About Young ISDR and the Young ISDR Core Team
The idea for "Young diatomists/Young ISDR" was created at the European Geosciences Union general assembly in Vienna in 2015 as a possibility of bringing the energy of early-career researchers and technicians dealing with diatom research into the council of the International Society of Diatom Research (ISDR). The aim was to create a platform for early career scientists and technicians in order to facilitate networking for them. Hannah Vossel prepared activities for the International Diatom Symposium (IDS) 2016 in Québéc such as the first Young Diatomist Meeting including a speedtalk session and the election.
During the IDS 2016 Québéc, Hannah was elected as the new Early-Career Representative (ECR) and with the aid of Xavier Benito started creating the network of early career researchers. In 2017 Andrea Burfeid was added to the newly created Young ISDR core team. This core of people started creating the network presence of the Young diatomists.
Twitter: young_ISDR
Facebook: Diatomi discipuli
Instagram: youngisdr
Instagram: youngisdr
email: youngdiatomists@gmail.com
Google groups network: youngdiatomists@googlegroups.com
Here, young diatomists (including early-career researchers and technicians) can share publications, job offers and blog posts about ongoing diatom researchor get in contact with each other.
The Young ISDR core team also organized several activities at the IDS 2018 in Berlin including an informal get-together, speed-talk sessions, a day full of post-conference workshops and again elections for an new ECR. During the general ISDR meeting, a new system for the ECRs was established, adding a second ECR to the council, increasing the imprint of the ECR in it. Thus, since then, the 4 year ECR running time is set to overlap with the next ECR. At each International Diatom Symposium a new ECR will be elected to learn the ropes from the previous ECR and then teach them to the next elected. During IDS Berlin Andrea Burfeid was elected as new ECR in addition to Hannah Vossel as outgoing ECR.
The next ECR will be elected in Yamagata 2020.
I
am currently a PhD student & "young lecturer" at the University of
Bonn. My research focus is the usage of fossilized diatoms in lacustrine
sediment cores for the reconstruction of palaeoenvironments and
palaeoclimate during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean region,
especially Israel.
Andrea Burfeid, Early Career Representative of the International Society of Diatom Research. Aquatic Ecologist.
I
finished my PhD September 2018, researching the effect of macro-ecology
on diatom communities. I studied their taxonomic, bioindicative,
morphometric and ecologically functional reactions to changes in
freshwater physicochemical traits throughout a 10-year sampling effort.
My main interest lies in the holistic observation of diatom ecology/biology through
time. I am currently holding a scholarship to study marine epiphytic diatoms from Antarctica at the University of Duisburg Essen.
Xavier Benito-Granell, coordinator. Aquatic ecologist.
I
study aquatic ecosystems across different time and spatial scales. My
research interest lies on the interface between limnology, paleoecology
and biogeography. Diatoms are at the core of my research. Particularly,
I´m interested to use species and communities as sentinels of global
change, in combination with biophysical and social records to understand
complex socio-ecological systems.
Chetan Gaonkar
Biodiversity,
biogeography and evolution of marine eukaryotes is my field of
research. Microalgae constitute an integral part of all photic habitats
on the planet. My research aims at assessing the diversity of these
algae and uncovering the unknowns. High throughput sequencing (HTS) and
other parallel sequencing tools allow us to uncover hidden diversity,
which goes unnoticed with the classical microscopic monitoring. In order
to unveil this hidden diversity using HTS, the first and foremost
important thing is the availability of a taxonomically validated
reference dataset. Hence, my research focuses on bridging the gap
between classical taxonomy and molecular tools, which allows generating
reference barcodes. A reference barcode for a species is generated by
collecting, cultivating and characterizing the species of interest by
means of for instance microscopy and sequencing of particular DNA marker
regions, called barcodes. These barcodes can then be used to identify
and assess the species diversity in the HTS metabarcoding approaches. At
present, my research focuses on assessing the harmful algae diversity
in aquaculture farms. My personal interest has developed towards changes
in microalgal assemblages with time, where I focus my interest on how
species are evolving and how anthropogenic activity have impacted on the
community and ecosystem as a whole.
Young ISDR Core Team
Hannah Hartung (née Vossel), Outgoing Early Career Representative of the International Society of Diatom Research. Palaeoecologist & GeologistI
am currently a PhD student & "young lecturer" at the University of
Bonn. My research focus is the usage of fossilized diatoms in lacustrine
sediment cores for the reconstruction of palaeoenvironments and
palaeoclimate during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean region,
especially Israel.Andrea Burfeid, Early Career Representative of the International Society of Diatom Research. Aquatic Ecologist.
I
finished my PhD September 2018, researching the effect of macro-ecology
on diatom communities. I studied their taxonomic, bioindicative,
morphometric and ecologically functional reactions to changes in
freshwater physicochemical traits throughout a 10-year sampling effort.
My main interest lies in the holistic observation of diatom ecology/biology through
time. I am currently holding a scholarship to study marine epiphytic diatoms from Antarctica at the University of Duisburg Essen.Xavier Benito-Granell, coordinator. Aquatic ecologist.
I
study aquatic ecosystems across different time and spatial scales. My
research interest lies on the interface between limnology, paleoecology
and biogeography. Diatoms are at the core of my research. Particularly,
I´m interested to use species and communities as sentinels of global
change, in combination with biophysical and social records to understand
complex socio-ecological systems.Chetan Gaonkar
Biodiversity,
biogeography and evolution of marine eukaryotes is my field of
research. Microalgae constitute an integral part of all photic habitats
on the planet. My research aims at assessing the diversity of these
algae and uncovering the unknowns. High throughput sequencing (HTS) and
other parallel sequencing tools allow us to uncover hidden diversity,
which goes unnoticed with the classical microscopic monitoring. In order
to unveil this hidden diversity using HTS, the first and foremost
important thing is the availability of a taxonomically validated
reference dataset. Hence, my research focuses on bridging the gap
between classical taxonomy and molecular tools, which allows generating
reference barcodes. A reference barcode for a species is generated by
collecting, cultivating and characterizing the species of interest by
means of for instance microscopy and sequencing of particular DNA marker
regions, called barcodes. These barcodes can then be used to identify
and assess the species diversity in the HTS metabarcoding approaches. At
present, my research focuses on assessing the harmful algae diversity
in aquaculture farms. My personal interest has developed towards changes
in microalgal assemblages with time, where I focus my interest on how
species are evolving and how anthropogenic activity have impacted on the
community and ecosystem as a whole.
Mia Otto
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