Microbiology Archives

On giant shoulders: how a seamount affects the microbial community composition of seawater and sponges

by Martina Milanese on July 8, 2020 with No Comments

REFERENCE Busch, Kathrin; Hanz, Ulrike; Mienis, Furu; Mueller, Benjamin; Franke, Andre; Roberts, Emyr Martyn; Rapp, Hans Tore; Hentschel, Ute (2020). Biogeosciences https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3471-2020. ABSTRACT Seamounts represent ideal systems to study the influence and interdependency of environmental gradients at a single geographic … Read More

Sponges (and SponGES) at the Kiel Darwin Day 2018

by Martina Milanese on November 9, 2018 with No Comments

Our team member Ute Hentschel-Humeida (from GEOMAR’s Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel) introduced an audience of over 1000 high-school students to the secret world of sponges, and to the scope and activities of project SponGES. The talk was … Read More

Revisions to the classification, nomenclature, and diversity of Eukaryotes

by Martina Milanese on September 26, 2018 with No Comments

REFERENCE Adl, Sina M; Bass, David; Lane, Christopher E; Lukes, Julius; Schoch, Conrad L; Smirnov, Alexey; Agatha, Sabrine; Berney, Cedric; Brown, Mattew W; Burki, Fabien; Cárdenas, Paco; Cepicka, Ivan; Chistyakova, Lzudmila; del Campo, Javier; Dunthorn, Micah; Edvardsen, Bente; Eglit, Yana; … Read More