Rengefors Lab

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 environmental pollution during the last centuries? is funded by the Research Council Formas.

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 approach in combination with population genomic analyses. Raphael is part of the Marie Curie ITN SINGEK.

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 the dynamics and spatial structure of micocystin and non-microcystin producing subpopulations.

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 initiative, SINGEK. See the link below for a description, eligibility (note special ones for EU mobility), criteria, and more https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:92366/where:4/ and http://www.singek.eu/call-for-positions/

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 working at the MBL on a Whitman summer investigator research grant.