Areas of Expertise

• Plankton ecology and evolution
• Experimental and molecular ecology
• Paleo- and resurrection biology

Research Projects

• Temperature adaptation in European diatom populations - AWARE
• Hotspots for biodiversity shifts in the Archipelago Sea - BIOSHIFT
• Modeling advanced primary production scenarios in coastal seas - MIMOSA
• Geochemical Dynamics of Seawater-Submarine Aquifer Interactions: Impacts on Coastal Sediments and Ecosystems
• Switching the functional roles of gene expression of feeding trait plasticity in a marine key species - GeneMac

Special Methodologies & Techniques

• Cell cultivation
• Microscopical analyses
• DNA and RNA sequencing
• Population genomics
• Transcriptomics
• Bioinformatics

Major Funding & International Networks

• Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science
• Swedish Cultural Foundation
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
• Traversing European Coastlines (TREC)
• Estonian Research Council

Selected Publications

• Biodiversity of microorganisms in the Baltic Sea: The power of novel methods in the identification of marine microbes. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 2024. DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuae024
• Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds. Nature Climate Change. 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-01981-9
• Toward phytoplankton parasite detection using autoencoders. Machine Vision and Applications. 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s00138-023-01450-x
• Strain-specific transcriptional responses overshadow salinity effects in a marine diatom sampled along the Baltic Sea salinity cline. ISME Journal. 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-022-01230-x
• Ecologically coherent population structure of uncultivated bacterioplankton. ISME Journal. 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-00985-z

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