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

• Subject Area: Microbial Ecology and Applied Microbiology
• Term: from 2018 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 34509606

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