Katharina Kesy

I focus on the differences between the microbial communities that colonize microplastic

particles from the Baltic Sea. My special interest lies in the characterization of the microbial assemblage and their diversity using molecular methods.

Jannes Landschoff, Dagmar Lackschewitz, Katharina Kesy and Karsten Reise (2013). Globalization pressure and habitat change: Pacific rocky shore crabs invade armored shorelines in the Atlantic Wadden Sea. Aquatic Invasions. 8: 77-87.

 

 

Katharina Kesy, Sonja Oberbeckmann, Felix Müller, Matthias Labrenz (2016). Polystyrene influences bacterial assemblages in Arenicola marina-populated aquatic environments in vitro. Environmental Pollution 219: 219-227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2016.10.032

 

 

Sonja Oberbeckmann, Katharina Kesy, Bernd Kreikemeyer and Matthias Labrenz (2017). Hitchhiking microorganisms on microplastics in the Baltic Sea. In: MICRO 2016: fate and impact of microplastics in marine ecosystems: from coastline to the open sea. Amsterdam: Elsevier: 72, 978-012-812271-6

Katharina Kesy, Oberbeckmann S, Müller F, Klaeger F, Hentzsch A, Mothes S and M Labrenz (2017). The fate and stability of the microplastic-associated bacterial assemblages after passing the gut of marine invertebrates. ASLO Aquatic Science Meeting – American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA

 

 

Katharina Kesy, Oberbeckmann S, Müller F, Klaeger F, Hentzsch A, Mothes S, Labrenz M: The fate and stability of bacterial biofilms on microplastics after passing the gut of invertebrates living in the Baltic Sea. BSSC 2017 – 11^th Baltic Sea Science Congress, Rostock, Germany