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Antje Wichels is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily addresses environmental science and molecular biology, focusing on microbial community ecology, microplastics, and marine ecosystems.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these areas, they have contributed to several subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pollution
  • Oceanography
  • Organic Chemistry

Their research topics cover a range of specialized subjects involving:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts

Antje Wichels has authored several scientific papers, with some recent notable publications being:

  • "Diatom fucan polysaccharide precipitates carbon during algal blooms", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "The Travelling Particles: Investigating microplastics as possible transport vectors for multidrug resistant E. coli in the Weser estuary (Germany)", 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Schoolchildren discover hotspots of floating plastic litter in rivers using a large-scale collaborative approach", 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Highly diverse flavobacterial phages isolated from North Sea spring blooms", 2021, The ISME Journal
  • "The travelling particles: community dynamics of biofilms on microplastics transferred along a salinity gradient", 2022, ISME Communications

Their work has appeared frequently in journals such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • The ISME Journal

Collaborations are an important aspect of their research activities, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Gunnar Gerdts
  • Marlis Reich
  • Bernhard M. Fuchs
  • Rudolf Amann
  • Elanor Jongmans-Hochschulz

In addition to journal articles, Antje Wichels has contributed to book publications. One such work is titled "Das Plastik Dilemma - Planspiel mit Lernsequenzen zum Thema 'Plastik im Meer' für den Naturwissenschaftsunterricht der Sekundarstufe II", published in 2021 by Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Best Publications

  • Substrate-Controlled Succession of Marine Bacterioplankton Populations Induced by a Phytoplankton Bloom

    Hanno Teeling;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Dörte Becher;Christine Klockow;Christine Klockow

  • Dangerous hitchhikers? Evidence for potentially pathogenic Vibrio spp. on microplastic particles

    Inga V. Kirstein;Sidika Kirmizi;Antje Wichels;Alexa Garin-Fernandez

  • Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during coastal spring algae blooms

    Hanno Teeling;Bernhard M Fuchs;Christin M Bennke;Karen Krüger

  • Species-Specific Bacterial Communities in the Phycosphere of Microalgae?

    Melanie Sapp;Anne S. Schwaderer;Karen H. Wiltshire;Hans-Georg Hoppe

  • The complete genome sequence of the algal symbiont Dinoroseobacter shibae: a hitchhiker's guide to life in the sea

    Irene Wagner-Döbler;Britta Ballhausen;Martine Berger;Thorsten Brinkhoff

  • The Plastisphere - Uncovering tightly attached plastic "specific" microorganisms.

    Inga Vanessa Kirstein;Antje Wichels;Elisabeth Gullans;Georg Krohne

  • Helgoland Roads, North Sea: 45 Years of Change

    Karen Helen Wiltshire;Karen Helen Wiltshire;Alexandra Kraberg;Inka Bartsch;Maarten Boersma

  • The ocean sampling day consortium

    Anna Kopf;Anna Kopf;Mesude Bicak;Renzo Kottmann;Julia Schnetzer;Julia Schnetzer

  • Bacteriophage Diversity in the North Sea

    Antje Wichels;Stefan S. Biel;Hans R. Gelderblom;Thorsten Brinkhoff

  • Small changes in pH have direct effects on marine bacterial community composition: a microcosm approach.

    Evamaria Krause;Antje Wichels;Luis Giménez;Mirko Lunau

  • Mature biofilm communities on synthetic polymers in seawater - Specific or general?

    Inga V. Kirstein;Antje Wichels;Georg Krohne;Gunnar Gerdts

  • Bacterial communities associated with four ctenophore genera from the German Bight (North Sea).

    Wenjin Hao;Gunnar Gerdts;Jörg Peplies;Antje Wichels

  • Bacterial community dynamics during the winter-spring transition in the North Sea.

    Melanie Sapp;Antje Wichels;Karen H. Wiltshire;Gunnar Gerdts

  • Seasonal Dynamics and Modeling of a Vibrio Community in Coastal Waters of the North Sea

    Sonja Oberbeckmann;Bernhard Fuchs;Mirja Meiners;Antje Wichels

  • Diatom fucan polysaccharide precipitates carbon during algal blooms

    Silvia Vidal-Melgosa;Silvia Vidal-Melgosa;Andreas Sichert;Andreas Sichert;T. Ben Francis;Daniel Bartosik

  • Bacterial diversity in the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea (Pallas).

    Antje Wichels;Sven Würtz;Hilke Döpke;Christian Schütt

  • Ecogenomics and genome landscapes of marine Pseudoalteromonas phage H105/1

    Melissa Beth Duhaime;Antje Wichels;Jost Waldmann;Hanno Teeling

  • Diversity and activity of marine bacterioplankton during a diatom bloom in the North Sea assessed by total RNA and pyrotag sequencing.

    Anna Klindworth;Anna Klindworth;Alexander J. Mann;Alexander J. Mann;Sixing Huang;Antje Wichels

  • The Travelling Particles: Investigating microplastics as possible transport vectors for multidrug resistant E. coli in the Weser estuary (Germany)

    Jessica Song;Elanor Jongmans-Hochschulz;Norman Mauder;Can Imirzalioglu

  • Spatial distribution of marine airborne bacterial communities

    Jasmin Sabrina Seifried;Antje Wichels;Gunnar Gerdts

  • Annual dynamics of North Sea bacterioplankton: seasonal variability superimposes short-term variation

    Judith Lucas;Antje Wichels;Hanno Teeling;Meghan Chafee

  • Practical application of self-organizing maps to interrelate biodiversity and functional data in NGS-based metagenomics.

    Marc Weber;Hanno Teeling;Sixing Huang;Jost Waldmann

  • Occurrence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio alginolyticus in the German Bight over a seasonal cycle.

    Sonja Oberbeckmann;Antje Wichels;Karen Helen Wiltshire;Gunnar Gerdts

  • Bacterial diversity in the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea (Pallas)

    Gunnar Gerdts;Antje Wichels;S. Würtz;Christian Schütt

Frequent Co-Authors

Gunnar Gerdts
Gunnar Gerdts Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Jacobs University
Karen Helen Wiltshire
Karen Helen Wiltshire Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Bernhard M. Fuchs
Bernhard M. Fuchs Max Planck Society
Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Georg Krohne
Georg Krohne University of Würzburg
Luis Giménez
Luis Giménez Bangor University
Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego
Maarten Boersma
Maarten Boersma Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Meinhard Simon
Meinhard Simon Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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