Research

PhD student in the DFG project MOCA: Microbial Oceanography of ChemolithoAutotrophic Planktonic Communities
Topic: "Ecological role of planktonic Crenarchaeota in the central Baltic Sea"
Supervisor: Prof. Klaus Jürgens

Publications (peer-reviewed)

• Berg, C., Beckmann, S., Jost, G., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. (2013) Acetate-utilizing bacteria at an oxic-anoxic interface in the Baltic Sea. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12114

Talks

• Berg, Carlo, Vandieken, V., Thamdrup, B., Jürgens, K. Significance of archaeal nitrification in hypoxic waters of the Baltic Sea. Annual Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) 2013, Bremen, Germany, March 11^th 2013
• Berg, Carlo. Nitrifizierende Archaeen als mikrobielle Schlüsselorganismen im Stickstoffkreislauf der Ostsee. Anniversary "20 Years IOW", Rostock-Warnemünde, June 1^st, 2012
• Berg, Carlo, Vandieken, V., Thamdrup, B., Jürgens, K. Significance of archaeal nitrification in hypoxic waters of the Baltic Sea. European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) 2012, Vienna, Apr 25^th, 2012

Poster

• Berg, Carlo, Vandieken, V., Thamdrup, B., Jürgens, K. Significance of archaeal nitrification in sulfide influenced hypoxic waters of the Baltic Sea. International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME 14), Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug 19^th - 24^th, 2012.
• Berg, Carlo, Labrenz, M., Beckmann, S., Jost, G., Jürgens, K. Identification of acetate incorporating Arcobacter spp. as potential manganese reducers in pelagic redoxclines of the central Baltic Sea via 16S rRNA based ¹³C stable isotope probing. VAAM 2012, Tübingen, Germany, Mar 18^th - Mar 21^th 2012
• Berg, Carlo, Vandieken, V., Thamdrup, B., Jürgens, K. Significance of archaeal nitrification in hypoxic waters of the Baltic Sea. Scientific Advisory Board of the IOW, Feb, 29^th 2012
• Berg, Carlo, Labrenz, M., Beckmann, S., Jost, G., Jürgens, K. Identification of acetate incorporating Arcobacter spp. as potential manganese reducers in pelagic redoxclines of the central Baltic Sea via 16S rRNA based ¹³C stable isotope probing. 12^th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology (SAME 12), Rostock, Germany, Aug 28^th - Sep 2^nd, 2011
• Glaubitz, S., Berg, Carlo, Abraham, W.-R., Jost, G., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K. Utilization of organic carbon by a chemoautotrophy-dominated microbial community in a pelagic redoxcline of the central Baltic Sea. Scientific Advisory Board of the IOW, March 3^rd, 2011

Detection of Crenarchaeota by fluorescence microscopy and gene probes (CARD-FISH)

CARD-FISH is a sensitive method for the specific staining of cells of certain prokaryotic groups. On the left-hand side are shown all unspecifically DAPI-stained cells from a pelagic redoxcline of the Baltic Sea; on the right side is the same sample with those cells that hybridized with the Crenarchaeota-specific probe Cren679 (Labrenz et al. 2010).
(CARD-FISH = catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization)

Diploma thesis and studies

Title: "Identification of active microorganisms in pelagic redoxclines of the central Baltic Sea" (2010)
Open library entry of University Library of Rostock
Supervisor: PD Dr. Matthias Labrenz

• Universtity Rostock
  10/2004 to 08/2010
• University Umeå, Sweden (ERASMUS Program)
  08/2008 to 04/2009

Research Cruises

• June 2012: Meteor M87/3b (central Baltic Sea)
  Sampling for PhD thesis
• Nov 2011: Meteor M86/1b (central Baltic Sea)
  Sampling for PhD thesis
• July 2011: Elisabeth M. Borgese EMB1 (central Baltic Sea)
  Sampling for PhD thesis
• Okt 2009: Alkor (central Baltic Sea)
  Sampling and RNA-SIP Experiments for diploma thesis
• June 2008: Maria S. Merian MSM8/3 (Tallinn-Kiel)
  Student helper for sampling
• Feb 2008: Maria S. Merian MSM7/2a (Las Palmas-Walvis Bay/Namibia)
  Student project "Investigating the distribution of Bchl a and aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic (AAP) bacteria in the atlantic"