Karin Rengefors
Professor in limnology at the Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden. Focuses on evolutionary ecological questions within phytoplankton.
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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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Sampling in Maine
Successful sampling in Maine. With the help of Dr. Ramunas Stepanauskas at Bigelow Laboratory, I found Gonyostomum in a humic lake in Nobleboro, Maine. For the next weeks I will be busy isolating and attempting to culture cells from this … Continue reading
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