Dr. Greta Reintjes

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Dr. Greta Reintjes is a marine biologist and microbial ecologist. Her research centers on the investigation of microbiomes, the com­munit­y of mi­croor­gan­isms col­on­iz­ing a par­tic­u­lar eco­sys­tem, and the role these microorganisms play in local and global biochemical cycling. She accomplishes this by combining culture-independent approaches such as super-resolution microscopy to studying microbial metabolism at a single-cell level and next-generation sequencing techniques to study complete microbial community responses. Her early research focused on deciphering how ma­ri­ne mi­cro­or­ga­nisms af­fect and mediate car­bon tur­no­ver in the Oce­ans. Currently, she is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on a joint research project between the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, focusing on the prebiotic functional enhancement of livestock microbiome.