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  • New Grant! 10th October 2024

We got funded! 

Together with colleagues from Spain, Sweden and Brazil we will investigate the impacts of cyanobacteria on ecosystem services across the ecosytems boundaries. We will soon advertise a 2-year PostDoc position. Stay tuned!

  • Welcome Vana! 1st September 2024

We are excited for Vana Paida to start as a PhD student. Vana will work on the physiological adaptation of Daphnia to salinisation. We are excited to have Daphnia experiments running again! 

 

 

 

 

 

  • New Publication! 9th July 2024

All organisms experience suboptimal growth conditions due to low nutrient and energy availability. Their ability to survive and reproduce under such conditions determines their evolutionary fitness. By imposing suboptimal resource ratios under different dilution rates on the model organism Pseudomonas putida KT2440, we show that this bacterium dynamically adjusts its elemental composition, morphology, pools of biomolecules, and levels of gene expression. By examining the ability of bacteria to respond to C:N:P imbalance, we can begin to understand how stoichiometric flexibility manifests at the cellular level and impacts the flow of energy and elements through ecosystems.

Thank you Logan, for leading this work! 

  • Michele = Master of Science! 14th June 2024

Michele has successfully defended his MSc thesis EnvEuro program and is now ready for new challenges in Greenland and Ethiopia! During his thesis work, Michele investigated drivers of cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Lugano. He analysed in-situ data and satellite images.

Simon David Herzog (Roskilde University) was the external examiner.

Michele was co-supervised by Camilla Capelli (SUPSI, Switzerland) and Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier (BOKU, Austria). 

 

We are very sad to see him go – all the best of luck with your future projects, Michele!

  • New Publication! 4th June 2024

How do ecological and biological processes (e.g., competition, trophic interactions, metabolism, and adaptation) affect the directionality and magnitude of feedbacks between ecosystems and climate? Here we are using illustrative examples from the aquatic sphere to argue, that despite ample evidence for the likely significance of many, our present understanding of the combinatorial effects of ecosystem dynamics precludes the robust quantification of most ecologically driven climate feedbacks.

 

Thank you Corday, Richard and Laura for leading this work!

 

This publication was facilitated by the Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences (Eco-DAS) XIV programme.

  • Neuer Podcast 16th May 2024

In German only!

 

Natur 2.0 – Der Biodiversitäts-Podcast

Überall, wo es Podcasts gibt!

Insektenforscher Thomas Hörren und Prof. Dr. Jana Isanta-Navarro unterhalten sich alle 14 Tage über Biodiversität, den Verlust von biologischer Vielfalt, das Leben in und mit der wissenschaftlichen Forschung sowie aktuelle Studien aus dem Bereich. Biodiversität ist, gemeinsam mit der globalen Erderhitzung, eines der zentralen Themen unserer Zeit und wir gestalten heute mit, wie Menschen in der Zukunft leben können. In jeder Folge erwarten euch wiederkehrende Kategorien und neue Einblicke, z. B. in spannende aktuelle Studien sowie in die heimische Artenvielfalt, denn ein interessantes Lebewesen bekommt alle zwei Wochen etwas Aufmerksamkeit.

Grafik und Schnitt: Sarah Lück 
Stimme des Intros: Wissenschaftsjournalistin Katharina Adick
Musik: RafalR

  • Cladocera 2024 18th April 2024

I am honoured to be invited as a keynote speaker, alongside Justyna Wolinska,  at the Cladocera Conference 2024. The conference runs from 6-12 October at beautiful Lago Maggiore in Verbania, Italy. Abstract submission is open until May 15th, so make sure to register! Hope to see you in Italy in autumn! 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Welcome Claudia! 26th March 2024

We are excited for Claudia Lassen to start as a PhD student. Claudia will work on the plasticity and evolvability of phytoplankton key-ecological traits to environmental change. We look forward to many exciting experiments!






  • New Publication! 7th March 2024

In Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, Mary-Jane West-Eberhard argued that the developmental mechanisms that enable organisms to respond to their environment are fundamental causes of adaptation and diversification. Twenty years after publication of this book, we reflect on the progress in the field and outline a framework to identify developmental causes of adaptive evolution. 

Thanks you Tobias, for leading this work!

  • We are hiring! 29th January 2024
PhD position available in Daphnia adaptation through space and time. We are looking for a highly motivated student to join our team in Copenhagen, interested in working experimentally with Daphnia. In order to be eligible you need to hold a Master degree. Questions? Please do not hesitate to reach out.
 
We look forward to YOU joining our team!
 
Apply here!
 
 
  • New role for Jana! 23rd January 2024
Jana joined the editorial board of the international journal Limnologica, which is published in cooperation with the German Limnological Society. Limnologica publishes peer-reviewed articles addressing biological, physical and chemical aspects of freshwater ecosystems and adjacent habitats.
Jana looks forward to serving the community in her new role.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • New Publication! 15th January 2024
This paper is for everyone who always wondered: “What is Chlamydomonasmade of?” We grew Chlamydomonas in chemostats under different resource limitations and growth rates and investigated its elemental and macromolecular plasticity. Especially under low light conditions, Chlamydomonas alters its macromolecular composition. Also, differences are most pronounced at slow growth and partially disappears at fast growth. It appears that there are many ways to grow slow which eventually converge to only one way of growing fast. Especially the trade-off between storing C in lipids or carbohydrates is interesting.
 
Give it a read!
 
 
  • We are hiring! 13th October 2023
PhD position available in evolutionary ecology of Phytoplankton. We are looking for a highly motivated student to join our team in Copenhagen, interested in working experimentally with phytoplankton. In order to be eligible you need to hold a Master degree. Questions? Please do not hesitate to reach out.
 
We look forward to YOU joining our team!
 
Apply here!
 
 
  • Young Talent Award! 21st September 2023

For her work on Rapid Evolution, Jana received the Schwoerbel-Benndorf Young Talent Award 2023 from the German Limnological Society. It is a great honour to take care of Clara, the trophy, for a year. We will make sure, that she has a great time in Denmark.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Finalist ECR Award! 31st August 2023

Our synthesis paper was shortlisted as one of the top 5 finalists for the Ecology Letters Early Career Researcher Award 2022! Congratulations to the winning paper and the other shortlisted contributions.



  • New Position! 1st August 2023
I am thrilled to announce that I will start as a tenure-track Assistant Professor for Freshwater Ecology at the University of Copenhagen in October.
 
I look forward to joining a great team of faculty at the Freshwater Section and to establish my own research group in such a renown place. My group will work on evolutionary ecology of planktonic organisms in lake ecosystems. I hope that together, we can work towards understanding emerging anthropogenic threats to freshwater organisms, explore their adaptive potential and identify the consequences for their ecology.
 
Stay tuned for some exciting job posting here soon!
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