Lasse Riemann
Lektor / Associate Professor
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Primary research interests
My research interests concerns marine microbial ecology. We apply molecular and microbiological tools to identify factors that regulate bacterial community composition in the ocean. Recent and ongoing projects are especially related to the ecological role of heterotrophic N2-fixing bacterioplankton, virus-host dynamics, and bacterial diversity and population dynamics.
In parallel with the microbiology projects, we apply molecular tools in projects adressing aspects of plankton ecology. Current projects concern molecular identification of fish larvae and their prey as well as species-specific quantification of nauplii of copepod taxa.
Standard microbiology techniques are combined with state-of-the-art molecular methodology such as: PCR, Real-Time PCR, cloning, sequencing, denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and extensive 454 pyrosequencing. Approaches include field work as well as experimental work.
