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Snædís Huld Björnsdóttir - Senior Lecturer (UK) - Associate Professor (USA)
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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Snædís Huld Björnsdóttir
Íslenska
Senior Lecturer (UK) - Associate Professor (USA)
Location
Askja / N-344
Phone
5254614
Email
snaedis [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4368-8602
Courses 2020 - 2021
LÍF201G - Microbiology
LÍF110G - General and Medical Microbiology
LÍF536M - Medical Microbiology
LÍF533M - Microbiology II
LÍF535M - Environmental microbiology
LÍF111G - General and Medical Microbiology
Published works
2020
Comparison of the gut microbiota in the groundwater amphipod Crangonyx islandicus Svavarsson & Kristjánsson, 2006 (Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) to biofilms in its spring-source habitat
Journal of Crustacean Biology
2018
Adaptive Laboratory Evolution for Enhanced Carotenoid Production in Microalgae
Methods in Molecular Biology
2017
Characterization of carotenoids in Rhodothermus marinus.
MicrobiologyOpen
Divergence of Species in the Geothermal Environment
Adaption of Microbial Life to Environmental Extremes
2016
Quantifying mixing, boiling, degassing, oxidation and reactivity of thermal waters at Vonarskard, Iceland
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
Evaluation of the production of exopolysaccharides by two strains of the thermophilic bacterium Rhodothermus marinus.
Carbohydrate polymers
2012
Microbial speciation in the geothermal ecosystem
Adaption of Microbial Life to Environmental Extremes
Litorilinea aerophila gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic member of the class Caldilineae, phylum Chloroflexi, isolated from an intertidal hot spring
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
Fourteen new microsatellite markers for Atlantic herring Clupea harengus.
Journal of fish biology
2011
Detection and mapping of mtDNA SNPs in Atlantic salmon using high throughput DNA sequencing
BMC Genomics
Generation of Targeted Deletions in the Genome of Rhodothermus marinus
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2010
Rhodothermus profundi sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
2009
Thermus islandicus sp. nov., a mixotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from the Torfajokull geothermal area
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
Analysis of the unique geothermal microbial ecosystem of the Blue Lagoon.
FEMS microbiology ecology
2006
Cloning and expression of heterologous genes in Rhodothermus marinus
Extremophiles
2005
Rhodothermus marinus: physiology and molecular biology
Extremophiles
2004
Establishment of a gene transfer system for Rhodothermus marinus
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
2003
Identification and nucleotide sequence analysis of a cryptic plasmid, pRM21, from Rhodothermus marinus.
Plasmid
Keywords for Specialisation:
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Genetics
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