Are you a teacher or an educator? Project SponGES, project MERCES and project ATLAS are pleased to invite your students to the large exhibition floor at the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity that will take place in Montreal this May … Read More
REFERENCE van Oevelen, Dick; Mueller, Christina E.; Lundälv, Tomas; van Duyl, Fleur C.; de Goeij, Jasper M.; Middelburg, Jack J. (2018). PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194659 ABSTRACT The cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa is an ecosystem engineer that builds reef structures on the … Read More
REFERENCE Pita, Lucía; Rix, Laura; Slaby, Beate; Franke, A; Hentschel, Ute. (2018). Microbiome. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0428-1 ABSTRACT The recognition that all macroorganisms live in symbiotic association with microbial communities has opened up a new field in biology. Animals, plants, and algae are … Read More
PhD position in biodiversity and community ecology of deep-sea sponge grounds There is a vacancy for a PhD position at the Department of Biology within biodiversity and community ecology of deep-sea sponge grounds. The position is for a fixed-term period … Read More
SponGES researchers Ute Hentschel Humeida along with her team (Beate Slaby, Sabrina Jung, GEOMAR) gave a beautiful lecture on “Sponges and microorganisms, pioneers of evolution” as a Children’s University Event held in Kiel on January 11th, 2017. The lecture, part … Read More
SponGES team leader Jasper de Goeij (UvA) is one of the 325 researchers receiving the prestigious ERC Starting Grant in 2016! The grant will support an edge-research project entitled “SPONGE ENGINE: Fast and Efficient Sponge Engines Drive and Modulate … Read More
SponGES teams get together again for field work operations, as researchers from the Natural History Museum in London and from Uppsala University join staff at Bergen University. This deep-sea sponge sampling campaign, in the Norwegian fjords, is on September 8-9 … Read More
The CCGS Hudson left port in Halifax (Canada) on the 18th July for its 19th cruise of 2016. This cruise, a collaborative effort between the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), NEKTON and project SponGES will take us on a 4-week-long … Read More
Why do deep-sea sponges matter? Find out with our brand new infographic!
The first deep-sea SponGES cruise has just started onboard the Norwegian research vessel G.O. Sars, departing from Tromsø. The cruise aims at filling in the gaps and deepening our understanding regarding the diversity, distribution, function as well as the goods … Read More