Research group Group Foster
Planktonic partnerships, or symbioses, between eukaryotic and prokaryotic plankton that are major players in the Nitrogen and Carbon cycles of the World’s oceans
Our research activities focus on planktonic symbioses between diverse lineages of eukaryotes and bacteria; more recently we have broadened this aspect to include other microbial consortia, including kleptoplasty (temporary acquisition of a plastid from one cell to another). In the team we develop and apply single cell approaches that determine the genetic identity, activity, partner function, and genome content in these understudied but biogeochemically relevant planktonic populations.
Group members
Group managers
Rachel Ann Foster
Professor
Members
Martin Ekman
Forskare
Linnéa Ström
PhD
Elina Viinamäki
Research engineer
Vesna Grujcic
Postdoctoral researcher
Sepehr Bardi
Doktorand
