Biografie

since 01.05.10

PhD student at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Potsdam, Germany

06.09 - 03.10

Research Assistant at the MPI for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

10.06 - 03.09

study of M.Sc. Geosciences at the University of Bremen, Germany

10.02 - 09.06

study of B.Sc. Geosciences at the University of Bremen, Germany

Forschung

since 01.05.10 PhD student at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany. - PhD project on Lipid Biomarkers and aDNA in sediments -

03.08.11 - 30.11.11 Visiting Scientist at the Australian Center for Ancient DNA (ACAD), Adelaide, Australia.

15.06.09 - 31.03.10 Research Assistant at the MPI for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany Microbial Habitat Group. Biomarker analysis, labeling experiments.

18.11.08 - 06.02.09 Visiting Scientist at the Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador. Project on salt lakes and microbial mats, labeling Experiments.

Grants

European Association of Organic Geochemists Award (2011)

Grant of the International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2010)

Conferences

AOGC 2010 in Canberra, Australia

IMOG 2009 in Bremen, Germany

Summer School

25.09.11 - 09.10.11 Summerschool "Tectonics, Climate and Evolution in East Africa" – Part 2, Kenya.

07.02.11 - 11.02.11 Nebroc and Ecolmas course “Molecular Organic Biogeochemistry” at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, Netherlands.

18.09.11 - 11.10.11 Summerschool "Tectonics, Climate and Evolution in East Africa" – Part 1, Kenya, Tanzania.

M.Sc.Thesis

Summer/Autumn 2008: "Molecular Signatures of Biological Soil Crusts and Salt Lakes of South Australia"

M.Sc. Project

14.09 - 02.12.2007 M.Sc. Project on Desert Crusts of South Australia at the Australian National University (ANU). Participation in a two-week fieldtrip into South Australia, organised by Prof. P. DeDekker, and subsequently analyses at the laboratories of Dr. J.J. Brocks (http://shrimp.anu.edu.au/people/jjb/jjb.html)

Expeditions

27.09 - 06.10.09 Expedition to submarine shallow-water hydrothermal vent systems, Milos, Greece.

04.04 - 22.04.07 FS Meteor, M72/3, Black See. Geochemistry of mud volcanoes. Pore water analysis.

27.02 - 22.03.07 FS Sonne, SO-191, New Zealand Napier-Auckland. Geochemistry of cold seeps. Pore water analysis.

19.06 - 03.07.05 RV Professor Logachev, TTR 15. Black Sea. Geochemistry of mud volcanoes. Pore water analysis.

03.01 - 25.01.04 FS Alexander v. Humboldt-Expedition AHAB1, Benguela Upwelling Area. Sampling with the multicorer.

Research Interests: ancient DNA, Biogeochemistry, Organic Geochemistry

Publikationen

Wegener, G., Bausch, M., Holler, T., Nguyen, M. T., Prieto Mollar, X.,, Kellermann, M.Y., Hinrichs, K-U. and Boetius, A. (2012) Assessing sub-seafloor microbial activity by combined stable isotope probing with deuterated water and 13C-bicarbonate. Environmental Microbiology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02741

Poster at the AOGC 2010, Canberra, Australia: M. Bausch, R. Tiedemann, D. Sachse. Ancient DNA and sedimentary lipids - A new biomarker approach.

Poster at the IMOG Conference 2009, Bremen, Germany: F. Schubotz, M. Bausch, S. Borin, D. Daffoncio, R. Abed, D. de Beer, P. De Deckker, and K-U. Hinrichs. Widespread occurence of glycolipids from heterocystous cyanobacteria in arid soils from Svalbard and Australia.