Research Project MIMAS Comes Third at North German Research Award

The research cooperation MIMAS, a project in collaboration between the University of Greifswald, the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and eight further partners with scientific and industrial backgrounds, came third in competition for the first North German Research Award.

The award honours successful scientific cooperation projects across the federal states and is granted by the ministries of science of the five North German states.

The third-placed scientists of the “Microbial Interaction in Marine Systems“(MIMAS) project for the first time succeeded in determining complex microbial communities in the North and Baltic Sea and to investigate their function within the ecosystem.

The cooperation’s interdisciplinary is unique internationally and bundles North German research skills from various fields, including ecology, microbiology and genomics.

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Press Release, November 30, 2012