Niels Daugbjerg Lab
Niels Daugbjerg, M.Sc., Ph.D. Born October 22, 1965.
Danish citizen. Married. Two children.
Marine Biological Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen.Universitetsparken 4, 1. floor, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Phone: +45 42 43 00 09
E-mail: n.daugbjerg@bio.ku.dk
Academic qualifications
December 1990: M.Sc. in: taxonomy and ecology of marine nanoflagellates from 'Institut for Sporeplanter', University of Copenhagen.
May 1994: Ph.D. in taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics of 'primitive' green algae from Dept of Phycology & Dept of Population Biology, University of Copenhagen.
Appointments
Feb 1991-Apr 1991: Consulting biologist in marine phytoplankton at Environmental Biological Laboratory (Humlebæk, Denmark).
Jun 1991-Sep 1991: Scholarship from University of Copenhagen.
Oct 1991-May 1994: Ph.D. candidate at Dept of Population Biology and Dept of Phycology; grants from University of Copenhagen, the Danish Natural Science Foundation, the Carlsberg Foundation and Novo Nordisk.
Jan 1995-Nov 1996: Postdoctoral fellow at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, ME, USA and Dept of Phycology, University of Copenhagen; grants from the Carlsberg Foundation and the National Science Foundation (USA).
Dec 1996-Jan 2000: Assistant Professor, Dept of Phycology, University of Copenhagen.
Mar 2000-present: Associate Professor, Dept of Biology, University of Copenhagen.
Academic awards
1993: Awarded Schibbys grant by the Danish Natural History Society.
1999: Awarded Prof. dr. med. Carl Rashs honours grant by the Danish Botanical Society.
Academic services
1991-present: Previewer of manuscript for:
- Journal of Phycology
- Phycologia
- European Journal of Phycology
- Phycological Research
- Protist
- Canadian Journal of Botany
- Marine Biology
- American Journal of Botany
- Hereditas
- Harmful Algae
- Plos One
1996-present: review of research project for:
- National Science Foundation, USA
- Research Council of Norway
- Israel Science Foundations
2005-2009: Associate editor for Phycologia: Systematics and phylogeny of microalgae
2015-2017: Associate editor for Phycological Research
Current lab members
Post docs
Clara R. Vives (2023-2025) |
Research assistant
Kristina Vallentin Larsen (2023-2024). |
Master students
Marie Amalie Præstegaard (2024-25). Evaluating primary production of phytoplankton communities using single turnover active fluorometry |
Bachelor students
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Former lab members
Post docs
Mariska Brady (2018-2022) Population genetics of marine phytoplankton and the importance of small scale gradients |
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María García-Portela (2020-2022) The biology of ocelloid dinoflagellates. |
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Lisa Eckford-Soper (2014-2016) Detection and enumeration of fish killing microalgae using real-time quantitative PCR. |
PhD students
Nikolaj Sørensen (2011-2014) Marine picoeukaryotes in cold water: diversity ad ecology. |
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Terje Berge (2009-2011) Functional diversity of marine protists - evidence from culture experiments. |
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Normawaty Mohammad-Noor (2003-2006) Diversity of marine benthic dinoflagellates from Malaysia with emphasis on phylogeny, ultrastructure and toxicity of Prorocentrales. |
Master students (32 students, 30 projects)
Márcia Raquel Freitas Branquinho (2023-24). Photo-physiological performance of total and size-fractionated phytoplankton commuities in Kangerlussuaq - response to glacial rock flour during the summer situation. |
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Alexandra Nicole Williamson (2022-23) Identifying and explaining differences in phytoplankton community size distributions during a summer situation in the North Atlantic.
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Kristina Vallentin Larsen (2022-23) Impact of glacial rock flour on the growth and photosynthetic performance of the Arctic marine green alga Pyramimonas diskoicola (Pyramimonadophyceae). |
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Søren Steenholdt (2021-2022) Phytoplankton community structure in the Davis Strait - Size structure, abundance and composition. |
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Katja Ravn van Overeem (2020-2021) High resilience to future changes in temperature and pH in a Greenlandic and Danish strain of the cryptophyte Rhodomonas marina.
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Julie Egeland Andersen (2020-2021) Revisiting the marine nano flagellate Ankylochrysis lutea (Pelagophyceae): a study of an Arctic strain based on light and electron microscopy, pigment profile, phylogeny and autecology.
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Cecilie Borch Devantier (2020-2021) A holistic study of the marine cold-water cryptophyte Rhodomonas marina.
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Rune Stefan Jensen (2018-2020) Heterogeneity in phytoplankton compositions in the Baltic & North Seas transition zone - a metabarcoding assessment
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Emilie Hejlesen (2017-2019) Effects of silica and salinities on growth rates and intracellular toxin content of Pseudo-nitzschia australis and Pseudo-nitzschia plurisecta from the Benguela Upwelling System. |
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Lykke Laura Hansen (2016-2017) Impact of a frontal zone on abundance and distribution of selected phytoplankton species in the North Sea. |
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Pernille Møller Rusterholz (2015-16) Evolutionary transition towards permanent chloroplasts? - division of kleptochloroplasts in starved cells of two species of Dinophysis (Dinophyceae). |
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Pernille Vængebjerg Boutrup (2015-16) Ultrastructure and phylogeny of Kirithra asteri gen. et sp. nov. (Ceratoperidiniaceae, Dinophyceae) - an unarmoured marine photosynthetic dinoflagellate from Argentina. |
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Nicole Salmansen (2015-16) Short term changes in the fatty acid composition of sea ice algae related to an increased under sea ice irradiance. |
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Andreas Norlin (2015-16) Description of an Arctic cryptophyte Drepomonas frigidus gen. et sp. nov. (CCMP 2045) based on light and electron microscopy, SSU rDNA sequences and influence of temperature, salinity and light intensity on growth rates. |
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Maria Laugmann Laubacher (2013-2014) Physiology and phylogeny of Prymnesium parvum (Prymnesiophyceae), including detection and fast enumeration using real time qPCR. |
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Kirstine Drumm (2012-2013) Retention and role of kleptochloroplasts - a taxonomical, morphological and ecophysiological study on a new blue-green dinoflagellate Gymnodinium decipiens sp. nov. (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae). |
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Mette Liebst-Olsen (2012-2013) Retention and role of kleptochloroplasts - a taxonomical, morphological and ecophysiological study on a new blue-green dinoflagellate Gymnodinium decipiens sp. nov. (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae). |
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Hannah Blossom (2010-2011) Toxic mucus traps mediate prey uptake in the mixotrophic dinoflagellate Alexandrium pseudogonyaulax.
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Nikolaj Sørensen (2009-2010) Molecular diversity and temporal variation of picoeukaryotes in two Arctic fjords, Svalbard.
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Claus Baggesen (2007-2008) Investigations of a harmful algal species from Western Greenland - a study of Alexandrium tamarense (Dinophyceae) strains based on morphology, LSU rDNA sequences and toxin profiles.
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Maria Hastrup Jensen (2007-2008) Molecular phylogeny and evolutionary history of selected members of Dinophysiales (Dinophyceae) from the Indian Ocean - a study based on LSU rDNA and light microscopy.
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Morten Wiuf (2006-2007 Analysis of the genus Microcystis (Cyanophyceae) and the development of probes to detect toxic populations.
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Sarah Christensen (2005-2006) Potential toxic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) in drinking water reservoirs of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - a study based on light microscopy, ELISA, HPLC, and molecular phylogeny inferred from phycosyanin gene sequence analyses.
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Heidi Egø Kryl (2004-2005) Phylogeny of Raphidophyceae.
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Trine Bergholtz (2003-2004) Studies on the genus Karlodinium (Dinophyceae) based on light and electron microscopy, LSU rDNA sequences and pigment composition - including a description of Karlodinium armiger sp. nov., Karlodinium veneficum (syn. K. micrum) and Kareniaceae fam. nov.
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Camilla J. Johannsen (2003-2004) Studies on growth and toxicity of Protoceratium reticulatum (Dinophyceae) based on different nitrogen sources and temperature regimes - including analysis of intraspecific variation based on ITS sequences.
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Karin Lindberg (2003-2004) A study of the freshwater dinoflagellate genus Woloszynskia (Dinophyceae) Thompson.
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Lars Erting (2002-2003) Genetic variation within and between four species of Laminaria (Phaeophyceae) - analysed using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and DNA sequencing.
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Karin E. Ulstrup (2001-2002) Spatial and temporal diversity in Symbiodinium communities in Acropora spp. and their photo-physiological properties. |
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Mårten Flø Jørgensen (2001-2002) A taxonomic study of species belonging to the genus Amphidinium (Dinophyceae) Claparède and Lachman based on comparative morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses.
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Charlotte Boesen (1999-2000) Taxonomy of naked dinoflagellates living in sea ice and the water column below in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
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Marie Gammelgaard (1999-2000) Marine phytoplankton in open polar waters with emphasis on scale- and lorica-bearing forms - qualitative and quantitative aspects.
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External Master students
Helene Bachmann (2014-15) The presence of Emiliania huxleyi between Bermuda and the Azores, with regards to concentrations of chosen ionic species and exploration of the concept of salinity. |
Bachelor students (22 students, 20 projects)
Therese Gamborg Bruhn (2024) Ålegræs: En klimagevinst? En undersøgelse af ålegræs som potentielt klimaværktøj.
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Rebecca Leonora Frydensholm-Hall (2024) Rare and novel vertebrate-specific algal symbionts; evolutionary and phylogenetic lineages.
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Katrine Maria Larsen (2023) Does body scale morphology support the division into chemo- and ITS-types in Prymnesium parvum? - a morphometric and phylogenetic study of 10 strains.
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Rikke Persson (2022) Growth rate performance of the green algal Pyramimonas diskoicola in artificial seawater with NH4+ or NO3- as nitrogen sources and change of morphology due to low concentration of nitrogen |
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Anja Annine Holm (2021) The impact of light and bacteria on the growth rate of a marine Arctic unidentified chrysophyte.
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Amanda Bordrup Pedersen (2021) Analyse af Danmarks forvaltning af makroalger i forhold til kyst- og økosystembeskyttelse. |
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Stine Zander Hagen (2020) A review of the impact of microplastics in the marine ecosystem and a suggestion to a study examining the influence of microplastic concentrations on the growth potential of a diatom. |
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Sebastian Andersen (2017) Feeding observed in the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum under optimum irradiance levels and nutrient replete conditions |
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Maria Marjunardóttir Dahl (2016) Development of qPCR assays for the fast gender determination in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) including considerations of the genomic instability of the sex-determining locus. |
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Frederik Frøsig Gai (2015) Effects of pH and temperature on growth rates of the Arctic pelagophyte CCMP2097 - novel approach to control experimental temperatures in ecophysiological studies of microalgae. |
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Cecilie Kirketerp Hedemand (2015) Effects of pH and temperature on growth rates of the Arctic pelagophyte CCMP2097 - novel approach to control experimental temperatures in ecophysiological studies of microalgae. |
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Nicole Salmansen (2014) Effect of changes in temperature and salinity on the growth rate of the arctic green alga Pyramimonas quadrifolia. [In Danish]. |
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Kristina Christensen (2014) Peridinella danica - a heterotrophic dinoflagellate with secondary loss of chloroplast, perhaps the first in the family Peridinales. |
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Pernille Vængebjerg Boutrup (2013) Ultrastructure and molecular studies of Katodinium glaucum, a marine heterotrophic dinoflagellate. [In Danish]. |
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Nicolai Andreas Munk Fassel (2013) Description of Pyramimonas tatianae sp. nov. (Prasinophyceae) from Golden Hope Bay (East Russia) based on light and electron microscopy and phylogeny inferred from rbcL sequences. |
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Stefan Ayari Hansen (2013) Phylogeny of small-sized Phalacroma species from Denmark strait (East Greenland) |
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Nina Christensen (2010) LUCA, from hypothesis to modern research. [In Danish]. |
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Maria Laugmann Laubacher and (2010) Effects of pH on growth rates and production in Karlodinium veneficum (Dinophyceae) [in Danish]. |
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Tine Bædkel (2010) Effects of pH on growth rates and production in Karlodinium veneficum (Dinophyceae) [in Danish].
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Maria Lund Paulsen (2009) Impact of climate change cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea: a review.
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Mikkel Kruse Olsen (2008) A euglenophyte from Ikka columns in the Ikka Fjord, South-Western Greenland: an attempt at identification and elucidating phylogenetic relationships [in Danish]. |
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Maria Hastrup Jensen (2005) Taxonomic revision of the Peridinium willei species complex (Dinophyceae) - a study based on light and scanning electron microscopy and partial LSU rDNA sequences. [In Danish]. |
Project outside course scope (PUK)
Emilie Julin og Mikala Bording (2022) Diversitet og biomasse af fytoplankton i Østersøen ved Bornholm |
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Stine Zander Hagen (2021) The influence of different concentrations of LDPE microplastic on the growth rate and photosynthetic efficiency of the marine centric diatom Coscinodiscus granii. |
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Emilie Frederikke K. Henningsen (2020) Autecology and scale morphology of the Arctic nanoflagellate Pyramimonas australis - the first bipolar marine green alga. |
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Emilie Hejlesen (2017) Studies on three species of epizoic diatoms on copepods Temora longicornis and Centropages typicus from the North Sea. |
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Sebastian Andersen (2017) A review of 5 commonly investigated drivers and their importance for phytoplankton bloom formation. |
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Frederik Frøsig Gai and Cecilie Kirketerp Hedemand (2016) The effect of pH, temperature and salinity on the growth rate of an arctic pelagophyte CCMP 2098 - including the introduction of a novel method for temperature conrtrol in autecological studies of phytoplankton. |
New class, families, genera, species
New classes (total number: 1)
Class | Authors | Phylum |
Pyramimonadophyceae | Moestrup & Daugbjerg | Chlorophyta |
New orders (total number: 2)
Order | Authors | Algal class |
Plocamiomonadales | Daugbjerg & Lovejoy | Pelagophyceae |
Torodiniales | Boutrup, Moestrup & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
New families (total number: 8)
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Bergholtz, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Tovelliaceae | Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Borghiellaceae | Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Torodiniaceae | Boutrup, Moestrup & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Kapelodiniaceae | Boutrup, Moestrup & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Baffinellaceae | Daugbjerg & Norlin | Cryptophyceae |
Falcomonadaceae | Daugbjerg | Cryptophyceae |
Plocamiomoadaceae | Daugbjerg & Lovejoy | Pelagophyceae |
New genera (total number: 20)
Genus | Authors | Algal class |
Mesopedinella | Daugbjerg | Dictyochophyceae |
Togula | Flø Jørgensen, Murray & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Tovellia | Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Jadwigia | Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Borghiella | Moestrup, Gert Hansen & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Baldinia | Gert Hansen & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Biecheleriopsis | Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Bicheleria | Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Tyrannodinium | Calado, Craveiro, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Palatinus |
Calado, Craveiro, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Chimonodinium |
Craveiro, Calado, Daugbjerg, Gert Hansen & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Moestrupia |
Gert Hansen & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Theleodinium |
Craveiro, Pandeirada, Daugbjerg, Moestrup & Calado | Dinophyceae |
Levanderina |
Moestrup, Hakanen, Gert Hansen, Daugbjerg & Ellegaard | Dinophyceae |
Kapelodinium |
Boutrup, Moestrup & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Apocalathium |
Craveiro, Daugbjerg, Moestrup & Calado | Dinophyceae |
Kirithra |
Boutrup, Moestrup Tillmann & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Nottbeckia |
Gert Hansen, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Baffinella |
Norlin & Daugbjerg | Cryptophyceae |
Plocamiomonas | Daugbjerg & Lovejoy | Pelagophyceae |
New species (total number: 30)
Species | Authors | Algal class |
Pyramimonas cyrtoptera | Daugbjerg | Pyramimonadophyceae |
Pyramimonas quadrifolia | Daugbjerg | Pyramimonadophyceae |
Pyramimonas cyclotreta | Daugbjerg | Pyramimonadophyceae |
Pyramimonas aurita | Daugbjerg | Pyramimonadophyceae |
Pyramimonas igloolikensis | Daugbjerg | Pyramimonadophyceae |
Pyramimonas dichotoma | Daugbjerg | Pyramimonadophyceae |
Pyramimonas tychotreta | Daugbjerg | Pyramimonadophyceae |
Mesopedinella arctica | Daugbjerg | Dictyochophyceae |
Togula jolla | Flø Jørgensen, Murray & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Karlodinium armiger |
Bergholtz, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Prorocentrum sipadanensis |
Mohammad-Noor, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Tovellia sanguinea |
Moestrup, Gert Hansen, Daugbjerg, Flaim & D'Andrea | Dinophyceae |
Jadwigia applanata |
Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Tovellia nygaardii |
Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Borghiella dodgei |
Moestrup, Gert Hansen & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Gymnodinium corollarium |
Sundström, Kremp & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Biecheleriopsis adriatica |
Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Symbiodinium natans |
Gert Hansen & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Biecheleria baltica |
Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Thelodinium calcisporum |
Craveiro, Pandeirada, Daugbjerg, Moestrup & Calado | Dinophyceae |
Tovellia aveirensis |
Pandeirada, Craveiro, Daugbjerg, Moestrup & Calado | Dinophyceae |
Borghiella andersenii |
Daugbjerg, Andreasen, Happel, Pandeirada, Gert Hansen, Craveiro, Calado, Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Tovellia rinoi |
Pandeirada, Craveiro, Daugbjerg, Moestrup & Calado | Dinophyceae |
Kirithra asteri |
Boutrup, Moestrup, Tillmann & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Baffinella frigidus |
Norlin & Daugbjerg | Cryptophyceae |
Pyramimonas tatianae |
Daugbjerg, Fassel & Moestrup | Pyramimonadophyceae |
Tovellia rubescens |
Pandeirada, Craveiro, Daugbjerg, Moestrup and Calado | Dinophyceae |
Baldinia anaunienis | Gert Hansen & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Baldinia droopii | Gert Hansen, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Plocamiomonas psychrophila | Daugbjerg & Lovejoy | Pelagophyceae |
New combinations and varieties (total number: 32)
Combination/varieties | Authors | Algal class |
Gonyaulax |
(Reid) Ellegaard, Daugbjerg, Rochon, J. Lewis & I. Harding | Dinophyceae |
Gonyaulax |
(Rossignol) Ellegaard, Daugbjerg, Rochon, J. Lewis & I. Harding | Dinophyceae |
Togula |
(Herdman) Flø Jørgensen, Murray & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Togula compacta | (Herdman) Flø Jørgensen, Murray & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Tovellia |
(Wolosz.) Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Tovellia |
(Stosch) Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Tovellia |
(Wolosz.) Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Tovellia |
(Christen) Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Tovellia |
(R. Shyam & Sarma) Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Tovellia |
(Woloszynska) Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Borghiella |
(Lauterborn) Moestrup, Gert Hansen & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Tyrannodinium |
(Lemmermann) Calado, Craveiro, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Tyrannodinium |
(Lemmermann) Calado, Craveiro, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
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(Biecheler) Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
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(Chodat et Zehnder) Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
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(J. Schiller) Moestrup, Lindberg & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Palatinus |
(Ehrenb.) Craveiro, Calado, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Palatinus |
(Huitfeldt-Kaas) Craveiro, Calado, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Palatinus |
(M. Lefèvre) Craveiro, Calado, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Chimonodinium lomnickii |
(Wołoszynska) Craveiro, Calado, Daugbjerg, Gert Hansen & Moestrup |
Dinophyceae |
Chimonodinium lomnickii var. |
(Wołoszynska) Craveiro, Calado, Daugbjerg, Gert Hansen et Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Chimonodinium lomnickii var. |
(Wołoszynska) Craveiro, Calado, Daugbjerg, Gert Hansen et Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Moestrupia |
(J. Larsen & Patterson) Gert Hansen & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Levanderina |
(Levander) Moestrup, Hakanen, G. Hansen, Daugbjerg & Ellegaard | Dinophyceae |
Kapelodinium |
(Schütt) Boutrup, Moestrup & Daugbjerg | Dinophyceae |
Apocalathium |
(Kisselev & V. Zvetkov) Craveiro, Daugbjerg, Moestrup & Calado | Dinophyceae |
Apocalathium |
(Rengefors & Barbara Meyer) Craveiro, Daugbjerg, Moestrup & Calado | Dinophyceae |
Apocalathium malmogiense |
(G. Sjöstedt) Craveiro, Daugbjerg, Moestrup & Calado | Dinophyceae |
Nottbeckia ochracea |
(Levander) Gert Hansen, Daugbjerg & Moestrup | Dinophyceae |
Parvodinium cunningtonii | (Lemmermann) Pandeirada, Craveiro, Daugbjerg, Moestrup and Calado | Dinophyceae |
Parvodinium cunningtonii var. inerme | Pandeirada, Craveiro, Daugbjerg, Moestrup and Calado | Dinophyceae |
Rhodomonas marina | (P.A.Dangeard) Lemmermann emend. Daugbjerg & Devantier | Cryptophyceae |
From: Daugbjerg N. & Moestrup Ø. 1992. Fine structure of Pyramimonas cyclotreta sp. nov. (Prasinophyceae) from Northern Foxe Basin, Arctic Canada, with some observations on growth rates. European Journal of Protistology 28: 288-298. |
From: Jensen M.A. & Daugbjerg N. 2009. Molecular phylogeny of selected species of the order Dinophysiales (Dinophyceae) - testing the hypothesis of a Dinophysioid radiation. Journal of Phycology 45: 1136-1152. |
From: Craveiro S.C., Moestrup Ø., Daugbjerg N. & Calado A.J. 2010. Ultrastructure and large subunit rDNA-based phylogeny of Sphaerodinium cracoviense, an unusual freshwater dinoflagellate with a novel type of eyespot. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 57: 568-585. |
From: Hansen G. & Daugbjerg N. 2011. Moestrupia oblonga gen. et comb. nov. (syn.: Gyrodinium oblongum), a new marine dinoflagellate genus characterized by light and electron microscopy, photosynthetic pigments and LSU rDNA sequence. Phycologia 50: 583-599. |
From: Moestrup Ø., Hakanen P., Hansen G., Daugbjerg N. & Ellegaard M. 2014. On Levanderina fissa gen. et comb. nov. (Dinophyceae) (syn. Gymnodinium fissum, Gyrodinium instriatum, G. uncatenum), a dinoflagellate with a very unusual sulcus. Phycologia 53: 265-292. |
From: McCartney, K., Witkowski, J., Jordan, R.W., Daugbjerg, N., Malinverno, E., van Wezel, R., Kano, H., Scott, F., Schweizer, M., Young, J.R., Hallegraeff, G.M., Shiozawa, A. & Fukunaga, Y. 2014. Fine structure of silicoflagellate double skeletons. Marine Micropaleontology 113: 10-19. |
From: Hansen, G., Daugbjerg, N. & Moestrup, Ø. 2023. Baldinia droopii sp. nov. (Suessiales, Dinophyceae) – a new species from a small rainwater rock pool near Tvärminne, south-western Finland. Phycologia 62: 68-82. |
From: Garcia-Portela, M., Moestrup, Ø., Daugbjerg, N., Altenburger, A & Lundholm, N. 2023. Studies on the complex Warnowiaceae (Dinophyceae) I. Lohmann’s Pouchetia parvarefound and renamed Nematodinium parvum comb. nov. (= Warnowia parva). Phycologia 62:421-435. |
List of co-authors and their nationality(countries and names in alphabetic order) |
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Number of countries: 27 Number of co-authors: 119 |
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Argentina (3) | Andres Boltovskoy |
Viviana A. Alder | |
Ramiro Logares | |
Australia (4) | Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff |
Harvey Marchant | |
Shauna Murray | |
Fiona Scott | |
Austria (1) | Elisabeth Varga |
Brazil (2) | Ernani Pinto |
Catharina Alves-de-Souza | |
Canada (3) | Allan D. Cembella |
Connie Lovejoy | |
Michel Poulin | |
Denmark (52) | Bettina Balling Andersen |
Nikolaj Gedsted Andersen | |
Toke Andreasen | |
Peter Arctander | |
Claus Baggesen | |
Jørgen Bendtsen | |
Trine Bergholtz | |
Sofie Bjørnholt Binzer | |
Pernille Vængebjerg Boutrup | |
Flemming Ekelund | |
Kirstine Drumm | |
Marianne Ellegaard | |
Lars Erting | |
Laila Espersen | |
Nicolai M.D. Fassel | |
Line Fredslund | |
Gert Hansen | |
Elisabeth Happel | |
Gitte Petersen | |
Per Juel Hansen | |
Peter Henriksen | |
Maria Hastrup Jensen | |
Rasmus Jakobsen |
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Mårten Flø Jørgensen | |
Jakob Larsen | |
Niels Henry Larsen | |
Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen | |
Mette Liebst-Olsen | |
Karin Lindberg | |
Maria L. Lysgaard | |
Nina Lundholm | |
Sine Madsen | |
Bo Markussen | |
Øjvind Moestrup | |
Morten Moldrup | |
Malene Møhl | |
Ruth Nielsen | |
Torkel Gissel Nielsen | |
Andreas Norlin | |
Rasmus Dyrmose Nørregaard | |
Poul Møller Pedersen | |
Julia Overton | |
Louise K. Poulsen | |
Pernille Møller Rusterholz | |
Ole Seberg | |
Alf Skovgaard | |
Svend Jørgen Steenfeldt | |
Daniel Killerup Svenssen | |
Laura Lykke Sørsensen | |
Nikolaj Sørensen | |
Helge A. Thomsen | |
Martin Vestergaard | |
England (7) | Ian Harding |
Richard W. Jordan | |
Johanna Laybourn-Parry | |
Jane Lewis | |
Andre Rochon | |
Lisa Eckford-Soper | |
Jeremy R. Young | |
France (2) | Janine Cuzin-Roudy |
Laure Guillou | |
Finland (2) | Päivi Hakanen |
Anke Kremp | |
Germany (4) | Andreas Altenburger |
Regina Hansen | |
Bernd Krock | |
Urban Tillmann | |
Iceland (1) | Karl Gunnarsson |
Italy (3) | Maura D'Andrea |
Giovanna Flaim | |
Elisa Malinverno | |
Japan (3) | Kenta Abe |
Hiroya Kano | |
Ayaka Shiozawa | |
Malaysia (2) | Ann Anton |
Normawaty Mohammad-Noor | |
Netherlands (2) | George Fransz |
René van Wezel | |
New Zealand (1) | Lesley Rhodes |
Norway (3) | Terje Berge |
Tove Gabrielsen | |
Cecilie von Quillfeldt | |
Pakistan (1) | Mohammad |
Poland (1) | Jakub Witkowski |
Portugal (3) | Antonia J. Calado |
Sandra Craveiro | |
Mariana S. Pandeirada | |
Russian Federation (2) | Ludmilla Ilyash |
Tatiana Ratkova | |
South Korea (1) | Miran Kim |
Spain (4) | |
J. M. Franco | |
Lydia Garcia | |
Maria Garcia-Portela | |
Sweden (6) | Gertrud |
Edna Graneli | |
Wilhelm Graneli | |
Susanna Hajdu | |
Karin Rengefors | |
Annica M. Sundström | |
Switzerland (1) | Magali Schweizer |
USA (10) | Robert A. Andersen |
J. Craig Bailey | |
Hannah Blossom | |
Rolf Gradinger | |
Kevin McCartney | |
Kenneth H. Nicholls | |
Charles J O'Kelly | |
Daniel Potter | |
Katherine Richardson | |
Brian Wysor | |
Vietnam (1) | Nguyen Thi Thu Lien |
Published abstract from international and national scientific meetings
#52. Pandeirada, M.S., Craveiro, S., Daugbjerg, N., Moestrup, Ø. & Calado, A.J. 2019. Contributions to the fine-structural characterisation of Parvodinium (Dinophyceae). Seventh European Phycological Congress (25-30 August). Zagreb, Croatia.
#51. Binzer, S.B., Svenssen, D.K., Daugbjerg, N., Alves-de-Souza, C., Pinto, E., Hansen, P.J., Larsen, T.O. & Varga, E. 2018. Chemical diversity of prymnesins and do the structural changes in allelochemical toxins drive evolution? International Conference on Harmful Algae (21-26. oktober). Nantes, France.
#50. Varga, E., Svenssen, D.K., Binzer, S.B., Daugbjerg, N., Alves-de-Souza, C., Pinto, E., Larsen, T.O. & Hansen, P.J. 2018. Screening of over 40 Prymnesium spp. strains for ichtyotoxic prymnesin-like compound. MM44A-1506. Ocean Sciences Meeting (11.-16. februar). Portland, Oregon, USA.
#49. Craveiro, S.C., Daugbjerg, N., Moestrup, Ø. & Calado, A.J. 2014. Fine-structural organization and phylogenetic affinities of Peridiniopsis polonica (Dinophyceae): evidence for a new genus. The British Phycological Society. 62nd Annual Meeting. 25-27 June, Galway, Ireland.
#48. Daugbjerg, N., Moestrup, Ø., Hansen, G. & Hansen, P.J. 2013. Fiskedræbende mikroalger er blevet et potentielt problem i Danmark. 17. Danske Havforskermøde. Roskilde, Denmark. 21-23 january. Page 63 in abstract book /oral.
#47. Blossom, H.E., Daugbjerg, N. & Hansen, P.J. 2013. Dannelse af en toksisk mucus-fælde: en ny mekanisme til fødefangst hos den mixotrofe dinoflagellat Alexandrium pseudogonyaulax. 17. Danske Havforskermøde. Roskilde, Denmark. 21-23 January. Page 101 in abstract book /oral
#46. Berge, T., Daugbjerg, N., Moldrup, M., Moestrup, Ø., Mogensen, S.B., Poulsen, L.K., Hansen, P.J. 2013. Multiple roles of a mixotrophic dinoflagellate in the marine food web. 17. Danske Havforskermøde. Roskilde, Denmark. 21-23 january. Page 145 in abstract book /poster.
#45. Sørensen, N., Daugbjerg, N. & Richardson, K. 2013. Ekstracellulært DNA i molekylære studier. 17. Danske Havforskermøde. Roskilde, Denmark. 21-23 january. Page 132 in abstract book /poster.
#44. Sørensen, N., Daugbjerg, N. & Richardson, K. 2013. Choice if pore size can introduce artefact when filtering plankotn for molecular biodiversity studies. ASLO 2013 Aquatic Sciences Meeting Learning for the Future 17-22 February 2013. New Orleans · Louisiana
#43. Craveiro, S.C, Pandeirada, M.S., Daugbjerg, N., Moestrup, Ø & Calado, A.J. 2012. A calcified cyst-producing dinoflagellate from freshwater: finestructure characterization and phylogeny. ISEP - International Society of Evolutionary Protistology. 29 July-3 August. Oslo, Norway. Page 31 in program.
#42. Berge, T., Daugbjerg, N., Jakobsen, H.H. & Hansen, P.J. 2012. Elevated pH, intraspecific variation and laboratory selection in two red-tide marine dinoflagellates. 15th International Conference on Harmful Algal Blooms. Gyeongnam, Korea, 29 October-2 November. Page 133 in Abstract book /poster.
#41. Blossom, H.E, Daugbjerg, N. & Hansen, P.J. 2012. Toxic mucus traps: a novel mechanism that mediates prey uptake in the mixotrophic dinoflagellate Alexandrium pseudogonyaulax. Page 34 in Abstract book /oral.
#40. Poulin, M., Daugbjerg, N., Gradinger,R., Ilyash,L., Ratkova, T. & von Quillfeldt, C. 2011. The pan-Arctic biodiversity of marine pelagic and sea-ice unicellular eukaryotes: A first-attempt assessment. Biosystematics Berlin 2011 meeting, 21-27 February.
#39. Sørensen, N., Daugbjerg, N. & Gabrielsen, T.M. 2010. Diversity and seasonal variation of Arctic marine eukaryotic microbes. Arctic Frontiers 2010. Trondheim.
#38. Berge, T., Daugbjerg, N. & Hansen, P.J. 2010. Large intra-specific diversity in a marine dinoflagellate: effect of origin on physiology of laboratory strains. ASLO, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, USA.
#37. Poulin, M., Daugbjerg, N., Gradinger,R., Ilyash,L., Ratkova, T. & von Quillfeldt, C. 2010. The pan-Arctic biodiversity of marine pelagic and sea-ice unicellular eukaryotes: A first-attempt assessment. Arctic Biodiversity Symposium, Ottawa. 18-19 November.
#36. Berge, T., Poulsen, L.K., Moldrup, M., Daugbjerg, N. & Hansen, P.J. 2010. A harmful microalga that immobilizes and ingests copepods. 14th International Conference on Harmful Algal Blooms, Greece,1-5 November. Page ? in abstract book.
#35. Poulin, M., Daugbjerg, N., Gradinger,R., Ilyash,L., Ratkova, T. & von Quillfeldt, C. 2010. The pan-Arctic biodiversity of marine pelagic and sea-ice unicellular eukaryotes: A first-attempt assessment. ArcticNet 7th Annual Scientific Meeting, Ottawa. 14-17 December
34. Daugbjerg, N., Jensen, M.H. & Hansen, P.J. 2009. Novel type of endosymbiont in Dinophyceae - Amphisolenia bidentata and its endosymbiont identified using gene sequences. 9th International Phycological Congress, Tokyo, Japan, 2-8 August 2009. Page 24 in abstract book.
#33. Hansen, P.J., Moldrup, M., Tarangkoon, W., Garcia, L., Daugbjerg, N. & Moestrup, Ø. 2009. Does the red tide ciliate Mesodinium rubrum have replaceable symbionts? 9th International Phycological Congress. 2-8 August. Tokyo, Japan. Page 40 in abstract book.
#32. Craveiro, S.C., Calado, A.J., Daugbjerg, N. & Moestrup, Ø. 2009. Fine structure and phylogeny of Sphaerodinium, an unusual freshwater dinoflagellate. 9th International Phycological Congress, Tokyo, Japan, 2-8 August 2009. Page 23 in abstract book.
#31. Poulsen M.L., Daugbjerg, N. & Strobel, B.W. 2009. Impact of climate change on cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea. Hohenheim, Scientific Student Conference.
#30. Mohammad-Noor, N., Moestrup, Ø., Daugbjerg, N., Caillaud, A., Canete, E., Paz, B., Mallat, E., Franco, J.M., Diogéne, J & Anton, A. 2008. Marine epibenthic dinoflagellates from Malaysia - species diversity and future studies. 2nd Asian Geohab meeting. Institute of Oceanography, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, p. 19 in abstract book. 28-29 January.
#29. Craveiro, S.C., Calado, A.J., Daugbjerg, N. & Moestrup, Ø. 2008. Pfiesteriaceae: a successful dinoflagellate group also in freshwater. Eighth International Conference on Modern and Fossil Dinoflagellates - DINO8. 4-10 May. Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. p. 10 in abstract book.
#28. Moestrup et al. 2008. The chloroplast of the DSP-producer Dinophysis, does it originate from Mesodinium, Teleaulax or elsewhere? XIII international conference on harmful algal blooms, Hong Kong, p. 90 in abstract book. 3-7 November.
#27. Sundström, A. M. et al. 2008. Gymnodinium corollarium sp. nov. (Dinophyceae) — a new cyst forming cold-water dinoflagellate from the Baltic Sea; morphology, molecular phylogeny and ecophysiology. XIII international conference on harmful algal blooms, Hong Kong, p. 132 in abstract book. 3-7 November.
#26. Gissel Nielsen, T., Visser, A., Jonasdottir, S., Friis Møller, E., Andersen, M., Larsen, L., Søborg, B., Satapoomin, S., Jaspers, C., Markager, S., Middelboe, M., Martinsen, W., Berendt, A., Hansen, O.S., Hansen, P.J., Woraporn, T., Daugbjerg, N., Hansen, G., Hastrup Jensen, M., Jakobsen, H.H., Henriksen, P., Schlüter, L., Hilligsøe, K.M., Olesen, M. 2008. Struktur og funktion af plankton fødekæden i det Indiske Ocean fra Cape Town til Australien. Galathea 3 2008 Arrangement d. 24 okt. 2008, page 33 in abstract book. In Danish. 24 October.
#25. Daugbjerg, N. & Hastrup Jensen, M. 2008. Overraskende fund indenfor tropiske furealger i det Indiske Ocean - ny grundtype? Galathea 3 2008 Arrangement d. 24 okt. 2008, page 23 in abstract book. In Danish. 24 October.
#24. Craveiro, S.C., Calado, A.J, Daugbjerg, N. & Moestrup, Ø. 2008. Sphaerodinium (Dinophyceae): phylogenetic position of an unusual dinoflagellate as suggested by ultrastructural characteristics. INCOMAM"08" International Conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis and XLIII Congress of the Portuguese Society for Microscopy., no. 43, Porto, Portugal. 30-31 October.
#23. Moestrup, Ø. & Daugbjerg, N. 2006. Phylogeny and evolution of the dinoflagellates. Unravelling the algae - the past, present and furture of algal molecular systematics. 11-12th April. Natural History Museum, London, England, p. 9 in abstract book.
#22. Christensen, S., Daugbjerg, N., Moestrup, Ø., Annadotter, H. & Cronberg, G. 2006. Potential harmful cyanobacteria in drinking water reservoirs of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - toxicity and molecular phylogeny. XII international conference on harmful algal blooms, Copenhagen, Denmark, p. 63 in abstract book. 4-8 September.
#21. Mohammad Noor, N., Daugbjerg, N. & Moestrup, Ø. 2006. Molecular phylogeny and ultrastructural studies of the periflagellar area of some benthic species of Prorocentrum (Dinophyceae). XII international conference on harmful algal blooms, Copenhagen, Denmark, p. 240 in abstract book. 4-8 September.
#20. Nguyen, L.T.T., Daugbjerg, N. & Moestrup, Ø. 2006. Pseudanabaena cf. moniliformis, a new toxic cyanobacterium from Vietnam. XII international conference on harmful algal blooms, Copenhagen, Denmark, p. 250 in abstract book. 4-8 September.
#19. Mohammad-Noor, N., Daugbjerg, N. & Moestrup, Ø. 2004. Toxic marine epibenthic dinoflagellates from Malaysia - a survey based on light and scanning electron microscopy. XI international conference on harmful algal blooms, Cape Town, South Africa, p. 198 in abstract book. 14-19 November.
#18. Johannesen, C.J., Daugbjerg, N. & Moestrup, Ø. 2004 Studies on growth rates and toxicity of Protoceratium reticulatum (Dinophyceae) based on different nitrogen sources, including characterization of genotypes using ITS sequences. XI international conference on harmful algal blooms, Cape Town, South Africa, p. 97 in abstract book. 14-19 November.
#17. Hansen, G., Erard-Le Denn, E., Daugbjerg, N. & Rodriguez, F. 2004. Karenia selliformis responsible for the fish-killing in the Gulf of Gabés, Tunisia 1994. XI international conference on harmful algal blooms, Cape Town, South Africa, p. 135 in abstract book. 14-19 November.
#16. Hinzmann, M., Craveiro, S., Calado, A., Moestrup, Ø. & Daugbjerg, N. 2004. A survey of toxic epibenthic dinoflagellates species from Ria de Averio (Portugal). XI international conference on harmful algal blooms, Cape Town, South Africa, p. 140 in abstract book. 14-19 November.
#15. Bergholtz, T., Daugbjerg, N. & Moestrup, Ø. 2004. The genus Karlodinium: morphology, ultrastructure, species concept, and phylogeny. XI international conference on harmful algal blooms, Cape Town, South Africa, p. 186 in abstract book. 14-19 November.
#14. Moestrup, Ø., Daugbjerg, N. , Ellegaard, M., Hansen, G. & Lindberg, K. 2003. Suessiales, a major order of extant dinoflagellates? Seventh international conference on modern and fossil dinoflagellates. Nagasaki (Japan). p. 84 in abstract book.
#13. Flø Jørgensen, M., Murray, S. & Daugbjerg, N. 2003. Systematics and phylogeny of Amphidinium (Dinophyceae) with re-examination of the type species and emendation of the genus based on morphological and molecular data. Seventh international conference on modern and fossil dinoflagellates. Nagasaki (Japan). p. 58 in abstract book.
#12. Hansen, G., Daugbjerg, N. & Franco, J.M. 2003. Species concepts of the genus Alexandrium with special emphasis on Alexandrium minutum and related species. Seventh international conference on modern and fossil dinoflagellates. Nagasaki (Japan). p. 44 in abstract book.
#11. Murray, S., Flø Jørgensen, M., Daugbjerg, N. & Rhodes, L. 2003. Species boundaries in the Amphidinium operculatum species complex (Dinophyceae) based on morphological and molecular analyses. ASPAB conference.
#10. Lewis, J., Ellegaard, M., Rochon, A., Harding, I., Daugbjerg, N., Fensome, R. & Taylor, M. 2002. An overview of the Gonyaulacales. Pp 169 in abstract book.
#9. Moestrup, Ø., Daugbjerg, N. & Hansen, G. 2001. Dinoflagellate phylogeny, a study based on ultrastructure and LSU rDNA sequences. Phycologia 40 [suppl.]: 17.
#8. Lundholm, N., Daugbjerg, N., Moestrup, Ø., Hoef-Emden, K. & Melkonian, M. 2001. Phylogeny of the Bacillariaceae with emphasis on Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae). Phycologia 40 [suppl.]: 7.
#7. Lewis, J., Ellegaard, M., Rochon, A., Harding, I. & Daugbjerg, N. 2001. Spiniferites vs. Gonyaulax: a proposal to resolve the dual nomenclature. Phycologia 40 [suppl]: 7.
#6. Andersen, R.A., Bailey, J.C. & Daugbjerg, N. 2000. The phylogenetic relationships of the Phaeothamniophyceae, with comments on certain capsoid members of the Chrysophyceae. Journal of Phycology 36 [suppl.]: 2.
#5. Moestrup Ø., Calado A.J., Daugbjerg N., Hansen G., Larsen J. & Rees T. 1998. Taxonomy of naked dinoflagellates, using mainly a combination of flagellar apparatus reconstruction, toxicity, pigment analysis and 28S rRNA sequencing. Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Vitenskapsmuseet, Rapport, Botanisk Serie 1: 111.
#4. Andersen, R.A., Potter, D., Daugbjerg, N. & Bailey, J.C. 1998. Phylogeny of Chrysophyceae using 18S rDNA and rbcL sequences, with comments on ultrastructure and classification. Journal of Phycology 34 [suppl.]: 3.
#3. Daugbjerg, N. & Andersen, R.A. 1997. Phylogenetic analyses of the rbcL sequences from haptophytes and heterokont algae suggest their chloroplasts are unrelated. Phycologia 36 [suppl]: 23.
#2. Andersen, R.A., Daugbjerg, N. & Saunders, G.W. 1997. Phylogenetic relationships of chromophyte algae based upon comparisons of SSU rDNA and rbcL gene sequences. Phycologia 36 [suppl]: 2.
#1. Daugbjerg, N. & Andersen, R.A. 1996. Phylogeny of the heterokont chromophytes: molecular analysis of rbcL, chloroplast-encoded gene. European Journal of Phycology, abstracts p. 11-12.
My papers have been published in 23 different journals (in alphabetic order)
- Algological Studies
- Canadian Journal of Botany
- Environmental Microbiology
- European Journal of Phycology
- European Journal of Protistology
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- Harmful Algae
- Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
- Journal of Phycology
- Marine Biodiversity
- Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Marine Micropaleontology
- Microbial Ecology
- Molecular Biology and Evolution
- Nordic Journal of Botany
- Nova Hedwigia
- Phycologia
- Phycological Research
- PLOS ONE
- Polar Biology
- Protists
- The ISME Journal
- Vereinigung fuer Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie Verhandlungen
BSc level
- Organismernes diversitet - livets træ (alge-delen) (15 ECTS) *
- Evolutionsbiologi (7.5 ECTS)
- Marinbiologisk sommerkursus (7.5 ECTS) *
- Basal Arktisk Biologi (7.5 ECTS)
MSc level
- Protists - eukaryotic microbiology (7.5 ECTS) *
- Arctic biology (7.5 ECTS)
- Arctic Field biology - summer course (7.5 ECTS)
PhD level
- Marine phytoplankton with emphasis on toxic species
- Marine planktonic protists: functional biology, ecology and phylogeny
* = course responsible
Courses previously taught
BSc level
- Freshwater biology - summer course (5 ECTS)
MSc level
- Experimental marine biology (7.5 ECTS)
- Marine microbiology and virology (15 ECTS)
Researchers
Name | Title | Phone | |
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Daugbjerg, Niels | Associate Professor | +4535331830 |
Contact
Associate Professor Niels Daugbjerg
Universitetsparken 4, 1st floor
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
n.daugbjerg@bio.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 33 18 30
Mobile: +45 42 43 00 09
External members
Name | Title | Phone | |
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Mariska Brady | Post doc | +45 353-20566 | mariska.brady@sund.ku.dk |