Stockholm university

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

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Dr. Rachel A Foster, Researcher

Members

Linnéa Ström

PhD

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

Sepehr Bardi

Doktorand

Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Sepehr Bardi, PhD student at SU (DEEP)

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