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2022
Illustrations of diatoms, copepods, copepod cues, and thick-shelled diatoms
17 FEB

Thick shells reduce copepod grazing on diatoms

The diatom frustule has been shown to provide protection against grazing copepods, but the mechanisms behind the defense is unknown. In a new paper published in Limnology...

08 FEB

Feeding flow and membranelle filtration in ciliates

The feeding on suspended food particles in ciliates is complex and relies typically on coordinated motion in bands of transversal rows of cilia known as membranelles...

04 JAN

Friends, Enemies and Frenemies in Nature

New study that reveals how ecological interactions shift between mutualism and antagonism has been selected as Editor’s Choice in the January 2022 edition of Oikos

2021
22 DEC

Invasion pathways uncovered for one of the most notorious marine invasive species

Biological invasions are a major threat to biodiversity and the dynamics behind successful invasions remain largely unresolved. Invasion genomics can be used to shed light...

21 SEP

New grant from Simons Foundation to the Centre for Ocean Life

The grant will support 2 PhD students and one post-doctoral researched to develop a mechanistically underpinned Ocean Systems Ecology that describes and models marine...

16 SEP

PhD and post doc positions

The Centre for Ocean Life is offering new PhD and postdoc positions. Application deadline is October 25.

27 AUG

Center for Ocean Life granted DFF project ”Future Oceans”

The Center for Ocean has received a grant from the Danish Science Foundation to understand and describe the present and future state of fish and squid in the world’s...

19 AUG

The Fifth Traits Workshop

The Fifth Workshop on Trait-based Approaches to Ocean Life will be held in Knoxville, TN, USA, January 24th-27th 2022.

Figure 1. Schematic representation of the cellular processes. From Chakraborty et al. 2021.
22 JUL

Nitrogen fixation on marine particles

Nitrogen is essential for all life on Earth. In the global oceans however, this element is scarce, and nitrogen availability is therefore critical for the growth of marine...

Poster by Josephine Grønning and Thomas Kiørboe
14 JUL

This year's ASLO presentations

Several PhD students represented the Centre for Ocean Life at this year's ASLO conference. 

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19 APRIL 2024