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Project
The secret garden: diatom adaptation and evolution in benthic environments
We aim to identify and functionally characterize key adaptations that drive the extraordinary species diversity and ecological success of benthic diatoms. We will employ a multi-disciplinary approach to study the role of climate-sensitive abiotic stressors and diatom-bacteria interactions on life cycle dynamics in existing and newly developed model species, as well as in natural populations.
Date:1 Jan 2023 → Today
Keywords:quorum sensing, interkingdom signaling, regulatory pathways, recombination, population genomics, phototrophic biofilms, single-cell RNA-sequencing, bacteria, sexual life cycles, biomarkers., Diatoms, climate change, experimental evolution
Disciplines:Single-cell data analysis, Chemical and physical ecology, Computational evolutionary biology, comparative genomics and population genomics, Marine ecology, Environmental marine biotechnology