Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
 

Life without microorganisms is simply impossible. Microbes were the first life forms on early Earth. They evolved the ability to capture carbon dioxide and nitrogen, providing life with energy and nutrients. Microbes also invented photosynthesis, brought oxygen to the atmosphere and gave birth to multicellularity and the evolution of higher life. Microbes are more numerous and diverse than all other living organisms and there is no ecological niche that is not covered by them. They live in constant interactions with their environment, affecting health, agricultural productivity, and the climate on a global scale.

Our mission is to understand the function, communication, and interaction of microorganisms with their environment, to describe them with mathematical models, and to modify them with synthetic biological approaches.
We specifically focus on the microbial metabolism of greenhouse gases, the synthesis and function of bioactive natural compounds, cellular communication and regulation networks, as well as their spatial and temporal organization. Our research scale ranges from the atomic level up to global ecosystems.

Together with our two affiliated centers, SYNMIKRO and the Microcosm Earth Center, MPI-TM is one of Europe’s leading Institutes in the fields of Molecular and Synthetic Microbiology, currently hosting more than 300 scientists and students from more than 35 countries.
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Adán Andrés Ramírez Rojas

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Towards systematic approaches for validation of biological parts and testing of functions in yeast

Shunsuke Nomura

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Heterodisulfide reductase megacomplexes produced in a Class I CO2-reducing methanogen under Ni-sufficient and Ni-limited conditions

Paul Alejandro Gomez Coronado

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Engineering of growth-coupled Escherichia coli biosensors

Graduate Students Mini Symposium X - 2024

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Paul Alejandro Gomez Coronado

Engineering of growth-coupled Escherichia coli biosensors
Oct 25, 2024 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid

Graduate Students Mini Symposium X - 2024

Oct 28, 2024 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid

Dr. Andreas Diepold

The Tricks of the Trade - Salmonella and Co.
Nov 7, 2024 05:30 PM - 06:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Gymnasium Philippinum Marburg, Kultidrom

Graduate Students Mini Symposium XI - 2024

Nov 18, 2024 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Room: Lecture Hall / Hybrid

Prof. Dr. Helge Bode

Tomorrow`s Antibiotics - the Ingenius Toolbox of Mikrobes
Nov 28, 2024 05:30 PM - 06:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Gymnasium Philippinum Marburg, Kultidrom
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