Department of Marine Plankton Research

Biology and ecology of marine zooplankton in boreal waters (e.g., Baltic Sea) and polar regions (both the Arctic and the Southern Ocean). Arctic and Antarctic marine ecology, with a special focus on zooplankton (genetics, population dynamics, distribution patterns, and regime shifts). Combination of field, experimental and molecular work, with experience in multivariate statistics. Next-generation sequencing approach, i.e., analysis of marine bacterioplankton communities (including bacterial endosymbiont identification) as well as marine eukaryotic metabarcoding using different molecular markers.