Aktuelles
November 2019
Article about our work on sponges in the german pharmacy journal "Apotheken Umschau"
October 2019
Dr. Miriam Reverter joins our working group. She has a Alexander von Humbold fellowship and will be working on coral-sponge interactions
New publication:
Wibowo, J.T.; Kellermann, M.Y.; Versluis, D.; Putra, M.Y.; Murniasih, T.; Mohr, K.I.; Wink, J.; Engelmann, M.; Praditya, D.F.; Steinmann, E., Schupp, P.J. Biotechnological Potential of Bacteria Isolated from the Sea Cucumber Holothuria leucospilota and Stichopus vastus from Lampung, Indonesia. Marine Drugs 2019
Petersen, LE., Kellermann, M.Y., Schupp, P.J. 2019. Secondary Metabolites of Marine Microbes: From Natural Products Chemistry to Chemical Ecology. In: YOUMARES 9 - The Oceans: Our Research, Our Future. ed. by Jungblut, S., Liebich, V. and Bode-Dalby, M. Springer, Cham, pp. 159-180
September 2019
Elham Kamyab and Dr. Peter Schupp attend the MaNaPro conference in Portugal.
Dr. Peter Schupp gives a talk about: "Exploration of Deep-Water Sponges Yields new Sponge Species, Novel Microbiomes and Potentially New Bioactive Compounds"
Elham Kamyab pesents a poster: "Comparative studies of the two sea cucumber genera Bohadschia and Actinopyga: Ecological activities vs. pharmacological activities, Poster presentation, MaNaPro, Peniche, Portugal"
August 2019
The UOP Benthos course took place from 19.-23.08.2019 with field trips to the Wadden Sea in the North Sea and to the Danish Baltic coast. 16 students of the Environmental Science program learned to investigate benthic soft bottom- and hard bottom communities.
As part of the scientific diving course, Frank Donat and Sven Rohde supervised a field trip to the ‘Kreisesee Hemmoor’ from 26.-30.08.2019, where the participants were trained to dive in deep waters in accordance with the German scientific diving regulations.
To investigate correlations of local and regional biodiversity patterns of benthic communities, Sven Rohde went on a research diving cruise on board the FK Littorina. In collaboration with colleagues from the GEOMAR, sites along the Baltic coast from Schleswig-Holstein to Mecklenburg-West Pomerania were sampled.
July 2019
Samuel Nietzer succesfully defends his Doctoral thesis wth the titel: Effects of rising temperatures on the dinoflagellate symbioses of juvenile brooding corals and corallimorpharians
Dr. Peter Schupp, Dr. Mareen Moeller, Dr. Samuel Nietzer and Tabea Hildebrand travel to the University of Guam Marine Laboratory for field als Laboratory work with tropical sponges and corals
New publication:
Kühnhold H, Novais SC, Alves LM, Kamyab E, , Lemos MFL, Slater M, Kunzmann A, 2019. Acclimation capability inferred by metabolic performance in two sea cucumber species from different latitudes. J thermal biology 84:407-413.
Anna-Lena Böger finished her Bachelor thesis: Evidence for tetrodoxin in the gastropod Pleurobrachnchaea maculate collected in the mesopelagic zone.
AnnaLouise Gabriel finished her research project: Effect of different food sources and quality on the filtration and growth rates of Axinella polypoides
June 2019
New publication:
Steinert G, Wemheuer B, Janussen D, Erpenbeck D, Daniel R, Simon M, Brinkhoff T and Schupp PJ. 2019. Prokaryotic Diversity and Community Patterns in Antarctic Continental Shelf Sponges. Front. Mar. Sci. 6:297. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00297
April 2019
New publication:
Helber S, Steinert G, Wu, YC, Rohde S, Hentschel-Humeida U, Muhando, C, Schupp P. 2019. Sponges from Zanzibar host diverse prokaryotic communities with potential for natural product synthesis. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. fiz026, DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiz026
Coral Reef Excursion with Bachelor and Master students of the University of Oldenburg to Bunaken and Bangka, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Here is the blog with regularly updated details.
March 2019
Mareen Moeller successfully defended her PhD thesis with the title: Early life stages of corals and their relevance for the future of coral reefs
New publications:
Kamyab E, Kellermann MY, Kunzmann A, Schupp PJ (2019) Chemical Biodiversity and Bioactivities of Saponins in Echinodermata with an Emphasis on Sea Cucumbers (Holothuroidea). In: Jungblut S, Liebich V, Bode-Dalby M (eds) YOUMARES 9 – The Oceans: Our Research, Our Future. Proceedings of the 2018 conference for YOUng MArine RESearcher in Oldenburg, Germany. Springer, Cham (accepted)
Lange G, Schmitt JA, Kröncke I, Moorthi SD, Rohde S, Scheu S, Schupp PJ. 2019. The role of invasive marine plants for macrofauna nutrition in the Wadden Sea. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 512:1-11.
Franziska Wöhrmann finished her Bachelor thesis: Effect of light- and coralcompetition on growth and secondary metabolism of the sponge Pseudoceratina sp.
February 2019
New publications:
Mareen Moeller, Samuel Nietzer & Peter Schupp (2019) Neuroactive compounds induce larval settlement in the scleractinian coral Leptastrea purpurea, Scientific Reports
Klinger, C., Zółtowska-Aksamitowska, S., Wysokowski, M., Tsurkan, M.V., Galli, R., Petrenko, I., Machałowski, T., Ereskovsky, A., Martinović, R., Muzychka, L., Smolii, O.B., Bechmann, N., Ivanenko, V., Schupp, P.J., Jesionowski, T., Giovine, M., Joseph, Y., Bornstein, S.R., Voronkina, A., Ehrlich, H. 2019. Express Method for Isolation of Ready-to-Use 3D Chitin Scaffolds from Aplysina archeri (Aplysineidae: Verongiida) Demosponge. Marine Drugs, 17, 131; doi:10.3390/md17020131
Dzikrina Nur Fatima joins our group for her master thesis on the topic:
The meaning of color in different Pseudoalteromonas sp.: A structure-function analysis of their complex metabolome
Jana Dewenter joins our working group to start her PhD-Project. It is part of the DFG funded project Spatial community ecology in highly dynamic landscapes: from island biogeography to metaecosystems [DynaCom]
January 2019
New publication:
Tawfike1, A., Attia, E.Z., Desoukey, S.Y., Hajjar, D., Makki, A.A., Schupp, P.J., Edrada-Ebel, R., Abdelmohsen, U.R. 2019.
December 2018
New publication:
Samuel Nietzer, Mareen Moeller, Makoto Kitamura, Peter Schupp (2018) Coral larvae every day: Leptastrea purpurea, a brooding species that could accelerate coral research. Frontiers of Marine Science, 5:466.
November 2018
Franziska Curdt finished her Master thesis: Influence of shading on the symbiosis of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus spongiarum and its sponge host
October 2018
Nicolas Bill starts his Bachelorthesis on: "Observation of debris ingestion and feeding modes of fish in North Sulawesi, Indonesia"
Ingo Miller starts his internship "Tracking sharks at the Great Barrier Reef"
Peter Schupp, Georg Steinert und Tabea Hildebrand attended the Third International Symposium on Sponge Microbiology in Shanghai, China.
Tabea Hildebrand gives an oral presentation on "The Uptake and Conversion of Dissolved Organic Matter by the Sponge Holobiont"
September 2018
New publication: Helber SB, Hoeijmakers DJJ, Muhando CA, Rohde S, Schupp PJ (2018) Sponge chemical defenses are a possible mechanism for increasing sponge abundance on reefs in Zanzibar. PLoS ONE 13(6): e0197617. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197617
The YOUMARES conference is hoasted by the University of Oldenburg. From our Working group Elham Kamyab and Lars-Erik Petersen are part of the organization team and hoasted the session9: Biodiversity of Benthic Holobionts: Chemical Ecology and Natural Products Chemistry in the Spotlight
- Mareen Moeller gives an oral presentation on ”Neuroactive compounds induce larval settlement in the scleractinian coral Leptastrea purpurea”
- Samuel Nietzer gives an oral presentation on “Coral larvae every day: Leptastrea purpurea, a brooding species that could accelerate coral research”
- Joko Tri Wibowo gives an oral presentation on “Antimicrobial activity of bacteria isolated from the sea cucumber Stichopus vastus”
- Muhammad Reza Faisal presents a poster on "The potent of antimicrobial activity of brominated compounds extracted from the marine sponge Lamellodysidea sp. (Seribu Island, Indonesia).
Sven Rohde joined a research cruise on board of the research vessel ‘Littorina’ to investigate local and regional effects on biodiversity.
11 students travel with Sven Rohde to Gammel Albo, DK, for the ‘Marine Biology’ Excursion
Mike Jan Smykala starts a project on "Analysis of secundary metabolites from sponges of the Deep Sea"
Jasmin Susanne Müller starts her Masterthesis on "Effects of macroplastic on marine invertebrates & a shoreline litter monitoring around North Sulawesi, Indonesia"
Samuel Nietzer gives talk at the 10th International Marine Aquarium Symposium Lünen: “Korallen und ihre Symbionten: Klimawandel, Farben und Korallenzucht“
Samuel Nietzer publishes article about the husbandry of the Corn-of-thorns-starfish Acanthaster planci in the US magazine CORAL (5/2018)
August 2018
Franziska Curdt finished her research project: Symbiotic cyanobacteria of a cyanosponge under different light conditions
Anna-Lena Böger started her Bachelorthesis on the toxicity of the seaslugs Pleurobrachnchaea spp.
Anna Gabriel started her research project on the effect of food quality and diversity on the fitness of the sponge Axinella polyoides
Dennis Versluis presents a poster at the ISME (17th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology) in Leipzig with the title: Little evidence that 16S rRNA gene profiles of demosponges are a viable marker for bioactivity: results from a meta-analysis
Georg Steinert presents a poster at the ISME17 on “Prokaryotic communities associated with Antarctic sponges and functional prediction of xenobiotic biodegradation and secondary metabolite biosynthesis”
Dzikrina Nur Fatima does an internship as part of her master project in Marine Environment and Resources (MER). She works on: 'Isolation and identification of sponge-associated bacteria from the deep sea'.
July 2018
Mascha Peters finished her Master thesis: Depth dependent competitive interactions between the sponge Pseudoceratina sp. and the coral Porites sp.
Welf Wittenborn finished his Bachelorthesis: Depth dependent metabolite- and cyanobacteria concentrations in the sponge Chondrosia reniformis
Georg Steinert organizes the 'Marine ‘omics Workshop 2018' – Nordwest-Verbund Meeresforschung (NWVM), Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany
Dennis Versluis gives a presentation on “Functional metagenomic analysis of sponge microbiota as a reservoir for antibiotic resistance” at the Marine 'omics workshop in Delmenthorst
Elham Kamyab gives a presentation on “Structural diversity-activity relationship and the role of saponin in Bohadschia argus (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)“ at the Marine 'omics workshop in Delmenthorst
Samuel Nietzer publishes article about the husbandry of the Corn-of-thorns-starfish Acanthaster planci in KORALLE Magazin (Vol. 111)
Ratna Eka Putri does an internship as par of her International Master in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRsea). She is Investigating sponge microbial and chemical ecology.
Georg Steinert presents a poster at the IMBRSea Annual Symposium "Diving into Marine Minds" 2018: 'Investigating Sponge Microbial and Chemical Ecology: Antimicrobial activity of deep-sea sponge-associated bacteria'
May 2018
30 Students travel to Giglio, Italy for the "Terrestrial and marine ecology of the Mediterranean" excursion, with Sven Rohde. Here is the blog
April 2018
Sven Rohde and a group of scientific divers are on a research cruise on board of the research Vesssel ‘Polarstern’ to Antarctica. They are investigating the effects of krill and salps on the Antarctic food web.
Tabea Hildebrand starts her PhD thesis on "The role of sponges in benthic-pelagic coupling
March 2018
We received 35 live colonies of Leptastrea spp. from Australia - a big thanks to Ultra Coral Australia and De Jong Marinelife for donating the corals to our research! The corals will help us to study larval release in brooding corals and larval settlement.
January 2018
new publication:
Versluis D., Nijsse B., Naim M.A., Koehorst J.J., Wiese J., Imhoff J.F., Schaap P.J., van Passel M.W.J., Smidt H., Sipkema D.. 2018. Comparative genomics highlights symbiotic capacities and high metabolic flexibility of the marine genus Pseudovibrio. Genome Biol Evol 10: 125-142.
New instrument for our MALDI - ToF - MS facility!
The NX50 (Thermo Scientific) cryostat will aid us to accurately thin-section marine macro-organisms for future Imaging Mass Spectrometry experiments.
New equipment for our aquarium facilities - most of the metal halides were exchanged with the new EcoTech Marine Radion XR15w G4 PRO. Thanks to EcoTech Marine and Coralsands for supporting our coral research with a great discount!
December 2017
new publications:
November 2017
Our working group received a donation of 800 kg Reef Mix® salt from Tropic Marin for our coral research.
We would like to thank Tropic Marin for the support!
16. November 2017: Public talk by Samuel Nietzer at the Hans-Beutz-Haus Wilhelmshaven: 'Korallenforschung in Wilhelmshaven und Guam'
October 2017
new publication:
Conference:
Mattig F.R. (2017) Monitoring von Schadstoffen bei Seeschwalben und Austernfischern im Rahmen des TMAP, Vortrag beim Workshop "Möglichkeiten zur Interpretation von Langzeitdatenreihen zur Schadstoffbelastung mit Hilfe telemetrischer Methoden bei Seevögeln", Berlin, 19.-20. Oktober 2017, Ausgerichtet durch Umweltbundesamt & Forschungs- und Technologiezentrum (FTZ) Büsum, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
September 2017
Dr. Georg Steinert is back in our working group. He will be analyzing bacterial communities of the deepsea samples that were collected during the Sonne Expedition SO254 around New Zealand in February 2017.
Prof. Dr. Peter Schupp takes part in the workshop IPCRBC-DAAD Workshops in Manado “Build up International Master Program at UNSRAT”. The workshop is a part of the DAAD-funded program "Subject-Related Partnerships with Institutions of higher education in Developing Countries”. The aim of this workshop is to develop a Master’s program for Indonesian and German students that will be based at Sam Ratulangi University (UNSRAT) in Manado, Indonesia. Most classes will include fieldwork and projects that will give Indonesian and German students the opportunity to work in the center of the coral triangle: the region of highest marine biodiversity in the word.
August 2017
Prof. Dr. Peter Schupp, Dr. Masteria Putra, Elham Kamyab and Reza Faisal are on a research trip in Bitung, Sulawesi, and the Seribu Islands north of Jakarta, together with the Research Center of Oceanography, RCO-LIPI.
The aim is to collect interesting marine invertebrates that will be screened for bioactive compounds as part of the BMBF-funded GINAICO project.
Upon collection, organisms are taxonomically identified and chemically extracted. The extracts are then tested for antimicrobial and antiviral activity.
Elham Kamyab is joining this research trip for 3 months under the DAAD-funded fellowship program “Biodiversity and Health”.
new publications:
Lucas Moitinho-Silva, Shaun Nielsen, Amnon Amir, Antonio Gonzalez, Gail L. Ackermann, Carlo Cerrano, Carmen Astudillo-Garcia, Cole Easson, Detmer Sipkema, Fang Liu, Georg Steinert, Giorgos Kotoulas, Grace P. McCormack, Guofang Feng, James J. Bell, Jan Vicente, Johannes R Björk, Jose M. Montoya, Julie B. Olson, Julie Reveillaud, Laura Steindler, Mari-Carmen Pineda, Maria V. Marra, Micha Ilan, Michael W. Taylor, Paraskevi Polymenakou, Patrick M. Erwin, Peter J. Schupp, Rachel L. Simister, Rob Knight, Robert W. Thacker, Rodrigo Costa, Russell T. Hill, Susanna Lopez-Legentil, Thanos Dailianis, Timothy Ravasi, Ute Hentschel, Zhiyong Li, Nicole S. Webster, Torsten Thomas (2017). The sponge microbiome project. GigaScience, gix077.
July 2017
New publication:
Sven Rohde, Peter Schupp, Alexandra Markert, Achim Wehrmann. 2017. Only half of the truth: Managing invasive alien species by rapid assessment. Ocean & Coastal Management 146 (2017) 26-35
Peter Schupp and Sven Rohde travel to Galway Ireland for the 10th World Sponge Conference and present on "Competitive sponge coral interactions".
June 2017
German TV Channel "NDR" reports on Samuel Nietzers and Mareen Moellers work on coral reproduction. The video is on the NDR website.
"On seaweeds and flies" - Swantje Enge participates in a weeklong workshop on the evolution of seaweed flies and their ecosystem function in decomposing seaweeds in the wrack zone. The workshop is organized by the Centre for Marine Chemical Ecology and takes place at the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences - Tjärnö, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 2017
For our aquarium facilities we use Tropic Marin Reef Mix Salt® now. Many thanks to Tropic Marin for supporting our research.
30 Students travel to Giglio, Italy for the"Terrestrial and marine ecology of the Mediterranean" excursion, with Sven Rohde
new publications:
April 2017
Sven Rohde and Swantje Enge travel to Koh Panghan Thailand for field experiments
March 2017
February 2017
5 people from our working group are on a reseach cruise around New Zealand with the reseach vessle "Sonne".
More Information is on the regualrly updated blog.
new publication:
January 2017
Two new members in the working group:
Dr. Matthias Kellermann (Post Doc) will work on the new MALDI-TOF MS.
Lars-Eric Petersen (PhD) joined the EcoMol Project and will investigate chemical settlement cues for coral larvae.
new publications:
December 2016
3rd: Samuel Nietzer presents his research on coral reproduction at the Aqua-Terra Symposium, Sindelfingen
November 2016
25th: Samuel Nietzer gives a public talk on coral reproduction at the Gorch-Fock Haus in Wilhelmshaven
New Publications:
New member in the working group:
Dennis Versluis joined as a Post Doc working on the microbial community of sponges within the Ginaico Project.
Peter Schupp and Samuel Nietzer are on a research trip at the University of Guam Marine Laboratory, Guam, USA.
October 2016
Three new members in the working group:
Masteria Yunovilsa Putra (Post Doc), Muhammad Reza Faisal (PhD student) and Joko Tri Wibowo (PhD student) are working in the Ginaico Project.
12 Students successfully finished the Scientific Diver class.
August – September 2016
Swantje Enge is on a research trip to the CORE searesearch center Thailand
July - September 2016
Samuel Nietzer and Mareen Möller are on a research trip at the University of Guam Marine Laboratory, Guam USA
August 2016
New publications:
Samuel Nietzer published two articles on coral reproduction in the german aquarist magazine „Koralle“
July 2016
Nicole Schwartz successfully defended her PhD thesis
Why are aliens so successful? Explaining the invasion success of Sargassum muticum
June 2016
Peter Schupp, Mareen Möller, Samuel Nietzer and Sven Rohde are attending the International Coral Reef Conference (ICRS) in Honolulu, Hawaii
New publications:
May 2016
New Publications:
Online article: Blaue Apotheke – Arzneistoffe aus marinen Organismen (German)
New Publications:
Samuel Nietzer presents at the International Aquarium Symposium in Lünen with two talks on coral reproduction
March 2016
Two new members in the working group:
Swantje Enge (Post Doc) is working on interactions between corals and sponges in the MarBAS Project.
Petra Schwarz is a technical assistant and will mainly work on chemical extractions. She will also support the maintanace of the aquarium facilities.
February 2016
4.02.-28.02.2016 - Thailand Exkursion 2016
New member in the working group:
Elham Kamyab (PhD student) working on chemical compounds in sea cucumbers within the Ginaico project.