Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Profile ID: UNT-2945

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Celsiusstraße 1
28359 Bremen

Company overview

Manufacture focus, service offers:

Research focuses on the investigation of material transformations, bacteria and bacterial processes in marine sediments;
Key areas of work: anoxic habitats, bacteria, bacterial communities, biogeochemistry, DNA probes, iron minerals, geochemical material cycles, gradients, cultivation of bacteria, marine habitats, marine sediments, microbiology, microsensors, molecular ecology, optical sensors, oxygen, sulphur minerals, material flows;
Know-how transfer (on an expenditure basis) in the field of microbiological and ecological research (especially marine-related)

Technology usage:

High-resolution electrochemical and optical microsensors, flow cytometry, confocal laser scanning microscopy, nucleic acid (DNA) probe technology, special cultivation methods, deep-sea capable automatic underwater measuring devices, simulation system for seawater currents (current basin), chromatographs, mass spectrometers

Know-how:

Development of electrochemical and optical microsensors, development of nucleic acid (DNA) probes for the detection of bacteria, investigation of the growth of various bacteria (non-pathogenic)

Annotations:

Know-how transfer preferably via Garching Innovation GmbH, Munich, also close cooperation with PreSens GmbH in Neuburg (Donau)

Exhibition participation:

Marine Research Weeks Bremen