20/01/2025
Finally, after 17 years, here are the microalgae identification plates from my PhD in the Gulf of Kalloni, Lesvos Island, Greece!
Hope these will be handy to folk doing taxonomic identification of phytoplankton and benthic diatom and dinoflagellates.
Did you know that Kalloni Gulf is where Aristoteles, the father of biology, performed his first ever experiment?
19/11/2024
New Fully funded CASE-Iapetus PhD on flat oyster restoration!
keen to work on coastal habitat restoration with Kilchoan Melfort Trust in one of the most beautiful Scottish lochs and get a skills set ranging from eDNA and nutrient analysis to marine bioacoustics? Then this fully funded CASE - IAPETUS PhD could be just for you!!
For more details visit here
8/11/2024
New Fully funded PhD!
For more details visit here
28/8/2024
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Come work with us on sustainable aquaculture research!!!
Not one, but two brand new posts to work with myself, Martin Llewellyn and Simon Babayan in Glasgow Uni and in collaboration with Aberdeen, Plymouth MBA, Stirling and Edinburgh Universities, as well as major producers in the salmon and seaweed sectors across Northern Europe. We are developing diagnostic and prediction tools to tackle challenges to aquaculture from the plankton.
Please follow the links below:
Research associate (G7) - closing date in 19th of September: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJJ484/research-associate
Research assistant (G6) - closing date in 16th of September : https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJH120/research-assistant
5/7/2024
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FULLY FUNDED PhD - "Understanding small and large scale factors of seaweed biofouling using eDNA"
Come and join our aquatic ecology research team at University of Glasgow School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, with Martin Llewellyn, Anna McGregor and myself and Marnik Van Cauter of the Kilchoan Melfort Trust with this brand new PhD on Farmed Seaweed Biofouling!
Accepting applications up until 9th August.
Informal enquiries to: sofie.spatharis@glasgow.ac.uk
For more details and application: link to PhD
25/4/2024
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Our lab just got funded to work brand new marine Aquaculture research projects with field monitoring as well as experiments in our Glasgow Uni mobile mesocosm aquaria!
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We will soon be advertising Research Assistant positions for enthusiastic marine biologists to come work with us!
For any questions in the meantime: sofie.spatharis@glasgow.ac.uk
17/4/2024: Thanks MASTS for inviting me on Delve Deeper #4 to talk about 'The potential of Environmental DNA as a plankton monitoring tool of coastal waters and aquaculture'
watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjd4zPbLz9U&ab_channel=MASTS
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Join our talk in the upcoming British Ecological Society meeting in Belfast, 14 December 2023
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December 2023
CASE Iapetus DTP PhD opportunity on oyster habitat restoration with training on eDNA, in-situ experiments, bioacoustics and more! With Anna McGregor, Martin Llewellyn, Mike Bows at UKCEH, the http://kilchoanestate.co.uk and myself
Open for International students too!
Deadline for international applicants to contact supervisor: 11/12/2023
APPLICATION CLOSING DATE: 5th January 2024 midday
For more details see the project outline
e-mail me for more info! Sofie.Spatharis@glasgow.ac.uk
December 2023
Fully funded Case PhD by NorthWestBioscience to work on microalgae biotechnology and photobioreactors with myself, Eirini Kaiserli from the School of Molecular Biosciences-Glasgow Uni and our industry partner Xanthella ltd !!!
APPLICATION CLOSING DATE: 9th February 2024!!!
For more details see the project outline
And click here for application process
e-mail me for more info! Sofie.Spatharis@glasgow.ac.uk
September 2023
Our new paper on microscopy vs eDNA to detect planktonic threats to salmon aquaculture is now on Bioarchive, feedback is welcome!: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.04.556215v1
Join us in our two presentations on eDNA and microscopy monitoring of species problematic for finfish and seaweed aquaculture in the upcoming ASLO meeting in Palma, Spain!
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S027P Environmental Benefits and Risks of the Current and Future Seaweed Aquaculture Industry
Time: 6:30 PM, Date: 6/7/2023, Room: Mezzanine
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SS056B Jellyfish in the Changing Ocean
Time: 5:00 PM, Date: 6/7/2023, Room: Sala Santa Catalina
V. Delannoy ; S. Spatharis
Distribution of studies from our literature review on macroalgae epibionts. Zoom in to see sampling events and exact locations per study.
V. Delannoy ; S. Spatharis
Distribution of studies from our literature review on kelp epibionts colored by alagae group: kelp species in black, red algae in red, brown algae in brown and green algae in green dots