
Postdoc
Dr. Marion Pohlner
Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (» Postal address)
Dr. Marion Pohlner
Research interests
The main interest of my research are marine systems, especially (deep sea) sediments. Therefore, I joined two research cruises to the Pacific Ocean (SO248 and SO254) during my PhD project. I analyzed the composition of benthic microbial communities and the environmental conditions shaping those communities, with a special focus on the Roseobacter group and its biogeographical distribution. Within the framework of the recent project "MultiKulti - Cultivation of previously uncultivated microorganisms from different aquatic habitats" I´m interested in the abundance of Marine Group II Euryarchaeota with the goal to cultivate them. Next to research I coordinate the MultiKulti project, I´m involved in teaching and organisation of the master program "Microbiology" at the ICBM.
Scientific education and positions
2021 – present | PostDoc for coordination of the BMBF-project "MuliKulti" and teaching, University of Oldenburg, ICBM |
2019 – 2020 | Postdoc for research in CRC „Roseobacter“ (project A2) and teaching in the study program „MSc Microbiology“, University of Oldenburg, ICBM |
2015 – 2019 | PhD student in CRC „Roseobacter“, University of Oldenburg, ICBM |
2014 – 2015 | Scholarship in CRC „Roseobacter“, University of Oldenburg, ICBM |
2011 – 2014 | MSc in Microbiology, University of Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) |
2008 – 2011 | BSc in Biology, University of Bayreuth |
Research cruises / Experiences abroad
Expedition SO254 (RV Sonne, February 2017)
Functional diversity of bacterial communities and the metabolome in the water column, sediment and in sponges in the southwest Pacific around New Zealand - Microbial abundance, diversity and activity in Pacific Deep Sea sediments
Workshop “Genomics in Environmental Microbiology” at Aarhus University (October 2016); led by Ian Marshall and Lars Schreiber
Expedition SO248 (RV Sonne, May 2016)
Ductional diversity of bacterial communities and the geometabolome in the central and north Pacific - Microbial abundance, diversity and activity in Pacific Deep Sea sediments
Lab visit at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi and University of Houston - Clear Lake, Texas, USA (March 2015); cooperation partners: B. Kiel Reese and H. Mills
Conferences
MarBio - Symposium "Marine Microbiota" 2019, Oldenburg, Germany: Pohlner M, Kanukollu S, Wemheuer B, Kiel Reese B, Degenhardt J, Dlugosch L, von Hoyningen-Huene A, Engelen B „Biogeography of Rhodobacteraceae in worldwide distributed sediments" (Presentation)
VAAM 2019, Mainz, Germany: Pohlner M, Degenhardt J, Wemheuer B, Schnetger B, Engelen B „Abundance and diversity of Bacteria and Archaea within deep-sea sediments along a Pacific transect from New Zealand to Alaska” (Presentation)
ISME 2018, Leipzig, Germany: Pohlner M, Kiel Reese B, Dlugosch L, Wemheuer B, Mills H, Cypionka H, Engelen B „The majority of Roseobacter group members in marine sediments belong to uncultured genera: an approach to define the unknowns” (Poster)
VAAM 2018, Wolfsburg, Germany: Pohlner M, Degenhardt J, von Hoyningen-Huene A, Wemheuer B, Engelen B „The distribution of benthic Roseobacter group members in the Pacific is shaped by nutrient availability at the seafloor and productivity in the water column” (Poster)
ISME 2016, Montreal, Canada: Kanukollu S, Pohlner M, Wemheuer B, Ghanem N, Herber J, Cypionka H, Engelen B „The Roseobacter group in marine sediments – abundance, diversity and metabolic potential“ (Poster)
VAAM 2016, Jena, Germany: Pohlner M, Kiel Reese B, Mills H, Cypionka H, Engelen B “Defining unknown members of the Roseobacter group in marine sediments” (Poster)
VAAM 2015, Marburg, Germany: Pohlner M, Kanukollu S, Cypionka H, Engelen B “Identification of metabolically active microbial communities in sediments by two independent RNA-based in vivo labeling techniques” (Poster)
Publications
Pohlner M, Dlugosch L, Wemheuer B, Mills H, Engelen B, Reese BK (2019) The Majority of Active Rhodobacteraceae in Marine Sediments Belong to Uncultured Genera: A Molecular Approach to Link Their Distribution to Environmental Conditions. Front Microbiol 10:659, doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00659.
Wemheuer F, von Hoyningen-Huene AJE, Pohlner M, Degenhardt J, Engelen B, Daniel R, Wemheuer B (2019) Primary Production in the Water Column as Major Structuring Element of the Biogeographical Distribution and Function of Archaea in Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Pacific Ocean. Archaea, Article ID 3717239, doi.org/10.1155/2019/3717239.
Ziesche L, Wolter L, Wang H, Brinkhoff T, Pohlner M, Engelen B, Wagner-Döbler I, Schulz S (2019) An Unprecedented Medium-Chain Diunsaturated N-acylhomoserine Lactone from Marine Roseobacter Group Bacteria. Mar. Drugs 2019, 17:1, doi.org/10.3390/md17010020.
Pohlner M, Degenhardt J, von Hoyningen-Huene A, Wemheuer B, Erlmann N, Schnetger B, Engelen B (2017) The biogeographical distribution of benthic Roseobacter group members along a Pacific transect is linked to oceanic provinces with comparable nutrient composition. Front Microbiol 8: 2550, doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02550.
Pohlner M, Marshall I, Schreiber L, Cypionka H, Engelen B (2017) Draft genome sequence of Pseudoruegeria sp. SK021, a representative of the marine Roseobacter group, isolated from North Sea sediment. Genome A 5:e00541-17, doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00541-17.
Harig T, Schlawis C, Ziesche L, Pohlner M, Engelen B, Schulz S (2017) Nitrogen-containing volatiles from marine Salinispora pacifica and Roseobacter-group bacteria. J Nat Prod, doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00789.
Kanukollu S, Voget S, Pohlner M, Vandieken V, Petersen J, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Shapiro N, Göker M, Klenk HP, Cypionka H, Engelen B (2016) Genome sequence of Shimia sp. SK013, a representative of the Roseobacter group isolated from marine sediment. SIGS 11:1-10, doi.org/10.1186/s40793-016-0143-0.
Applied methods
Analysis of microbial diversity by Illumina-sequencing and DGGE of 16S rRNA genes and transcripts, quantification of microorganisms and physiological groups by qPCR, cultivation of aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms, activity measurements (exoenzymes, sulfate reduction rates), stable-isotope-probing
Teaching
Lectures
Summer term 2023