Emilia Sogin What Is The Relationship Between Sea Grasses And The Microbial Communities That Live In Their Sediments?
Dr. (Emilia) Maggie Sogin is a Project Leader in the Department of Symbiosis at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology in Bremen. Having completed her doctoral research at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, from January 2021, she will take up the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California at Merced. Sogin’s research focuses on ecology and the environment and microbiome interactions. In 2018, Sogin received the Tom Brock award from the International Society for Microbial Ecology for the Most Innovative Research by an Early Career Scientist.
Area of Research
Microbial Ecology
since 2019
2016-2019
Post-doctoral Scientist
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (more details)
Department of Symbiosis
2015-2015
Post-doctoral Associate
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Preparation of Tag Sequencing Libraries for Illumina Sequencing
2014-2015
Research Assistant
University of Hawaii
Center for Microbial Oceanography, Research and Education
since 2020
2015
Ph.D.
University of Hawaii
Department of Zoology & Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Advisor: Dr. Ruth D. Gates
2011-2014
Hawaii EPSCoR Graduate Fellow
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, HI
2009
Studies in Marine Biology
Brown University
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
2008-2008
Three Seas Program
Northeastern University
AAUS Scientific certification
- ISME
- Scientific Reports
- Marine Chemistry
- Coral Reefs
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
- Metabolomics
Fellowships
- University of Hawaii EPSCoR ECOGEM Fellow (2011-2014)
- University of Hawaii Dai Ho Chun Fellowship (2014)
- NPS George Melendez Wright Climate Change Fellowship (2012)
- NSF East Asian and Pacific Island Summer Institute Fellow (2011)
Prizes
- Tom Brock Award for Most Innovative Research by an Early Career Scientist (2018)
- Sign up! Career building workshop for excellent post-docs part of the MPG (2019)
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Eisen J (PI), Stachowicz J (CO-PI), Sogin EM (CO-PI), 2020-2022
- Marine Technological Society Graduate Funding (2012)
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
BremenAt the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPIMM), we are investigating microorganisms in the sea and other waters. What role do they play, what are their characteristics and how great is their biodiversity? What is the contribution of microorganisms to the global cycles of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and iron? What does this mean for our environment and our climate? These and many other questions will be answered by researchers from around the world, engineers, technicians and numerous others at the MPIMM. Their fields of expertise range from microbiology to microsensors, geochemistry to genome analysis and molecular ecology to modelling.
The MPIMM was founded in 1992 and is part of the Max Planck Society (MPG). Since 2002, the MPIMM has been running the International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology (MarMic), a program for highly qualified master students and graduates of our institute and the Bremen Research Alliance partner Bremen University, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Jacobs University.
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Seagrasses evolved from terrestrial plants on at least 3 separate occasions. We know that land plants interact with their microbial communities in their soils to recruit symbionts. In this video, EMILIA SOGIN investigates whether seagrasses also retained their interactions with the microbial communities that live in their sediments. Conducting metabolomic analyses of sediment porewater as well as incubation experiments and metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analysis, Sogin notes that seagrasses excrete sugars, in particular sucrose, to their sediments. Further, the microbial communities living in their sediments have a reduced capacity to degrade these sugars. This research highlights the complex interactions seagrasses develop with their sediment microbial communities and the link to the ability of seagrasses to bury carbon.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10858
Seagrass Excretes Sugars to their Rhizosphere Making them the Sweet Spots in the Sea
- Emilia Margaret Sogin, Dolma Michellod, Harald Gruber-Vodicka, Patric Bourceau, Benedikt Geier, Dimitri Meier, Michael Seidel, Philipp Hach, Gabriele Procaccini and Nicole Dubilier
- bioRxiv
- Published in 2019
