<strong>MERG</strong> Positive trends Number of scientific publication has increased from 27 to 31. There were more and larger grant applications in 2011 than in 2010 In collaboration with Lamda, Glyconor and Tone Tønjum group a Centre of Excellent application was submitted. This got excellent marks (6) Håvard Kauserud applied for a ERC starting grant The Microlab facilitiy opened in 2011 33 SOP was written in 2011 compered to none in 2010. Showing increase focus on HSE There seem to be the same involvement in teaching. 4 Negative trends • Number of popular scientific presentation has dropped drastically from 21 to 5. • Number of poster and congress lecture has also dropped from 2010 to 2011 • There were no PhD dessitation in 2011 versus 2 in 2010 • There were 3 master graduations in 2011 versus 6 in 2010.
<strong>MERG</strong> Entered activities 1.1. PUBLICATION: Scientific publication 1 Boltovskoy, Demetrio; Kling, Stanley A.; Takahashi, Kozo; Bjørklund, Kjell Rasmus. WORLD ATLAS OF DISTRIBUTION OF RECENT POLYCYSTINA (RADIOLARIA). Palaeontologia Electronica 2010 Volum 13(3):1- 230 2 Kruglikova, S.B.; Bjørklund, Kjell Rasmus; Dolven, Jane K.; Hammer, Øyvind; Cortese, G. High-rank polycystine radiolarian taxa as temperature proxies in the Nordic Seas. Stratigraphy 2010 ;Volume 7.(4) s. 265- 281 3 Shalchian-Tabrizi, K, Røberg, K. R, Ree, D. K, Klaveness, D. and Bråte, J. 2011. Marine-freshwater colonizations of haptophytes inferred from phylogeny of environmental 18S rDNA sequences 4 Klaveness, D. & Lindstrøm,E-A. 2011. Hydrurus foetidus (Chromista, Chrysophyceae): A large freshwater chromophyte alga in laboratory culture. Phycological Research 59 (2), xx-yy 5 Nilsson RH, Tedersoo L, Lindahl BD, Kjøller R, Carlsen T, Quince C, Abarenkov K, Pennanen T, Stenlid J, Bruns T, Larsson K-H, Kıljalg U, Kauserud H. 2011. Towards standardization of the description and publication of next-generation sequencing datasets of fungal communities. New Phytologist, 191, 314-318. 6 Kumar S, Carlsen T, Mevik B-H, Enger P, Blaalid R, Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Kauserud H. 2011. CLOTU: An online pipeline for processing and clustering of 454 amplicon reads into OTUs followed by taxonomic annotation. BMC Bioinformatics, accepted. 7 Buntgen U, Kauserud H, Egli S. 2011. Linking climate variability to mushroom productivity and phenology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, available online 8 Strand DA, Holst-Jensen A, Viljugrein H, Edvardsen B, Klaveness D, Jussila J, Vrålstad T. 2011. Detection and quantification of the crayfish plague agent in natural waters: direct monitoring approach for aquatic environments. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 95: 9-17 9 Orr, R.J.S, Stüken, A, Rundberget, T, Eikrem, W, Jakobsen, K.S, Improved phylogenetic resolution of toxic and non-toxic Alexandrium strains using a concatenated rDNA approach. Harmful Algae In Press, Corrected Proof. 10 Krabberød, A. K, Bråte, J, Dolven, J. K, Ose, R. F, Klaveness, D, Kristensen, T, Bjørklund, K. R. and Shalchian- Tabrizi, K. Radiolaria divided into Polycystina and Spasmaria in combined 18S and 28S rDNA phylogeny. 2001. PLoS ONE 11 Dittami, S.M, Riisberg, I, John, U, Orr, R.J.S, Jakobsen, K.S, Edvardsen, B, Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags from the Marine Microalga Pseudochattonella farcimen (Dictyochophyceae). Protist In Press, Corrected Proof. 12 Skrede I, Engh IB, Binder M, Carlsen T, Kauserud H, Bendiksby M. 2011. Evolutionary history of Serpulaceae (Basidiomycota): molecular phylogeny, historical biogeography and evidence for a single transition of nutritional mode. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11: 230. 13 Kauserud H, Kumar S, Brysting A, Norden J, Carlsen T. 2011. High consistency between replicate 454 pyrosequencing analyses of ectomycorrhizal plant root samples. Mycorrhiza, in press 14 Eastwood et al. The Plant Cell Wall‚ - Decomposing Machinery Underlies the Functional Diversity of Forest Fungi. Science 333, 762 (2011) 15 Stüken A, Orr RJS, Kellmann R, Murray SA, Neilan BA, et al. (2011) Discovery of nuclear-encoded genes for the neurotoxin Saxitoxin in dinoflagellates. PLoS ONE 6. 16 Murray SA, Wiese M, Stüken A, Brett S, Kellmann R, et al. (2011) A quantitative molecular assay based on the gene sxtA to identify saxitoxin-producing harmful algal blooms in marine waters. Appl Environ Microbiol. 77 (19): 7050-7 17 Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Reier-Røberg K, Ree DK, Klaveness D, Bråte J, Marine- Freshwater Colonizations of Haptophytes Inferred from Phylogeny of Environmental 18S rDNA Sequences, J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2011 Jul- Aug;58(4):315-8. 18 Anders K. Krabberød, Jon Bråte Jane K. Dolven, Randi F. Ose, Dag Klaveness, Tom Kristensen, Kjell R. Bjørklund, Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi, Radiolaria divided into Polycystina and Spasmaria in combined 18S and 28S rDNA phylogeny . PLoS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 6(8) . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023526 5