RESEARCH PROFILE

The head of the group is Prof Dave Scanlan, Professor in Marine Microbiology in the Department

The group has several main areas of research:

· Community structure and niche adaptation mechanisms in marine cyanobacteria

· Molecular genetics of nutrient assimilation and regulation in cyanobacteria

· Sensing environmental stimuli in cyanobacteria

· Light regulation of gene expression in cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae

· Microbiology and molecular ecology of eukaryotic picophytoplankton

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Elucidating niche adaptation mechanisms in a ubiquitous marine phototroph: a targeted omics approach, with -, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 01/04/2011 Project End Date: 31/03/2014
• No cost extension to 24889 - How important is prokaryotic photoheterotrophy in ecosystems of the Atlantic Ocean from 40oS to 40oN?, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 01/02/2013 Project End Date: 20/12/2013
• SYNERGY - Marie Curie IEF - Joseph Christie de Oleza, with -, Funded by: European Commission, Project Start Date: 01/03/2011 Project End Date: 28/02/2013
• How important is prokaryotic photoheterotrophy in ecosystems of the Atlantic Ocean?, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 01/02/2010 Project End Date: 31/01/2013
• No cost extension to 21748 " Dissecting, and revealing the controls on, the group-specific CO2 fixation budget of the Atlantic Ocean", Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 08/06/2012 Project End Date: 07/12/2012
• Regulatory gene networks and ecological distinctness in marine synechoccus, with -, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 01/09/2009 Project End Date: 31/08/2012
• Dissecting and revealing the controls, on the group-specific CO2 fixation budget of the Atlantic Ocean, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 08/06/2009 Project End Date: 07/06/2012
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Grob Carolina; Hartmann Manuela; Zubkov Mikhail V; et al.(2011) 'Invariable biomass-specific primary production of taxonomically discrete picoeukaryote groups across the Atlantic Ocean.' Environmental Microbiology 13 (12), 3266 - 3274 (1462-2912)
• Professor David J ScanlanBarnett James P.; Robinson Colin; Scanlan David J.; et al.(2011) 'The Tat protein export pathway and its role in cyanobacterial metalloprotein biosynthesis' FEMS Microbiology Letters 325 (1), 1 - 9 (0378-1097)
• Hartmann Manuela; Grob Carolina; Scanlan David J.; et al.(2011) 'Comparison of phosphate uptake rates by the smallest plastidic and aplastidic protists in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre' FEMS Microbiology Ecology 78 (2), 327 - 335 (0168-6496)
• Bouman Heather A.; Ulloa Osvaldo; Barlow Ray; et al.(2011) 'Water-column stratification governs the community structure of subtropical marine picophytoplankton' Environmental Microbiology Reports (online) 3 (4), 473 - 482 (1758-2229)
• Kirkham, A. R., Jardillier, L. E., Holland, R., et al.(2011) 'Analysis of photosynthetic picoeukaryote community structure along an extended Ellett Line transect in the northern North Atlantic reveals a dominance of novel prymnesiophyte and prasinophyte phylotypes' Deep-Sea Research. Part 1: Oceanographic Research 58 (7), 733 - 744 (0967-0637) [article]

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RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

• Regulation of cyanophage photosynthesis, Date of Completion: 2014
• Elucidating the function of a Synechococcus CRP regulator, Date of Completion: 2013
• Elucidating the function of metallothioneins in marine cyanobacteria, Date of Completion: 2012
• Molecular diversity of photosynthetic eukaryotes, Date of Completion: 2011