Lab members
Eric Capo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Umeå University (Sweden). He has a PhD in molecular paleoecology with expertise in aquatic microbial ecology and is the founder of the sedaDNA scientific society, a network about sedDNA research.
Contact : eric.capo@umu.se
Maïlys Picard is a postdoc in Eric's lab, looking at historical shifts of photosynthetic communities in Swedish lakes using sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA). Her PhD investigated the link between cyanobacterial blooms and non-native fish introduction in New Zealand lakes, also using sedaDNA (University of Waikato, Cawthron Institute, New Zealand).
Contact : mailys.picard@umu.se
Meifang Zhong is a PhD student working on microbial metabolisms of deoxygenated marine systems with molecular (paleo)ecology approaches (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, MAGs).
Contact : meifang.zhong@umu.se
Júlia Dordal Soriano is a PhD student at the ICM-CSIC (Barcelona). Her current research focuses on the study of microbial processes and environmental factors that control mercury transformations in the global ocean, with particular emphasis on the formation of methylmercury.
Contact : julia.dordal.18@gmail.com
Baraa Rehamnia is a postdoc researcher working on microorganisms surviving in low-energy environments i.e. aquatic deep sediments using MAGs obtained from metagenomic datasets.
Contact : baraa.rehamnia@umu.se
Dongna Yan is a postdoc working at the Institute of Earth Environment (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, Shaanxi). Her current research focus on the study of past ecological environmental changes recoded by sedDNA (e.g., metabarcoding, metagenomics) and geochemical indicators, with particular emphasis on the history shifts of phytoplankton community and ARGs. During her PhD, she used sedDNA and multiple geochemical-physical indicators to study the impacts of climate changes and human activities on cyanobacterial community changes over the past millennium in Lake Chenghai (China).
Contact : yandn@ieecas.cn
Lourdes Martínez-García is a postdoc looking at the coral resilience to climate change by studying the historical symbiotic breakdowns between coral and microalgal symbiotic species using ancient DNA. During her PhD, she used ancient DNA and stable isotope methods to provide a long-term genomic and historical exploitation perspective of Atlantic cod.
Contact : lourdes.martinez.garcia@umu.se
Sébastien Leveque is a PhD student investigating the acclimation and adaptation of the coral holobiont. He mainly focus on the symbiotic community composition within coral reefs using molecular ecology tools.
Contact : sebastien.leveque@umu.se
Fredrik Olajos is a PhD student using molecular ecology methods - ddPCR and metabarcoding - to study lake food webs with a focus on fish and waterbirds.
Contact : fredrik.olajos@umu.se
Panagiota Xhantopoulou is a visiting PhD student from University of the Aegean (Greece) using environmental DNA to study invasive species in Greek Seas.
Anthony Khairallah is a Master student studying mercury methylation in lakes using metagenomics.
Main collaborators
- Inger G Alsos (UiT, Tromsø, Norway)
- Agneta Andersson (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Anders Andersson (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)
- Elinor Andrén (Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden)
- Linda Armbrecht (University of Tasmania, Australia)
- Fabien Arnaud (EDYTEM, Le-Bourget-du-lac, France)
- Cecilia Barouillet (INRAE CARRTEL, Thonon-les-Bains, France)
- Stefan Bertilsson (SLU, Uppsala, Sweden)
- Christian Bigler (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Richard Bindler (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Erik Björn (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Heidi Burdett (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Pär Byström (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Andrea Garcia Bravo (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
- Marco Coolen (Curtin University, Australia)
- Didier Debroas (LMGE, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
- Isabelle Domaizon (INRAE CARRTEL, Thonon-les-Bains, France)
- Laura Epp (Konstanz University, Germany)
- Charline Giguet-Covex (EDYTEM, Le-Bourget-du-lac, France)
- Caitlin Gionfriddo (SERC, Edgewater, USA)
- Irene Gregory-Eaves (McGill University, Canada)
- Peter Heintzman (Stockholm University, Sweden)
- Nick Kamenos (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Qi Lin (NIGLAS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
- Marie-Eve Monchamp (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
- Kevin Nota (MPI_EVA, Leipzig, Germany)
- Laura Parducci (University of Rome, Italia)
- Mikkel Winther Pedersen (Globe Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Frances Pick (University of Ottawa, Canada)
- Jarone Pinhassi (Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden)
- Ben Peterson (University of California-Davis, USA)
- Alexandra Rouillard (UiT, Tromsø, Norway)
- Johan Rydberg (Umeå University, Sweden)
- John Smol (Queen´s University, Kingston, Canada)
- Trisha Spanbauer (Toledo University, USA)
- Göran Spong (SLU Umeå, Sweden)
- Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring (AWI, Potsdam, Germany)
- Narumi Tsugeki (Matsuyama University, Japan)
- Aurele Vuillemin (GFZ Potsdam, Germany)
- Susie Wood (Cawthron Institute, New-Zealand)