GEOMAR  Bergauer, Kristin

Dr. Kristin Bergauer | FB3 Marine Ökologie | FE Ökosystembiologie des Ozeans

Junior Gruppenleiterin "Mikrobielle Ozeanographie & Biogeochemie (MOBi)"

Topic 6
Kristin Bergauer

Kontakt
Raum: 1.429
Tel: +49 431 600-4404
E-Mail: kbergauer(at)geomar.de

Adresse
GEOMAR | Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Wischhofstrasse 1-3, 
24148 Kiel
Deutschland

Forschungsthemen

  • Marine mikrobielle Ökologie & Biochemie
  • Ökologie der Archaeen
  • Tiefsee Biologie | Pelagische Kreisläufe
  • Nährstoff-Zyklen
  • Das marine Metabolom (Genom, Transkriptom, Proteom)
  • Vitamine | mikrobielle Interaktionen

Forschungsgruppe

Bergauer Lab

Bergauer Lab | Ocean metabolome

Major biological processes involved in carbon cycling in the ocean (modified after Jiao et al., 2010)

Aktuelle Projekte (siehe englische Seite)

Team

J. Paap

Jöran Jory Paap [ˈjœ̂ːran jory]

Wissenschaftliche:r Angestellte:r

Research Focus: Analysis of B-Vitamins; archaeal cultures. 

Z. Krause

Zoe Leonie Krause

M.Sc. student

Research Focus: CAZymes and transporters in the Baltic Sea, multi-OMICS, BONCAT-FISH

C. Amano

Dr. Chie Amano 

Guest researcher
HIDA Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Vienna, Austria

ana

Ana Kuonqui Fernandez

M.Sc. student

Research Focus: Quantifying heterotrophic production along vertical dimensions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; BONCAT-FISH.

marvin

Marvin Vieth

Student assistant

Focus: Boknis Eck time series sampling; eDNA, microscopy.

Alumni

Alumni

Alessia Glavina

B.Sc. Student

Laura Michnew

Internship

Services, Activities

 

Ausbildung

  • 2010 - 2018: Ph.D in Bio-Oceanography, Department of Limnology & Bio-Oceanogrpahy, University of Vienna, Austria "Hetero and chemoautotrophic substrate utilisation in marine prokaryotic communities" 
    Mentor: Dr. Gerhard J. Herndl
  • 2006 - 2008: M.Sc. of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria
    "Diversity and mode of transmission of Nitrospira in marine sponges"
    Mentors: Prof. Mag. Dr. Michael Wagner & Dr. Mike Taylor (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Beruflicher Werdegang

Arbeit:

  • 09/2022 – present      Junior research group leader at the Ocean EcoSystems Biology Unit, RD3 | GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany.

  • 01/2019 – 09/2022     Post-doctoral researcher at the Ocean EcoSystems Biology Unit, RD3 | GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Alexandra Z. Worden

  • 01/2018 – 12/2018     Post-doctoral researcher, at the Microbial ecology research group of Alexandra Z. Worden, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), California, USA 

Lehre:

MNF-bioc-201

  • VO Tiefsee Mikrobiologie
  • VO Marine Archaeen
  • VO Multi-omics' Technologien in der mikrobiellen Ozeanographie

Forschungsreisen

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Diel water sampling Sargasso Sea (c) KBergauer, 2019

 

  1. RV Alkor | Baltic Sea; AL618. (12 Tage) September 2024.
  2. RV Pelagia | Atlantic; PE520. (21 Tage) July 2023. 
  3. RV Atlantic Explorer | Bermuda; BIOS-SCOPE Forschungsprogramm. (5 Tage) July 2023.
  4. RV Alkor | Baltic Sea; AL594. (8 Tage) April 2023.
  5. RV Littorina | Baltic Sea-Boknis Eck; time-series observations since September 2022 - until present.
  6. RV Atlantic Explorer | Bermuda; BIOS-SCOPE Forschungsprogramm. (5 Tage) July 2022.
  7. RV Western Flyer | Co-Chief Scientist East Pacific; ROV deployment, (10 Tage) September 2019. DVM19
  8. RV Atlantic Explorer | Bermuda; BIOS-SCOPE Forschungsprogramm. (5 Tage) July 2019.
  9. RV Western Flyer | Co-Chief Scientist East Pacific; ROV deployment, (5 Tage) April 2019. MMV19
  10. RV Atlantic Explorer | Bermuda; BIOS-SCOPE Forschungsprogramm. 5 Tage) July 2018.
  11. RV Western Flyer | East Pacific; ROV deployment, (4 Tage) 2018. FSEL
  12. RV Western Flyer | East Pacific; ROV deployment, (10 Tage) 2018. DSEL
  13. RV Melville | Gulf of Alaska, Deep Ocean Refractory Carbon (DORC), SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography, in the (PI D. Hansell). (3 Wochen) August 2013.
  14. RV Pelagia | ​​​​​​​North Atlantic gyre (PI G.J. Herndl), (4 Wochen) 2012.
  15. RV James Cook | ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Dutch Geotraces West Atlantic cruise (PI M. Rijkenberg, NIOZ), (6 Wochen)  2011.
  16. RV Pelagia | ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​North Atlantic gyre (PI G.J. Herndl), (4 Wochen) 2010.
  17. RV Kilo Moana | ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Summer course on microbial oceanography (C-MORE at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), (1 Woche) 2010.

 

Publikationen

F. Wittmers, N. R. Dames, M. Michelsen, K. Bergauer, K. Vergin, J. Comstock, S. Liu, R. Parsons, B. Temperton, C.A. Carlson, A. Z. Worden. 2025. Pronounced seasonality and distinct clades of Hikarchaeia in warm oceans. Environ. Microbiol. In progress

M. Masdeu-Navarro, J.-F. Mangot, L. Xue, M. Cabrera-Brufau, D. J. Kieber, P. Rodríguez-Ros, S. G. Gardner, K. Bergauer, G.J. Herndl, R. Simó., 2025. The seascape of VOC production and cycling in a tropical coral reef. Elem. Sci. Anth. Submitted

Bergauer, K., Suffridge, C.P., Wittmers, F., Sudek, S., Giovannoni, S.J., Worden, A.Z., 2025. Dark ocean archaeal and bacterial chemoautotrophs drive vitamin B1 production in oxygen minimum zones. ISME Comm. Submitted

M. Masdeu-Navarro, J.-F. Mangot, L. Xue, M. Cabrera-Brufau, D. J. Kieber, P. Rodríguez-Ros, S. G. Gardner, K. Bergauer, G.J. Herndl, R. Simó., 2024. Diel variation of seawater volatile organic compounds, DMSP-related compounds, and microbial plankton inside and outside a tropical coral reef ecosystem. Front. Mar. Sci.

Eckmann, C. A., Eberle, J. S., Wittmers, F., Wilken, S., Bergauer, K., Poirier, C., ... & Worden, A. Z. (2023). Eukaryotic algal community composition in tropical environments from solar salterns to the open sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, Art-Nr.

Suffridge, C. P., Bolaños, L. M., Bergauer, K., Worden, A. Z., Morré, J., Behrenfeld, M. J., & Giovannoni, S. J. (2020). Exploring vitamin B1 cycling and its connections to the microbial community in the North Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 606342.

Biller, S. J., Berube, P.M., Dooley, K., Williams, M., Satinsky, B.M., Hackl, T., Hogle, S.L., Coe, A., Bergauer, K., Bouman, H.A., Browning, T.J., De Corte, D., Hassler, C., Jacquot, J.E., Maas, E.W., Reinthaler, T., Sintes, E., Yokokawa, T., and Chisholm, S.W., 2018. Marine microbial metagenomes sampled across space and time.  Scientific Data Nature.

Berube, P. M., Biller, S. J., Hackl, T., Hogle, S. L., Satinsky, B. M., Becker, J. W., Braakman, R., Collins, S. B., Kelly, L., Berta-Thompson, J., Coe, A., Bergauer, K., Bouman, H. A., Browning, T. J., De Corte, D., Hassler, C., Hulata, Y., Jacquot, J. E., Maas, E., Reinthaler, T., Sintes, E., Yokokawa, T., Lindell, D., Stepanauskas R., and Chisholm, S. W., 2018. Single cell genomes of Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, and sympatric microbes from diverse marine environments. Scientific Data Nature.

Bergauer, K., Fernández-Guerra, A., Garcia, JA., Sprenger, RR., Stepanauskas, R., Pachiadaki, M., Jensen, ON., Herndl, GJ., 2017. Organic matter processing by microbial communities throughout the Atlantic water column as revealed by metaproteomics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.

Pachiadaki, M., Sintes, E., Bergauer, K., Swan, B., Hallam, S., Record, N., Lopez-Garcia, P., Herndl, G., Stepanauskas, R., 2017. Major role of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in dark ocean carbon fixation. Science 358: 1046-1051.

Frade, P.R., Roll, K.R., Bergauer, K., Herndl, G.J., 2016. Archaeal and bacterial communities associated with the surface mucus of Caribbean corals differ in their degree of host specificity and community turnover over reefs. PLoS ONE 11(1): e0144702. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144702, 2011.

Bergauer, K., Sintes, E., van Bleijswijk, J., Witte, H., Herndl, GJ., 2013. Abundance and distribution of archaeal acetyl-CoA/propionyl-CoA carboxylase genes indicative for putatively chemoautotrophic Archaea in the tropical Atlantic's interior. FEMS Journal 84:461-473.

Sintes, E., Bergauer, K., De Corte, D., Yokokawa, T., Herndl, GJ., 2013. Archaeal amoA gene diversity points to distinct biogeography of ammonia-oxidizing Crenarchaeota in the ocean. Environmental Microbiology 15:1647-1658.

Grote, J., Bayindirli, C., Bergauer, K., de Moraes, PC., Chen, H., D'Ambrosio, L., Edwards, B., Fernandez-Gomez, B., Hamisi, M., Logares, R., Nguyen, D., Rii, YM., Schutte, C., Widner, B., Church, MJ., Steward, GF., Karl, DM., DeLong, EF., Eppley, JM., Schuster, SC., Kyrpides, NC., Rappe, MS., 2011. Draft genome sequence of strain HIMB100, a cultured representative of the SAR116 clade of marine Alphaproteobacteria. SIGS (Standards in Genomic Sciences) Journal 5:269-278.

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Galerie

ctd

Water sampling for eDNA and B-Vitamins in the Sargasso Sea,

BIOS-SCOPE, (c) KBergauer, 2019

isp

Deployment of McLane in situ pumps for multi-OMICs analyses,

BIOS-SCOPE, (c) KBergauer, 2022

metaP

MetaProteomic extraction from the Baltic Sea and Atlantic Ocean, 

(c) KBergauer, 2024

omics

Microbiome 1.2 - 5 µm in the Baltic Sea,

(c) KBergauer, 2024

uvp

Deep Ocean particles

(c) UVP

CCS1

Culture CCS1 archaeal strain

(c) JPaap