Assessment and exploitation of the metabolic potential and molecular characterization of uncultivated members of the Roseobacter group (Z02)

• Subject Area: Medicine
• Term: from 2010 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 34509606

This project analyses ecosystem function and role of Roseobacter communities and environmentally abundant members of this group in the North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Pacific as well as in samples from aggregate-associated microbial communities by (meta)genomic and (meta)transcriptomic approaches. We will finish analysing the samples from the cruises to the Pacific with respect to composition and function of entire and active communities and infer global functional biogeographic patterns of Roseobacter-dominated bacterioplankton communities, also by including metavirome and roseophage data.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 51: Ecology, Physiology and Molecular Biology of the Roseobacter Clade: Towards a Systems Biology Understanding of a Globally Important Clade of Marine Bacteria
• Applicant Institution: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Rolf Daniel