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Schmoker Claire
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Claire Schmoker has been involved in the LAQUAN project during her PhD research, which was mainly focused on the study of genetic diversity of living cyanobacteria in microbial mats and on using paleodiversity of cyanobacteria as a marker in paleolimnology to study reconstruction of past climate changes in coastal Antarctic regions.

Activities

• Research programme:
  - SPSD II : Antarctica V
• Research group: Université de Liège (ULg) - Center for Protein Engineering
• Research project:
  - Late quaternary climate history of coastal Antarctic environments: a multi-proxy approach (LAQUAN)
• Related activities: -

List of publications

Peer reviewed papers
Schmoker C., Taton A., Balthasart P., Grubisic S., Hodgson D.A. and Wilmotte A. Which cyanobacterial genotypes are observed in microbial mats of antarctic lakes? Terra Antartica Reports. 2005, 11: 51-56.

Oral presentations
Schmoker C., Taton A., Balthasart P., Grubisic S., Waleron K. and Wilmotte A. Which cyanobacterial genotypes are observed in microbial mats of antarctic lakes? Proceedings of RiSCC (Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic) Workshop. Varese, Italy (2-7/07/03).

Schmoker C., Taton A., Balthasart P., Grubisic S., and Wilmotte A. Genotypic diversity of cyanobacteria in microbial mats of Antarctic lakes. Symposium of the International Association for Cyanophyte Research (IAC). Luxembourg (30/08 – 03/09/04).

Posters
Molecular diversity of Cyanobacteria in microbial mats from coastal lakes in Eastern Antarctica. Taton A., Schmoker C., Elmandil B., Grubisic S., Balthasart P., Sabbe K., Vyverman W., Wilmotte A. Third international symposium on Ecological Genetics. Leuven (5-7/02/03).

Novel cyanobacterial phylotypes in benthic mats of Antarctic lakes and comparison with strains isolated. Schmoker C., Taton A., Grubisic S., Balthasart P, Wilmotte A. BIOFORUM. Liège (09/05/03).

Cyanobacterial genotypes observed in microbial mats of Antarctic lakes. Schmoker C., Taton A., Balthasart P., Grubisic S., Waleron K. and Wilmotte A. BAS Student Network Day. Cambridge, UK (04/12/03)”.

Genotypic diversity of cyanobacteria in microbial mats of Antarctic lakes. Schmoker C., Taton A., Balthasart P., Grubisic S., Waleron K. and Wilmotte A. International Conference on Arctic Microbiology. Rovianemi, Finland (22-25/03/04).

Study of the cyanobacterial diversity and paleodiversity in microbial mats from Antarctic coastal lakes with molecular tools based on the rRNA gene sequences. Schmoker C., Taton A., Balthasart P., Grubisic S., Waleron K. and Wilmotte A. Belgian Society of Microbiology annual meeting “Crossroads of Microbiology and Informatics”. Brussels (3/12/04).

Study of the modern and fossil cyanobacteria diversity in microbial mats from Antarctic coastal lakes. Schmoker C., Taton A., Balthasart P., Grubisic S., Waleron K. and Wilmotte A. BIOFORUM. Liège (7/12/04).

Exploration of cyanobacterial diversity in microbial mats of Antarctic lakes. Schmoker, C., A. Taton, P. Balthasart, K. Waleron, E. Verleyen, S. Cousin, W. Vyverman, K. Sabbe, D.A. Hodgson & A. Wilmotte. Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting, Liège, Belgium (4-8/07/2005).

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Schmoker Claire
Université de Liège
Département des sciences de la vie / Enzymologie
BAT. B6 Enzymologie
allée de la Chimie, 3 - 4000 Liège 1