Vanessa Russnak
- Tobias-Hünefeldt, Sven P.,Woodhouse, Jason N.,Ruscheweyh, Hans-Joachim,Sunagawa, Shinichi,Russnak, Vanessa,Streit, Wolfgang R.,Grossart, Hans Peter (2026) . Osmotolerance is a driver of microbial carbon processes in the Elbe estuary. mSystems, --, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01790-25 . OPEN ACCESS
- Biederbick, J.,Möllmann, C.,Hauten, E.,Russnak, V.,Lahajnar, N.,Hansen, T.,Dierking, J.,Koppelmann, R. (2025) . Spatial and temporal patterns of zooplankton trophic interactions and carbon sources in the eutrophic Elbe estuary (Germany). ICES Journal of Marine Science : Journal du Conseil, Vol. 82, 8, fsae189, Academical Press, London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae189 . OPEN ACCESS
- Russnak, Vanessa,Sanders, Tina,Keuter, Sabine,Koll, Raphael,Dähnke, Kirstin (2025) . The Elbe Estuary microbiome shifts with salinity and discharge and depends on fresh organic matter and nutrient availability. Environmental Microbiology Reports, Vol. 18, 3, e70349, Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.70349 . OPEN ACCESS
- Tobias-Hünefeldt, S.P.,van Beusekom, J.E.E.,Russnak, V.,Dähnke, K.,Streit, W.R.,Grossart, H.P. (2024) . Seasonality, rather than estuarine gradient or particle suspension/sinking dynamics, determines estuarine carbon distributions. Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 926, 171962, Elsevier, Amsterdam. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171962 . OPEN ACCESS
- Martens, N.,Russnak, V.,Woodhouse, J.,Grossart, H.P.,Schaum, C.E. (2024) . Metabarcoding reveals Cryptophyceae and picophytoplankton as key groups of phytoplankton in the Elbe estuary. Environmental Research, Vol. 252, Part 4, 119126, Elsevier, San Diego. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.119126 . OPEN ACCESS
Russnak, V., Rodriguez-Lanetty, M., Karsten, U. (2021). Photophysiological tolerance and thermal plasticity of genetically different Symbiodiniaceae endosymbiont species of Cnidaria. Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol. 8, 657348. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.657348.
Fuss, T., Russnak, V., Stehr, K., Schluessel, V. (2017). World in motion: Perception and discrimination of movement in juvenile grey bamboo sharks (Chiloscyllium griseum). Animal Behavior and Cognition, Vol. 4, No. 3, 223–241. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.04.03.03.2017.
- since Feb 2021:
PhD at the Department of Aquatic Nutrient Cycles at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Project: „BluEs - Blue_Estuaries - Nachhaltige Ästuar Entwicklung unter Klimawandel und anderen Stressoren“ ("BluEs - Blue_Estuaries - Sustainable estuarine development under climate change and other stressors") - Mar 2020: Master of Science in Marine Biology at the University of Rostock
Thesis: "Comparative study of photophysiological and thermal tolerance of different genotypes of the coral endosymbiont Symbiodinaceae in Exaiptasia pallida” - Sep 2016: Bachelor of Science in Biology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
Thesis: "Visual discrimination of movement in the gray bamboo shark (Chiloscyllium griseum)"