Karin Rengefors
Professor in limnology at the Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden. Focuses on evolutionary ecological questions within phytoplankton.
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2018 field sampling
This summer we will have two major field sampling campaigns going on. One is here in southern Sweden, in lakes Ringsjön and Vombsjön. The project is focused on the seasonal dynamics of toxin and non-toxin producing strains of the cyanobacterium Microcystis … Continue reading
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New project on phytoplankton resilience and evolution
Together with Dr. Anna Godhe (PI), my colleagues Drs. Olof Berglund, Helena Filipsson, and I, were funded to work on phytoplankton resilience and evolution in response to pollution. The project, entitled Live to tell: Have phytoplankton evolved in response to … Continue reading
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Another new PhD student
I would like to welcome Raphael Gollnisch, a new PhD student to our group. Raphael will be working with the invasive freshwater species Gonyostomum semen, investigating the underlying differences between expanding and non-expanding lineages. He will utilize single-cell genome amplification … Continue reading
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Welcome to new PhD student
I would like to welcome our new member Emma Johansson to my lab. Emma will be working on her PhD on population genomics of the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis botrys. The focus of her PhD project is to try and understand … Continue reading
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Postdoctoral fellowship
A postdoctoral fellowship position is available to work on a project examining the major evolutionary transition to multicellularity in green algae. This project is led by Dr. Charlie Cornwallis in collaboration with Profs. Karin Rengefors and Lars-Anders Hansson. The project … Continue reading
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PhD position within EU ITN-network
A second PhD position is in the process of being filled. Note that the closing date has passed. This is a position focused on single-cell population genomics within eukaryotic phytoplankton. The position is one of 15 within a European network … Continue reading
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Population genetic structure in a large marine diatom bloom
We found that the Baltic Sea spring diatom bloom displayed strong spatial structure driven by oceanographic connectivity and geographical distance, which was enhanced by the pronounced salinity gradient http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.12722/abstract#. This work was done within the Prodiversa Nordforsk network and would … Continue reading
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Congratulations Dr. Sefbom!
On Friday September 25th, Josefin Sefbom, PhD student on the joint project “Dispersal barriers of microalgae” defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations! Josefin still has some copies of her thesis so do contact her if you are interested.
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New paper by Ingrid Sassenhagen
Ingrid Sassenhagen just published the last paper of her thesis in Journal of Plankt0n Research. In this papers she has investigated if cysts of the raphidophyte Gonyostomum semen germinates and starts growing best in their own lake water, and thereby … Continue reading
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Presentation at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
On July 9th I gave a short presentation in the MBL awardee brown bag seminar series on “Exploration of invasion patterns of a harmful algal bloom species using RAD-tag sequencing and population genomics”. I am spending seven weeks this summer … Continue reading
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