Erik Borchert - Postdoctoral Researcher
Hassan Humeida - Postdoctoral Researcher
David K. Ngugi - Research Scientist
Leon Steiner - Ph.D Candidate
Jing Huang - Ph.D Candidate
Wenqing Shi - Ph.D Candidate
Alexi Pearson-Lund - Ph.D Candidate
Anna Berezkina
Since 2023 MSC4Ukraine fellowship at AWI with secondments at GEOMAR (supervision by Marlene Wall). 2022-2023: Postdoc in the research at AWI through Helmholtz “Microbial biodiversity of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus”. Scientific Interests Biodiversity and population genetics of benthic organisms and its interaction with marine microbiota, Ecology of cold-water corals, Phylogeny and morphology of cold-water prokaryotes, Microbial association, microbial function, antibiotic resistance.
Paula Behrens BSc thesis: The light dependent green colorationof the sponge H. panicea in the Kiel Fjord is caused by eukaryotic algae (supervision: Kristina Bayer)
Albert Marpert Interactions of culturable Bacteria from diseased and healthy Halichondria panicea sponges (supervision: Leon Steiner)
Marla Dohrn Master thesis: Niche separation of benthic deep-sea holobionts in the north-west Atlantic assessed by quantification and spatial extrapolation of the amoA gene (supervision: Prof. Dr. Ute Hentschel Humeida)
Franziska Theising Master thesis: A biogeographic study on the distribution of the cosmopolitan sponge Stylocordyla borealis by integrative taxonomy and microbial fingerprinting (supervision: Prof. Dr. Ute Hentschel Humeida)
Samantha Chase Master thesis: Exploring marine plastic degradation potential in the bacterial order Pseudomonadales (supervision: Dr. Erik Borchert)
Andrés Rufino-Navarro Master thesis: Influence of photosymbionts on the survival of the larvae from the sea urchin Arbacia lixula (Supervisor: Dr. Tyler Carrier)
Onur Turak Master thesis: Identification of bacterial poly(ethylene terephthalate)-degrading enzymes from marine metagenomes (supervision: Dr. Erik Borchert)
Janis Müller Master thesis: Bacterial carbon uptake and respiration in the Baltic Sea sponge Halichondria panicea: natural vs. aquaria conditions (supervision: Angela Marulanda)
Denisse Verkovitch Master thesis: Plastic degrading potential of the bacterial order Enterobacterales (supervision: Dr. Erik Borchert)
Maëlle Zonnequin Master thesis: Cloning and heterologous expression of marine bacterial enzymes for the degradation of plastic (supervision: Dr. Erik Borchert)
Tora Dkawlma Master thesis: 16s rRNA gene sequence analysis of the microbial community on microplastic samples from the North Atlantic and great Pacific garbage patches
