Beatrice Bylén

Short presentation

My PhD revolves around unraveling phylogenetic relationships, genetic diversity, and genomic features of lichen-associated algal photobionts. I’m especially interested in one of the most common lichen photobionts - green algal species from the genus Trebouxia. I will explore Trebouxia samples from a diverse range of environments to study population structure, distribution ranges, and dispersal mechanisms.