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Georg Pohnert is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, contributing extensively to these areas through various publications.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Oceanography, Spectroscopy, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Their research interests focus on a range of topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Algal Biology and Biofuel Production, Diatoms and Algae Research, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications, and Protist Diversity and Phylogeny.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Georg Pohnert include:

  • Nico Ueberschaar
  • David A. Russo
  • Marine Vallet
  • Wim Vyverman
  • Remington X. Poulin

The scientist often publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Marine Drugs
  • The ISME Journal

Significant recent papers by Georg Pohnert include:

  • The Seminavis robusta genome provides insights into the evolutionary adaptations of benthic diatoms, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Ectoine from Bacterial and Algal Origin Is a Compatible Solute in Microalgae, 2020, Marine Drugs
  • Metabolomics Benefits from Orbitrap GC-MS-Comparison of Low- and High-Resolution GC-MS, 2020, Metabolites
  • Microbial community functioning during plant litter decomposition, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Single-cell bacterial transcription measurements reveal the importance of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) hotspots in ocean sulfur cycling, 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Molecular interactions between the specialist herbivore Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) and its natural host Nicotiana attenuata. III. Fatty acid-amino acid conjugates in herbivore oral secretions are necessary and sufficient for herbivore-specific plant responses

    Rayko Halitschke;Ursula Schittko;Georg Pohnert;Wilhelm Boland

  • Aldehyde suppression of copepod recruitment in blooms of a ubiquitous planktonic diatom

    Adrianna Ianora;Antonio Miralto;Serge A. Poulet;Ylenia Carotenuto

  • Chemical cues, defence metabolites and the shaping of pelagic interspecific interactions

    Georg Pohnert;Georg Pohnert;Michael Steinke;Michael Steinke;Ralph Tollrian

  • Wound-Activated Chemical Defense in Unicellular Planktonic Algae.

    Georg Pohnert

  • The oxylipin chemistry of attraction and defense in brown algae and diatoms

    Georg Pohnert;Wilhelm Boland

  • Phospholipase A2 activity triggers the wound-activated chemical defense in the diatom Thalassiosira rotula

    Georg Pohnert

  • Algae-bacteria interactions that balance the planktonic microbiome.

    Emilio Cirri;Georg Pohnert

  • Diatom/copepod interactions in plankton: The indirect chemical defense of unicellular algae

    Georg Pohnert

  • Interactions of the algicidal bacterium Kordia algicida with diatoms: regulated protease excretion for specific algal lysis.

    Carsten Paul;Georg Pohnert

  • Production and role of volatile halogenated compounds from marine algae

    Carsten Paul;Georg Pohnert

  • Biotic interactions of marine algae.

    Philippe Potin;Kamal Bouarab;Jean-Pierre Salaün;Georg Pohnert

  • New fatty acid amides from regurgitant of lepidopteran (Noctuidae, Geometridae) caterpillars

    Georg Pohnert;Verena Jung;Erkki Haukioja;Kyösti Lempa

  • Survey of the Chemical Defence Potential of Diatoms: Screening of Fifty Species for α,β,γ,δ-unsaturated aldehydes

    Thomas Wichard;Serge A. Poulet;Claudia Halsband-Lenk;Aitor Albaina

  • Are volatile unsaturated aldehydes from diatoms the main line of chemical defence against copepods

    Georg Pohnert;Olivier Lumineau;Anne Cueff;Sven Adolph

  • Microalgae in the postgenomic era: a blooming reservoir for new natural products.

    Severin Sasso;Severin Sasso;Georg Pohnert;Martin Lohr;Maria Mittag

  • Cloning and functional characterisation of an enzyme involved in the elongation of Δ6-polyunsaturated fatty acids from the moss Physcomitrella patens

    Thorsten K. Zank;Ulrich Zähringer;Christoph Beckmann;Georg Pohnert

  • Strategies and ecological roles of algicidal bacteria

    Nils Meyer;Arite Bigalke;Anett Kaulfuß;Georg Pohnert;Georg Pohnert

  • Extracellular Metabolites from Industrial Microalgae and Their Biotechnological Potential

    Lu Liu;Georg Pohnert;Dong Wei

  • Age and nutrient limitation enhance polyunsaturated aldehyde production in marine diatoms.

    François Ribalet;Thomas Wichard;Georg Pohnert;Adrianna Ianora

  • Metabolomics Enables the Structure Elucidation of a Diatom Sex Pheromone

    Jeroen Gillard;Johannes Frenkel;Valerie Devos;Koen Sabbe

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilhelm Boland
Wilhelm Boland Max Planck Society
Wim Vyverman
Wim Vyverman Ghent University
Florian Weinberger
Florian Weinberger Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Aleš Svatoš
Aleš Svatoš Max Planck Society
Philippe Potin
Philippe Potin Sorbonne University
Kirsten Küsel
Kirsten Küsel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Koen Sabbe
Koen Sabbe Ghent University
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Lieven De Veylder
Lieven De Veylder Ghent University
Klaas Vandepoele
Klaas Vandepoele Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie

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