__NOTOC__ The Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology is located in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

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. It was founded in 1992, almost a year after the foundation of its sister institute, the

Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology The Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (german: Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, links=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max-Planck-Institut_f%C3%BCr_terrestrische_Mikrobiologie) is a research institute for terrestr ...

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. In 1996, the institute moved into new buildings at the campus of the

University of Bremen The University of Bremen (German: ''Universität Bremen'') is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries. It is one of 11 institutions which were successful in the category "Institutional Strategi ...

. It is one of 80 institutes in the

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(Max Planck Gesellschaft). Currently, the institute consists of three departments with several associated research groups: * Biogeochemistry ''(headed by Dr. Marcel Kuypers)'' * Molecular Ecology ''(headed Prof. Dr.

Rudolf Amann Rudolf Amann (born 3 June 1961) is a German microbiologist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPIMM) in Bremen, and since 2001 Professor of Microbial Ecology at the University of Bremen. Scientific career Betwee ...

)'' * Symbiosis ''(headed by Prof. Dr.

Nicole Dubilier Nicole Dubilier is a marine microbiologist and director of the Symbiosis Department at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology since 2013 and a Professor of Microbial Symbioses at the University of Bremen. She is a pioneer in ecological ...

)'' Additionally, the following research groups reside in the institute. * Microbial Physiology ''(headed by Dr. Boran Kartal)'' * Greenhouse Gases ''(headed Dr. Jana Milucka)'' * Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics ''(headed by Prof. Dr. Frank Oliver Glöckner)'' * Flow Cytometry ''(headed by Dr. Bernhard Fuchs)'' * Metabolic Interactions ''(headed by Dr. Manuel Liebeke)'' * Microsensors ''(headed by Dr. Dirk de Beer)'' * HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology ''(headed by Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius)'' * MARUM MPG Bridge Group Marine Glycobiology ''(headed Dr. Jan-Hendrik Hehemann)'' * Max Planck Research Group Microbial Metabolism ''(headed by Dr. Tristan Wagner)'' * Marine Geochemistry Group ''(headed by Prof. Dr. Thorsten Dittmar)'' * Max Planck Research Group for Marine Isotope Geochemistry ''(headed by Dr. Katharine Pahnke-May)''

Degree programme

* The MPI for Marine Microbiology offers the PhD programme "International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS) of Marine Microbiology" (Marmic) together with the

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, the

and

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References

External links

Official site MPI-Bremen
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