Sven Kranz
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Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Research Interests
During my Ph.D., which I completed at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and the University of Bremen in Germany in 2010, I worked on carbon acquisition and dinitrogen fixation by the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. My goal is to quantify as well as to understand the underlying physiological mechanisms of the response of phytoplankton to variations in environmental factors during climate change. Using different techniques based on mass spectrometry, fluorescence and molecular biology allows us to study the metabolism of phytoplankton cells in great detail. Understanding cellular responses will allow us to assess future changes in phytoplankton ecology and ocean productivity.