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Limnologen  Aktuellt  Newsletter  of  the  Limnology  Department              Mo  7     Monday  Seminar  10:00,  Inga    Th  10       Seminar  13:15,  Jan  Karlsson        Mo  14     Monday  Seminar  10:00,  Hanna    Fr  18     Seminar  13:15,  Johannes  Rousk    Mo  21       Monday  Seminar  10:00,  Richard       BGC  meeting,  Anne    Th  24       Seminar  13:15,  Matthew  Leibold    Fr  25       Thesis  defence:  Mercé  Berga       10.00,  Friessalen    

Assembly  mechanisms  in  aquatic  bacterial  communities  -‐  the  role  of  disturbances,  dispersal  and  history  Opponent:  Matthew  Leibold  

      18.00  Party  in  Hågaby    Mo  28       Monday  Seminar  10:00,  Claudia        

     Challenge:       The   13th   Symposium   SAME    (this  year  called  First  EMBO  Conference  on  Aquatic  Microbial   Ecology)   was   hold   in   Stresa,   Italy.  With   440   attendees   (microbial   ecologists,   aquatic  and   environmental   microbiologists,   and   scientists  with   an   interest   in   aquatic   microbial   ecology)    from  over  50  countries  this  meeting  was  one  of  the  largest  of  the  SAME  series.      The  beauty  of  this  series  is  the  concept  of  a  small-‐scale   meeting   without   parallel   sessions,   ensuring  the   highest   attendance   to   oral   presentations,   as  well   as   to   posters,   with   the   participation   by   the  world   leaders   in   the   field   of   aquatic   microbial  ecology.   Outstanding   keynote   lectures,   high  consideration   for   PhD   students   and   young  researchers   combined   with   a   number   of   social  events  make  these  meetings  unique.      In  2015,  we  will  have  the  pleasure  to  host  SAME  14  here  in  Uppsala.  Exciting!  

...  Limno   Intern:   From   now   on   we   will   use  medarbetarportalen   as   communication   and  information   platform.   This   is   how   you   get   there:  https://mp.uu.se,   login  with   your   password  A  and  find  the  group:    grupper  >  Limnologi  >  Document  >  limno.    Feel   free   to  explore   the   features  of   this  page  and  fill   this   page   with   information.     The   information  from   our   old   Ping-‐Pong   site    will   be   gradually   moved   here.   Make   sure   that    your   upload   may   NOT   be   perceived   as   offensive,  insulting  or  criminal  under  the  Swedish  Penal  Code  or   violates   the   copyright   laws.   This   also   includes  papers   and   books!   For   this   purpose   we   will   use  Dropbox.      In   case   you   are   uncertain   about   the   content   you  want   to   upload   or   to   suggest   ideas   for   structure  and  content  -‐  please  contact  Friederike.    Also   note   that   you   have   full   managing   rights   for  this  site  (including    “delete  file…  J  ”).      

Issue  17  October  2013  

 

Dates     News        

Torsten:  cannot  just  walk  on  water,  He  also  feeds  this  personal  science  blog  –  With  and  without  fiction.  Have  a  look:  http://microbegeek.wordpress.com/  

 

Field  work:    Omneya  is  sampling    

strawberries.  Last  summer  picture.  

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 (Courtesy  of  Claudia)    

 

  The  Limnology  Newsletter  appears  monthly  and  informs  about  the  EBC-‐Limnology  Department.  For  comments  and  contribution  please  get  in  contact  with  friederike.heinrich@ebc.uu.se  

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  Welcome  to  Limno:  

Martha   Schattenhofer   from   Germany   starts   her   postdoc   with   Stefan   on   the  topic:   “Adaptation   of   microbial   communities   to   changes   in   the   environment”.      She   did   her   PhD   on   the   topic   of   distribution   and   diversity   of   marine  bacterioplankton   at   the   MPI   for   marine   microbiology   in   Bremen,   Germany.  During   her   first   postdoc   she   was   the   project   coordinator   of   the    Helmholtz-‐Alberta-‐Initiative   at   the   UFZ   in   Leipzig,   Germany   dealing   with  sustainable  oil  sands  tailings  management.  

Aunchalee   Aussanasuwannakul   is   a   researcher   from   Thailand.   Her   research   has   focused   on  relating   fish  growth  to   flesh  quality.    She  received  her  Ph.D.   in  Animal  and  Food  Sciences  with  an  emphasis  on  Aquaculture  from  West  Virginia  University,  U.S.A.  in  2011.   Her   dissertation   used   fertile   (2N)   and   sterile   (3N)   female   rainbow   trout  (Oncorhynchus  mykiss)   as   a   model   evaluating   the   effect   of   egg   development   on  nutrient   turnover   and   the   impact   of   this   turnover   on   fillet   quality.      Her   recent   project   related   muscle   organization   and   molecular   components    to   flesh   texture   of   rainbow   trout   fed   plant-‐based   diet   was   conducted    in  collaboration  with  INRA  –  Fish  Physiology  and  Genomics  Laboratory  in  France.    

 Aunchalee  will   join  Limnology  in  Peters  group  as  a  postdoctoral   fellow  for  six  months  to  study  the  development  and  growth  of  perch  in  relation  to  food  quality.  

Lyubov   Bragina   is   a   PhD   student   from  Dundalk   Institute   of   Technology  (Ireland)   currently   visiting  Uppsala   as   part   of   the   COST  Action   "Netlake"  short   term   scientific   missions   (host   Stefan   Bertilsson).    Water  quality  is  a  priority  area  in  Ireland  is  very  important,  partly  because  many  lakes  are  used  as  drinking  water  resources.      Lyubov’s   PhD   project   deals   with   how   intensive   agriculture   and   cattle  farming  may  affect  the  sustainable  use  of  surface  waters  as  drinking  water  reservoirs.  One  tool  used   is  microbial  source  tracking  with  E.  coli  as   fecal  indicators  and  the  influence  of  environmental  change  on  pathogen  survival  and  dispersion.    

Marcus   Wallin   is   starting   a   PostDoc   with   Gesa.   He   is   interested   in    the  landscape  C  cycling  and  particular  the  influence  of  aquatic  systems  and  their   function   as   conduits   for   export   of   C   and   GHG´s   across    the   terrestrial/aquatic/atmosphere   interfaces.   He   did   his   PhD   at   SLU    and  is  currently  finishing  a  postdoc  at  UU,  Earth  Sciences.    From  October  he  will  move   to   Limno   and  work  within   the   LAGGE  project  modelling  C  and  N  in  aquatic  systems.  He  is  looking  forward  to  the  project  and  to  meet  new  (and  old)  colleagues.