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Dr. Sarah Coffinet

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This web page has not been updated since the former colleague left MARUM.

 

Research Interests

  • Role of microorganisms in the carbon cycle
  • Lipid biomarkers (distribution and isotopic composition)
  • Stable and radio isotope probing
  • Method development in analytical chemistry
Preparing anoxic incubation of marine sediment
Preparing anoxic incubation of marine sediment
(c) Sarah Coffinet
Gas sampling onboard RV Sonne
Gas sampling onboard RV Sonne
(c) Sabine Kasten
Konrad optimizing LC separation of monosaccharides
Konrad optimizing LC separation of monosaccharides
(c) Sarah Coffinet

Curriculum Vitae

2019-present

DFG EXC Cluster Ocean Floor Postdoctoral position at MARUM - Organic Geochemistry Group
REACTOR Theme 2 Deep biosphere and element cycling in sediments
Sup. Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

2018

DFG EXC Cluster bridge Postdoctoral position at MARUM - Organic Geochemistry Group
Towards quantification of methane cycling in marine sediments
S
up. Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

2016-2017

UBremen Excellence Initiative early career fellowship at MARUM -
Organic Geochemistry Group
Novel archaeal lipids with a non-glycerol backbone: deviation from the universal biosynthetic building plan as adaptation to the deep biosphere?
Sup. Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

2012-2015

PhD candidate at Metis laboratory, UPMC Paris VI (Paris, France)
Validation and application of lipid biomarkers to reconstruct past environmental changes in East Africa
Sup. Dr. Arnaud Huguet and Dr. Sylvie Derenne

2010-2012

Master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry (with honours)
at Ecole Normale Supérieure* (ENS Ulm) and UPMC-Paris VI (Paris/France)

2009-2010 Exchange program at University of California at San Diego (UCSD/USA)
2007-2010

Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (highest honour)
Bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences
at SciencesPo.* and UPMC-Paris VI (Paris/France)

 

*SciencesPo and ENS Ulm are French "grandes écoles". As opposed to the university system they are highly selective with a competitive exam (admission rates of ~15% and ~4% respectively).

Lukas monitoring archaeal cultures
Lukas monitoring archaeal cultures
(c) Sarah Coffinet
Core sampling for onshore incubations
Core sampling for onshore incubations
(c) Natascha Riedinger
Lukas inoculating M. luminyensis
Lukas inoculating a pure archaeal strain
(c) Sarah Coffinet

Publication List

2020
  • Steen A.D., Kusch S., Abdulla H.A., Cakic N., Coffinet S., Dittmar T., Fulton J.M., Galy V., Hinrichs K.-U., Ingalls A.E., Koch B.P., Kujawinski E., Liu Z., Osterholz H., Rush D., Seidel M., Sepúlveda J. and Wakeham S.G. (2020), Analytical and Computational Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges in Marine Organic Biogeochemistry in an Era of “Omics”. Frontiers in Marine Science 7:718. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00718
  • Ma C., Coffinet S., Lipp J., Hinrichs K.-U., Zhang C. (2020). Marine Group II Euryarchaeota contribute to the archaeal lipid pool in Northwestern Pacific Ocean surface waters. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:1034. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01034
  • Becker S., Tebben J., Coffinet S., Wiltshire K.H., Iversen M., Harder T., Hinrichs K.-U., Hehemann J.-H. (2020). Laminarin is a major molecule in the marine carbon cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (12), p. 6599-6607. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917001117
  •  Aromokeye D.A., Kulkarni A.C., Elvert M., Wegener G., Henkel S., Coffinet S., Eickhorst T., Oni O.E., Richter-Heitmann T., Schnakenberg A., Taubner H., Wunder L., Yin X., Zhu Q., Hinrichs K.-U., Kasten S., Friedrich M.W. (2020). Rates and Microbial Players of Iron-Driven Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane in Methanic Marine Sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology 10:3041. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.03041
  •  Coffinet S., Meador T.B., Mühlena L., Becker K.W., Schröder J., Zu Q., Lipp J.S., Heuer V.B., Crump M.P., Hinrichs K.-U. (2020), Structural elucidation and environmental distributions of butanetriol and pentanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (BDGTs and PDGTs), Biogeosciences 17, p. 317-320. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-317-2020

2019

  • Arnosti C., Hinrichs K.-U., Coffinet S., Wilkes H., Pantoja S. (2019), The Enduring Questions: What's for Dinner? Where's My Knife? ...and Can I Use My Fingers? (Unanswered) Questions Related to Organic Matter and Microbes in Marine Sediments, Frontiers in Marine Science 6:629. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00629
  • Evans T.W.*, Coffinet S.*, Könneke M., Lipp J.S., Becker K.W., Elvert M., Heuer V., Hinrichs K.-U. (2019), Carbon assimilation and fate of methanogenic lipid biomarkers in marine sediments tracked by lipid radio isotope probing, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 265, p. 431-442 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.08.030
    *co-first authors: the authors equally contributed to this work.
  • Huguet A., Coffinet S., Roussel A., Gayraud F., Anquetil C., Bergonzini L., Bonanomi G., Williamson D., Majule A., Derenne S. (2019), Evaluation of 3-hydroxy fatty acids as a pH and temperature proxy in soils from temperate and tropical altitudinal gradients, Organic Geochemistry 129, p. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.01.002

2018

  • Coffinet S., Huguet A., Bergonzini L., Pedentchouk N., Williamson D., Anquetil C., Gałka M., Kołaczek P., Karpińska-Kołaczek M., Majule A., Laggoun-Défarge F., Wagner T., Derenne S. (2018), Impact of climate change on the ecology of the Kyambangunguru Crater Marsh in southwestern Tanzania during the Late Holocene, Quaternary Science Reviews 196, p. 100-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.038

2017

  • Coffinet S., Huguet A., Pedentchouk N., Omuombo C., Bergonzini L., Williamson D., Anquetil C., Majule A., Wagner T., Derenne S. (2017), Evaluation of branched GDGTs and leaf wax n-alkane δ²H as (paleo)environmental proxies in East Africa, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 198, p. 182-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.11.020

2015

  • Coffinet S., Huguet A., Williamson D., Bergonzini L., Anquetil C., Majule A., Derenne S. (2015) Occurrence and distribution of glycerol dialkanol diethers and glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in a peat core from SW Tanzania, Organic Geochemistry 83-84, p. 170-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.03.013

2014

  • Coffinet S., Huguet A., Williamson D., Fosse C., Derenne S. (2014) Potential of GDGTs as a temperature proxy along an altitudinal transect in Mount Rungwe (Tanzania), Organic Geochemistry 68, 82-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.01.004

2012

  • Coffinet S., Genty C., Bourcier S., Sablier M., Bouchonnet S. (2012), Characterization of the photodegradation products of metolachlor : structural elucidation and kinetics, Journal of Mass Spectrometry 47 (12), p. 1582-1593. https://doi.org/10.1002/jms.3121

2011

  • Goulden P.-H., Coffinet S., Genty C., Bourcier S., Sablier M., Bouchonnet S. (2011), Investigation of the Unusual Behavior of Metolachlor under Chemical Ionization in a Hybrid 3D Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer, Analytical Chemistry 83 (20), p. 7587-7590. https://doi.org/10.1021/ac201563w