Exciting fully funded NERC PHD opportunities:
https://www.aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/saha23/
https://www.pml.ac.uk/Working-with-us/PhD-Opportunity-Testing-the-potential-of-seaweeds
Please get in touch for any informal enquiries
Hi! Welcome to our group webpage!
I am Dr. Mahasweta Saha, senior scientist and a marine chemical ecologist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom. Together as a team (please click on Team Members) we investigate how do marine organisms 'talk' to each other like we humans do!
Our passion is to investigate ‘language of life’ in our oceans that is the 'infochemicals' that mediate all ecological interactions in our oceans. Over the last few years, we have developed an expertise eavesdropping chemically mediated interactions between seaweeds and microbes under present and future oceans i.e. climate change stressors.
Our research interests include:
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Marine infochemicals
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Fouling and anti-fouling of seaweeds and seagrasses
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Dynamics in chemically mediated interactions under fluctuations of biotic and abiotic factors
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Chemical ecology of invasive seaweeds
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Volatilomics and volatile infochemistry (aka 'smell' of the sea)
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Seaweed pathogen interactions
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Macrophytes under climate change
Click on the other links to know more about our work and academic activities.
If you are interested to discuss any complimentary work or potential collaborations/ want to join our team feel free to drop me an email at
RECENT POSTS
- Fully funded PhD studentships available (email me for any questions/informal discussions): https://www.aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/saha23/
- https://www.pml.ac.uk/Working-with-us/PhD-Opportunity-Testing-the-potential-of-seaweeds
- I was invited as a member of the grant review college of the Belgium Research Foundation!
- I was awarded the Asian Women Of Achievement UK 2021 Awards in Science Category! (link)
- PML Web news: Dr Saha wins Science category at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards (link)
- We will be organizing and hosting the Royal Society Meeting on "Algal Holobionts: Challenges and Opportunities" Date TBC
- I was invited to join the Publication Committee of British Ecological Society
- MRes student Pauline Benzi passed her dissertation with distinction. Congratulations, Pauline for this significant achievement despite the disrupted experiments during the pandemic!
