Jöran Paap

Master's Student | RD3 Marine Ecology | RU Ocean EcoSystems Biology

Research Interest

Currently as part of the MOBi Bergauer Lab, I am working on extracting metabolites from filtered seawater and the analysis of particle depth distribution data collected by an Underwater Vision Profiler 6 from the Northern Atlantic.

I completed my master’s thesis as part of the OEB Worden Lab, where I established, optimized and further developed for stable genome editing of the marine prasinophyte Micromonas. Specifically, I employed electroporation techniques to deliver foreign DNA into the cell of Micromonas to to facilitate transgene expression from plasmids, ultimately achieving integrated genome editing via CRISPR/Cas9.

Academic Training and Professional Experience

2024 - present      Student Assistant Microbial Oceanography & Biogeochemistry (MOBi) Bergauer
                              Lab

2024                      Internship Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology Plön Germany, Dep.
                              Microbial Population Biology, Supervision: Dr. Olga Matantseva

2024                      Thesis M.Sc. Biological Oceanography: Developing CRISPR/Cas9 in
                              Micromonas — New genetic tools for a marine model alga,
                              RD3 Ocean EcoSystems Biology OEB,
                              Supervision: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Z. Worden and Prof. Dr. Eric Achterberg

2021 - present       M.Sc. Biological Oceanography, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
                              Kiel and Kiel University

2021                      B.Sc. Marine Ökosysteme und Fischereiwissenschaften; University Hamburg UHH,
                              Institute for Marine Ecosystem and Fishery Science IMF;
                              Thesis: “The effect of temperature on Ostreococcus strain-competition”
                              Supervision: Dr. Félix Pellerin and Prof. Dr. Inga Hense

Outreach

28.06.2024                Volunteer at (phtyo-)plankton exhibition booth Open Ship Day onboard the
                                  R.V. ALKOR, Kiel, Germany

26.06.2023                Volunteer at (phtyo-)plankton exhibition booth Open Ship Day onboard the
                                  R.V. ALKOR, Kiel, Germany

09.07. - 14.07.2023   International Congress of Protozoology 2023 (ECOP – ISOP 2023); Vienna,
                                  Austria; Poster presentation, Title: Genetic manipulation of Micromonas -
                                  new tools for a marine model alga

21.08.2022                Volunteer at (phtyo-)plankton exhibition booth Open Day at GEOMAR Helmholtz
                                  Centre, Kiel, Germany