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Planetary Biology

Understanding life in its natural context

Planetary Biology Projects

Planetary Biology projects involve several expeditions, and cover topics ranging from biodiversity, adaptation in model species and communities, to ecotoxicology.

Special projects

Special projects

TREC

Traversing European Coastlines

The Planetary Biology flagship project, enabling the expedition to study coastal ecosystems and their response to the environment, from molecules to communities

SYNTERRA

Synthetic biology for ecological engineering of arid soil ecosystems

We address the problem of rapid ecological shifts in drylands due to climate change

CRYOZOO

Animal Cell Line Biobank for Conservation and Research

Collaborative project of Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona ZOO Foundation, Barcelona Museum of Natural Sciences, and EMBL

BIOcean5D

Marine biodiversisty assessment and prediction across spatial, temporal and human scales

EU funded project

Biodiversity

Exploring biodiversity across scales: from genomes to phenomic traits

STARDUST

Schwab Team (EMBL Heidelberg)

Ultrastructural biodiversity of dinoflagellates across the European coastline

NAVARRO

Schwab Team (EMBL Heidelberg)

Enabling environmental structural biology

DOLITTLE

Savitski Team (EMBL Heidelberg)

Diversity of protein N-glycosylation in the tree of life  

PlanExM

Dey Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Revealing planktonic ultrastructural diversity with Expansion Microscopy

STANDFLOW

Schwab Team (EMBL Heidelberg)

Towards a standardised data management workflow: a focused knowledge exchange for the planetary biology community

Adaptation: Model Species

Adaptation in animal models: the genotype-phenotype link across environmental gradients

CHARM

Vincent Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

The Chaetoceros Diatom as an Ecologically Relevant Model System for Molecular and Cell Biology Research

CryMap

Dorrity Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Genetic mapping of cryptic traits in medaka

PLATYptation

Dorrity Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Plasticity and adaptation of development in natural populations of Platynereis

SizeEvolve

Vu Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Planarian body size: Why are some animals small and others large?

Brain diversity in Platy

Arendt Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Charting brain diversity and evolution across coastal European marine Annelids

EeEL

Aulehla Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Evolution of extreme Elongation

otorridus vs beetle

Grasshopper

Keane Group (EMBL-EBI Hinxton)

Evolution and transcriptional dynamics of toxin resistance in the grasshopper mouse

PlanetProt Kim Remans

PlanetProt

Remans Team (EMBL Heidelberg)

Recombinant protein production for facilitating molecular investigations of non-classical organisms

H-MIMOR

Hackett and Boulard Groups (EMBL Rome)

Impact of Host-Microbiome Interactions on Mammalian Olfaction and Reproduction

OR1000

Boulard Group (EMBL Rome)

Profiling environment-dependent olfactory adaptation by in situ sequencing

Adaptation: Communities

Mining community sequencing data across environmental gradients

SPIRE

Bork Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Searchable Planetary-scale mIcrobiome REsource

HGT

Bork Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Horizontal Gene Transfer across species and habitats

LIBIOM

Garcia Alai Team (EMBL Hamburg)

Lithium biomining employing extremophilic microorganisms from the Central Andes

MICROSIC

Garcia Alai Team (EMBL Hamburg)

Discovery of metabolisms and biogeochemical cycles in extreme environments from South America

ECOM

van Gestel Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Experimental coevolution of microbial predator-prey communities

Ecotoxicology

Ecotoxicology: pushing the limits of experimental ecotoxicology

FlyAgroToxin

Crocker Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Fruit flies as a platform for ecological developmental biology and environmental exposure

FlyToxinEvo

Crocker Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Physiological and adaptive responses to agrochemicals in insects

EXPOCER

Bork and Zimmermann Groups (EMBL Heidelberg)

Effects of xenobiotic pollutants on coastal microbial ecosystem resiliency

PHYTOXLIB

Zimmermann Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Screening a chemical library of marine pollutants for toxicity and biotransformation

PATHFIND

Zimmermann Group (EMBL Heidelberg)

Microbial biotransformation of environmental pollutants

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