Modelling of physiological bioenergetics and global biogeography of the Roseobacter group (C07*)

This project combines mathematical modelling and synthetic data-analysis to investigate the ecophysiological principles underlying the habitat success of Roseobacter representatives, their interaction with other heterotrophic bacteria, microalgae and phages, and the consequences for the biogeography, diversity and quantitative significance of the Roseobacter group in the global ocean. The investigations connect different levels of biological organization, from the physiological properties of the individual organism in close connection to defined cultivation experiments all the way up to global populations and community biogeography and diversity of the Roseobacter group.

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. Bernd Blasius