Contact
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E-mail: gross.megan(at)rPTU.de
Publications
2025
Gross M, Stoeck T, Mauvisseau Q, Schrøder-Nielsen A & Dunthorn M
Comparing the precision of two digital PCR applications for copy number comparisons in protists.
Scientific Reports 15: 27095, doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-13143-8
2024
Gross M, Dunthorn M, Mauvisseau Q & Stoeck T
Using digital PCR to predict ciliate abundance from ribosomal RNA gene copy numbers.
Environmental Microbiology 26: e16619, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.16619
Gross M, Rajter L, Mahé F, Bass D, Berney C, Henry N, de Vargas C & Dunthorn M
O Short-branch Microsporidia, Where Art Thou? Identifying diversity hotspots for future sampling
European Journal of Protistology 96: 126119, doi: 10.1101/2024.04.01.587430
| 2025 | Copy that! - Comparing Digital PCR platforms for precise and re-producible gene copy number analyses in protists ICOP-ISOP joint meeting, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2023 | Digital PCR as a new cutting-edge tool for measuring ciliate abundance ECOP-ISOP joint meeting, Vienna, Austria |
| 2023 | Digital PCR as a new cutting-edge tool for measuring ciliate abundance Protistology Nordics, Lund, Sweden |
| 2022 | O Short-branch Microsporidia, Where Art Thou? Identifying diversity hotspots for future sampling Protistology Nordics, Oslo, Norway |
| 2021 | Using environmental DNA to direct future isolation of short-branch Microsporidia Research School in Biosystematics (ForBio) Annual Meeting, Oslo, Norway |
| 2021 | Global patterns of short-branch Microsporidia assessed by metabarcoding EDGE-Group (Evolution, eDNA, Genomics and Ethnobotany), Natural History Museum Oslo, Oslo, Norway |
| 2021 | Effects of different simulated upwelling intensities on protistan plankton structures and their grazing behavior in the Peruvian Humboldt current system International Society of Protistologists Conference, online |
| 2021 | Effects of different simulated upwelling intensities on protistan plankton structures and their grazing behavior in the Peruvian Humboldt current system 40th Meeting of the Society for Protozologists, Essen, Germany |
| 2025 | Mobility Funding TU Nachwuchsring |
| 2023 | Holtz-Connor Award ECOP-ISOP consortium |
| 2023 | Mobility Funding TU Nachwuchsring |
| 2022 | Second Best Talk Protistology Nordics |
| 2022 | Mobility Funding TU Nachwuchsring |
| 2021 | Training Graduate Funding for research stay in Oslo, Norway ERASMUS+ |
| 2021 | Award for best questions asked Research School in Biosystematics (ForBio) Annual Meeting, Oslo, Norway |