How to turn toxic waste into fuel? A #tungsten-containing #enzyme plays a key role in the production of #ethanol from #carbonmonoxide, a long-awaited piece of the #metabolic puzzle of #Clostridium autoethanogenum @natureportfolio.nature.com @mpi-cbg.de @maxplanck.de Pic by @sc-eye-nce.bsky.social

Congratulations @lqueiss.bsky.social 👏🎉😀 Lauren won the Best Poster Award at the Women in Electron Microscopy (#WeM) – Exchange and Networking event @fz-juelich.de Pic: FZJülich/Kurt Steinhausen www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Lauren-Qu... #WomeninSTEM #marinescience #MachMINT @maxplanck.de #FemaleScience

Revolutionising Water #Monitoring with an Innovative #Filtration Machine: Meet our #MaxPlanck #StartUp Thalassys!👏🔬🧑‍🔬 Anneke Heins, Greta Reintjes & @janbruewer.bsky.social created the "coffee machine", collecting data far faster than traditional methods. www.maximize-incubator.com/post/water-m...

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 @bruzos.bsky.social lab is seeking a highly motivated #PostDoc & a #PhD student to investigate the marine transmissible cancers. 🧬🌊 #sciencejobs #jobalert #researchjob #cancer #marinescience #symbiosis #bioinformatics #MaxPlanck

🤩 #ScienceJobs‼️ We look for a 🧑‍🔬 #PostDoc & 🎓 #PhD-student to investigate marine transmissible cancers.🦪 Apply if ur into #cancer #evolution, #microbiome, #marine #bivalves & #computational approaches.🌊🦠🔬 More on mpi-bremen.de #Education & #Career #Jobs #JobAlert #WomeninSTEM #marinescience #Job

We are approaching 5000 #followers – time to say thanks! 😀👏 As soon as we hit this magic mark, we'll raffle off 10 goodie bags of MPIMM-merch among you, our 5,000 followers! 🎉🎁 🌊🔬🚢🧑‍🔬 It is wonderful to be in touch with so many of you & share & discuss our research! 🤩 @maxplanck.de #marinescience

👉Vormerken! Am 16.10. zeigen unsere Forscherinnen Nahja Busse und Laura Pareigis bei #SciencegoesPUBlic, wie wichtig egoistische #Bakterien im #Meer fürs #Klima sind und was das mit Zucker zu tun hat. Vielleicht springt für euch ja auch ein Bonbon raus!? 🌊🦠 www.sciencegoespublic.de/programm/mee...

Welcome @ecologicalgenomics.bsky.social – we are excited to read and share your news here! 😀👉🦠🌊🔬

Hooray, we are growing! 🎉👩‍🔬 We are happy & grateful to welcome #MinervaFastTrack Fellow Alicia L. Bruzos to study how #cancer spreads & forms #metastases in #marine #bivalves.🦪 mpi-bremen.de/en/Page6547.... @bruzos.bsky.social @maxplanck.de #MaxPlanck #PostDoc #WomeninSTEM #marinescience #Bremen

Wel­come, MarMic Class of 2030!! 👩‍🔬 13 stu­dents from 8 countries have ar­rived to our In­ter­na­tional Max Planck Re­search School of Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy MarMic. We’re very happy to have you & look for­ward to the years ahead! www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Welcome-M... @maxplanck.de #marinebiology

Wusstest du, dass manche Bakterien "hamstern"? 😮🐹 In unserem #Erklärfilm tauchen wir in diese faszinierende Strategie der #Mikroben ein. 🌊🔬 🎥 Jetzt entdecken, wie clever #Bakterien wirklich sind: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDZI... @scienceintermedia.de #wisskomm #kurzerklärt #polysaccharide

Wow #science community – we r closing in on 5000 #followers! 😀 It is wonderful to be in touch with so many of u and share our interests!🤩 Let's celebrate this with a small raffle: Be our 5000th follower (screenshoot it) & win a #goodiebag of MPIMM-materials to brighten up ur day! 🎉🎁 🌊🔬 @maxplanck.de

Endlich ist es so weit: Teil 2 von "Abenteuer Tiefsee" ist verfügbar! 📖 📺 Diesmal geht es um ein fas­zi­nie­ren­des Na­tur­schau­spiel, das sich jeden Frühling ereignet: Die Al­gen­blü­te. 🦠 🌊 mpi-bremen.de/Mission-Alge... @scienceintermedia.de #wisskomm #sciencecomics #MachMINT #STEM #wissencomics

"Mission #Algenblüte" 🌊🦠 Bald erscheint Teil 2 unserer Erklärfilm- und comicreihe „Abenteuer #Tiefsee“! 🎥📖 Freu dich auf spannende Einblicke, verständlich und visuell erzählt. @scienceintermedia.de @maxplanck.de #kurzerklärt #scienceanimation #wissenschaft #wisskom #scicomm #animationsfilm #meer

A great paper – read the associated press release here: mpi-bremen.de/en/Structure...

Struc­tures of meth­ane-ac­tiv­at­ing en­zyme in elu­sive ar­chaea @mariecmueller.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social #methane #ANME #archaea #MCR #microbiology #biochemistry #StructuralBiology mpi-bremen.de/en/Structure...

Not quite the fieldwork you expect to do at a marine research institute, but that did now stop @fischerlab.bsky.social! 🏔️ With his team, he climbed the Alps to hunt for giant #viruses – almost the size of #bacteria and have been unexplored in many aspects. #CAPSOLUTION www.mpg.de/my-science-a...

New research reveals structures of the #methane-converting enzyme #MCR in unprecedented detail, in MCRs from freshwater and marine #ANME. A molecular insight into how microbes control the global #methane budget. @natcomms.nature.com DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63387-1 mpi-bremen.de/en/Structure...

Atmende Endosymbionten ebnen den Weg in neue Lebensräume: Umweltmetagenome mitochondrien-ähnlicher #Endosymbionten können auch #Sauerstopff atmen und so den Wirten neue Lebenräume eröffnen. @einzeller.bsky.social & Kolleginnen in #Biospektrum @springernature.com link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

#Ausbildung bei uns? Wir suchen eine:n #Azubi zur/zum #Chemielaborantin:en Viel Spaß und Abwechslung, Gleitzeit, 30 Urlaubstage, und eine vielseitige Ausbildung in internationalem Umfeld. 👉 Bewerbungen online bis 5.10. career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/4... #Jobs #Stellenangebot #Jobangebot #CTA #TA

Und noch ein #Jobangebot: Im #Labor unserer #Symbiose-Gruppe ist ein Platz frei!u arbeiten? Wir suchen eine/n #TA #BTA #CTA #MTA, zB für #Mikroskopie und #Molekularbiologie uvm. Alle Details findet Ihr hier: career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/7... #Stellenangebot #Job #ScienceJobs #Arbeit #Bremen

Lust, bei uns zu arbeiten? Wir haben einen #Job zu vergeben: Wir suchen einen #Elektromechaniker/ #Mechatroniker (m/w/d) in unserer feinmechanischen #Werkstatt. Alle Details findet Ihr hier: career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/d... #Stellenangebot #Jobangebot #Feinmechanik #ScienceJobs #Arbeit #Bremen

The 2025 #CAPSOLUTION expedition is finished! To sample microbes from 31 mountain lakes across the Alps, we drove 5400 km, hiked 130 km and climbed 10,000 m with our gear, braved snow- and thunderstorms, and filtered 4000 L of water. Well done everyone!! @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Great job #CAPSOLUTION Team @fischerlab.bsky.social , we can't wait to welcome you back! 🏔️🥾

Was macht man eigentlich im Meeresbiologie-Studium? Shari Moscoso, Studentin & Hiwi @nicoledubilier.bsky.social, erzählt vom Studium @unibremen.bsky.social, was #Bremen so besonders (toll) macht, wie cool unsere Forschung und wie schön der Planet Meer ist! www.ardmediathek.de/video/alpha-...

Many congrats to Jan von Arx from the @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social greenhouse gases group on this nice work showing that tight coupling of N2O production and consumption limit emissions of this potent greenhouse gas from the Black Sea. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This demanding fieldwork is coming to an end – we are excited to dig into the collected samples and data! Learn more about the research behind the fieldwork here: mpi-bremen.de/en/Max-Planc... #CAPSOLUTION @fischerlab.bsky.social @sumayrasultanji.bsky.social @hoeferlab.bsky.social

Innovativ & idiotensicher: Die "Kaffeemaschine", entwickelt von unserem #Startup SEPARA, hilft mit einer einfachen Filtrationsmethode bei der Überwachung von Gewässern.🌊 Die Gründer: Anneke Heins, Greta Reintjes und @janbruewer.bsky.social www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/wirts... @maxplanck.de #MAXimize

Blue skies and shorts, finally! Our researchers do deserve this change in weather while carrying out this demanding rserach in the alps! ⛰️ #CAPSOLUTION

Arctic viruses follow the rhythm of the sea 🌊🦠 Just published in @natcomms.nature.com 🎯🙂 doi.org/10.1038/s414... Press release: www.geomar.de/en/news/arti... Great collaboration between @geomarkiel.bsky.social @awi.de @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social — our HAUSGARTEN Observatory goes viral 🙃

Our next set of mountain lakes is located in Italy's Adamella Brenta Nature Park. Lago Serodoli (2370 m elevation) is just downstream of Lago Gelato (2388 m), which lived up to its name and made us shiver with ice-cold winds. #CAPSOLUTION @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

The last two lakes in the High Tauern that we sampled were Dösener See (2270 m elevation, up to 44 m deep), and the shallow Stappitzer See (1273 m elevation) that serves as a contrast point to the mountain lakes above the treeline. #CAPSOLUTION @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Occurrence and temporal dynamics of denitrifying protist endosymbionts in the wastewater microbiome. Very excited to see the preprint of this story online and big congrats to @louison-nicolas.bsky.social at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Lac de Louvie (2213 m elevation) was an incredibly stunning place to sample for microbes! Many thanks to altis.swiss for letting us use their maintenance cable car :) #CAPSOLUTION @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @hoeferlab.bsky.social @maxemilschon.bsky.social

👉 Attention young researchers‼️ Apply before Oct 31 for #BRIESEPreis for outstanding #PhD theses in #marineresearch, endowed with 5000 EUR 🚢 Previous awardees from our institute are Hagen Buck-Wiese, @kathikitzinger.bsky.social & @soerenahmerkamp.bsky.social www.io-warnemuende.de/briese-award...

Such tough conditions and such beautiful places in landlocked Austria, collecting samples in Brunnkarsee.⛰️🦠 At least Osnabrücker Hütte is nearby, maybe that makes it feel a bit like home ... 😂 The #Capsolution looks into the diversity of #viruses, #bacteria, and #protists in extreme environments.

We are now in the High Tauern National Park in Austria. Fantastic landscapes, warm-hearted people, but the lakes are not that easy to reach! With Oberer Schwarzhornsee at 2650 m elevation, we sampled the highest lake on the tour. #CAPSOLUTION @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Summer #fieldwork of our @fischerlab.bsky.social ... 😳 Sampling high-altitude Alpine lakes for the #ERC-funded #CAPSOLUTION project to study the diversity of #viruses, #bacteria, and #protists therein. @lqueiss.bsky.social

We are looking forward to the exciting things you'll find – and keep our fingers crossed for god weather and succesfull sampling! 😀👩‍🔬🏔️

What a wonderful place to work! 😃

Il­lu­min­ated #Sug­ars Re­veal How #Mi­crobes Feed on the Ocean’s #Carbon Stores: A #FRET probe to observe how microbial communities feed on complex #carbohydrates. "Activity-Based Tracking of Glycan Turnover in Microbiomes" @jacs.acspublications.org mpi-bremen.de/en/Page6507.... Pic: Marlene Reich

Congrats to @margotbligh.bsky.social 🎉 terrific work on a complex problem in mass spectrometry - See her new GlycoAnnotateR tool for De Novo #Glycan Annotation of Mass Spectrometry Data // it works for all, #LCMS #MSI pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social

Last keynote at #ICOP2025 by Jana Milucka @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social

Happy to share our new comment on How #spatial #metabolomics is transforming #microbiology and gives insights into #microbe-microbe and #host-microbe interactions. #OpenAccess in @molsystbiol.org @crc1182.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Many thanks to the great team for representing our institute and joining the fun at #BremerFirmelauf 2025!

#ICoN9 is underway #Bremen and a wonderful event , so many thanks to all of you for joining and to alle the wonderful helpers for their support!

🎉 Excited to share our latest work led by Tomeu! We deeply sequenced water column and sediment metagenomes using PacBio. Among the key findings: Woeseiaceae bacteria adapt to benthic vs. planktonic niches with distinct metabolic strategies. @tomeuviver.bsky.social @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social

Opening address of the #IcoN9 conference by Boran Kartal of @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social explaining the awesomeness of Bremen, the Bremer stadmusikanten saga & #nitrogen cycling #Microbiology in general :) #nitrification #anammox #denitrification www.mpi-bremen.de/en/ICoN9-Con...

👏🎉 Bravo Julia & Leila zum Sonderpreis des emsländischen Landrats für euren ersten Platz beim Regional- & Landeswettbewerb Jugend forscht! Wir unterstützten die beiden bei ihrem Projekt „Clams’ contagious cancer – Prävalenz und Peptidtherapie infektiöser Krebszellen“ www.emsland.de/buerger-beho...

Welcome! The Ecological Genomics Group is here! Led by Luis H. Orellana (Coto @cotoorellana.bsky.social), the group fo­cuses on un­cov­er­ing the roles, evol­u­tion­ary dy­nam­ics, and in­ter­ac­tions of mar­ine mi­crobes. @erc.europa.eu Start­ing Grant “ERODERS” mpi-bremen.de/en/We-welcom...