Sami Taipale
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General description
Associate Professor Sami J. Taipalect uses in his research novel omics (e.g., lipidomics and metatranscriptomics) and traditionally limnological and organic analytical methods to understand the ecological consequences of local and global level environmental changes on aquatic ecosystems. He works also with plastics recycling economy.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Associate Professor
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science (University of Jyväskylä), Senior Lecturer, Inactive
Research interests
The function and production of freshwater food webs depends on availability of essential omega-3 fatty acids and sterols. My research interest is to study how climate change (e.g. eutrophication, brownification) impact on synthesis and transfer of omega-3 fatty acids and sterols. I also study the importance of terrestrial organic carbon to lake food web by using fatty acid profiles of consumers and diets in Bayesian mixing models.
Fields of science
Projects as Principal investigator
- Microplastic in composting sewage sludge
- Maa- ja vesitekniikan tuki ry
- How will climate change impact the nutritional quality of freshwater organisms?
- Research Council of Finland
- Superfood from microplastics? - Microbial degradation of microplastics and biotransformation into essential biomolecule
- Kone Foundation
Projects as Team Member
- Modern food web models in lake condition evaluation
- Litmanen, Jaakko
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
Publications and other outputs
Author of research datasets
- Assessment of microalgae species, biomass and distribution from spectral images using a convolution neural network (2021) Salmi, Pauliina; et al.
- Eutrophication effect on production and transfer of omega-3 fatty acids in boreal lake food webs (Dataset) (2023) Calderini, Marco; et al.
- Fatty acid content, stable isotopes and fads2 gene expression in the perch (Perca fluviatilis) in Lake Pääjärvi between September 2020 and August 2021 (2022) Rigaud, Cyril; et al.
- Metabolic plasticity of mixotrophic algae is key for their persistence in browning environments (2022) Calderini, Marco; et al.
- Plastid 23S rRNA gene sequence data for several algae strains (2022) Rigaud, Cyril; et al.
- Sequencing dataset related to the influence of terrestrial plant litter input on microbial community composition and biomass in lake water (2023) Vesamäki, Jussi; et al.
- Temperature, phosphorus, and species composition will all influence phytoplankton synthesis and content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (complete dataset) (2023) Calderini, Marco; et al.
- Temperature, phosphorus, and species composition will all influence phytoplankton synthesis and content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (dataset) (2023) Calderini, Marco; et al.
