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The tube-shaped alga Vaucheria became Alga of the year 2021. It is propagating quickly and modifying the mudflat in the Wadden Sea
The tube-shaped yellow-green alga Vaucheria velutina (Xanthophyceae, Stramenopiles) has been elected as "Alga of the year 2021" by the German Botanical Society. It supports the cooperation of mudflat researcher Prof. em. Dr. Karsten Reise of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Sciences (AWI) and Dr. Nataliya Rybalka, who is performing research on yellow-green algae (Xanthophyceae) using molecular methods at the Sammlung von Algenkulturen der Universität Göttingen (SAG), department EPSAG. At present, the SAG provides four culture strains of Vaucheria to the public.Further information on this topic (in German):
Press release No. 198 of 2020-12-21 of Göttingen University.
Press release of Section Phycology in the German Botanical Society.
State of knowledge of soil biodiversity - SAG's researcher Nataliya Rybalka has contributed to the latest report on soil biodiversity of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
In December 2020, the latest FAO report on soil biodiversity was published. The contribution on soil algae by Nataliya Rybalka can be found in chapter 2.3.4 Algae, pages 30 - 36. The whole report can be downloaded as a PDF file from the website of the FAO (www.fao.org)Citation of the report: FAO, ITPS, GSBI, SCBD, and EC. 2020. State of knowledge of soil biodiversity - Status, challenges and potentialities, Report 2020. Rome, FAO.doi.org/10.4060/cb1928en
There is also a summary of the report available: FAO, ITPS, GSBI, SCBD, and EC. 2020. State of knowledge of soil biodiversity – Status, challenges and potentialities, Summary for policymakers. Rome, FAO.
doi.org/10.4060/cb1929en
Sueddeutsche Zeitung(SZ) Article: "Virtuosen des Lebens"
Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the history of algae and our institute. In collaboration with Dr. Maike Lorenz. Newspaper edition of 04.05.2019, in the "Wissen" section.The SZ article can be found here.
International Postgraduate Course on the Biodiversity of Terrestrial Algae and Cyanobacteria
Professor Thomas Friedl and Dr. Nataliya Rybalka were teaching together with chilean colleagues an International Advanced Postgraduate Course at Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh), Valdivia, 25.02. – 02.03.2019. Topic of the course was "Molecular analysis of terrestrial and freshwater cyanobacterial/algal communities in pristine temperate rainforest, Southern Chile“.More about the course: announcement and report on UACh’s website
More about the presentation connected to the course (supported by
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