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Bianca Bobowski


Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries


Guest scientist until December 31, 2025

Fields of Activity

 Current

  • Statolith analyses of cephalopods
  • Cooperation with the International Council fort he Exploration of the Sea
  • Work for the EU-Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Former

  • Concept for coastal fish monitoring

Research interests

  • Biology of cephalopods
  • Biodiversity of marine invertebrates
  • Marine conservation
  • Fishing management of cephalopods

Scientific background

since 2021: PhD at the University Rostock, sponsored by a scholarship of the „Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst“
2020: Scientific employee at the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Bremerhaven
2019: Scientific employee at the Thünen Institue of Baltic Sea Fisheries, Rostock
2016 – 2018: Studies of Marine Biology at University Rostock, graduation: Marine Biology Master of Science 2011 – 2015: Studies of Biology at Technical Univeristy Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, graduation: Biology Bachelor of Science

Publications (peer reviewed)

  1. 0

    Bobowski BTC, Power AM, Burns F, Carbonara P, Cuccu D, Follesa MC, Jochum KP, Moreno A, Sokolova IM, Valls M, Oesterwind D (2025) Classification of European Illex coindetii and Loligo forbesii squid stocks by trace element analysis of statoliths. Fish Manag Ecol: Online First, Sep 2025, DOI:10.1111/fme.70016

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn070081.pdf

  2. 1

    Laptikhovsky V, Moreno A, Oesterwind D, Perales-Raya C, Pierce G, Robin J-P, Sobrino I, Valls M, Villanueva R, Allen A, Abad E, Bello G, Bobowski BTC, Fernández-Álvarez FÁ, Cabanellas-Reboredo M, Gonzalez AF, Hernández-Urcera J, Krstulovic Šifner S, Lefkaditou E, MacLeod E, et al (2025) The reproductive ecology of Loligo squids (Cephalopoda: Myopsida) in Lusitanian zoogeographical province. Reg Studies Mar Sci 91:104506, DOI:10.1016/j.rsma.2025.104506

  3. 2

    Bobowski BTC, Power AM, Burns F, Carbonara P, Cuccu D, Donnaloia M, Follesa MC, Moreno A, Sokolova IM, Valls M, Oesterwind D (2024) Stock discrimination of two European squids (Illex coindetii, Loligo forbesii) by statolith shape analysis. Fish Manag Ecol 31(3):e12689, DOI:10.1111/fme.12689

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn067672.pdf

  4. 3

    Bobowski BTC, Power A-M, Pierce GJ, Moreno A, Iriondo A, Valeiras J, Sokolova IM, Oesterwind D (2023) Cephalopods, a gap in the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive and their future integration. Mar Biol 170(3):26, DOI:10.1007/s00227-022-04148-2

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn065989.pdf

  5. 4

    Oesterwind D, Bobowski BTC, Brunsch A, Laptikhovsky V, Hal R van, Sell AF, Pierce GJ (2020) First evidence of a new spawning stock of Illex coindetii in the North Sea (NE-Atlantic). Fish Res 221:105384, DOI:10.1016/j.fishres.2019.105384

  6. 5

    Bletz MC, Bina Perl RG, Bobowski BTC, Japke LM, Tebbe CC, Dohrmann AB, Bhuju S, Geffers R, Jarek M, Vences M (2017) Amphibian skin microbiota exhibits temporal variation in community structure but stability of predicted Bd-inhibitory function. ISME J 11(7):1521-1534, DOI:10.1038/ismej.2017.41

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