LABORATORY OF MARINE PLANT ECOPHYSIOLOGY

Head – Professor Adam Latała

tel: +48 58 523 6894,fax: +48 58 523 6678

e-mail: adam.latala@ug.edu.pl

Website: http://perm.ug.gda.pl/

Research areas:

• Ecophysiology of benthic and planktonic marine microalgae
• Influence of main environmental factors such as salinity, temperature and light on the growth, photosynthesis, fluorescence and photoacclimation mechanisms of natural algal communities and unialgal cultures
• The use of molecular methods in order to provide new insights into the taxonomy and phylogeny of Baltic algae
• Culture Collection of Baltic Algae (CCBA); currently the CCBA maintains more than 100 original Baltic strains including cyanobacteria and several algal groups: flagellates, green algae and diatoms
• Isolation of new algal strains from the Baltic Sea and Polish inland waters.
• The use of algal toxicity tests for the assessment of potential environmental risks caused by xenobiotics such as ionic liquids (ILs), perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) and nanoparticles
• Taxonomy and morphology of Baltic algae - examined using light microscope (LM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM)