The taste of salt

My research focuses on the adaptation of specific brackish bacterial species to fluctuating salinity levels in shallow water by combining metagenomic community profiling with the isolation of key species. Through time-series analysis, I investigate how shallow-water microbial populations respond to shifting environmental conditions and extreme events, with a particular emphasis on interactions with macroorganisms (such as seagrass) and the dynamics of pathogenic bacteria.

Using time-series analysis, I investigate how shallow-water bacterial populations react to changing environmental conditions and extreme events, particularly with regard to interactions with macroorganisms (such as seagrass) and the dynamics of pathogenic bacteria.

Current Reserach

 

Research cluster Shallow water processes "Shore to Basin" (S2B)

Digitalisierte und KI-gesteuerte Vibrio Bewertung von Küstengewässern (KIVib-Küste)

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ORCID (0000-0002-8100-4649)

• seit 2023 Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde
• seit 2018-2024  Estonian University of Life Sciences
• 2009-2017 Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde
• 2006-2009 Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg
• 2005 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig
• 2003 Auslandssemester and der Universität Klaipeda, Litauen
• 2000-2005 Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald