Meet the Scientists
The IAMM Project is a collaboration of four research groups on three continents with combined expertise in ecology, limnology/oceanography, biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, physics and computational biology. Each participating laboratory contributes a unique expertise in order to investigate how environmentally-relevant microbes interact in a marine setting.
Grossart Lab
PI: Hans-Peter Grossart, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
The Grossart lab studies the biology of diatoms, cyanobacteria, and heterotophic marine bacteria and contributes extensive knowledge about the ecology of marine ecosystems.
Lab website: http://www.lake-lab.de/index.php/welcome-to-the-lake-laboratory.html
Segrè Lab
PI: Daniel Segrè, Boston University
The Segrè lab contributes a computational driven approach for the investigation of metabolic interactions between species in a marine microbial community. This expertise can be used to construct genome scale dynamic flux balance analysis modeling of organisms and to predict the interactions of microbes based on these models.
Lab website: http://www.bu.edu/segrelab/
Sher Lab
PI: Daniel Sher, University of Haifa
The Sher lab focuses on marine chemical ecology, including the chemical interactions between the photosynthetic prokaryote Prochlorococcus and heterotrophic marine bacteria.
Voss Lab
PI: Maren Voss, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
The Voss lab contributes an analytical chemistry perspective in the form of NanoSIMS mass spectrometry which can be used to investigate the production and usage of metabolites, as well as the chemical communication between micro-organisms.
Lab website: https://www.io-warnemuende.de/project/161/iamm.html
AboutNanoSIMS: https://www.io-warnemuende.de/nanosims-en.html