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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
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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
👉 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
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
🚨 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
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
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
Atmende Endosymbionten ebnen den Weg in neue Lebensräume: Umweltmetagenome mitochondrien-ähnlicher #Endosymbionten können auch #Sauerstopff atmen und so den Wirten neue Lebenräume eröffnen.
@einzeller.bsky.social & Kolleginnen in #Biospektrum @springernature.com

link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
September 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Il­lu­min­ated #Sug­ars Re­veal How #Mi­crobes Feed on the Ocean’s #Carbon Stores: A #FRET probe to observe how microbial communities feed on complex #carbohydrates.
"Activity-Based Tracking of Glycan Turnover in Microbiomes" @jacs.acspublications.org
mpi-bremen.de/en/Page6507....
Pic: Marlene Reich
July 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Many thanks to the great team for representing our institute and joining the fun at #BremerFirmelauf 2025!
June 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
#ICoN9 is underway #Bremen and a wonderful event , so many thanks to all of you for joining and to alle the wonderful helpers for their support!
June 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Oceans, you are fabulous! Happy #worldoceanday!!
June 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
#Denitrification in tiny #anoxic pock­ets on #sand grains could ac­count for 1/3 of total #nitrogen loss in silic­ate shelf sands.

mpi-bremen.de/en/Nitrogen-...

now in Scientific Reports @natureportfolio.nature.com by
@farooqmoin.bsky.social @soerenahmerkamp.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
May 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Congratulations!!

Our group leader Antje Boe­t­ius @maxplanck.de #AWI @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social has been elec­ted a Fel­low of @royalsociety.org one of the highest sci­entific hon­ors in the world! 🤩👏👏👏🥳
#marinescience #WomeninSTEM #Bremen

mpi-bremen.de/en/Antje-Boe...
May 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It was great welcoming you all to this wonderful get-together at the #EuroC1 Conference – thanks so much for your participation, the exciting insights & lively discussions and much joy and fun – it was a truly memorable and inspiring event!
#Bremen #Conference #microbiology @organosulfur.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Just 2 days to go until we can welcome the participants of the EuroC1 Meeting 2025 here in #Bremen.

Young and established researchers will present findings & engage in insightful discussions on #C1 #metabolism and volatile #organic compound-related topics.

mpi-bremen.de/EuroC1-Sympo...
May 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM