2023-present: Evolving: Microalgal responses to salinity change, and closing the gap between the public and ‘algae’
(Kehittämässä: Kasviplanktonin vasteet suolapitoisuuden muutokseen, sekä suuren yleisön ja levien yhdistäminen) PhD research project currently under way! Climate change calls for adaptation. Organisms must adapt to ecosystems changed by many complex environmental drivers, while humans will also need to adapt their thinking and behaviours in response to a climate-changed world. The aim of my study is to integrate transcriptomic and phenotypic analysis of algae to clarify their responses to changing salinity, while at the same time to probe and influence public perceptions of algae to better understand the impacts and implications of this laboratory research for society.
2021: Battle in the Brine Master's thesis research project looking at the effect of nutrient availability (N:P and light) on phytoplankton trait distribution (stoichiometry, nutrient uptake, growth rate, maximum fluorescence and chlorophyll content) and competition outcomes along a salinity gradient.
2019: A Little Bit of Green
2019: Putative agarose-producing genes
2018: Lepidodinium plastid-targeted genes
2017: Plastid targeting in Chrysoparadoxa australica
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Click the thumbnail to watch a 2 minute video about my master's thesis research (Battle in the Brine)The inflated mitochondrial genome of green seaweed Ostreobium queketiiPredicted gains and losses of protein families across the tree of green lineages including a newly sequenced pedinophyte, a small class of green algae sister to the Core ChlorophytaCrysoparadoxa australica is a heterokont with only two plastid membranes, rather than the typical four, although proteins targeted to its plastid still show evidence of a canonical diatom plastid targeting signal: |