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On March 25th, Raphael Gollnisch defended his PhD thesis “Single-cell population genetics and dispersal limitation of a bloom-forming microalga“. He did brilliantly and can now call himself Dr. Gollnisch. If you are interested in a pdf of the thesis please … Continue reading →

In one of our projects we sample year round. That means some extra challenges. Currently sampling on ice on beautiful lake Krageholmssjön. We are using an ice drill to make a hole for our sampling equipment. Of course we have … Continue reading →

I would like to welcome Sandra Rabow, who is a new PhD student in my group. Sandra’s research focus will be on the effect of extreme weather on algal blooms, specifically summer heat waves and the competition between dinoflagellates and … Continue reading →

A fully funded doctoral student position on freshwater algal bloom dynamics is available in my lab. Closing date February 15, 2020.  Project description Blooms like it hot – or not Aquatic environments are of enormous importance as natural resources of … Continue reading →

In a paper 1935, Drouet and Cohen, described that they had found the rarely observed flagellate Gonyostoum semen in a sphagnum swamp in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. This locality is referred to by residents as the Cedar Swamp. This year … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →