Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment

The Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) is an interdisciplinary Institute at the University of Oldenburg with locations in Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven. It is the only university institute in Lower Saxony that covers broad areas of marine sciences, both in research and in teaching. Currently,  26 working groups of various scientific disciplines - including biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering - belong to the institute. ICBM operates the coastal observatory Spiekeroog and is the home institute of the research vessel SONNE.

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The researchers were able to reconstruct the three-dimensional shape of the chloroplast of the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum cordatum from several hundred cross-sectional images. It takes up around 40 per cent of the cell volume. Image: University of Oldenburg / WG General and Molecular Microbiology
Marine Science Forschung

Microalgae with unusual cell biology

What are the molecular processes in a unicellular marine algae species that can cause harmful algal blooms? A research team led by microbiologist…

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The question of how animals manage to navigate over long distances has long been a subject of research at the University of Oldenburg. The university has now been given the go-ahead to submit an application for a Cluster of Excellence on this topic. istock / AGD Beukhof
Marine Science Forschung

University of Oldenburg competes for three Clusters of Excellence

The university was successful in the preliminary decision of the excellence competition with a proposal on animal navigation. The existing clusters in…

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Meinhard Simon and his research objects: To make marine microbes visible, the tiny organisms are stained with fluorescent dyes. Universität Oldenburg / Daniel Schmidt      At sea, the researchers also carry out their work in specially equipped laboratory containers. Universität Oldenburg / Meinhard Simon      Meinhard Simon and his research objects: To make marine microbes visible, the tiny organisms are stained with fluorescent dyes. Universität Oldenburg / Daniel Schmidt
Marine Science Forschung

The ocean microbiome

A group of bacteria lives in close association with other organisms throughout the world's oceans. Former ICBM-Microbiologist Meinhard Simon and his…

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After a discussion round, there was a lively exchange with the guests in the audience. Photo: MARUM - Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V.Diekamp
Marine Science Kontakte

"MARUM im Dialog" successfully launched

The new event format „Blickpunkt Meer – MARUM im Dialog“  ("Focus on the Sea - MARUM in Dialogue") has now been successfully launched with an event on…

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Events

News from DAM

Pilot missions of the DAM to study impact of bottom trawling on marine protected areas in the North Sea and Baltic Sea

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ICBM Time Series Station

Cooperations

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