PdH at University of Amsterdam – Bourses de recherches Pays-Bas 2019

We will perform the project in close collaboration with Prof. Corina Brussaard at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). The Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry (MMB) of NIOZ studies microbial communities in all types of marine environments, from estuaries to the deep ocean. Using field and experimental approaches, the diversity, physiology and activity of eukaryotic phytoplankton, prokaryotes and viruses are studied in diverse marine environmental settings.

Project description

Predatory lifestyles in marine phytoplankton Predation of microbes is traditionally assumed to be performed by heterotrophic organisms. However, many marine phytoplankton species also feed upon other microbes, and thus combine the lifestyles of both plants and animals. The subcellular interactions between photosynthesis and heterotrophy within thes...