Dr Anne Jungblut

Dr Anne Jungblut

Principal Researcher

Department: Research
Division: Research
Specialisms: Antarctic and Arctic cyanobacteria, toxic and bloom-forming cyanobacteria, microbial mats, soil microbiology, freshwater ecosystems, climatic change
Email: a.jungblut@nhm.ac.uk

Summary

I am a researcher in the Life Sciences Department, with particular focus on diversity, evolution and ecology of polar cyanobacteria, microbial mats, toxic cyanobacteria and polar soils. Current projects of my research group include: 1) Diversity and distribution patterns of polar cyanobacteria along ecozones and latitudinal and environmental gradients; 2) Study of cyanobacteria and photosynthetic microbial mats in Antarctic lakes to understand microbialite formation and responds to environmental change; 3) Using historic and Antarctic herbarium collections to study cyanobacteria; 4) Microbial soil biogeography in the Southern Atlantic: South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, 5) The Microverse: a UK-wide citizen science project on eDNA assessment of microbial diversity in urban environments.

Qualifications

Degrees

  • PhD, Microbiology, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2003 - 2007
  • Diplom (M.Sc.), Biological Sciences, University of Konstanz, Germany, 1995 - 2002

Academic

  • Researcher in Botanical Biodiversity, Natural History Museum, Life Sciences Department, United Kingdom, 2010 - ongoing
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Northern Studies (CEN), Laval University, Canada, 2007 - 2009
  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2006 - 2006
  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, University of Konstanz, Germany, 1998 - 2001

Highlighted publications

  • Jungblut AD, Raymond F, Dion MB, Moineau S, Mohit V, Nguyen GQ, Déraspe M, Francovic‐Fontaine É, Lovejoy C, Culley AI, Corbeil J, Vincent WF (2021) Genomic diversity and CRISPR‐Cas systems in the cyanobacterium Nostoc in the High Arctic. Environmental Microbiology 23, 2955 - 2968. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15481
  • Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Matys ED, Summons RE (2018) The “Dirty Ice” of the McMurdo Ice Shelf: Analogues for biological oases during the Cryogenian. Geobiology 16, 369 - 377. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12280
  • Jungblut AD, Wilbraham J, Banack SA, Metcalf JS, Codd GA (2018) Microcystins, BMAA and BMAA isomers in 100-year-old Antarctic cyanobacterial mats collected during Captain R.F. Scott’s Discovery Expedition. European Journal of Phycology 53, 115 - 121. doi: 10.1080/09670262.2018.1442587
  • Jungblut AD, Hawes I (2017) Using Captain Scott's Discovery specimens to unlock the past: has Antarctic cyanobacterial diversity changed over the last 100 years?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284, 20170833 - 20170833. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0833
  • Jungblut AD, Hawes I, Mackey TJ, Krusor M, Doran PT, Sumner DY, Eisen JA, Hillman C, Goroncy AK (2016) Microbial Mat Communities along an Oxygen Gradient in a Perennially Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake. Stams AJ (Eds). Applied and Environmental Microbiology 82, 620 - 630. doi: 10.1128/aem.02699-15
  • Sumner DY, Hawes I, Mackey TJ, Jungblut AD, Doran PT (2015) Antarctic microbial mats: A modern analog for Archean lacustrine oxygen oases. Geology 43, 887 - 890. doi: 10.1130/g36966.1
  • JUNGBLUT AD, Lovejoy C, Vincent WF (2010) Global distribution of cyanobacterial ecotypes in the cold biosphere. The ISME Journal 4, 191 - 202.

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