: Aposymbiotic sponges offer great potential for understanding host-bacteria interactions (poster)

2018 Marine Evolution, Strömstad, Sweden: Understanding evolutionarily ancient mechanisms of sponge-microbe interactions (poster)

2018 Annual retreat of the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology, Breklum, Germany: Establishing a gnotobiotic sponge culture (poster)

2017 Annual Conference of the Society for Experimental Biology, Gothenburg, Sweden: Adaptation of the common sea star Asterias rubens to different salinities (poster)

Oktober 2023 Wissenschaft fürs Wohnzimmer

September 2023 Highlights der Physik

Zertifikatsprogramm "Wissenschaftskommunikation" an der CAU Kiel

November 2022 Darwintag

August 2022 Süddeutsche Zeitung Artikel  "Wie viel taucht die Meeresbiologin?"

November 2021 Darwintag

2021 Pop-Up Karte zur Interaktion zwischen Schwämmen und Bakterien

2019 Kurs “Animal-Microbe Symbioses” innerhalb des Master Programms Biological Oceanography, GEOMAR (3 Wochen)
Erasmus Praktikum Violeta Albacete, UCM Madrid (3 Monate, with Lucía Pita)
Praktikum Ashley Coons, CAU Kiel (4 Wochen)

2018/2019 Bachelorarbeit Julius Krebs, JMU Würzburg

2018 Kurs “Animal Physiology” innerhalb des Master Programms Biological Oceanography, GEOMAR (3 Wochen)

2017 Kurs “Molecular Ecology” innerhalb des Master Programms Biological Oceanography, GEOMAR (3 Wochen)