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Mia M. Bengtsson

@miamynta.bsky.social
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Scientist, parent, immigrant. From Sweden via Norway & Austria to Germany. Coastal microbiomes, seagrass meadows, mixotrophy, carbon cycling.

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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
There is still one day left to apply for an exciting PhD position in my lab in the framework of the CONCENTRATE consortium. If you are interested in algal-bacterial interactions and marine glycans, don't hesitate! More details here: www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit....
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Katharina Hoff @katharinahoff.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
@miamynta.bsky.social also has an exciting open PhD position withon #TRR420 #CONCENTRATE. Check it out: www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
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Research Assistant - Institute of Microbiology 25/Wi21
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Mikrobiologie, AG „Küstenmikrobiome“,
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
PhD opportunity in my group as part of the #CONCENTRATE TRR. Marine algae-glycan-bacterial interactions. Please apply or share! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
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Research Assistant - Institute of Microbiology 25/Wi21
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Mikrobiologie, AG „Küstenmikrobiome“,
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Proud to be part of this!
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I'm so happy and proud to be part of the collaborative research centre CONCENTRATE! Lots of cool research on algal-bacterial interactions and carbon cycling planned in my group. Stay posted!
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Enjoying my first stay at #SLU in Uppsala as an August T. Larsson guest researcher. Looking forward to strengthening collaborations within aquatic microbial ecology and #OneHealth with Prof. Stefan Bertilsson and others!
view from office window showing greenery and blue sky
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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
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Tillmann Lueders @luederslab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Microbiology Postdocs from all over Europe and the Globe! 🦠😎👍 Application for the FEMS SSPD 2025 “Harnessing microbial solutions in environmental research and One Health” is now open 👇 2 – 10 Sept 2025 on Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia Co-Directors: Joana Falcao Salles and @luederslab.bsky.social
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FEMS Summer School for Postdocs 2025 - FEMS
Menu: Introduction – Applications – Programme This has been the most valuable and enjoyable scientific event I’ve attended so far. The atmosphere was incredible, with inspiring co-directors and mentor...
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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
it's a hard and sad time in science / higher ed in the US right now. on the other hand, lots of PhDs are looking for work, so I wanted to share— I'm hiring a postdoc! it's a two-year position at UCSC to do (preferably Bayesian) modeling of marine ecosystems: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01892
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Quantitative Marine Ecology
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I'm beyond excited to be part of this collaborative research centre! Stay tuned for updates from me on shallow water bodies in (coastal) peatlands and their microbiomes!
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Greifswald Mire Centre @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Kicking off WETSCAPES 2.0! This week marked the start of the first @dfg.de collaborative research center dedicated to researching rewetted fens. Over 50 scientists discussed the 100 screening sites, 5 core sites, and 2 landscape-level experiments. And we installed the first of our 1,000 sensors!
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Celebrating our recently published paper on sea urchin microbiomes in fond memory of coauthor Stein Fredriksen, a wonderful scientist, colleague and friend ❤️
Portrait of Stein Fredriksen behind a candle
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Are seagrass meadows filters or reservoirs of pathogenic bacteria? Maybe both! Check out our new paper on Vibrios www.int-res.com/abstracts/am...
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Ecology of potentially pathogenic Vibrio spp. in a seagrass meadow ecosystem
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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries
Seagrass Zostera marina in Baltic Sea showing blue carbon, photo credit Pekka Tuuri
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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
and another 5-yr (!) postdoctoral position at GEOMAR Kiel on advancing seagrass assisted evolution, see details and link to apply www.geomar.de/en/karriere/.... Omics and pop genetics knowledge required, seagrass and coastal ecology desirable. @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries
taking sediment cores for blue carbon via SCUBA in the Baltic Sea
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
John Raven was a great inspiration to me as a budding scientist, proud to have met him in person!
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Paco Cardenas @paccardenas.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
New #museomics lab manager wanted at the University of Copenhagen!
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Reorienting myself in the new social media landscape because of reasons. What is currently the best alternative to instagram, e.g. for science outreach purposes?
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Still a few days left to apply for numerous exciting PhD and Postdoc positions within the interdisciplinary WETSCAPES2.0 consortium, including a PhD position in my group and a Postdoc closely collaborating with us. Anyone interested in peatlands should check out and spread the word!
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
That's me in the pink hat! Excited to learn more about peatland microbiomes :)
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Anne Daebeler @anne-daebeler.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
📢 The first PhD paper of my first PhD student Justus Nweze is out! 🤩 We looked at aerobic and anaerobic methanotrophs in Czech peat: academic.oup.com/femsec/advan... Thanks also to Vojtech Tlaskal, @wutkowska.bsky.social, Travis Meador, Tomas Picek, and Zuzana Urbanova for a great collaboration!
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Regulators of aerobic and anaerobic methane oxidation in two pristine temperate peatland types
Abstract. Despite covering less than 5% of Earth's terrestrial area, peatlands are crucial for global carbon storage and are hot spots of methane cycling.
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Katharina Hoff @katharinahoff.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
We spent a large part of our summer on annotating protein coding genes in 49 diatom genomes. A joint effort of @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social 's team at UConn, @miamynta.bsky.social and my own team UG. Preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arX... Data is currently on Zenodo.
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Annotation of protein-coding genes in 49 diatom genomes from the Bacillariophyta clade
Diatoms, a major group of microalgae, play a critical role in global carbon cycling and primary production. Despite their ecological significance, comprehensive genomic resources for diatoms are limit...
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Gerald Jurasinski @terhorab.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
Finally, our perspective paper „Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law is published in Ambio. We urgently need an undiluted Nature Restoration Law! link.springer.com/article/10.1... @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social @succowstiftung.bsky.social
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Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law - Ambio
The EU Nature Restoration Law (NRL) is critical for the restoration of degraded ecosystems and active afforestation of degraded peatlands has been suggested as a restoration measure under the NRL. Her...
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Greifswald Mire Centre @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
Troubleshooting #methane & #peatland question: What’s the lesser evil - drained peatlands emitting CO2 or #rewetting causing CO4 emissions? Find answers in our beautifully animated new film 📽️ youtu.be/9fR8oxjxpTQ Produced in coop of @succowstiftung.bsky.social. the ELF & @unigreifswald.bsky.social
Snippet of film "Do methane emissions undermine peatland rewetting" (Illustration: Sarah Heuzeroth)
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
Today, for the first time in my life, I signed a permanent working contract. A milestone I will make sure to celebrate, latest during the weekend! Feelings are mixed, joy and relief are prominent, yet there is so much left to fight for, for me personally as well as others in academia #ichbinhanna
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
Excited to be part of this work about freshwater mixotrophs in lake Lunz led by Sebastiaan Koppelle and Susanne Wilken aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Contrasting responses of different mixotrophic protists to light and nutrient availability
Mixotrophic protists are important members of aquatic microbial food webs where they can dominate bacterivory and strongly impact energy and nutrient flow. While light and nutrient availability are k...
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Mia M. Bengtsson @miamynta.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
We saw sulfate-reducing bacteria in the middle of a phytoplankton bloom and found that a bit strange, so decided to make a paper out of it! Out now in FEMSEC academic.oup.com/femsec/artic.... Thanks to all collabs at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social and @unigreifswald.bsky.social
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Marine particle microbiomes during a spring diatom bloom contain active sulfate-reducing bacteria
During an algal bloom in the North Sea, bacteria living alongside oxygen producing diatoms exploit anoxic niches to reduce sulfate.
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Gerald Jurasinski @terhorab.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
#stellefrei Im Projekt EDELNASS (es geht um Biomasse-Eigenschaften von Paludikulturbiomasse auch in Abh. von Standortcharakteristika und Life Cucle Assessment) möchten wir asap eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in besetzen (65% E13). www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in - AG Moorforschung 24/Wi14
Stellenausschreibung AG Moorforschung
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Katharina Hoff @katharinahoff.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Cool paper lead by the team of @miamynta.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1093/fems... It's cool because we did not previously know that sulfate reducing bacteria play a role in diatom blooms.
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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
Very impressive and important article on the importance of the few but critical particle attached bacteria critical for remineralisation of algal glycans from blooms, co-authored by @miamynta.bsky.social and others microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Particle-attached bacteria act as gatekeepers in the decomposition of complex phytoplankton polysaccharides - Microbiome
Background Marine microalgae (phytoplankton) mediate almost half of the worldwide photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation and therefore play a pivotal role in global carbon cycling, most prominently du...
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