Meet the Filmmaker

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.

Coral Holobiont poster

Film documentation of a Bhattacharya and Kewalo Lab Collaboration

Diverse Tools Poster

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

Leander Ruemmele
Leander Ruemmele

Scenes from the Video

Graphics of a coral under water
Magnification of a coral - drawing
Coral hospital graphics
Scene from a video, fish, turtle
Leander on set in Hawaii

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

Leander Ruemmele
Leander during his free time