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Markus Lindh – new postdoc

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I did my PhD study at the Linnaeus University, Sweden and postdoc at University of Hawaii on microbial ecology and oceanography characterizing distribution patterns and responses to predicted climate change among marine bacterial assemblages. In much of my recent work I applied theoretical ecological frameworks such as metapopulation and metacommunity models to understand biogeography of marine microbes.

Currently I am working with Charlie Cornwallis and Karin Rengefors among others, in a collaborative interdisciplinary project on the genetic mechanisms involved in the evolution of multicellularity in microbes. The goal of this evolutionary ecology project is to determine what genetic factors allow particular unicellular organisms to take the evolutionary leap toward a multicellular life style, in particular in the model organism
Chlamydomonas sp. but also among other unicellular organisms carrying the capacity to become multicellular.

januari 9, 2017

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