Dennis Tebbe

PhD candidate

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Dennis Tebbe

Research interests

My main research interests are in the molecular ecology and the biogeochemistry of marine environments, with special focus on coastal sediments. In contrast to many other locations, are coastal sediments subject to intensive advective porewater flow as they generally contain larger proportions of sand grains, making them more permeable. Electron acceptors and donors which are flushed in and out are thereby causing changing redox potentials in the upper sediment layers of these environments. Microbial communities living in these physically mixed sediments are known to be very active in remineralizing organic matter. I am interested in monitoring the biogeochemistry and microbial activity in these environments and in simulated laboratory approaches e.g. in flow-through reactors (FTR). In this context, I have a special interest in the cycling of organosulfur compounds, not only as they are involved in local climate changing events by promoting cloud formation (DMS), but also as they might play an interesting role in the microbial energy metabolism under changing redox conditions.

Academic vita

Positions

 

Since 2018

PhD candiate (ICBM OLDENBURG)

Project

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre (TTR 51) - Roseobacter - A2

2017-2018

Research associate (UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN) 

Project

Catch-cropping is an agrarian tool for continuing soil health and yield-increase (CATCHY)

Activities

Quantification and characterization of active microbial communities via qPCR and amplicon sequencing (MiSeq)

2017

Research assistent (ICBM OLDENBURG)

Activities

Measurement of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in porewater samples using fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS)

Studies 

 

2014-2017

Microbiology Master of Science (ICBM OLDENBURG)

Thesis:

„The Viral Shunt in Deep-Sea Sediments“

2015

3-months IAESTE exchange program to Argentina (UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR, BAHÍA BLANCA) 

Matter:

Investigations to the influence of Glyphosate treatment on the diversity of the soil microcosm. (see Publications) 

2011-2014

Biology Bachelor of Science (UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN) 

Thesis:

“Examination of nodulation of Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranea) with Bradyrhizobium isolates from Okavango-Region”

Methods

DNA & RNA extraction, qPCR, amplicon and genome sequence analysis, comparative genomics, Isolation and characterization of marine bacteria (aerobe & anaerobe), physiological testings, sampling of sediment cores, flow-through reactors (FTR), FT-ICR MS, GC, HPLC, IC, microscopy ... 

Publications

Tebbe DA, Geihser S, Wemheuer B, Daniel R, Schäfer H, Engelen B (2022) Seasonal and Zonal Succession of Bacterial Communities in North Sea Salt Marsh Sediments, Microorganisms, 0(5), 859, doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10050859

Heinrichs ME, Tebbe DA, Wemheuer B, Niggemann J, Engelen B (2020) Impact of viral lysis on the composition of bacterial communities and dissolved organic matter in deep-sea sediments. Viruses 12, 922; doi.org/10.3390/v12090922

Zabaloy MC, Allegrini M, Tebbe DA, Schuster K, Gomez EV (2017) Nitrifying bacteria and archaea withstanding glyphosate in fertilized soil microcosms, Applied Soil Ecology, 117‑118:88‑95, doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.04.012.

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