WOLFRAM M. BRUCK, Ph.D.

wbruck@hboi.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow - Microbiology
Division of Biomedical Marine Research (DBMR)
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution

Wolfram is a Microbiologist and a Molecular Biologist originally from Cologne, Germany. After finishing his undergraduate work in Minnesota, he earned his Masters degree in 1998 developing a novel PCR-ELISA for the diagnosis of whooping chough at the University of Manchester Medical School (UK). In 2003, he finished his Ph.D. at the University of Reading in southern England where he researched the modulation of the infant gut microflora. Wolfram has been with Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution since April 2003 where he mainly focuses on the microflora of the marine sponge Discodermia and the occurrence of anaerobes in sediments and sponges.