Early evolution of microbiota

Micropalaeontology at Uppsala University

Publications

Short CV

• Global biodiversity trends of the terminal Proterozoic-Cambrian prokaryotes and protoctists (unicellular eukaryotes) in the context of secular biotic evolution and environmental changes.

• The role of phytosynthetic microbiota (acritarchs and cyanobacteria) in the development of oxygenic environments and its impact on marine trophic web and the process of early metazoan diversification.

• Search for biological affinities and phylogentic relationships of the Proterozoic and Cambrian acritarchs by phenetic morphological, ultrastructural and geochemical studies. Joint with PhD project by Heda Agić.

• Radiations, palaeobiology and biochronology of the Ediacaran acritarchs in Australia and Siberia and the survival/recovery strategies of early phytoplankton in the post-glacial Earth conditions (Slush-ball Earth). Collaboration with Dr. Kathleen Grey, Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth, and Konstantin E. Nagovitsin, Novosibirsk.

• Palaeobiology and biostratigraphy of acritarchs from the Proterozoic-Cambrian successions in China. Collaboration with Prof. Yin Leiming, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing.

• Cambrian biostratigraphy with the aim of establishing Global Stratotype Section and Point for Stages and Series of the Cambrian System, as a part of the long term collaboration with the International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy (Vice-Chairperson 2003-2011), Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group.
  

• Ultrastructure and biogeochemistry of the organically preserved Ediacaran meazoan Sabellidites. Collaboration with Frances Westall and Frédéric Foucher, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaiure CNRS, Orléans, France.

• I.U.G.S., IGCP Project 493: Rise and Fall of Ediacaran Biota.

• I.U.G.S., IGCP Project 512: Neoproterozoic Ice Ages.