Edvard Glücksman
Position: Final-year D.Phil. student, supervised by Professor Tom Cavalier-Smith FRS
Email: edvard.glucksman@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Academic background:
2007-present: D.Phil. Zoology, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK
M.Sc. Integrative Biosciences, University of Oxford (2006-2007)
B.Sc. (Hons) Environmental Biology, University of St Andrews, Scotland (2003-2006)
B.A. (Hons) Sociology, McGill University, Canada (1999-2003)
Research activities:
I use molecular techniques to study the diversity of Apusozoa, a recently discovered group of free-living flagellates (Protozoa). Apusozoa are found ubiquitously in marine, freshwater and soil environments, yet little work has been done to better understand the precise nature of their diversity and the environmental impact of their predation on bacteria. On the one hand, my work involves culturing, isolating and sequencing DNA from environmental samples. On the other, I design group-specific molecular probes to explore the ecology and genetic diversity of Apusozoa within environmental DNA.
During my final year, I spent three months on a NERC-funded secondment to the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST) at Westminster, researching and writing a parliamentary briefing on biodiversity offsetting, a range of market-based conservation strategies.
Publications
- Glücksman, E., Snell, E.A., Cavalier-Smith, T. Phylogeny and evolution of Planomonadida (Apusozoa): nine new species and new genera Fabomonas and Nutomonas. Protist. In review.
- Glücksman, E., Wentworth, J. (2011) POSTnote 369: Biodiversity Offsetting. Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology, UK. http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn_369-biodiversity-offsetting.pdf
- Glücksman E., Snell, E.A., Berney, C., Chao, E.E., Bass, D., Cavalier-Smith, T. The novel marine gliding zooflagellate genus Mantamonas (Mantamonadida ord. n.: Apusozoa). Protist. In press. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20884290
- Glücksman E., Bell, T., Griffiths, R.I., Bass, D. (2010) Closely related protist strains have different grazing impacts on natural bacterial communities. Environmental Microbiology 12: 3105-3113. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02283.x/abstract
- Berry, P., Thomson, C., O’Hanley, J., Glücksman E. (2007) Assessing the vulnerability of species in Europe and the biogeographic regions to climate change. In: Berry, P.M., Jones, A.P., Nicholls, R.J., Vos, C.C. (eds.) Assessment of the vulnerability of terrestrial and coastal habitats and species in Europe to climate change, Annex 2 of Planning for biodiversity in a changing climate – BRANCH project final report, Natural England, UK. 11-53.