Dr. Manon Dünn
Curriculum vitae
Since 2023 | Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne in a DFG funded project on deep sea microbial food webs |
2019-2023 | Ph.D. in Biology, University of Cologne, Institute of Zoology, thesis on the topic “Biogeography and its impact on benthic heterotrophic protists – investigations from the littoral to the deep sea” |
2015-2018 | Master of Science in Biological Science with specialisation in ecology and evolution, University of Cologne, thesis on the topic “Diversity and distribution of deep-sea protists in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea” |
2012-2015 | Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Cologne, thesis on the topic “Protist communities of floating Sargassum in the North Atlantic with special consideration of their contribution to deep-sea communities” |
Research interests
-Ecology and diversity of marine protists
-Biogeography of microbial eukaryotes
-Deep-sea microbial food webs
-Metabarcoding / environmental sequencing
-Phylogeny of heterotrophic nanoflagellates
Recent publications
2024
Scepanski, D., Augustin, N., Dünn, M., Scherwaß, A., Xavier, J.R., Werner, J., Waldvogel, A.-M., Arndt, H. (2024) Vertical distribution of epibenthic megafauna of a large seamount west of Cape Verde islands (tropical North Atlantic). Marine Biodiversity 54:6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-023-01400-w
2023
Dünn, M., Arndt, H. (2023): Distribution patterns of benthic protist communities depending on depth revealed by environmental sequencing—from the sublittoral to the deep sea. Microorganisms 2023, 11, 1664. DOI:10.3390/microorganisms11071664
Sachs, M., Dünn, M., Arndt, H. (2023): Benthic heterotrophic protist communities of the Southern Baltic analyzed with the help of curated metabarcoding studies. Biology, 12, 1010. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12071010
2022
Hohlfeld, M., Arndt, H. (2022): Changes in the Abundance and Taxonomic Composition of Benthic Heterotrophic Protists from Atlantic Sublittoral to Deep-Sea Sediments. Diversity 14(3), 164. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14030164
Hohlfeld, M., Meyer, C., Schoenle, A., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H (2022).: Biogeography, autecology, and phylogeny of Percolomonads based on newly described species. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 00:e12930. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12930
Schoenle, A., Hohlfeld, M.; Rybarski, A., Sachs, M., Freches, E., Wiechmann, K., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H. (2022): Cafeteria in extreme environments: Investigations on C. burkhardae and three new species from the Atacama Desert and the deep ocean. Europ. J. Protistol. 85: 125905
2021
Carduck, S., Nitsche, F., Rybarski, A., Hohlfeld, M., Arndt, H. (2021): Diversity and phylogeny of percolomonads based on newly discovered species from hypersaline and marine and waters. Europ J. Protistol. 80: 125808 ; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2021.125808
Hohlfeld, M., Schoenle, A., Arndt, H. (2021): Horizontal and vertical small-scale patterns of benthic protist communities at the abyssal seafloor. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 103515, in press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103515
Schoenle, A., Hohlfeld, M., Hermanns, K., Mahé, F., de Vargas, C., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H. (2021): High and specific diversity of protists in the deep-sea basins dominated by diplonemids, kinetoplastids, ciliates and foraminiferans. Commun. Biol. 4, 501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02012-5
2020
Schoenle, A., Hohlfeld, M., Rosse, M., Filz, P., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H. (2020): Global comparison of bicosoecid Cafeteria-like flagellates from the deep ocean and surface waters, with reorganization of the family Cafeteriaceae. Europ. J. Protistol. (in press) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2019.125665
Živaljić, S., Scherwass, A., Schoenle, A., Hohlfeld, M., Quintela-Alonso, P., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H. (2020): A barotolerant ciliate isolated from the abyssal deep-sea of the North Atlantic: Euplotes dominicanus sp. n. (Ciliophora, Euplotia). Europ. J. Protistol. 73, Article 125664 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2019.125664
Živaljić, S., Schoenle, A., Scherwass, A., Hohlfeld, M., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H. (2020): Influence of hydrostatic pressure on the behaviour of three ciliate species isolated from the deep sea. Marine Biology 167:63