Solveig Bühring
Visiting Scientist and Marie Curie Fellow
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT
E34-532, 42-44 Carleton Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
phone 617.324.4003
email sbuehrin@mit.edu

research interests
My research is dedicated to a better understanding of microbial carbon turnover processes. I use experiments with 13C-labeled substrates and subsequent compound-specific stable carbon isotopic analysis of microbial biomarkers. 13C serves as a tracer for deciphering the turnover of various carbon pools by environmental microbial communities.My current project is called SPACIBO (String-of-Pearls: A new bacterial Consortium; Investigations of lipid BIOmarkers and their geological significance). This project is funded by the European Community as part of the funding program called the Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship. My hosts for this project are Roger Summons (MIT) and Kai-Uwe Hinrichs (DFG-Research Center Ocean Margins, University of Bremen, Germany). For more information, please see my webpage at RCOM in Bremen.


curriculum vitae

  • Since February 2005 Marie Curie Research Fellow at MIT
  • 2004-2005 RCOM Fellow at the University of Bremen
  • 2004 PhD Degree at the University of Bremen Thesis : Microbial carbon processing in marine sediments: Case studies in North Sea sands and oligotrophic deep-sea sediments
  • 2000-2003 PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen
  • 1999 Diploma thesis at the Department of Biology (Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries),University of Hamburg Thesis: Investigations on taxonomic composition and energy reserves of benthopelagic fauna in the Northeastern Atlantic
  • 1996-1999 Student at the Department of Biology, University of Hamburg
  • 1993-1996 Student at the Department of Biology, RWTH Aachen
participation in scientific ship cruises and expeditions
2005 / 10 Expedition to Zodletone sulphur spring system in Oklahoma (USA)
2004 / 09 Expedition to Zodletone sulphur spring system in Oklahoma (USA)
2002 / 07 RV Philia, off Crete (Greece) to the Cretan Sea
2001 / 09 RV Heincke, off Bremerhaven (Germany) to Southern North Sea
2001 / 06 RV Heincke, off Bremerhaven (Germany) to Southern North Sea
2001 / 04 RV Heincke, off Bremerhaven (Germany) to Southern North Sea
2000 / 10 RV Uthoern, off Bremerhaven (Germany) to Southern North Sea
2000 / 04 RV Poseidon, off Galway (Ireland) to the Northeast Atlantic
1998 / 08 RV Meteor, off Lisbon (Portugal) to Northeast Atlantic
1997 / 08 RV Alkor, off Kiel (Germany) to Skaggerak in the North Sea
1997 / 03-04 RV Discovery, off Vigo (Spain) to Northeast Atlantic

publications

Bühring, S.I., Lampadariou, N., Moodley,L. Tselepides, A. & Witte, U. (2006) � Benthic microbial and whole-community responses to different amounts of 13 C-enriched algae: In situ experiments in the deep Cretan Sea ( Eastern Mediterranean )�. Limnology & Oceanography 51(1): 157-165.

Bühring, S.I., Elvert, M. & Witte, U. (2005) The microbial community structure of different permeable sandy sediments characterised by the investigation of bacterial fatty acids and fluorescence in situ hybridisation. Environmental Microbiology 7/2: 281-293

Ehrenhauss, S., Witte, U., Bühring, S.I. & Huettel, M. (2004) Effect of advective pore water transport on distribution and degradation of diatoms in permeable North Sea sediments. Marine Ecology Progress Series 271:99-111.

Bühring, S.I., Koppelmann, R., Christiansen, B. & Weikert, H. (2002) Are Rhodophyceae a dietary component for deep-sea holothurians? Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 82:347-348.

Bühring, S.I. & Christiansen, B. (2001) "Lipids in selected abyssal benthopelagic animals: links to the epipelagic zone?" Progress in Oceanography 50:369-382.

Publications in preparation:
B�hring, S.I., Ehrenhauss, S., Kamp, A., Moodley, L. & Witte, U. POC processing in a sublittoral sandy sediment:pulse chase experiment with 13C-labelled diatoms. Marine Biology Research.

Christiansen, B., B�hring, S.I., Pfannkuche, O. & Weikert, H.The benthic mixed layer plankton community at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, NE Atlantic: structure and vertical distribution. Marine Biology.

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