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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
As the only "marine" institute within the Max Planck Society, we do basic research in order to better understand microbial life in the oceans and its impacts the environment.
👉 Congratulation Antje Boetius: Pour le Mérite! 👏👏

The head of our #DeepSea #Ecology and Technology-Group has been admitted to the #PourleMérite order – one of the most prestigious honors for #science and art in Germany.🧑‍🔬🌊

mpi-bremen.de/en/Antje-Boe...

#WomeninSTEM #marinescience #scienceaward
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🌊We did it: We've hit #5000Followers! 🌊🥳

A huge #ThankYou to all who joined, shared & followed our journey so far.🥰
A small token of our big appreciation will soon go out to the winners of our goodie bag-raffle.🎉

Together, let's stay engaged and enthusiastic about our #oceans — one wave at a time!
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Reposted by Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
I had a #proud_supervisor moment at this year's @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social IMPRS graduate school retreat.
Our masters student Malene Duus won the prize for best poster with her great work on the genetics of symbiont cell shapes during a lab rotation of just 5 weeks! 🎉
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Oi, we did it!! 🥳

Opening #Bluesky after the #weekend, we have made it to more than 5000 #followers! Thanks so much to all of you for your interest in our work!🥰🧑‍🔬

We will now raffle out 10 #GoodieBags among you – we'll keep in touch!

@maxplanck.de #marinescience #marineresearch #scicomm
We are approaching 5000 #followers – time to say thanks! 😀👏

As soon as we hit this magic mark, we'll raffle off 10 goodie bags of MPIMM-merch among you, our 5,000 followers! 🎉🎁 🌊🔬🚢🧑‍🔬

It is wonderful to be in touch with so many of you & share & discuss our research! 🤩

@maxplanck.de #marinescience
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Zombie cells? 🧟😨 Sounds spooky, and it is past #Halloween.

These #SAR11 are attacked by #viruses and in between life and death. Off #Helgoland, every 10th cell was a zombie. 🌊
Check it out:
mpi-bremen.de/en/Zombie-ce...

Let's look for more zombies with the simple sampling device by Thalassys.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
👉 Heute Abend eröffnet im #HausderWissenschaft #Bremen die Jahresausstellung zum Thema "#Forschung gestern, heute, morgen – Einblicke in die #Wissenschaft im Land Bremen".

Wir sind mit einem musealen #Tauchroboter und einem interaktiven Poster dabei! 🌊🔬

Die Ausstellung ist bis 21.2.2026 zu sehen.
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Only 10 followers to go and we'll hit 5000! Thanks so much for your interest and support!
We are approaching 5000 #followers – time to say thanks! 😀👏

As soon as we hit this magic mark, we'll raffle off 10 goodie bags of MPIMM-merch among you, our 5,000 followers! 🎉🎁 🌊🔬🚢🧑‍🔬

It is wonderful to be in touch with so many of you & share & discuss our research! 🤩

@maxplanck.de #marinescience
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
How to turn toxic waste into fuel?

A #tungsten-containing #enzyme plays a key role in the production of #ethanol from #carbonmonoxide, a long-awaited piece of the #metabolic puzzle of #Clostridium autoethanogenum
@natureportfolio.nature.com @mpi-cbg.de @maxplanck.de
Pic by @sc-eye-nce.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Congratulations @lqueiss.bsky.social 👏🎉😀

Lauren won the Best Poster Award at the Women in Electron Microscopy (#WeM) – Exchange and Networking event @fz-juelich.de

Pic: FZJülich/Kurt Steinhausen
www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Lauren-Qu...

#WomeninSTEM #marinescience #MachMINT @maxplanck.de #FemaleScience
October 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Revolutionising Water #Monitoring with an Innovative #Filtration Machine: Meet our #MaxPlanck #StartUp Thalassys!👏🔬🧑‍🔬

Anneke Heins, Greta Reintjes & @janbruewer.bsky.social created the "coffee machine", collecting data far faster than traditional methods.
www.maximize-incubator.com/post/water-m...
Revolutionising Water Monitoring with an Innovative Filtration Machine: Meet Start-up Thalassys
This team is a prime example of how a simple research solution can ignite a powerful business idea with real-world impact.
www.maximize-incubator.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 @bruzos.bsky.social lab is seeking a highly motivated #PostDoc & a #PhD student to investigate the marine transmissible cancers. 🧬🌊

#sciencejobs #jobalert #researchjob #cancer #marinescience #symbiosis #bioinformatics #MaxPlanck
October 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
🤩 #ScienceJobs‼️

We look for a
🧑‍🔬 #PostDoc
&
🎓 #PhD-student
to investigate marine transmissible cancers.🦪

Apply if ur into #cancer #evolution, #microbiome, #marine #bivalves & #computational approaches.🌊🦠🔬

More on mpi-bremen.de #Education & #Career
#Jobs #JobAlert #WomeninSTEM #marinescience #Job
October 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We are approaching 5000 #followers – time to say thanks! 😀👏

As soon as we hit this magic mark, we'll raffle off 10 goodie bags of MPIMM-merch among you, our 5,000 followers! 🎉🎁 🌊🔬🚢🧑‍🔬

It is wonderful to be in touch with so many of you & share & discuss our research! 🤩

@maxplanck.de #marinescience
October 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
👉Vormerken!
Am 16.10. zeigen unsere Forscherinnen Nahja Busse und Laura Pareigis bei #SciencegoesPUBlic, wie wichtig egoistische #Bakterien im #Meer fürs #Klima sind und was das mit Zucker zu tun hat. Vielleicht springt für euch ja auch ein Bonbon raus!? 🌊🦠

www.sciencegoespublic.de/programm/mee...
October 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Welcome @ecologicalgenomics.bsky.social – we are excited to read and share your news here! 😀👉🦠🌊🔬
Hello, world! 👋
We are the Ecological Genomics group at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology 🌊🧬🔬
Our group officially started in April 2025, and we’ll be using this space to share updates about our research, team, and publications.
Stay tuned! 🚀
🔗 www.mpi-bremen.de/en/ERC-Resea...
October 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Hooray, we are growing! 🎉👩‍🔬

We are happy & grateful to welcome #MinervaFastTrack Fellow Alicia L. Bruzos to study how #cancer spreads & forms #metastases in #marine #bivalves.🦪

mpi-bremen.de/en/Page6547....

@bruzos.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
#MaxPlanck #PostDoc #WomeninSTEM #marinescience #Bremen
October 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Wel­come, MarMic Class of 2030!! 👩‍🔬

13 stu­dents from 8 countries have ar­rived to our In­ter­na­tional Max Planck Re­search School of Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy MarMic.
We’re very happy to have you & look for­ward to the years ahead!
www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Welcome-M...
@maxplanck.de #marinebiology
September 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Wusstest du, dass manche Bakterien "hamstern"? 😮🐹

In unserem #Erklärfilm tauchen wir in diese faszinierende Strategie der #Mikroben ein. 🌊🔬

🎥 Jetzt entdecken, wie clever #Bakterien wirklich sind: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDZI...

@scienceintermedia.de #wisskomm #kurzerklärt #polysaccharide
September 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Wow #science community – we r closing in on 5000 #followers! 😀 It is wonderful to be in touch with so many of u and share our interests!🤩
Let's celebrate this with a small raffle: Be our 5000th follower (screenshoot it) & win a #goodiebag of MPIMM-materials to brighten up ur day! 🎉🎁 🌊🔬
@maxplanck.de
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Endlich ist es so weit: Teil 2 von "Abenteuer Tiefsee" ist verfügbar! 📖 📺 Diesmal geht es um ein fas­zi­nie­ren­des Na­tur­schau­spiel, das sich jeden Frühling ereignet: Die Al­gen­blü­te. 🦠 🌊
mpi-bremen.de/Mission-Alge...
@scienceintermedia.de #wisskomm #sciencecomics #MachMINT #STEM #wissencomics
September 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"Mission #Algenblüte" 🌊🦠 Bald erscheint Teil 2 unserer Erklärfilm- und comicreihe „Abenteuer #Tiefsee“! 🎥📖
Freu dich auf spannende Einblicke, verständlich und visuell erzählt.

@scienceintermedia.de @maxplanck.de #kurzerklärt
#scienceanimation #wissenschaft #wisskom #scicomm #animationsfilm #meer
September 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
A great paper – read the associated press release here:
mpi-bremen.de/en/Structure...
September 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Reposted by Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
September 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Not quite the fieldwork you expect to do at a marine research institute, but that did now stop @fischerlab.bsky.social! 🏔️
With his team, he climbed the Alps to hunt for giant #viruses – almost the size of #bacteria and have been unexplored in many aspects.
#CAPSOLUTION
www.mpg.de/my-science-a...
September 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
New research reveals structures of the #methane-converting enzyme #MCR in unprecedented detail, in MCRs from freshwater and marine #ANME.
A molecular insight into how microbes control the global #methane budget.
@natcomms.nature.com
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63387-1

mpi-bremen.de/en/Structure...
Structures of methane-activating enzyme in elusive archaea
mpi-bremen.de
September 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM