Marine Benthic Ecology
Monika Bright
Learning by doing
Studying Marine Benthic Ecology and Marine Symbioses
The Team
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. -Ryunosuke Satoro
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Falling in Love with a tubeworm
Life at Vents
Fascinated by a twitching ciliate
Life at wood
Outreach
Life in the Cracks of the Crust
In July 2023 we will be on board of the Falkor (too) of the Schmidt Ocean Institute, looking for the life in the cracks of the crust
We contribute the genome of Riftia pachyptila and the closed genome of its endosymbiont Candidatus Endoriftia persefone
Zoothamnium niveum when deprived of sulfide sends out swarmers. These, without sulfide, fund aposymbiotic colonies, that have a different shape
