Leander Ruemmele has been working as a Freelance Editor and Motion Graphics Artist for over ten years. He lives in Berlin, Germany. Leander graduated from the University of Applied Science in Stuttgart, Germany, with a Master of Arts – Electronic Media. After graduating from U-Stuttgart he was a teaching instructor for camera workshops and taught courses on video editing and creative story telling. His videos and graphics have highlighted science outreach of multiple research institutions. He is an award winning documentary short filmmaker.

Film documentation of a Bhattacharya and Kewalo Lab Collaboration

See interviews with graduate students, scientists, and professors in the video below.

Scenes from the Video





Select Videos created by Leander on the Bhattacharya Lab YouTube channel
The Coral Holobiont Response to Climate Change
The Story of Primary Plastid Endosymbiosis…
SPANISH – The Coral Holobiont Response to Climate Change
Extreme Solutions to Extreme Problems
Leander’s videos published on scientific journal websites
The Endosymbiotic Ratchet
Endosymbiotic Ratchet Accelerates Divergence after Organelle Origin
The Paulinella model for plastid evolution
Debashish Bhattacharya et. al. 2023. BioEssays.
doi: 10.1002/bies.202200165
Testing the Chassis and Engine Hypothesis for Plastid Origin
Evidence for a robust photosystem II in the photosynthetic amoeba Paulinella.
Arwa Gabr et.al. 2022. New Phytologist.
doi: 10.1111/nph.18052
The Engine and Chassis Model of Primary Plastid Endosymbiosis
Why is primary endosymbiosis so rare?
Timothy G. Stephens et.al. 2021. Tansley Insights in New Phytologist.
doi: 10.1111/nph.17478
