Projects for MSc and BSc students

If you are interested in carrying out an MSc or BSc project with the Plankton Ecology and Evolution group, please contact Elisa Schaum directly. Below, we list our current BSc and MSc projects to give you an idea of the type of research that you would find yourself involved in. The list is non-exhaustive as our main projects occasionally shift between, for example, molecular and experimental approaches, and between ship- and lab-based experiments. Generally, if you are interested in how aquatic microbes rule the world and how this may change in the future, you have come to the right place.

Since 2019

MSc

Jascha Macdonald - working title 'Distribution and metabolism of pico-plankton associated bacteria in the Baltic Sea ' (Schaum/Koppelman),  now PhD at Uni Hamburg, Professor Streit - Microbiology and Biotechnology 

Nele Martens - working title 'Picoplankton host/virus interactions across a natural gradient in temperature and salinity' (Schaum/Listmann/Koppelmann),  now PhD with us within the framework of the Biota-mediated effects on Carbon cycling in Estuaries graduate college 

Kerstin Ohler - working title 'Effects of environmental predictability on photo-inhibition in Ostreococcus' (Schaum/Santelia/van Beusekomp),  now PhD at Uni Marburg, Professor Hassel - Morphology and Evolution of Invertebrates

Duyi Zhong - working title 'Consequences of loss of biodiversity on picoplankton communities '(Schaum/Koppelman)

Incoming Erasmus+ students (MSc level)

Marta Mikhno from Universita degli studi di Caligari (Italy)

BSc

Judith Freyer - working title 'Thermal adaptation in geothermal stream bacteria' (Schaum/Koppelmann)

Yvonne Jamadi - working title 'Pathogens of stony corals (SCLD)' (Tams/Schaum)

Katharina Nadler - working title 'Vitamin B12 metabolism - bacteria friends and foes'  (Schaum/Koppelmann)

Pauline Wagner - working title ' Effectof viral presence/absence on mesocosm primary production' (Schaum/ van Beusekomp)

Franziska Hinze - working title 'Effects of evolutionary history on carbon source preferences in Ostreococcus ' (Listmann/Schaum)

Thore Wendt -  Does differential nutrient uptake mechanistically explain competition strategies in Zygnematophyceae across temperatures? (Listmann/Schaum)

Marie Vogel - working title ' Patterns of laboratory adaptation in green algae retrieved from culture collections' (Schaum/von Schwartzenberg), now MSc student iMarsys Hamburg

Since 2018
MSc
Felicitas Fritze - working title 'Responses of recent and historic Apocalathium malmogiense strains from the,Baltic Sea under different phosphate-conditions.' (Schaum/Hinners/Hense) (now works for a chemical compliance consulting company)

Anna Lena Heinrichs - working title 'Marine diatoms in the North Sea - composition, cell size, and growth rates across temperature and light gradients' (Hillebrandt/Schaum) (due to start a PhD in the Hillebrandt lab)