Sophie Steinhagen
About Sophie Steinhagen
For further information see also my webpage:
seaweed-research-steinhagen.com
Research interests
Seaweeds are a key factor in a more sustainable future. With their valuable and often bioactive compounds macroalgae find application in the pharmaceutical, biomaterial or food sector.
With my research I develop new strains for the cultivation of valuable green algal species within the genus Ulva. The work aims to develop environmentally sound cultivation techniques including seeding, juvenile growth, as well as laboratory and open-water cultivation optimized for Swedish conditions. We investigate how environmental factors and the genetic composition of seaweeds affect the content of high value compounds in the cultivated biomass.
Thus an important key component is the molecular, taxonomic identification of native strains within the morphologically highly valuable genus Ulva. Genetic studies of Ulva sensu lato are carried out in order to investigate the population structure of different populations along the Swedish west coast. Through selective breeding new culture varieties and high-performing cultivation strains will be developed.
Results from this research project will form the basis for cultivation and breeding protocols adapted to Swedish algal strains and environmental conditions that, in the future, can be used by commercial farmers.
For more information see my curriculum vitae:
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Effects of irradiance, temperature, nutrients, and pCO(2) on the growth and biochemical composition of cultivated Ulva
fenestrata
Gunilla B. Toth, H. Harrysson, N. Wahlstrom, J. Olsson, Annelous Oerbecke, Sophie Steinhagen, Alexandra Kinnby, Joel White, E. Albers, U. Edlund, I. Undeland, Henrik Pavia
Journal of Applied Phycology - 2020-01-01 -
Ulvan dialdehyde-gelatin hydrogels for removal of heavy metals and methylene blue from aqueous
solution.
Niklas Wahlström, Sophie Steinhagen, Gunilla Toth, Henrik Pavia, Ulrica Edlund
Carbohydrate polymers - 2020-01-01 -
Cultivation conditions affect the monosaccharide composition in Ulva
fenestrata
J. Olsson, Gunilla B. Toth, Annelous Oerbecke, S. Cvijetinovic, N. Wahlstrom, H. Harrysson, Sophie Steinhagen, Alexandra Kinnby, Joel White, U. Edlund, I. Undeland, Henrik Pavia, E. Albers
Journal of Applied Phycology - 2020-01-01 -
Effects of geographical location on potentially valuable components in Ulva intestinalis sampled along the Swedish
coast
Joakim Olsson, Sofia Raikova, Joshua Mayers, Sophie Steinhagen, Christopher Chuck, Göran M. Nylund, Eva Albers
Applied Phycology - 2020-01-01 -
Conspecificity of the model organism Ulva mutabilis and Ulva compressa (Ulvophyceae,
Chlorophyta).
Sophie Steinhagen, Andrea Barco, Thomas Wichard, Florian Weinberger
Journal of phycology - 2019-01-01 -
New records from the southern North Sea and first records from the Baltic Sea of Kornmannia
leptoderma
Florian Weinberger, Sophie Steinhagen, Dmitry F. Afanasyev, Rolf Karez
Botanica Marina - 2019-01-01 -
Surveying seaweeds from the Ulvales and Fucales in the world's most frequently used artificial waterway, the Kiel
Canal
Sophie Steinhagen, Rolf Karez, Florian Weinberger
Botanica Marina - 2019-01-01 -
Molecular analysis of Ulva compressa (Chlorophyta, Ulvales) reveals its morphological plasticity, distribution and potential invasiveness on German North Sea and Baltic Sea
coasts
Sophie Steinhagen, F. Weinberger, R. Karez
European Journal of Phycology - 2019-01-01 -
Cryptic, alien and lost species: molecular diversity of Ulva sensu lato along the German coasts of the North and Baltic
Seas
Sophie Steinhagen, R. Karez, F. Weinberger
European Journal of Phycology - 2019-01-01