Prof. Dr. Maren Ziegler
Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32 IFZ
D-35392 Giessen
Phone: +49 (0) 641 99-35727
Fax: +49 (0) 641 99-35709
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Fields of interest/focus of work
- Coral holobiont dynamics and adaptation
- Coral model organisms
- Organismal interactions in coral reefs
- Global change impacts on coral reefs and conservation
The research of the Marine Holobiomics Lab focuses on how changes in the environment, both natural and anthropogenic, influence the equilibrium in the coral holobiont. To disentangle how the host and symbiont compartments interact and to understand how they are affected by environmental change, we use ecophysiological and genomic tools as well as experimental approaches in the Ocean2100 aquarium facility.
Scientific career
- since 2023: Professor for Biology of Holobionts at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
- 2018-2023: Junior research group leader 'Marine Holobiomics Lab' at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
- 9.5 months of maternity and parental leave (2020/2021)
- 10 months of COVID-disruption without childcare (2020-2022)
- 2014-2018: Postdoctoral researcher at Reefgenomics lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
- 8 months of maternity leave and part-time work (2017/2018)
- 2011-2014: Ph.D. student at Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- 2009-2011: Research associate at Senckenberg Natural History Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
- 2002-2009: Diploma in Biology at Institute for Animal Ecology and Cell Biology, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
- 2006-2007: Graduate Diploma of Research Methods in Marine Ecology and Fisheries Biology, James Cook University & Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia
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