The ISOP Prize for Best Online Student Presentation at the Online Poster Session on Protists is awarded to Victoria Accattatis, Instituto Nacional de Limnología (UNL-CONICET), for the presentation “Tracking a microscopic invader in South America: Ceratium furcoides.” Congratulations!
Victoria Accattatis
Tracking a microscopic invader in South America: Ceratium furcoides
I am Victoria Accattatis, a PhD student from Santa Fe, Argentina (INALI, CONICET-UNL). This study focuses on the species Ceratium furcoides, an invasive dinoflagellate in South America. We performed the first study of this species in South America combining morphological, molecular, and phylogenetic information of natural populations from the Paraná fluvial system. This work is part of my doctoral fellowship which is based on studying the phylogeography, ecology and the processes involved in the dispersion of Ceratium. For this reason, we thank those who want to collaborate with samples or sequences of Ceratium spp. from different parts of the world. This will help us to analyze their phylogeographic patterns.
Ceratium furcoides
This study (*) is included in a more general overview in which we explore the effect of invasions on microbial communities (**), and the overall ecological processes that drive METAcommunities assembly (***).
This project thrives in an interdisciplinary environment led by Dra. Melina Devercelli and the collaboration of Dra. Paula Huber, Dr. Sebastian Metz, Dra. Claudia Piccini, Dra. Carla Kruk, and Dr. Angel Segura, and the financial support received by CONICET and Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación.
Any contact can be through my mail: vicky.accattatis -at- hotmail.com. Thank you!
Related projects:
(*) Ceratium furcoides: phylogeography and ecology of an invasive species in South America (Researchgate)
(**) Community assembly and invasive species: understanding patterns and processes in the phytoplankton as a study model (Researchgate)
(***) Microbial Metacommunities in floodplain fluvial systems: new perspectives from metagenomics (Researchgate)
Related papers:
Accattatis, V; Piccini, C; Huber, P; Metz, S; Rueda, E.C; Devercelli, M. 2020. “Identifying invaders: the case of Ceratium furcoides in South America”. Journal of Phycology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13015
Huber, P; Metz, S; Unrein, F; Mayora, G; Sarmento, H; Devercelli, M. 2020. “Environmental heterogeneity determines the ecological processes that govern bacterial metacommunity assembly in a floodplain river system”. The ISME Journal. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0723-2
Devercelli, M; Scarabotti, P; Mayora, G; Schneider, B; Giri, F. 2016. “Unravelling the role of determinism and stochasticity in structuring the phytoplanktonic metacommunity of the Paraná River floodplain”. Hydrobiologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2363-5
Metz, S; Lopes dos Santos, A; Castro Berman, M; Bigeard, E; Licursi, M; Not, F; Lara, E; Unrein, F. 2019. “Diversity of photosynthetic picoeukaryotes in eutrophic shallow lakes as assessed by combining flow cytometry cell-sorting and high throughput sequencing”. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz038
Kruk, C; Piccini, C; Devercelli, M; Nogueira, L; Accattatis, V; Sampognaro, L; Segura, A.M. 2020. “A trait-based approach predicting the outcome of microbial invasions”. OIKOS. Peer review.
Paraná fluvial system
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