Dr. Lara Schmittmann

OFFICE
Room No.: 3.310, Building 5 (ENB)
Phone: +49 431 600 4177
E-mail: lschmittmann(at)geomar.de

ADDRESS
91探花 Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
Wischhofstr. 1 - 3
24148 Kiel
Germany

WORK EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

04/2022-present Postdoctoral Researcher at 91探花 Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Ozeandynamik (Advisor: Prof. Arne Biastoch)

01/2022-06/2022 Postdoctoral Researcher at 91探花 Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Deep-Sea Biology (Advisor: Dr. Henk-Jan Hoving)

2017-2022 PhD candidate at 91探花 Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, within the International Max-Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology (Advisors: Prof. Ute Hentschel, Dr. Luc铆a Pita)

2014-2017 M.Sc. Biological Oceanography, Christian-Albrechts-Universit盲t Kiel (Advisors: PD Frank Melzner, Prof. Thorsten Reusch)

2011-2014 B.Sc. Biology, Westf盲hlische Wilhelms-Universit盲t M眉nster (Advisors: Prof. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Momir Futo)

PUBLICATIONS

Schmittmann L., Busch K., Mock. L-C., Rath W. Kluger L.C. Beyond the Bay: Biophysical simulations of disease dispersal suggest broadening spatial scales for aquaculture carrying capacity. One Earth. 7:1202-1212.

Von Hoyningen-Huene A.J.E., Bang C., Rausch P., R眉hlemann M.C., Fokt H., He J., Jensen N., Knop M., Petersen C., Schmittmann L., 鈥, and Schmitz-Streit R.A. 2024 The archaeome in metaorganism-research with a focus on marine models and their bacteria-archaea interactions. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15:1347422.

Stenvers I.V., Hauss H., Bayer T., Havermans C., Hentschel U., Schmittmann L., Sweetman A.K., Hoving H.J.T. 2023 Experimental mining plumes and ocean warming trigger stress in a deep pelagic jellyfish. Nature Communications. 14:7352.

Carrier TJ., Schmittmann L., Jung S., Pita L., Hentschel U. 2022 Maternal provisioning of an obligate sponge symbiont. Ecology and Evolution. 13:e10012.

Schmittmann L., Rahn T., Busch K., Fraune S., Pita L., Hentschel U. 2022 Stability of a dominant sponge-symbiont in spite of antibiotic-induced microbiome disturbance. Environmental Microbiology.&苍产蝉辫;24:6392鈥6410.

Podbielski I., Schmittmann L., Sanders T., Melzner F. 2022. Towards a mechanistic understanding of low salinity acclimation ability in marine invertebrates 鈥 a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9:934378.

Carrier TJ., Maldonado M., Schmittmann L., Pita L., Bosch TCG., Hentschel U. 2022. Symbiont transmission in marine sponges: reproduction, development and metamorphosis. BMC Biology. 20:100.

Schmittmann L. 2022. Establishing the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea as an experimental model for sponge symbioses. Dissertation.

Schmittmann L., Franzenburg S., Pita L. 2021. Individuality in the immune repertoire and the induced response of the sponge Halichondria panicea. Frontiers in Immunology. 12:689051.

Schmittmann L., Jahn M. T., Pita L., Hentschel U. Decoding cellular dialogues between sponges, bacteria and phages in 鈥淐ellular dialogues in the holobiont (Bosch & Hadfield eds.)鈥. 2020. CRC Press.

Sanders, T., Schmittmann, L., Nascimento-Schulze, J. C., Melzner, F. 2018. High calcification costs limit mussel growth at low salinity. Frontiers in Marine Sciences. 5:352, 1-9.

CONFERENCES

2023 Native Oyster Restoration Allicance Meeting, Middelburg, Netherlands: Quantifying the risk of disease dispersal to European flat oyster restoration sites by ocean modelling (talk)

2022 Sponge Conference, Leiden, Netherlands: Stability of a dominant sponge-symbiont during antibiotic-induced microbiome disturbance (talk)

2022 Ocean Health Symposium, Kiel, Germany: Modelling dispersal of marine diseases (poster)

2021 Annual Conference of the Society for Experimental Biology, online: How low can you go? Capacity for salinity tolerance in marine osmoconformers under hypo-osmotic stress. (talk, presented by I. Podbielski)

2021 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, ASLO, online: Temporal abundance dynamics of sponge-associated bacteria after microbiome manipulation and recolonization (talk)

2020 Annual retreat of the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology, online: On establishing the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panciea as an experimental model for sponge symbioses. (talk)

2019 Gordon Research Seminar for animal-microbe symbioses and Gordon Research Conference for animal-microbe symbioses, Vermont, USA: The sponge model on the runway of symbiosis: aposymbiotic sponges offer great potential for in vivo experimentation (poster)

2019 Young investigator day 2019, Kiel, Germany: Aposymbiotic sponges offer great potential for understanding host-bacteria interactions (poster)

2019 Organizer and presenter at the annual retreat of the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology, Oeversee, Germany: Aposymbiotic sponges offer great potential for understanding host-bacteria interactions (poster)

2018 Marine Evolution, Str枚mstad, Sweden: Understanding evolutionarily ancient mechanisms of sponge-microbe interactions (poster)

2018 Annual retreat of the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology, Breklum, Germany: Establishing a gnotobiotic sponge culture (poster)

2017 Annual Conference of the Society for Experimental Biology, Gothenburg, Sweden: Adaptation of the common sea star Asterias rubens to different salinities (poster)

SCIENCE COMMUNCATION

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September 2023 "Highlights der Physik"

Certificate program "Science Communication" at CAU Kiel

August 2022 Newspaper article S眉ddeutsche Zeitung  "Wie viel taucht die Meeresbiologin?"

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2019 Course 鈥淎nimal-Microbe Symbioses鈥 within the Master Program Biological Oceanography, 91探花 (3 weeks)
Erasmus internship Violeta Albacete, UCM Madrid (3 months, with Luc铆a Pita)
Internship Ashley Coons, CAU Kiel (4 weeks)

2018/2019 Bachelor Thesis Julius Krebs, JMU W眉rzburg

2018 Course 鈥淎nimal Physiology鈥 within the Master Program Biological Oceanography, 91探花 (3 weeks)

2017 Course 鈥淢olecular Ecology鈥 within the Master Program Biological Oceanography, 91探花 (3 weeks)