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Dr. Solveig Bühring |
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Research Staff |
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Petrology of the Ocean Crust |
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+49 421 218-65715 |
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MARUM pavilion, 1090 |

Foto: Alina Esken
Curriculum vitae
2019 | permanent research staff at MARUM |
2018 | extention approval for Emmy Noether group |
2011 | start of the Emmy Noether Young Investigator Group Hydrothermal Geomicrobiology |
2007-2010 | MARUM Fellow at the University of Bremen/MARUM |
2006-2007 | Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Bremen/RCOM |
2005-2006 | Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2004-2005 | RCOM Fellow at the University of Bremen/RCOM |
2004 | PhD Degree from the University of Bremen Thesis: Microbial carbon processing in marine sediments: Case studies in North Sea sands and oligotrophic deep-sea sediments |
2000-2003 | PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen |
1999 | Diploma thesis at the Department of Biology (Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries),University of Hamburg Thesis: Investigations on taxonomic composition and energy reserves of benthopelagic fauna in the Northeastern Atlantic |
1996-1999 | Student at the Department of Biology, University of Hamburg |
1993-1996 | Student at the Department of Biology, RWTH Aachen |


Research interests

As a geomicrobiologist, I am interested in the link between organisms and ecosystem functioning. Recently, I focused on hydrothermal systems, investigating the microbial community using the reduced substances provided from below and how toxic substances, like arsenic, influence the microbial biodiversity and the expression of detoxification mechanism. To describe microbial communities and adaptations, I investigate their lipidome and I use stable isotope probing of lipids to investigate microbial functioning.
Publications
Durán-Toro, V, Rezwan, K, Bühring, SI and Maas, M (2022) Arsenic and sulfur nanoparticle synthesis mimicking environmental conditions of submarine shallow-water hydrothermal vents. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 111. 301-312. doi:10.1016/j.jes.2021.04.011
Sievert, SM, Bühring, SI, Gulmann, LK, Hinrichs, KU, Pop Ristova, P and Gomez-Saez, GV (2022) Fluid flow stimulates chemoautotrophy in hydrothermally influenced coastal sediments. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1). doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00426-5
Caramanna, G, Sievert, SM and Bühring, SI (2021) Submarine shallow-water fluid emissions and their geomicrobiological imprint: a global overview. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.727199
Schnakenberg, A, Aromokeye, DA, Kulkarni, A, Maier, L, Wunder, LC, Richter-Heitmann, T, Pape, T, Ristova, PP, Bühring, SI, Dohrmann, I, Bohrmann, G, Kasten, S and Friedrich, MW (2021) Electron acceptor availability shapes Anaerobically Methane Oxidizing Archaea (ANME) communities in South Georgia sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.617280
Klatt, JM, Gomez-Saez, GV, Meyer, S, Pop Ristova, P, Yilmaz, P, Granitsiotis, MS, Macalady, JL, Lavik, G, Polerecky, L and Bühring, SI (2020) Versatile cyanobacteria control the timing and extent of sulfide production in a Proterozoic analog microbial mat. The ISME Journal. doi:10.1038/s41396-020-0734-z
Aepfler, RF, Bühring, SI and Elvert, M (2019) Substrate characteristic bacterial fatty acid production based on amino acid assimilation and transformation in marine sediments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95(10). doi:10.1093/femsec/fiz131
Durán-Toro, VM, Price, RE, Maas, M, Brombach, CC, Pichler, T, Rezwan, K and Bühring, SI (2019) Amorphous arsenic sulfide nanoparticles in a shallow water hydrothermal system. Marine Chemistry, 211. 25-36. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2019.03.008
Gomez-Saez, GV, Pop Ristova, P, Sievert, SM, Elvert, M, Hinrichs, KU and Bühring, SI (2017) Relative importance of chemoautotrophy for primary production in a light exposed marine Shallow Hydrothermal System. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.00702
Pop Ristova, P, Pichler, T, Friedrich, MW and Bühring, SI (2017) Bacterial diversity and biogeochemistry of two marine shallow-water hydrothermal systems off Dominica (Lesser Antilles). Frontiers in Microbiology, 8. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.02400
Sollich, M, Yoshinaga, MY, Häusler, S, Price, RE, Hinrichs, KU and Bühring, SI (2017) Heat stress dictates microbial lipid composition along a thermal gradient in marine sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.01550
Gomez-Saez, GV, Niggemann, J, Dittmar, T, Pohlabeln, AM, Lang, SQ, Noowong, A, Pichler, T, Wörmer, L and Bühring, SI (2016) Molecular evidence for abiotic sulfurization of dissolved organic matter in marine shallow hydrothermal systems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 190. 35-52. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.06.027
Gomez-Saez, GV, Riedel, T, Niggemann, J, Pichler, T, Dittmar, T and Bühring, SI (2015) Interaction between iron and dissolved organic matter in a marine shallow hydrothermal system off Dominica Island (Lesser Antilles). Marine Chemistry, 177. 677-686. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2015.10.003
Kleint, C, Kuzmanovski, S, Powell, Z, Bühring, SI, Sander, SG and Koschinsky, A (2015) Organic Cu-complexation at the shallow marine hydrothermal vent fields off the coast of Milos (Greece), Dominica (Lesser Antilles) and the Bay of Plenty (New Zealand). Marine Chemistry, 173. 244-252. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2014.10.012
Bühring, SI, Kamp, A, Wörmer, L, Ho, S and Hinrichs, KU (2014) Functional structure of laminated microbial sediments from a supratidal sandy beach of the German Wadden Sea (St. Peter-Ording). Journal of Sea Research, 85. 463-473. doi:10.1016/j.seares.2013.08.001
Price, RE, Savov, I, Planer-Friedrich, B, Bühring, SI, Amend, J and Pichler, T (2013) Processes influencing extreme As enrichment in shallow-sea hydrothermal fluids of Milos Island, Greece. Chemical Geology, 348. 15-26. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.06.007
Bühring, S, Schubotz, F, Harms, C, Lipp, JS, Amils, R and Hinrichs, KU (2012) Lipid signatures of acidophilic microbial communities in an extreme, acidic environment: Río Tinto, Spain. Organic Geochemistry, 47. 66-77. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.03.010
Bühring, S, Sievert, SM, Jonkers, HM, Elshahed, MS, Krumholz, LR and Hinrichs, KU (2011) Insights into chemotaxonomic composition and carbon cycling of phototrophic communities in an artesian sulfur-rich spring (Zodletone, Oklahoma, USA), a possible analog for ancient microbial mat systems. Geobiology, 9(2). 166-179. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00268.x
Christiansen, B, Bühring, S, Pfannkuche, O and Weikert, H (2010) The near-bottom plankton community at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, NE-Atlantic: structure and vertical distribution. Marine Biology Research, 6(2). 113-124. doi:10.1080/17451000903150363
Bühring, S, Smittenberg, RH, Sachse, D, Lipp, JS, Golubic, S, Sachs, JP, Hinrichs, KU and Summons, RE (2009) A hypersaline microbial mat from the Pacific Atoll Kiritimati: Insight into composition and carbon fixation using biomarker analyses and a 13C-labeling approach. Geobiology, 7(3). 308 - 323. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00198.x
Elshahed, MS, Youssef, NH, Luo, Q, Najar, FZ, Roe, BA, Sisk, TM, Bühring, S, Hinrichs, KU and Krumholz, LR (2007) Phylogenetic and Metabolic Diversity of Planctomycetes from Anaerobic, Sulfide- and Sulfur-Rich Zodletone Spring, Oklahoma. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73(15). 4707-4716. doi:10.1128/AEM.00591-07
Bühring, S, Ehrenhauss, S, Kamp, A, Moodley, L and Witte, U (2006) POC processing in a sublittoral sandy sediment: pulse chase experiment with 13C-labelled diatoms. Marine Biology Research, 2. 120-129. doi:10.1080/17451000600678773
Bühring, S, Lampadariou, N, Moodley, L, Tselepides, T and Witte, U (2006) Benthic microbial and whole-community responses to different amounts of 13C-enriched algae: In situ experiments in the deep Cretan Sea (Eastern Mediterranean). Limnology and Oceanography, 51(1). 157-165. doi:10.4319/lo.2006.51.1.0157
Bühring, S, Elvert, M and Witte, U (2005) The microbial community structure of different permeable sandy sediments characterized by the investigation of bacterial fatty acids and fluorescence in situ hybridisation. Environmental Microbiology, 7(2). 281-293. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00710.x
Ehrenhauss, S, Witte, U, Bühring, S and Huettel, M (2004) Effect of advective pore water transport on distribution and degradation of diatoms in permeable North Sea sediments. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 271. 99-111. doi:10.3354/meps271099
Bühring, S, Koppelmann, R, Christiansen, B and Weikert, H (2002) Are Rhodophyceae a dietary component for deep-sea holothurians? Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 82(2). 347-348. doi:10.1017/S0025315402005556
Publications in preparation
Sollich, M, Yoshinaga, MY., Sievert, SM and Bühring, SI (in prep) Transfer of chemosynthetic fixed carbon and its ecological significance revealed by lipid analysis of fluids at diffuse flow deep-sea vents (East Pacific Rise 9°50’N)
Scientific expeditions



August 2023 |
Bridging hydrothermal sites along the Hellenic Arc off Milos from shallow to deep (BridgeHell), PI on expedition with RV METEOR to hydrothermal vents off Milos (Greece) |
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June 2017 | Expedition to submarine shallow-water hydrothermal vents off Milos (Greece) | |
June 2016 | Expedition to submarine shallow-water hydrothermal vents off Milos (Greece) | |
May 2015 | Sampling at the submarine shallow-water hydrothermal vents off Kueishantao, Taiwan | |
June 2014 | Expedition to submarine shallow-water hydrothermal vents off Iceland | |
April 2013 | Expedition to submarine shallow-water hydrothermal vents off Dominica (Lesser Antilles) | |
May 2012 | Expedition to submarine shallow-water hydrothermal vents off Milos (Greece) | |
June 2009 | Expedition to submarine shallow-water hydrothermal vents off Milos (Greece) | |
June 2008 | Experimental campaign on laminated microbial sediments, St. Peter-Ording | |
June 2006 | Expedition to Río Tinto in Spain | |
October 2005 | Expedition to the Zodletone sulfur spring in Oklahoma (USA) | |
September 2004 | Expedition to the Zodletone sulfur spring in Oklahoma (USA) | |
July 2002 | RV Philia to the Cretan Sea off Crete (Greece) | |
September 2001 | RV Heincke to the Southern North Sea off Bremerhaven (Germany) | |
June 2001 | RV Heincke to the Southern North Sea off Bremerhaven (Germany) | |
April 2001 | RV Heincke to the Southern North Sea off Bremerhaven (Germany) | |
October 2000 | RV Uthoern to the Southern North Sea off Bremerhaven (Germany) | |
April 2000 | RV Poseidon to the Northeast Atlantic off Galway (Ireland) | |
August 1998 | RV Meteor to the Northeast Atlantic off Lisbon (Portugal) | |
August 1997 | RV Alkor to the Skaggerak (North Sea ) off Kiel (Germany) | |
March/April 1997 | RV Discovery to the Northeast Atlantic off Vigo (Spain) |
reviewer for...
DFG, NSF, ANR
ISME Journal, Geobiology, PLOS ONE, Environmental Microbiology, Chemical Geology, Deep Sea Research, Organic Geochemistry, Microbial Ecology, Marine Biology, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Radiocarbon, Systematic and Applied Microbiology, Biogeosciences
teaching of...
Microbial Interactions (MarMic M.Sc.)
Molekulare Geobiologie (M.Sc.)
Einführing in die Geobiologie (B.Sc.) until 2012
Einführung in die Astrobiologie (M.Sc.) until 2012