Bettina Reuter - Teamassistant
Kristina Bayer - Research Scientist
Erik Borchert - Group leader
Hassan Humeida - Postdoctoral Researcher
David K. Ngugi - Group leader
Leon Steiner - Ph.D Candidate
Jing Huang - Ph.D Candidate
Wenqing Shi - Ph.D Candidate
Alexi Pearson-Lund - Ph.D Candidate
Ivan Patrick Baquiano Tualla - Ph.D Candidate
Joana F. Couceiro
Since 2022, PhD candidate in Biotechnology and Biosciences at Instituto Superior T茅cnico, University of Lisbon (Portugal). Currently working on the diversity and secondary metabolism of bacterial communities associated with temperate octocorals and marine sponges through multiomics approaches, including culturomics, metagenomics and metabolomics. Quantification (qPCR) and visualization (FISH) of key coral-associated bacteria at 黑料视频, under the supervision of Dr. Kristina Bayer and Prof. Dr. Ute Hentschel Humeida
Anna Berezkina
Since 2023 MSC4Ukraine fellowship at AWI with secondments at 黑料视频 (supervision by Marlene Wall). 2022-2023: Postdoc in the research at AWI through Helmholtz 鈥淢icrobial biodiversity of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus鈥�. 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.
Alba Moreno Master Thesis: Bioinformatic and molecular biology studies of extremozymes from the marine realm for plastic degradation (supervision: Dr. Erik Borchert)
Ayodele Gbla Master thesis: The effects of climate change on antibiotic resistance development in commercially relevant fish species (supervision: Prof. Dr. Ute Hentschel, Dr. Hassan Humeida, Co-supervisor: Dr. Jutta Wiese)
Paula Behrens BSc thesis: The light dependent green coloration of the sponge H. panicea in the Kiel Fjord is caused by eukaryotic algae (supervision: Kristina Bayer)
Albert Marpert BSc thesis: 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: The Atlanto-Pacific connection: Does a circumpolar distribution exist for deep-sea sponges? The case study of Stylocordyla borealis (Porifera: Demospongiae) (supervision: Prof. Dr. Ute Hentschel Humeida)
Samantha Chase Master thesis: Exploring marine plastic degradation potential in the bacterial order Pseudomonadales (supervision: Dr. Erik Borchert)
Andr茅s 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 M眉ller 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)
Ma毛lle 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
