Monika Winder, Professor, Stockholm University

E-mail: monika.winder@su.se

My research interest is in the consequences of environmental change for food webs and ecosystem functions. My research addresses questions in lakes, estuarine-coastal and ocean ecosystems with a special emphasis on planktonic organisms. I conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Washington, Seattle, and at the University of California Davis, and received my PhD in Natural Sciences from the ETH in Zürich.

PhD students

Baptiste Serandour, Ph.D. student, Stockholm University

Email: baptiste.serandour@su.se

I am a PhD student in marine biology at Stockholm University. I am interested in the food web interaction between primary producers and consumers. I use selective DNA barcoding and network modelling to investigate food web structure under changing environmental conditions. This project is connected to the VR project: Consequences of zooplankton feeding strategies on the function of marine ecosystems.

Noah Ngisiange, Ph.D. student, Stockholm University

Email: noah.ngisiange@su.se

My study aims to assess the impacts of environmental change on fish larvae productivity in seagrass habitats in Kenya and Tanzania. The studies will investigate drivers and changes in coastal habitats at decadal, annual and seasonal time scales, combined with biophysical dispersal models to demonstrate ecosystem responses against socio economic stressors. This knowledge will help to effectively manage potential seagrass habitat risks from climate change and development over the coming decades, and how they are related to fish larvae production to benefit food-provisioning services.

Tinanshuo Xu, PhD student Stockholm University

Email: Tianshuo.xu@su.se

Symbiotic interactions in plankton food webs

Kinlan Jan, PhD student Stockholm University

Email: kinlan.jan@su.se

I am a PhD student in Marine Biology. My project aims to give a better description of the plankton-fish link using novel molecular tools. Planktivorous fish are key components of the pelagic food web as they support upper trophic levels, such as commercially important fish, and indirectly control algal growth by feeding on zooplankton. Although understanding the interactions between plankton and fish is crucial for the development of ecosystem-based management strategies, the full spectrum of planktivorous fish prey is rarely considered, mostly due to limitations of the methods. In this project, DNA metabarcoding on low levels of dietary DNA (dDNA) and modeling will be used to investigate the full prey spectrum of planktivorous fish. The outcome of the project will provide a better understanding on the plankton-fish interactions and help predict the variation of energy flow from primary producer to fish under different scenarios, such as climate warming, eutrophicationand fisheries.

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MASTER STUDENTS

Rebecca Schröter, MS.c. student, Stockholm University: Uptake efficiency of cyanobacteria by zooplankton

Amalia McAllister, MS.c. student, Stockholm University

Leo Näsström, MS.c. student, Stockholm University

Emelie Bergmann, MS.c. student, Stockholm University

Josefine Schmidt, MS.c. student, Stockholm University

Lab Alumni

PhD Students

Per Hedberg, Ph.D. student, Stockholm University

Andreas Novotny, Ph.D. student, Stockholm University

Konrad Karlsson, Ph.D. student, Stockholm University

Alfred Burian, Ph.D. student, Stockholm University

Jens Nielsen, Ph.D. student, Stockholm University

Rafael Bermudez, Ph.D. student, Kiel University
Current position:  Lecturer at Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador

Postdocs and Researchers

Dr. Sara Zamora, Postdoc, Stockholm University

Dr. David Costalago, Postdoc, Stockholm University
Current position: Researcher, University of British Columbia

Dr. Jennifer R. Griffiths, Postdoc, Stockholm University
Current position:  Technical Lead, Habitat Strategic Initiative at Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, USA

Alexander Raschke, MS.c. student, Geomar, Kiel, Germany