Dr. Lara Schmittmann

04/2022-present Postdoctoral Researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Ozeandynamik (Advisor: Prof. Arne Biastoch)

01/2022-06/2022 Postdoctoral Researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Deep-Sea Biology (Advisor: Dr. Henk-Jan Hoving)

2017-2022 PhD candidate at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, within the International Max-Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology (Advisors: Prof. Ute Hentschel, Dr. Lucía Pita)

2014-2017 M.Sc. Biological Oceanography, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Advisors: PD Frank Melzner, Prof. Thorsten Reusch)

2011-2014 B.Sc. Biology, Westfählische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Advisors: Prof. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Momir Futo)

Schmittmann L., Busch K., Mock. L-C., Rath W. Kluger L.C. Beyond the Bay: Biophysical simulations of disease dispersal suggest broadening spatial scales for aquaculture carrying capacity. One Earth. 7:1202-1212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.023

Von Hoyningen-Huene A.J.E., Bang C., Rausch P., Rühlemann M.C., Fokt H., He J., Jensen N., Knop M., Petersen C., Schmittmann L., …, and Schmitz-Streit R.A. 2024 The archaeome in metaorganism-research with a focus on marine models and their bacteria-archaea interactions. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15:1347422. org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1347422

Stenvers I.V., Hauss H., Bayer T., Havermans C., Hentschel U., Schmittmann L., Sweetman A.K., Hoving H.J.T. 2023 Experimental mining plumes and ocean warming trigger stress in a deep pelagic jellyfish. Nature Communications. 14:7352. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43023-6

Carrier TJ., Schmittmann L., Jung S., Pita L., Hentschel U. 2022 Maternal provisioning of an obligate sponge symbiont. Ecology and Evolution. 13:e10012. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10012

Schmittmann L., Rahn T., Busch K., Fraune S., Pita L., Hentschel U. 2022 Stability of a dominant sponge-symbiont in spite of antibiotic-induced microbiome disturbance. Environmental Microbiology. 24:6392–6410. http://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16249

Podbielski I., Schmittmann L., Sanders T., Melzner F. 2022. Towards a mechanistic understanding of low salinity acclimation ability in marine invertebrates – a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9:934378. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.934378

Carrier TJ., Maldonado M., Schmittmann L., Pita L., Bosch TCG., Hentschel U. 2022. Symbiont transmission in marine sponges: reproduction, development and metamorphosis. BMC Biology. 20:100. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01291-6

Schmittmann L. 2022. Establishing the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea as an experimental model for sponge symbioses. Dissertation. macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/macau_mods_00002685

Schmittmann L., Franzenburg S., Pita L. 2021. Individuality in the immune repertoire and the induced response of the sponge Halichondria panicea. Frontiers in Immunology. 12:689051. http://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.689051

Schmittmann L., Jahn M. T., Pita L., Hentschel U. Decoding cellular dialogues between sponges, bacteria and phages in “Cellular dialogues in the holobiont (Bosch & Hadfield eds.)”. 2020. CRC Press. http://doi.org/10.1201/9780429277375-4

Sanders, T., Schmittmann, L., Nascimento-Schulze, J. C., Melzner, F. 2018. High calcification costs limit mussel growth at low salinity. Frontiers in Marine Sciences. 5:352, 1-9. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00352

2023 Native Oyster Restoration Allicance Meeting, Middelburg, Netherlands: Quantifying the risk of disease dispersal to European flat oyster restoration sites by ocean modelling (talk)

2022 Sponge Conference, Leiden, Netherlands: Stability of a dominant sponge-symbiont during antibiotic-induced microbiome disturbance (talk)

2022 Ocean Health Symposium, Kiel, Germany: Modelling dispersal of marine diseases (poster)

2021 Annual Conference of the Society for Experimental Biology, online: How low can you go? Capacity for salinity tolerance in marine osmoconformers under hypo-osmotic stress. (talk, presented by I. Podbielski)

2021 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, ASLO, online: Temporal abundance dynamics of sponge-associated bacteria after microbiome manipulation and recolonization (talk)

2020 Annual retreat of the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology, online: On establishing the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panciea as an experimental model for sponge symbioses. (talk)

2019 Gordon Research Seminar for animal-microbe symbioses and Gordon Research Conference for animal-microbe symbioses, Vermont, USA: The sponge model on the runway of symbiosis: aposymbiotic sponges offer great potential for in vivo experimentation (poster)

2019 Young investigator day 2019, Kiel, Germany: Aposymbiotic sponges offer great potential for understanding host-bacteria interactions (poster)

2019 Organizer and presenter at the annual retreat of the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology, Oeversee, Germany: Aposymbiotic sponges offer great potential for understanding host-bacteria interactions (poster)

2018 Marine Evolution, Strömstad, Sweden: Understanding evolutionarily ancient mechanisms of sponge-microbe interactions (poster)

2018 Annual retreat of the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology, Breklum, Germany: Establishing a gnotobiotic sponge culture (poster)

2017 Annual Conference of the Society for Experimental Biology, Gothenburg, Sweden: Adaptation of the common sea star Asterias rubens to different salinities (poster)

October 2023 "Wissenschaft fürs Wohnzimmer"

September 2023 "Highlights der Physik"

Certificate program "Science Communication" at CAU Kiel

November 2022 "Darwintag"

August 2022 Newspaper article Süddeutsche Zeitung  "Wie viel taucht die Meeresbiologin?"

November 2021 "Darwintag"

2021 Educational pop-up card on sponge-microbe interactions

2019 Course “Animal-Microbe Symbioses” within the Master Program Biological Oceanography, GEOMAR (3 weeks)
Erasmus internship Violeta Albacete, UCM Madrid (3 months, with Lucía Pita)
Internship Ashley Coons, CAU Kiel (4 weeks)

2018/2019 Bachelor Thesis Julius Krebs, JMU Würzburg

2018 Course “Animal Physiology” within the Master Program Biological Oceanography, GEOMAR (3 weeks)

2017 Course “Molecular Ecology” within the Master Program Biological Oceanography, GEOMAR (3 weeks)