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Raphael Gollnisch – new PhD student

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Hej! My name is Raphael and I am from Germany (or rather, Bavaria). After my Bachelor’s in Biology, I graduated in aquatic ecology at the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) Graduate School for Evolution, Ecology and Systematics where I investigated the diversity dependence of light-use efficiency in phytoplankton communities. My scientific focus is on plankton ecology, regarding the implications of biodiversity and community assembly on ecosystem functioning, particularly concerning the role of functional trait dynamics in phytoplankton communities and their environmental feedback effects. Besides topics in experimental aquatic ecology, I spent time on stochastic processes in population genetics of introduced species and genomic
variation in general.

I am now looking forward to working on my PhD project ‘Next-Generation
microbial population genetics using single-cell genomics’ within the EU H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network SINGEK. Together with my supervisors Karin Rengefors and Dag Ahrén, I will be focusing on genomic variation and dispersal patterns in the invasive microalgal species Gonyostomum semen (Raphidophyceae). By investigating the differentiation among populations of this phytoplankton species that is known to cause nuisance algal blooms, I would like to contribute to exploring the implications of ecologically relevant biodiversity on a population genomic basis utilizing single-cell genomic amplification methods.

oktober 10, 2016

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