Georgina Brennan
I am Marie Curie research fellow working on the ‘WildE’ research project. I am molecular ecologist and evolutionary biologist interested how environmental drivers shape populations at the phenotypic and molecular level. I received my PhD and the University of Edinburgh (Institute of Evolutionary Biology) in 2016 and I have since completed two postdoctoral positions. During my first postdoc at Bangor University, in collaboration with PollerGEN, I used eDNA methods to measure the biodiversity and quantity of airborne pollen, with a special focus on grasses and allergy (2016 – 2019). I recently completed a short project at Lund University measuring the biodiversity of fish and invertebrates in streams in southern Sweden, using eDNA metabarcoding (2019 -2020).
I am now working at ICM-CSIC on the MSCA funded research ‘WildE’. This project uses molecular tools to directly measure the rate of microevolution of ecologically important marine microbes to explore how globally important microbes will respond to climate change.
FEATURED PAPERS
Shifts in honeybee foraging reveal historical changes in floral resources (2021)
L. Jones, G.L. Brennan, A. Lowe, S. Creer, C.R. Ford, N. de Vere
Communications Biology, 4, 37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01562-4
Key questions for next-generation biomonitoring (2020)
A. Makiola, Z.G. Compson, D.J. Baird, M.A. Barnes, S.P. Boerlijst, A. Bouchez, G.L. Brennan et al.
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7, 1-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00197.
Temperate airborne grass pollen defined by spatio-temporal shifts in community composition (2019)
G.L. Brennan, C. Potter, N. de Vere, G.W. Griffith, C.A. Skjøth, N.J. Osborne, B.W. Wheeler, R.N. McInnes, Y. Clewlow, A. Barber, H.M. Hanlon, M. Hegarty, L. Jones, A. Kurganskiy, F.M. Rowney, C Armitage, B. Adams-Groom, C.R. Ford, G.M. Petch, The PollerGEN Consortium, and S. Creer.
Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3, 750–754, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0849-7.
The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting (2019)
F. Pennekamp, A. Iles, J. Garland, G. Brennan, U. Brose, U. Gaedke, U. Jacob, P. Kratina, B. Matthews, S. Munch, M. Novak, G.M. Palamara, B. Rall, B. Rosenbaum, A. Tabi, C. Ward, R. Williams, H. Ye, O. Petchey
Ecological Monographs, 89(2), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1359.
Ocean acidification increases iodine accumulation in kelp-based coastal food webs (2018)
D. Xu*, G. Brennan*, L. Xu, X.W. Zhang, X. Fan, W.T. Han, T. Mock, A. McMinn, D.A. Hutchins, N. Ye (* These authors contributed equally)
Global Change Biology, 25, 629-639. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14467
Evolutionary consequences of multidriver environmental change in an aquatic primary producer (2017)
G. Brennan, N. Colegrave, S. Collins
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(37), 9930-9935. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703375114
Growth responses of a green alga to multiple environmental drivers (2015)
G. Brennan, S. Collins
Nature Climate Change, 5, 892–897. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2682
G. Brennan, L. Kregting, G.E. Beatty, C. Cole, B. Elsäßer, G. Savidge, G., Provan
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society, 11(95), 20140197. DOI: doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2014.0197
PROJECTS
InvaSpecBaltic: Effects of invasive species on the Hanöbukten bay and Baltic Sea ecosystems – threats and opportunities Funding entity: Sweden Start: 01/05/2019 End: 31/08/2021
PollerGEN: Linking grass pollen biodiversity and human health: an environmental genomics approach. Funding entity: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Start: 01/03/2016 End: 31/08/2019
PhD & MASTER THESIS SUPERVISED
Exploring the persistence of fish eDNA using a mesocosm approach (MsC Thesis). Distinction
Author: Theophine Ottosson
Supervisor: Georgina Brennan
Institution: Lund University, Sweden
Year: 2021
Author: Anna Egerton
Supervisor: Georgina Brennan
Institution: Bangor University, UK
Year: 2020
