Dr. Patrick Schubert
Patrick Schubert, Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics
Justus Liebig University
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32 IFZ
D-35392 Giessen
phone: +49 (0) 641 99-35060
Email
Fields of interest/focus of work
- Mariculture of endangered and ornamental species (e.g., sea horses, giant clams and stony corals)
- Bioactive substances of marine organisms
- Interaction of zooxanthellae with Porifera, Cnidaria and Mollusca
Teaching experience
- Marine biology and mariculture (MSc Biology)
- Marine ecology and systematics (BSc Biology)
- Supervision of undergraduate and graduate students
- Field courses in marine biology
- Mariculture and Fishery at the CEMarin in Colombia (PhD Marine Sciences)
Current projects
- Microbial management of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in closed aquaculture systems
- Diseases in Hippocampus barbouri and H. fuscus (sea horses) (in cooperation with Prof. Kämpfer; Justus Liebig University Giessen)
- Nutrition of sea horse larvae (in cooperation with Prof. Eder; Justus Liebig University Giessen)
- Breeding of giant clams (Tridacna maxima) in closed systems
- Bioactive substances in the holobiont "sponge" (Haliclona sp.) (in cooperation with Prof. Kämpfer, Prof. Morlock; Justs Liebig University Giessen and Prof. Vilcinskas; Fraunhofer-Institut für Molekularbiologie und Angewandte Ökologie IME)
- pH and calcification of stony corals
- Experimental aquaculture in Colombia (CEMarin)