Dr. Henry Göhlich

Scientific Project Manager of OceanNETs Project

Research Division 2: Marine Biogeochemistry

Research Unit: Biogeochemical Modelling

 

 

Areas of interest

• Making science matter for our planet and society by bridging science, society, and policy through effective communication
• Ocean based Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
• Adaptation of organisms to changing environments
• Exploring the marine life in our oceans and the Baltic Sea

Education

2016 - 2021  PhD studies in the field of evolutionary marine biology |
                     GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

2012             Master of Science in Marine Biology | University of Rostock

2011             German Research Diver, Nitrox Diver

Career / Employment

2025 - today    Snorkeling City | Volunteer project coordinator
2024 - today    GEOMAR | Scientific project manager | OceanNETs
2023 - today    freelance | Science and outreach communicator
2022                German Ocean Foundation | Scientific project manager
2021                GEOMAR | Project manager | Blue Health Tech

2018                 GEOMAR & Sven Loven Centre for Marine Infrastructure |
                         Scientist „Implication of climate change on the evolution
                         in a parasitic dinoflagellate infecting crustacean”

2012 - 2015      Various research institutes, research stations and NGOs |
                         scientific diver and research assistant

 

Funding

2018    11.800 € DFG start up grant
2018    KVA grant, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:
            Three-month bench fee, housing and board at
            Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Infrastructure
2016    1000 € grant for best group proposal during CEMEB course
            “Marine evolution under climate change"

 

Scholarships & Awards

2019                Best oral presentation, 3rd Evolutionary Ecology PhD meeting, Bayreuth

2019                Most entertaining talk, DokMa PhD student meeting, Geomar

2018                Oral presentation award, DokMa PhD student meeting, Geomar

2008 – 2012    Academic scholarship recipient, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft
                        (Foundation of German Business Association)

2012                2^nd best poster award, YOUMARES III, Lübeck

2009                Academic scholarship recipient, Germany Academic Exchange Program (DAAD) RISE

Networks

LinkedIN

Reseachgate

Publications

Goehlich H, Luna-Jorquera G, Drapeau Picard AP, Pantoja J, Tala F, Thiel M (2024)
Seasonal variation in growth rates of stalked barnacles (Lepas spp.): A proxy for floating time in temperate marine ecosystems. Mar Biol 171, 36 (2024).
doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04336-8

Goehlich H, Roth O, Sieber M, Chibani MC, Poehlein A, Rajkov J, Liesegang H, Wendling CC (2023) Sub-optimal environmental conditions prolong phage epidemics in bacterial populations. Molecular Ecology, 00, 1– 11. doi.org/10.1111/mec.17050

Chibani CM, Hertel R, Neumann-Schaal M, Goehlich H, Wagner K, Bunk B, Spröer C, Overmann J, Hoppert M, Marten SM, Roth O, Liesegang H, Wendling CC (2023)
Vibrio syngnathi sp. nov., a fish pathogen, isolated from the Kiel Fjord. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 73:005951. doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005951

Wendling, CC, Lange J, Liesegang, H, Sieber M, Poehlein A, Bunk B, Rajkov, J, Goehlich H, Roth O, Brockhurst MA (2022)
Higher phage virulence accelerates the evolution of host resistance. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol.  289, Issue 1984; doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1070

Goehlich H, Wendling, CC, Roth O (2021)
Pipefish locally adapted to low salinity in the Baltic Sea retain phenotypic plasticity to cope with ancestral salinity levels. Front. Ecol. Evol,  doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.626442

Goehlich H, Roth O, Wendling, CC (2019)
Filamentous phages reduce bacterial fitness in low salinities. Royal Society Open Science, Vol. 6, Issue 12; doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191669

Wendling, CC, Goehlich H, Roth O (2018)
The structure of temperate phage–bacteria infection networks changes with the phylogenetic distance of the host bacteria. Biology Letters; doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0320

den Haan J, Huisman J, Brocke HJ, Goehlich H, Latijnhouwers KRW, van Heeringen S, Honcoop SAS, Bleyenberg TE, Schouten S, Cerli C, Hoitinga L, Vermeij MJA, Visser PM (2016)
Nitrogen and phosphorus uptake rates of different species from a coral reef community after a nutrient pulse. Scientific Reports 6:28821; doi.org/10.1038/srep28821
 
Frias-Torres S, Goehlich H, Reveret C, Montoya-Maya PH (2015) Reef fishes recruited at midwater coral nurseries consume biofouling and reduce cleaning time in Seychelles, Indian Ocean. African Journal of Marine Science 37:421-426; doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2015.1078259

ORCID (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6032-2760) / Google scholar (https://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Henry+g%C3%B6hlich&btnG=&oq=Henry)

 

Talks & Posters

6th International Conference on Progress in Marine Conservation, Stralsund,
Germany, 2023
Participation

2nd International Ocean Health Symposium, Kiel, Germany 2022
“Changing ocean salinity decelerates phage resistance evolution” (Poster)

Meeresumweltsymposium des BSH, Hamburg, Germany, 2022
“The Ocean Challenge „Meerswettbewerb“ of the German Ocean Foundation” (Poster)

Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Turku, Finland, 2019
“The role of genetic adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in response to changing salinity conditions” (Talk)

3rd Evolutionary Ecology PhD meeting, Bayreuth, Germany, 2019
“Temperate phages go viral at reduced salinity levels” (Talk)

Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Groningen,
The Netherlands, 2017
“Bacteria suffer more from their temperate phages in future ocean conditions” (Poster)

Symposium Experimental Evolution and Community Dynamics EECD, Plön, Germany, 2016
“Do changes in salinity restrict the rapid resistance evolution of Vibrio bacteria to temperate phages?” (Talk)

European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB 22), Sweden, 2016
Do environmental fluctuations restrict the rapid resistance evolution of Vibrio bacteria to temperate phages? (Talk)

Vibrio conference, Roscoff, France, March 2016
“How do temperature fluctuations affect rapid coadaptation between Vibrio alginolyticus and its temperate phages?” (Poster)

Crustacean Congress, Bremerhaven, Germany, March 2015
“Seasonal variation in growth rates of stalked barnacles (Lepas spp.) – a proxy for floating time duration” (Talk)

Young Marine Scientist Conference (YOUMARES V), Stralsund, Germany, September 2014
“The cold-water coral Desomphyllum dianthus in a changing environment - Patagonian Fjord Region, Chile” (Talk); Session chair “Cold Water Research - From High Latitude Coasts to Deep Sea Trenches”

International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC III), Glasgow, Scotland, August 2014
“Can specimen of the cold-water coral Desmopyllum dianthus adapt to a changing environment in the Chilean Fjord Region?” (Talk)