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Studies
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The
Environmental Biochemistry Group is currently being established
and students are invited to participate. Please familiarize yourself
with the planned research projects
and judge yourself whether these topics suit your interests.
The
interdisciplinary nature of our work will allow specialty subjects
for MUWI's, Chemistry and Biology students.
Suggested
topics for Diploma theses
- (MUWI,
Biology) Establish a laboratory broodstock of an infaunal
marine invertebrate. Don't worry, there's plenty of literature
on this subject! These broodstocks will serve to supply
larvae for laboratory assays with bacterial isolates. This project
requires a couple of field trips and some ingenuity in the setup
of proper culture conditions. Part of this work can only be
performed at the Terramare
in WHV. The candidate will closely cooperate with a PhD-student.
- (MUWI,
Biology) Isolation of bacteria and cyanobacteria from
sediment samples of the Wadden Sea. Next to the establishment
of a small culture collection, these strains should be characterized
by comparative analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences. This project
is quite microbiological and except of one or the other field
trip for sample collection, it can be entirely performed at
the ICBM. The candidate will closely cooperate with a PhD-student.
- (Chemistry)
Isolation and chemical characterization of brominated aromatic
compounds from marine worms. This project is true natural product
chemistry and requires various sample preparation techniques,
HPLC and GC-MS. Depending on the availability of HPLC and GC-MS,
this project will be performed either at the ICBM or at the
Terramare in WHV.
- (Chemistry,
Biology, MUWI) Isolation of epibiotic bacteria from green
macroalgae in the North Sea. Bacterial metabolites will be tested
for antifouling potential and in case of hits, chemically analyzed.
It is planned to conduct a comparative study between macroalgae
from temparate and tropical waters. The candidate will likely
travel to Hong Kong to perform analagous research on tropical
macroalgae.
- (Chemistry,
Biology, MUWI) Microscopic analysis of attached bacterial
assemblages by atomic force microscopy and scanning confocal
laser microscopy. This project is planned at a later stage,
once the Environmental Biochemistry Group is fully established
and we have gathered sufficient knowledge to address such issues.
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