2007 Annual Report - Marine Sciences - University of Connecticut

RESEARCH FOCUS
Ecology of gelatinous zooplankton, including quantitative investigations of elemental composition, metabolic rates, nutritional
ecology, population impact and interannual population dynamics. Although my research focuses on the autecology of single
species at a time, I try to evaluate the results in the context of the ecosystem in which the animals live and the biogeochemical
cycles of which they are a part.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Salpa thompsoni in the southern ocean. NSF $266,847
Kremer, Patricia (PhD, University of Rhode Island)
Associate Professor in Residence
Not pictured: Brennan Phillips (MSc student)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Madin, L.P., P. Kremer, P.H. Wiebe, J.E. Purcell, E.H. Horgan, and D.A. Nemazie. 2006. Periodic swarms of the salp Salpa
aspera in the slope water off the NE United States: Biovolume, vertical migration, grazing, and vertical flux. Deep-sea
Research 53(5).
Phillips, B.T., P. Kremer and L.P. Madin. The contribution of salps to vertical flux in the Southern Ocean. Submitted to
Marine Biology
Kremer, P. 2005. Ingestion and elemental budgets for Linuche unguiculata, a scyphomedusa with zooxanthellae. J. Mar. Biol.
Ass. U. K. 85:1-13.
CONTACT: Phone: (860) 405-9140 Email: patricia.kremer@uconn.edu Web Site: http://www.marinesciences.uconn.edu/faculty/pkremer.html
RESEARCH FOCUS
Molecular ecology of marine phytoplankton and heterotrophic dinoflagellates. Adopting from the medical application to
detect cancer growth, we try to develop cell cycle and growth stage-dependent markers for growth studies on phytoplankton.
Research also involves dinoflagellate genome, transcriptome, mitochondrial and plastid genes as well as ribosomal RNA genes
in studies of genetics, evolution, and ecology of various algae
CURRENT PROJECTS
PCNA Antibodies... NSF $279,406
Development of PCR and Immunofluorescence... NOAA $323,813
LIS Water Quality Monitoring Phytoplankton... EPA/CT DEP $40,000
AToL: An integrated approach to the phylogeny... NSF/UMD $173,086
Dinoflagellate Full-Length cDNA Sequencing... NSF $989,036
Lin, Senjie (PhD, SUNY Stony Brook)
Associate Professor
Seated: Sheng Liu (postdoc), Huan Zhang (Research
Assistant Professor), Senjie Lin; Back row: Yubo Hou (PhD
student), Yunyun Zhuang (PhD student), Lilibeth Miranda
(PhD student), Christina Haska (MSc student), Shuxian
Zheng (visiting scholar), Xin Lin (visiting scholar)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Lin, S., H. Zhang, and M.W. Gray. 2008. RNA editing in dinoflagellates and its implications for the evolutionary history of
the editing machinery. In: H. Smith (ed.) RNA and DNA editing: molecular mechanisms and their integration into biological
systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Zhang, H., D. Bhattacharya, L. Maranda, and S. Lin. 2008. Mitochondrial cob and cox1 and their mRNA editing in
Dinophysis acuminata from Narragansett Bay, with special reference to the phylogenetic position of Dinophysis. Appl.
Envion. Microbiol. 74(5) (in press).
Zhang, H., D. Bhattacharya, and S. Lin. 2007. A three-gene dinoflagellate phylogeny suggests monophyly of Prorocentrales
and a basal position for Amphidinium and Heterocapsa J. Mol. Evol. 65: 463-474.
CONTACT: Phone: (860) 405-9168 Email: senjie.lin@uconn.edu Web Site: http://www.phytoplankton.uconn.edu/ and http://www.marinesciences.uconn.edu/faculty/lin.html
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