Dr. Andreas Sichert

Microbial communities play central roles in Earth’s biochemical cycles. In the ocean, interactions between algae and heterotrophic bacteria control the flux of anthropogenic CO₂ emissions into the deep ocean where carbon is stored on a millennial scale. In my research, I study how microbial communities degrade complex polysaccharides from marine algae. I am especially interested in understanding the metabolic interactions between community members such as division of labor and cross-feeding of metabolites.

Interests
- Glycobiology
- Microbial Ecology and Physiology
- Microbiomes

Short curriculum vitae

2020-2021 PostDoc in the Cordero Lab at MIT, Cambridge (MA)

2020 PhD in the Hehemann Lab at the University of Bremen (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/MARUM)