Dr Anne Jungblut

Dr Anne Jungblut

Principal Researcher

Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Algae, Fungi and Plants Division
Specialisms: Antarctic and Arctic cyanobacteria, climatic change, freshwater ecosystems, microbial mats, soil microbiology, toxic and bloom-forming cyanobacteria

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, Sydney, 2003 - 2007
  • Diplom (M.Sc.), Biological Sciences, University of Konstanz, Germany, 1995 - 2002

Employment history

    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

Grants

Life in the shade: Diversity and distribution of chlorophyll f-containing cyanobacteria and infrared photosynthesis in the Arctic (CAPTURE)
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Co-investigator: Nuernberger D
Funding: H2020 INTERACT Transnational Access
Total value £3,092
Dates: 2019 - 2019

Exploiting the multifunctional potential of belowground biodiversity in horticultural farming
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Co-investigator: Cuadros J
Funding: H2020 Societal Challenges
Total value £5,596,086 (to Museum £726,128)
Dates: 2019 - 2024

Using historic and modern cyanobacteria to identify microbiomes as sentinels for Arctic environments
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: NERC
Dates: 2017 - 2018

A frozen asset: can south georgia´s glaciers safeguard the biocomplexity of a biodiversity hotspot in meltdown?
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: National Geographic Society
Total value £14,675 (to Museum £14,675)
Dates: 2015 - 2016

Taxonomic evaluation of cryoconite cyanobacteria: barcoding keystone taxa on glaciers
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: Systematics Association
Total value £23,880.26 (to Museum £23,880.26)
Dates: 2013 - 2015

Microbial biogeography of South Georgia soils: implications for nutrient enrichment of coastal water
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: SGSSI
Total value £21,645 (to Museum £21,645)
Dates: 2012 - 2015

Using historical Antarctic collections to unlock the past: has polar cyanobacterial diversity changed over the last 100 years?
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: Royal Society
Total value £11,700 (to Museum £11,700)
Dates: 2011 - 2012

Research exchange to establish a Lake Biwa periphyton species list and public engagement events on biodiversity, management & conservation of Lake Biwa, Japan
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: Daiwa Foundation
Dates: 2011 - 2012

ALIENinSoil
Role: Principal investigatorPinzari F
Co-investigator: Jungblut A
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Dates: 2021 - on going

Geomicrobology in Brazil as a tool for innovative biotechnology and capacity building in the mining industry’
Role: Principal investigatorHerrington R
Co-investigator: Jungblut A
Funding: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Total value £33,680 (to Museum £33,680)
Dates: 2018 - 2018

ALIENinSoil
Role: Principal investigatorPinzari F
Co-investigator: Jungblut A
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Dates: 2021 - on going

Life in the shade: Diversity and distribution of chlorophyll f-containing cyanobacteria and infrared photosynthesis in the Arctic (CAPTURE)
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Co-investigator: Nuernberger D
Funding: H2020 INTERACT Transnational Access
Total value £3,092
Dates: 2019 - 2019

Using historic and modern cyanobacteria to identify microbiomes as sentinels for Arctic environments
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: NERC
Dates: 2017 - 2018

Memberships

Chair, T-MOSAiC: Terrestrial Multidisciplinary distributed Observatories for the Study of Arctic Connections, Arctic Microbiome Action Group, 2019 - on going.

Member, Antarctic Science Ltd (Board of Dirctors), 2019 - on going.

Editorships

Associate editor, Frontiers in Microbiology, Extreme Microbiology, Frontiers, 2019 - on going.

Associate editor, European Journal of Phycology, 2010 - on going.

Internal Positions

Council member, Systematics Association, Grants Officer 2015 - on going.

Member, UK Arctic and Antarctic Partnership, 2014 - on going.

FEMS Delegate , British Phycological Society, 2013 - on going.

Publications

Evans TW, Kalambokidis MJ, Jungblut AD, Millar JL, Bauersachs T, Grotheer H, Mackey TJ, Hawes I, Summons RE (2022) Lipid Biomarkers From Microbial Mats on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Signatures for Life in the Cryosphere. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13 : doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.903621

Jungblut AD (2022) Dealing with the cold: Shedding light on phototrophic life in the polar regions. Journal of Plant Physiology, 272 : 153692 - 153692. doi: 10.1016/j.jplph.2022.153692

Pinzari F, Cuadros J, Jungblut AD, Najorka J, Humphreys-Williams E (2022) Fungal strategies of potassium extraction from silicates of different resistance as manifested in differential weathering and gene expression. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 316 : 168 - 200. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.10.010

Millar JL, Bagshaw EA, Edwards A, Poniecka EA, Jungblut AD (2021) Polar Cryoconite Associated Microbiota Is Dominated by Hemispheric Specialist Genera. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12 : doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.738451

Malusà E, Berg G, Biere A, Bohr A, Canfora L, Jungblut AD, Kepka W, Kienzle J, Kusstatscher P, Masquelier S, Pugliese M, Razinger J, Tommasini MG, Vassilev N, Meyling NV, Xu X, Mocali S (2021) A Holistic Approach for Enhancing the Efficacy of Soil Microbial Inoculants in Agriculture:. Global Journal of Agricultural Innovation, Research & Development, 8 : 176 - 190. doi: 10.15377/2409-9813.2021.08.14

Klarenberg IJ, Keuschnig C, Russi Colmenares AJ, Warshan D, Jungblut AD, Jónsdóttir IS, Vilhelmsson O (2022) Long‐term warming effects on the microbiome and nifH gene abundance of a common moss species in sub‐Arctic tundra. New Phytologist, 234 (6) : 2044 - 2056. doi: 10.1111/nph.17837

Grettenberger C, Sumner DY, Eisen JA, Jungblut AD, Mackey TJ (2021) Phylogeny and Evolutionary History of Respiratory Complex I Proteins in Melainabacteria. Genes, 12 (6) : 929 - 929. doi: 10.3390/genes12060929

Grettenberger C, Sumner DY, Eisen J, Jungblut A, Mackey TJ (2021) Phylogeny and Evolutionary History of Respiratory Complex I Proteins in Melainabacteria. Genes, 12 (929) : doi: 10.3390/genes1206092

Planý M, Pinzari F, Šoltys K, Kraková L, Cornish L, Pangallo D, Jungblut AD, Little B (2021) Fungal-induced atmospheric iron corrosion in an indoor environment. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 159 : 105204 - 105204. doi: 10.1016/j.ibiod.2021.105204

Jungblut AD, Raymond F, Dion MB, Moineau S, Mohit V, Nguyen GQH, Deraspe M, Francovic‐Fontaine E, 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, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15481

Jackson EE, Hawes I, Jungblut AD (2021) 16S rRNA gene and 18S rRNA gene diversity in microbial mat communities in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Polar Biology, doi: 10.1007/s00300-021-02843-2

Ramoneda J, Hawes I, Pascual-García A, Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Jungblut AD (2021) Importance of environmental factors over habitat connectivity in shaping bacterial communities in microbial mats and bacterioplankton in an Antarctic freshwater system. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiab044

Lumian JE, Jungblut AD, Dillion ML, Hawes I, Doran PT, Mackey TJ, Dick GJ, Grettenberger CL, Sumner DY (2021) Metabolic Capacity of the Antarctic Cyanobacterium Phormidium pseudopriestleyi That Sustains Oxygenic Photosynthesis in the Presence of Hydrogen Sulfide. Genes, 12 (3) : 426 - 426. doi: 10.3390/genes12030426

Greco C, Andersen DT, Hawes I, Bowles AMC, Yallop ML, Barker G, Jungblut AD (2020) Microbial Diversity of Pinnacle and Conical Microbial Mats in the Perennially Ice-Covered Lake Untersee, East Antarctica. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11 : doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.607251

Grettenberger CL, Sumner DY, Wall K, Brown CT, Eisen JA, Mackey TJ, Hawes I, Jospin G, Jungblut AD (2020) A phylogenetically novel cyanobacterium most closely related to Gloeobacter. The ISME Journal, doi: 10.1038/s41396-020-0668-5

Dillon ML, Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Mackey TJ, Eisen JA, Doran PT, Sumner DY (null) Environmental control on the distribution of metabolic strategies of benthic microbial mats in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. PLOS ONE, 15 (4) : e0231053 - e0231053. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231053

Dillon ML, Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Mackey TJ, Eisen JA, Doran PT, Sumner DY (2020) Energetic and environmental constraints on the community structure of benthic microbial mats in lake fryxell, Antarctica. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiz207

Pinzari F, Cornish L, Jungblut AD (2019) Skeleton bones in museum indoor environments offer niches for fungi and are affected by weathering and deposition of secondary minerals. Environmental Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14818

Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Elster J, Van de Vijver B, Mikucki J (2019, 21 8) Inland aquatic biodiversity in Antarctica. Antarctic Environments Portal

Matys ED, Mackey T, Grettenberger C, Mueller E, Jungblut A, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Summons RE (2019) Environmental controls on bacteriohopanepolyol profiles of benthic microbial mats from Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Geobiology, 17 (5) : 551 - 563. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12353

Hawes I, Sumner D, Jungblut AD (2019) Complex Structure but Simple Function in Microbial Mats from Antarctic Lakes, In: Advances in Environmental Microbiology, Springer International Publishing : 91 - 120.

Woodall LC, Jungblut AD, Hopkins K, Hall A, Robinson LF, Gwinnett C, Paterson GLJ (null) Deep-sea anthropogenic macrodebris harbours rich and diverse communities of bacteria and archaea. PLOS ONE, 13 (11) : e0206220 - e0206220. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206220

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 (2) : 115 - 121. doi: 10.1080/09670262.2018.1442587

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 (4) : 369 - 377. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12280

Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Leidman SZ, Andersen DT, Jungblut AD (2018) Stromatolite records of environmental change in perennially ice-covered Lake Joyce, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Biogeochemistry, 137 (1-2) : 73 - 92. doi: 10.1007/s10533-017-0402-1

Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Jungblut AD (2017) Morphological signatures of microbial activity across sediment and light microenvironments of Lake Vanda, Antarctica. SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 361 : 82 - 92. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.09.013

Kleinteich J, Hildebrand F, Bahram M, Voigt AY, Wood SA, Jungblut AD, Küpper FC, Quesada A, Camacho A, Pearce DA, Convey P, Vincent WF, Zarfl C, Bork P, Dietrich DR (null) Pole-to-Pole Connections: Similarities between Arctic and Antarctic Microbiomes and Their Vulnerability to Environmental Change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5 : doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00137

Cuadros J, Cesarano M, Dubbin W, Smith SW, Davey A, Spiro B, Burton RGO, Jungblut AD (2018) Slow weathering of a sandstone-derived Podzol (Falkland Islands) resulting in high content of a non-crystalline silicate. American Mineralogist, 103 (1) : 109 - 124. doi: 10.2138/am-2018-6230

Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Jungblut AD (2017) Morphological signatures of microbial activity across sediment and light microenvironments of Lake Vanda, Antarctica. Sedimentary Geology, 361 : 82 - 92. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.09.013

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 (1857) : 20170833 - 20170833. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0833

Rankin AH, Pressel S, Duckett J, Rimington WR, Hawes I, Sumner DY, Mackey TJ, Castendyke D, Schneider H, Jungblut AD (2017) Characterisation of a deep-water moss from the perennially ice-covered Lake Vanda, Antarctica. Polar Biology, 40 (10) : 2063 - 2076. doi: 10.1007/s00300-017-2127-y

Jungblut AD, Mueller D, Vincent WF (2017) Arctic Ice Shelf Ecosystems, In: Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands, Springer Netherlands : 227 - 260.

Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Lawrence J, Leidman S, Allen B (2017) Increased mud deposition reduces stromatolite complexity. Geology, 45 (7) : 663 - 666. doi: 10.1130/g38890.1

Hodson A, Nowak A, Sabacka M, Jungblut A, Navarro F, Pearce D, Ávila-Jiménez ML, Convey P, Vieira G (null) Climatically sensitive transfer of iron to maritime Antarctic ecosystems by surface runoff. Nature Communications, 8 (1) : doi: 10.1038/ncomms14499

(2017) Psychrophiles: From Biodiversity to Biotechnology, In: null, Springer International Publishing :

Velazquez D, Jungblut AD, Rochera C, Rico E, Camacho A, Quesada A (2017) Trophic interactions in microbial mats on Byers Peninsula, maritime Antarctica. Polar Biology, 40 : 1115 - 1126. doi: 10.1007/s00300-016-2039-2

Canfora L, Vendramin E, Vittori Antisari L, Lo Papa G, Dazzi C, Benedetti A, Iavazzo P, Adamo P, Jungblut AD, Pinzari F (2016) Compartmentalization of gypsum and halite associated with cyanobacteria in saline soil crusts. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 92 (6) : fiw080 - fiw080. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiw080

Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Obryk MK, Doran PT (2016) Growth dynamics of a laminated microbial mat in response to variable irradiance in an Antarctic lake. Freshwater Biology, 61 (4) : 396 - 410. doi: 10.1111/fwb.12715

Sumner DY, Jungblut AD, Hawes I, Andersen DT, Mackey TJ, Wall K (2016) Growth of elaborate microbial pinnacles in Lake Vanda, Antarctica. Geobiology, 14 (6) : 556 - 574. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12188

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. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82 (2) : 620 - 630. doi: 10.1128/aem.02699-15

Jungblut AD, Krusor M, Mackey T, Sumner D, Hawes I (2015) CYANOBACTERIA AND MICROBIAL MATS IN ANTARCTIC TERRESTRIAL AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS: DIVERSITY, DISTRIBUTION AND RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY, 50 : 77 - 78.

Webster-Brown JG, Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Wood SA, Christenson HK (2015) The effects of entombment on water chemistry and bacterial assemblages in closed cryoconite holes on Antarctic glaciers. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 91 (12) : fiv144 - fiv144. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiv144

Sumner DY, Hawes I, Mackey TJ, Jungblut AD, Doran PT (2015) Antarctic microbial mats: A modern analog for Archean lacustrine oxygen oases. Geology, G36966.1 - G36966.1. doi: 10.1130/G36966.1

Zhang L, Jungblut AD, Hawes I, Andersen DT, Sumner DY, Mackey TJ (2015) Cyanobacterial diversity in benthic mats of the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, Antarctica. Polar Biology, 38 (8) : 1097 - 1110. doi: 10.1007/s00300-015-1669-0

Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Andersen DT (2015) Growth of modern branched columnar stromatolites in Lake Joyce, Antarctica. Geobiology, 13 (4) : 373 - 390. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12138

Jungblut A (2014) Book review: Biogeography of Microscopic Organisms: Is Everything Small Everywhere? Edited by DiegoFontaneto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 365 pp. Hardback. ISBN 9780521766708. £ 60.00 / US$ 99.. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 176 (4) : 582 - 583. doi: 10.1111/boj.12137

Hawes I, Sumner D, Andersen D, Jungblut A, Mackey T (null) Timescales of Growth Response of Microbial Mats to Environmental Change in an Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake. Biology, 2 (1) : 151 - 176. doi: 10.3390/biology2010151

Martineau E, Wood SA, Miller MR, Jungblut AD, Hawes I, Webster-Brown J, Packer MA (2013) Characterisation of Antarctic cyanobacteria and comparison with New Zealand strains. Hydrobiologia, 711 (1) : 139 - 154. doi: 10.1007/s10750-013-1473-1

Abramovich RS, Pomati F, Jungblut AD, Guglielmin M, Neilan BA (2012) T-RFLP Fingerprinting Analysis of Bacterial Communities in Debris Cones, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 23 (3) : 244 - 248. doi: 10.1002/ppp.1749

Blais M, Tremblay J, Jungblut AD, Gagnon J, Martin J, Thaler M, Lovejoy C (2012) Nitrogen fixation and identification of potential diazotrophs in the Canadian Arctic. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26 (3) : doi: 10.1029/2011gb004096

Jungblut AD, Vincent WF, Lovejoy C (2012) Eukaryotes in Arctic and Antarctic cyanobacterial mats. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 82 (2) : 416 - 428. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01418.x

Jungblut AD, Wood SA, Hawes I, Webster-Brown J, Harris C (2012) The Pyramid Trough Wetland: environmental and biological diversity in a newly created Antarctic protected area. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 82 (2) : 356 - 366. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01380.x

Skidmore M, JUNGBLUT AD, Ursche M, Junge K (2012) Cryosphere environments (glaciers and ice sheets, sea ice, ice shelves), In: Polar Microbiology: Life in a Deep Freeze, Whyte LG, Miller B (Eds). ASM Press : Washington, DC. 218 - 239.

Varin T, Lovejoy C, Jungblut AD, Vincent WF, Corbeil J (2012) Metagenomic Analysis of Stress Genes in Microbial Mat Communities from Antarctica and the High Arctic. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78 (2) : 549 - 559. doi: 10.1128/aem.06354-11

Harding T, Jungblut AD, Lovejoy C, Vincent WF (2011) Microbes in High Arctic Snow and Implications for the Cold Biosphere. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77 (10) : 3234 - 3243. doi: 10.1128/aem.02611-10

Veillette J, Lovejoy C, Potvin M, Harding T, JUNGBLUT AD, Antoniades D, Chénard C, Suttle CA, Vincent WF (2011) Milne fiord epishelf lake: A coastal arctic ecosystem vulnerable to climate change. Ecoscience, 18 : 304 - 316.

Jungblut AD, Neilan BA (2010) NifH gene diversity and expression in a microbial mat community on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 22 (02) : 117 - 117. doi: 10.1017/S0954102009990514

JUNGBLUT AD, Lovejoy C, Vincent WF (2010) Global distribution of cyanobacterial ecotypes in the cold biosphere. The ISME Journal, 4 : 191 - 202.

JUNGBLUT AD, Neilan BA (2010) Cyanobacteria mats of the meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf (Antarctica), In: Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, Seckbach, J., Oren, S. (Eds). Springer-Verlag : 499 - 514.

Varin T, Lovejoy C, Jungblut AD, Vincent WF, Corbeil J (2010) Metagenomic profiling of Arctic microbial mat communities as nutrient scavenging and recycling systems. Limnology and Oceanography, 55 (5) : 1901 - 1911. doi: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.5.1901

Jungblut AD, Allen MA, Burns BP, Neilan BA (2009) Lipid biomarker analysis of cyanobacteria-dominated microbial mats in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Organic Geochemistry, 40 (2) : 258 - 269. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.10.002

Zakhia F, Wilmotte A, Vincent WF, Taton A, Jungblut AD (2009) Cyanobacteria in cold environments, In: Psychrophiles: from biodiversity to biotechnology, Gerday C, Marx JC, Schinner F, Margesin R (Eds). Springer-Verlag : 121 - 135.

Izaguirre G, Jungblut A-D, Neilan BA (2007) Benthic cyanobacteria (Oscillatoriaceae) that produce microcystin-LR, isolated from four reservoirs in southern California. Water Research, 41 (2) : 492 - 498. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2006.10.012

Gaylarde P, Jungblut A-D, Gaylarde C, Neilan B (2006) Endolithic Phototrophs from an Active Geothermal Region in New Zealand. Geomicrobiology Journal, 23 (7) : 579 - 587. doi: 10.1080/01490450600897401

Jungblut A-D, Hoeger SJ, Mountfort D, Hitzfeld BC, Dietrich DR, Neilan BA (2006) Characterization of microcystin production in an Antarctic cyanobacterial mat community. Toxicon, 47 (3) : 271 - 278. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.11.002

Jungblut A-D, Neilan BA (2006) Molecular identification and evolution of the cyclic peptide hepatotoxins, microcystin and nodularin, synthetase genes in three orders of cyanobacteria. Archives of Microbiology, 185 (2) : 107 - 114. doi: 10.1007/s00203-005-0073-5

Saker ML, Jungblut A-D, Neilan BA, Rawn DFK, Vasconcelos VM (2005) Detection of microcystin synthetase genes in health food supplements containing the freshwater cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon flos-aquae. Toxicon, 46 (5) : 555 - 562. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.06.021

Jungblut A-D, Hawes I, Mountfort D, Hitzfeld B, Dietrich DR, Burns BP, Neilan BA (2005) Diversity within cyanobacterial mat communities in variable salinity meltwater ponds of McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Environmental Microbiology, 7 (4) : 519 - 529. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00717.x

Burns BP, Seifert A, Goh F, Pomati F, Jungblut A-D, Serhat A, Neilan BA (2005) Genetic potential for secondary metabolite production in stromatolite communities. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 243 (1) : 293 - 301. doi: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.12.019

Contributed Publications

Kleinteich J, Hildebrand F, Bahram M, Voigt AY, Wood SA, Jungblut AD, Küpper FC, Quesada A, Camacho A, Pearce DA, Convey P, Vincent WF, Zarfl C, Bork P, Dietrich DR (null) Pole-to-Pole Connections: Similarities between Arctic and Antarctic Microbiomes and Their Vulnerability to Environmental Change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5 : doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00137

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Lomeo D
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut A
Influence of environmental change on water quality and the risks of toxic algal blooms to wildlife in Africa
School of Global Affairs, London, United Kingdom
1/4/2022 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Papadaki S
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut A
Traces of microbial life and activity in Arctic endolithic habitats
, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC London DTP
1/4/2022 - on going.

Doctorate equivalent (PhD) Co-supervisor to Papadaki S
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut A
Traces of microbial life and activity in Arctic endolithic habitats
, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC London DTP
1/4/2022 - on going.

Doctorate equivalent (PhD) Co-supervisor to Lomeo D
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut A
Influence of environmental change on water quality and the risk of toxic algal blooms to wildlife in Africa
School of Global Affairs, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC London DTP
1/4/2022 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Solman A
Co supervisor(s): Bradley J
Microbial activity and dormancy in Arctic glaciers and soils: a macroecological approach
, London, United Kingdom
Funding: QMUL Principal Studentship
2020 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Hooper P
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut A
Diversity and ecological function of fungi and protists in Antarctic and Arctic freshwater ecosystems
, Bath, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC GW4+ DTP
2020 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Cramm M
Co supervisor(s): Bradley J
How does permafrost thaw affect microbial activity and function in Arctic soil?
, London, United Kingdom
Funding: QMUL Principal Studentship

Doctorate equivalent (PhD) Lead supervisor to Greco C
Co supervisor(s): Yallop M
Characterization of polar cyanobacterial diversity and adaptation mechanisms to cold environments
, Bristol, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC DTP
31/10/2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Shilland E
Co supervisor(s): Mackay A
What are the environmental and biological factors conditioning current and historic changes in the aquatic plant communities of upland waterbodies in the United Kingdom?

Funding: London NERC DTP
1/10/2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Millar J
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut AD
Life on Snowball Earth: Microbial diversity and biogeochemistry of glacial surface ecosystems
Funding: NERC DTP
2/10/2017 - 2021.

Doctorate equivalent (PhD) Co-supervisor to Klarenberg I
Co supervisor(s): Vilhelmsson O
Microbiomes and symbiotic nitrogen fixation in a changing Arctic
, Akureyri, Iceland
Funding: H2020 ITN
1/11/2016 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Krusor M
Co supervisor(s): Sumner DY
Metagenomics of microbial mats, Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
2014 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Wall K
Co supervisor(s): Sumner DY
Microbial mats in Lake Vanda, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
2013 - on going.

Introduction

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, Sydney, 2003 - 2007
  • Diplom (M.Sc.), Biological Sciences, University of Konstanz, Germany, 1995 - 2002

Employment history

    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
Projects

Grants

Life in the shade: Diversity and distribution of chlorophyll f-containing cyanobacteria and infrared photosynthesis in the Arctic (CAPTURE)
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Co-investigator: Nuernberger D
Funding: H2020 INTERACT Transnational Access
Total value £3,092
Dates: 2019 - 2019

Exploiting the multifunctional potential of belowground biodiversity in horticultural farming
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Co-investigator: Cuadros J
Funding: H2020 Societal Challenges
Total value £5,596,086 (to Museum £726,128)
Dates: 2019 - 2024

Using historic and modern cyanobacteria to identify microbiomes as sentinels for Arctic environments
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: NERC
Dates: 2017 - 2018

A frozen asset: can south georgia´s glaciers safeguard the biocomplexity of a biodiversity hotspot in meltdown?
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: National Geographic Society
Total value £14,675 (to Museum £14,675)
Dates: 2015 - 2016

Taxonomic evaluation of cryoconite cyanobacteria: barcoding keystone taxa on glaciers
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: Systematics Association
Total value £23,880.26 (to Museum £23,880.26)
Dates: 2013 - 2015

Microbial biogeography of South Georgia soils: implications for nutrient enrichment of coastal water
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: SGSSI
Total value £21,645 (to Museum £21,645)
Dates: 2012 - 2015

Using historical Antarctic collections to unlock the past: has polar cyanobacterial diversity changed over the last 100 years?
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: Royal Society
Total value £11,700 (to Museum £11,700)
Dates: 2011 - 2012

Research exchange to establish a Lake Biwa periphyton species list and public engagement events on biodiversity, management & conservation of Lake Biwa, Japan
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: Daiwa Foundation
Dates: 2011 - 2012

ALIENinSoil
Role: Principal investigatorPinzari F
Co-investigator: Jungblut A
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Dates: 2021 - on going

Geomicrobology in Brazil as a tool for innovative biotechnology and capacity building in the mining industry’
Role: Principal investigatorHerrington R
Co-investigator: Jungblut A
Funding: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Total value £33,680 (to Museum £33,680)
Dates: 2018 - 2018

ALIENinSoil
Role: Principal investigatorPinzari F
Co-investigator: Jungblut A
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Dates: 2021 - on going

Life in the shade: Diversity and distribution of chlorophyll f-containing cyanobacteria and infrared photosynthesis in the Arctic (CAPTURE)
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Co-investigator: Nuernberger D
Funding: H2020 INTERACT Transnational Access
Total value £3,092
Dates: 2019 - 2019

Using historic and modern cyanobacteria to identify microbiomes as sentinels for Arctic environments
Role: Principal investigatorJungblut A
Funding: NERC
Dates: 2017 - 2018

Professional activities

Memberships

Chair, T-MOSAiC: Terrestrial Multidisciplinary distributed Observatories for the Study of Arctic Connections, Arctic Microbiome Action Group, 2019 - on going.

Member, Antarctic Science Ltd (Board of Dirctors), 2019 - on going.

Editorships

Associate editor, Frontiers in Microbiology, Extreme Microbiology, Frontiers, 2019 - on going.

Associate editor, European Journal of Phycology, 2010 - on going.

Internal Positions

Council member, Systematics Association, Grants Officer 2015 - on going.

Member, UK Arctic and Antarctic Partnership, 2014 - on going.

FEMS Delegate , British Phycological Society, 2013 - on going.

Publications

Publications

Evans TW, Kalambokidis MJ, Jungblut AD, Millar JL, Bauersachs T, Grotheer H, Mackey TJ, Hawes I, Summons RE (2022) Lipid Biomarkers From Microbial Mats on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Signatures for Life in the Cryosphere. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13 : doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.903621

Jungblut AD (2022) Dealing with the cold: Shedding light on phototrophic life in the polar regions. Journal of Plant Physiology, 272 : 153692 - 153692. doi: 10.1016/j.jplph.2022.153692

Pinzari F, Cuadros J, Jungblut AD, Najorka J, Humphreys-Williams E (2022) Fungal strategies of potassium extraction from silicates of different resistance as manifested in differential weathering and gene expression. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 316 : 168 - 200. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.10.010

Millar JL, Bagshaw EA, Edwards A, Poniecka EA, Jungblut AD (2021) Polar Cryoconite Associated Microbiota Is Dominated by Hemispheric Specialist Genera. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12 : doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.738451

Malusà E, Berg G, Biere A, Bohr A, Canfora L, Jungblut AD, Kepka W, Kienzle J, Kusstatscher P, Masquelier S, Pugliese M, Razinger J, Tommasini MG, Vassilev N, Meyling NV, Xu X, Mocali S (2021) A Holistic Approach for Enhancing the Efficacy of Soil Microbial Inoculants in Agriculture:. Global Journal of Agricultural Innovation, Research & Development, 8 : 176 - 190. doi: 10.15377/2409-9813.2021.08.14

Klarenberg IJ, Keuschnig C, Russi Colmenares AJ, Warshan D, Jungblut AD, Jónsdóttir IS, Vilhelmsson O (2022) Long‐term warming effects on the microbiome and nifH gene abundance of a common moss species in sub‐Arctic tundra. New Phytologist, 234 (6) : 2044 - 2056. doi: 10.1111/nph.17837

Grettenberger C, Sumner DY, Eisen JA, Jungblut AD, Mackey TJ (2021) Phylogeny and Evolutionary History of Respiratory Complex I Proteins in Melainabacteria. Genes, 12 (6) : 929 - 929. doi: 10.3390/genes12060929

Grettenberger C, Sumner DY, Eisen J, Jungblut A, Mackey TJ (2021) Phylogeny and Evolutionary History of Respiratory Complex I Proteins in Melainabacteria. Genes, 12 (929) : doi: 10.3390/genes1206092

Planý M, Pinzari F, Šoltys K, Kraková L, Cornish L, Pangallo D, Jungblut AD, Little B (2021) Fungal-induced atmospheric iron corrosion in an indoor environment. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 159 : 105204 - 105204. doi: 10.1016/j.ibiod.2021.105204

Jungblut AD, Raymond F, Dion MB, Moineau S, Mohit V, Nguyen GQH, Deraspe M, Francovic‐Fontaine E, 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, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15481

Jackson EE, Hawes I, Jungblut AD (2021) 16S rRNA gene and 18S rRNA gene diversity in microbial mat communities in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Polar Biology, doi: 10.1007/s00300-021-02843-2

Ramoneda J, Hawes I, Pascual-García A, Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Jungblut AD (2021) Importance of environmental factors over habitat connectivity in shaping bacterial communities in microbial mats and bacterioplankton in an Antarctic freshwater system. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiab044

Lumian JE, Jungblut AD, Dillion ML, Hawes I, Doran PT, Mackey TJ, Dick GJ, Grettenberger CL, Sumner DY (2021) Metabolic Capacity of the Antarctic Cyanobacterium Phormidium pseudopriestleyi That Sustains Oxygenic Photosynthesis in the Presence of Hydrogen Sulfide. Genes, 12 (3) : 426 - 426. doi: 10.3390/genes12030426

Greco C, Andersen DT, Hawes I, Bowles AMC, Yallop ML, Barker G, Jungblut AD (2020) Microbial Diversity of Pinnacle and Conical Microbial Mats in the Perennially Ice-Covered Lake Untersee, East Antarctica. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11 : doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.607251

Grettenberger CL, Sumner DY, Wall K, Brown CT, Eisen JA, Mackey TJ, Hawes I, Jospin G, Jungblut AD (2020) A phylogenetically novel cyanobacterium most closely related to Gloeobacter. The ISME Journal, doi: 10.1038/s41396-020-0668-5

Dillon ML, Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Mackey TJ, Eisen JA, Doran PT, Sumner DY (null) Environmental control on the distribution of metabolic strategies of benthic microbial mats in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. PLOS ONE, 15 (4) : e0231053 - e0231053. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231053

Dillon ML, Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Mackey TJ, Eisen JA, Doran PT, Sumner DY (2020) Energetic and environmental constraints on the community structure of benthic microbial mats in lake fryxell, Antarctica. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiz207

Pinzari F, Cornish L, Jungblut AD (2019) Skeleton bones in museum indoor environments offer niches for fungi and are affected by weathering and deposition of secondary minerals. Environmental Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14818

Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Elster J, Van de Vijver B, Mikucki J (2019, 21 8) Inland aquatic biodiversity in Antarctica. Antarctic Environments Portal

Matys ED, Mackey T, Grettenberger C, Mueller E, Jungblut A, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Summons RE (2019) Environmental controls on bacteriohopanepolyol profiles of benthic microbial mats from Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Geobiology, 17 (5) : 551 - 563. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12353

Hawes I, Sumner D, Jungblut AD (2019) Complex Structure but Simple Function in Microbial Mats from Antarctic Lakes, In: Advances in Environmental Microbiology, Springer International Publishing : 91 - 120.

Woodall LC, Jungblut AD, Hopkins K, Hall A, Robinson LF, Gwinnett C, Paterson GLJ (null) Deep-sea anthropogenic macrodebris harbours rich and diverse communities of bacteria and archaea. PLOS ONE, 13 (11) : e0206220 - e0206220. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206220

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 (2) : 115 - 121. doi: 10.1080/09670262.2018.1442587

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 (4) : 369 - 377. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12280

Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Leidman SZ, Andersen DT, Jungblut AD (2018) Stromatolite records of environmental change in perennially ice-covered Lake Joyce, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Biogeochemistry, 137 (1-2) : 73 - 92. doi: 10.1007/s10533-017-0402-1

Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Jungblut AD (2017) Morphological signatures of microbial activity across sediment and light microenvironments of Lake Vanda, Antarctica. SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 361 : 82 - 92. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.09.013

Kleinteich J, Hildebrand F, Bahram M, Voigt AY, Wood SA, Jungblut AD, Küpper FC, Quesada A, Camacho A, Pearce DA, Convey P, Vincent WF, Zarfl C, Bork P, Dietrich DR (null) Pole-to-Pole Connections: Similarities between Arctic and Antarctic Microbiomes and Their Vulnerability to Environmental Change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5 : doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00137

Cuadros J, Cesarano M, Dubbin W, Smith SW, Davey A, Spiro B, Burton RGO, Jungblut AD (2018) Slow weathering of a sandstone-derived Podzol (Falkland Islands) resulting in high content of a non-crystalline silicate. American Mineralogist, 103 (1) : 109 - 124. doi: 10.2138/am-2018-6230

Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Jungblut AD (2017) Morphological signatures of microbial activity across sediment and light microenvironments of Lake Vanda, Antarctica. Sedimentary Geology, 361 : 82 - 92. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.09.013

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 (1857) : 20170833 - 20170833. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0833

Rankin AH, Pressel S, Duckett J, Rimington WR, Hawes I, Sumner DY, Mackey TJ, Castendyke D, Schneider H, Jungblut AD (2017) Characterisation of a deep-water moss from the perennially ice-covered Lake Vanda, Antarctica. Polar Biology, 40 (10) : 2063 - 2076. doi: 10.1007/s00300-017-2127-y

Jungblut AD, Mueller D, Vincent WF (2017) Arctic Ice Shelf Ecosystems, In: Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands, Springer Netherlands : 227 - 260.

Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Lawrence J, Leidman S, Allen B (2017) Increased mud deposition reduces stromatolite complexity. Geology, 45 (7) : 663 - 666. doi: 10.1130/g38890.1

Hodson A, Nowak A, Sabacka M, Jungblut A, Navarro F, Pearce D, Ávila-Jiménez ML, Convey P, Vieira G (null) Climatically sensitive transfer of iron to maritime Antarctic ecosystems by surface runoff. Nature Communications, 8 (1) : doi: 10.1038/ncomms14499

(2017) Psychrophiles: From Biodiversity to Biotechnology, In: null, Springer International Publishing :

Velazquez D, Jungblut AD, Rochera C, Rico E, Camacho A, Quesada A (2017) Trophic interactions in microbial mats on Byers Peninsula, maritime Antarctica. Polar Biology, 40 : 1115 - 1126. doi: 10.1007/s00300-016-2039-2

Canfora L, Vendramin E, Vittori Antisari L, Lo Papa G, Dazzi C, Benedetti A, Iavazzo P, Adamo P, Jungblut AD, Pinzari F (2016) Compartmentalization of gypsum and halite associated with cyanobacteria in saline soil crusts. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 92 (6) : fiw080 - fiw080. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiw080

Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Obryk MK, Doran PT (2016) Growth dynamics of a laminated microbial mat in response to variable irradiance in an Antarctic lake. Freshwater Biology, 61 (4) : 396 - 410. doi: 10.1111/fwb.12715

Sumner DY, Jungblut AD, Hawes I, Andersen DT, Mackey TJ, Wall K (2016) Growth of elaborate microbial pinnacles in Lake Vanda, Antarctica. Geobiology, 14 (6) : 556 - 574. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12188

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. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82 (2) : 620 - 630. doi: 10.1128/aem.02699-15

Jungblut AD, Krusor M, Mackey T, Sumner D, Hawes I (2015) CYANOBACTERIA AND MICROBIAL MATS IN ANTARCTIC TERRESTRIAL AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS: DIVERSITY, DISTRIBUTION AND RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY, 50 : 77 - 78.

Webster-Brown JG, Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Wood SA, Christenson HK (2015) The effects of entombment on water chemistry and bacterial assemblages in closed cryoconite holes on Antarctic glaciers. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 91 (12) : fiv144 - fiv144. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiv144

Sumner DY, Hawes I, Mackey TJ, Jungblut AD, Doran PT (2015) Antarctic microbial mats: A modern analog for Archean lacustrine oxygen oases. Geology, G36966.1 - G36966.1. doi: 10.1130/G36966.1

Zhang L, Jungblut AD, Hawes I, Andersen DT, Sumner DY, Mackey TJ (2015) Cyanobacterial diversity in benthic mats of the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, Antarctica. Polar Biology, 38 (8) : 1097 - 1110. doi: 10.1007/s00300-015-1669-0

Mackey TJ, Sumner DY, Hawes I, Jungblut AD, Andersen DT (2015) Growth of modern branched columnar stromatolites in Lake Joyce, Antarctica. Geobiology, 13 (4) : 373 - 390. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12138

Jungblut A (2014) Book review: Biogeography of Microscopic Organisms: Is Everything Small Everywhere? Edited by DiegoFontaneto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 365 pp. Hardback. ISBN 9780521766708. £ 60.00 / US$ 99.. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 176 (4) : 582 - 583. doi: 10.1111/boj.12137

Hawes I, Sumner D, Andersen D, Jungblut A, Mackey T (null) Timescales of Growth Response of Microbial Mats to Environmental Change in an Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake. Biology, 2 (1) : 151 - 176. doi: 10.3390/biology2010151

Martineau E, Wood SA, Miller MR, Jungblut AD, Hawes I, Webster-Brown J, Packer MA (2013) Characterisation of Antarctic cyanobacteria and comparison with New Zealand strains. Hydrobiologia, 711 (1) : 139 - 154. doi: 10.1007/s10750-013-1473-1

Abramovich RS, Pomati F, Jungblut AD, Guglielmin M, Neilan BA (2012) T-RFLP Fingerprinting Analysis of Bacterial Communities in Debris Cones, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 23 (3) : 244 - 248. doi: 10.1002/ppp.1749

Blais M, Tremblay J, Jungblut AD, Gagnon J, Martin J, Thaler M, Lovejoy C (2012) Nitrogen fixation and identification of potential diazotrophs in the Canadian Arctic. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26 (3) : doi: 10.1029/2011gb004096

Jungblut AD, Vincent WF, Lovejoy C (2012) Eukaryotes in Arctic and Antarctic cyanobacterial mats. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 82 (2) : 416 - 428. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01418.x

Jungblut AD, Wood SA, Hawes I, Webster-Brown J, Harris C (2012) The Pyramid Trough Wetland: environmental and biological diversity in a newly created Antarctic protected area. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 82 (2) : 356 - 366. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01380.x

Skidmore M, JUNGBLUT AD, Ursche M, Junge K (2012) Cryosphere environments (glaciers and ice sheets, sea ice, ice shelves), In: Polar Microbiology: Life in a Deep Freeze, Whyte LG, Miller B (Eds). ASM Press : Washington, DC. 218 - 239.

Varin T, Lovejoy C, Jungblut AD, Vincent WF, Corbeil J (2012) Metagenomic Analysis of Stress Genes in Microbial Mat Communities from Antarctica and the High Arctic. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78 (2) : 549 - 559. doi: 10.1128/aem.06354-11

Harding T, Jungblut AD, Lovejoy C, Vincent WF (2011) Microbes in High Arctic Snow and Implications for the Cold Biosphere. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77 (10) : 3234 - 3243. doi: 10.1128/aem.02611-10

Veillette J, Lovejoy C, Potvin M, Harding T, JUNGBLUT AD, Antoniades D, Chénard C, Suttle CA, Vincent WF (2011) Milne fiord epishelf lake: A coastal arctic ecosystem vulnerable to climate change. Ecoscience, 18 : 304 - 316.

Jungblut AD, Neilan BA (2010) NifH gene diversity and expression in a microbial mat community on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 22 (02) : 117 - 117. doi: 10.1017/S0954102009990514

JUNGBLUT AD, Lovejoy C, Vincent WF (2010) Global distribution of cyanobacterial ecotypes in the cold biosphere. The ISME Journal, 4 : 191 - 202.

JUNGBLUT AD, Neilan BA (2010) Cyanobacteria mats of the meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf (Antarctica), In: Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, Seckbach, J., Oren, S. (Eds). Springer-Verlag : 499 - 514.

Varin T, Lovejoy C, Jungblut AD, Vincent WF, Corbeil J (2010) Metagenomic profiling of Arctic microbial mat communities as nutrient scavenging and recycling systems. Limnology and Oceanography, 55 (5) : 1901 - 1911. doi: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.5.1901

Jungblut AD, Allen MA, Burns BP, Neilan BA (2009) Lipid biomarker analysis of cyanobacteria-dominated microbial mats in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Organic Geochemistry, 40 (2) : 258 - 269. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.10.002

Zakhia F, Wilmotte A, Vincent WF, Taton A, Jungblut AD (2009) Cyanobacteria in cold environments, In: Psychrophiles: from biodiversity to biotechnology, Gerday C, Marx JC, Schinner F, Margesin R (Eds). Springer-Verlag : 121 - 135.

Izaguirre G, Jungblut A-D, Neilan BA (2007) Benthic cyanobacteria (Oscillatoriaceae) that produce microcystin-LR, isolated from four reservoirs in southern California. Water Research, 41 (2) : 492 - 498. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2006.10.012

Gaylarde P, Jungblut A-D, Gaylarde C, Neilan B (2006) Endolithic Phototrophs from an Active Geothermal Region in New Zealand. Geomicrobiology Journal, 23 (7) : 579 - 587. doi: 10.1080/01490450600897401

Jungblut A-D, Hoeger SJ, Mountfort D, Hitzfeld BC, Dietrich DR, Neilan BA (2006) Characterization of microcystin production in an Antarctic cyanobacterial mat community. Toxicon, 47 (3) : 271 - 278. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.11.002

Jungblut A-D, Neilan BA (2006) Molecular identification and evolution of the cyclic peptide hepatotoxins, microcystin and nodularin, synthetase genes in three orders of cyanobacteria. Archives of Microbiology, 185 (2) : 107 - 114. doi: 10.1007/s00203-005-0073-5

Saker ML, Jungblut A-D, Neilan BA, Rawn DFK, Vasconcelos VM (2005) Detection of microcystin synthetase genes in health food supplements containing the freshwater cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon flos-aquae. Toxicon, 46 (5) : 555 - 562. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.06.021

Jungblut A-D, Hawes I, Mountfort D, Hitzfeld B, Dietrich DR, Burns BP, Neilan BA (2005) Diversity within cyanobacterial mat communities in variable salinity meltwater ponds of McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Environmental Microbiology, 7 (4) : 519 - 529. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00717.x

Burns BP, Seifert A, Goh F, Pomati F, Jungblut A-D, Serhat A, Neilan BA (2005) Genetic potential for secondary metabolite production in stromatolite communities. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 243 (1) : 293 - 301. doi: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.12.019

Contributed Publications

Kleinteich J, Hildebrand F, Bahram M, Voigt AY, Wood SA, Jungblut AD, Küpper FC, Quesada A, Camacho A, Pearce DA, Convey P, Vincent WF, Zarfl C, Bork P, Dietrich DR (null) Pole-to-Pole Connections: Similarities between Arctic and Antarctic Microbiomes and Their Vulnerability to Environmental Change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5 : doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00137

Teaching and students

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Lomeo D
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut A
Influence of environmental change on water quality and the risks of toxic algal blooms to wildlife in Africa
School of Global Affairs, London, United Kingdom
1/4/2022 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Papadaki S
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut A
Traces of microbial life and activity in Arctic endolithic habitats
, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC London DTP
1/4/2022 - on going.

Doctorate equivalent (PhD) Co-supervisor to Papadaki S
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut A
Traces of microbial life and activity in Arctic endolithic habitats
, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC London DTP
1/4/2022 - on going.

Doctorate equivalent (PhD) Co-supervisor to Lomeo D
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut A
Influence of environmental change on water quality and the risk of toxic algal blooms to wildlife in Africa
School of Global Affairs, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC London DTP
1/4/2022 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Solman A
Co supervisor(s): Bradley J
Microbial activity and dormancy in Arctic glaciers and soils: a macroecological approach
, London, United Kingdom
Funding: QMUL Principal Studentship
2020 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Hooper P
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut A
Diversity and ecological function of fungi and protists in Antarctic and Arctic freshwater ecosystems
, Bath, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC GW4+ DTP
2020 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Cramm M
Co supervisor(s): Bradley J
How does permafrost thaw affect microbial activity and function in Arctic soil?
, London, United Kingdom
Funding: QMUL Principal Studentship

Doctorate equivalent (PhD) Lead supervisor to Greco C
Co supervisor(s): Yallop M
Characterization of polar cyanobacterial diversity and adaptation mechanisms to cold environments
, Bristol, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC DTP
31/10/2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Shilland E
Co supervisor(s): Mackay A
What are the environmental and biological factors conditioning current and historic changes in the aquatic plant communities of upland waterbodies in the United Kingdom?

Funding: London NERC DTP
1/10/2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Millar J
Co supervisor(s): Jungblut AD
Life on Snowball Earth: Microbial diversity and biogeochemistry of glacial surface ecosystems
Funding: NERC DTP
2/10/2017 - 2021.

Doctorate equivalent (PhD) Co-supervisor to Klarenberg I
Co supervisor(s): Vilhelmsson O
Microbiomes and symbiotic nitrogen fixation in a changing Arctic
, Akureyri, Iceland
Funding: H2020 ITN
1/11/2016 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Krusor M
Co supervisor(s): Sumner DY
Metagenomics of microbial mats, Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
2014 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Wall K
Co supervisor(s): Sumner DY
Microbial mats in Lake Vanda, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
2013 - on going.