Group members - Jutfelt Fish Ecophysiology Lab
Group members and collaborators
Current research group
Dr Fredrik Jutfelt, Professor
Fredrik is a fish physiologist studying physiological and behavioural responses to environmental factors. He is also interested in meta-science and preventing scientific misconduct. Fredrik is head of the Animal Physiology section, member of the Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme, and an ERC Consolidator recipient.
Eline Rypdal, Research Technician
Eline is head of the animal facilities, keeping our zebrafish lines thriving. She is also involved in experiments and data analysis. Eline holds a master's degree in ecology, and has previously been conducting fieldwork focusing on seabirds.
Rasmus Ern, Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoc
Rasmus Ern is interested in the physiological and organismal responses of fish and crustacean species to changes in water temperature, oxygen, salinity, and acidity. In the Jutfelt Lab, Rasmus studies potential links between the metabolic and behavioural responses of zebrafish to changes in water temperature and oxygen.
Robin Leeuwis, Postdoc
Robin is a fish physiologist studying the effects of water temperature and oxygen levels on physiological processes such as cardiorespiratory and immune function. One of her current projects revolves around multi-generational adaptation to warming waters.
Zara-Louise Cowan, Researcher
Zara is an ecologist with a background in mainly aquatic animal behaviour. Her current topics are thermal adaptation and climate change vulnerability across life stages in fish.
Mette Finnøen, PhD Candidate
Mette is studying the behavioural thermal plasticity of zebrafish, which includes the within- and between individual variation in behaviour expressed at various temperatures, and how these behaviours vary together (covariance).
Anna H. Andreassen, PhD Candidate
Anna is studying the mechanisms of thermal tolerance with a focus on how phenotypic traits vary with selection for thermal tolerance, and the role of the central nervous system and cardiac capacity during heat challenges.
Lorena Silva Garay, PhD Candidate
Lorena is a PhD candidate with a background in elasmobranch ecophysiology and feeding ecology. She is now studying thermal physiology in fish and multi-generational adaptation to warming.
Moa Metz, PhD Candidate
Moa has a background in molecular evolution and ecology, and in her PhD project, she studies cellular mechanisms behind thermal tolerance in fish such as the production of heat shock proteins.
Co-supervised students
Hanna Scheuffele, PhD candidate
Hanna is investigating the physiological mechanisms underlying the ‘temperature size rule’ phenomenon, whereby aquatic organisms like fishes cannot grow as large in warmer waters. Co-supervised with Tim Clark at Deakin University.
Signe Løvmo, PhD candidate
Signe investigates intestinal function in salmonids. Jutfelt is co-supervisor, Rolf Erik Olsen is main supervisor.
Alumni
Dr Josefin Sundin, Postdoc and Researcher
Josefins project investigated the effects of ocean acidification and other environmental stressors on fish behaviour and reproduction. She currently holds a permanent position as researcher at the Department of Aquatic Resources, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.
Dr Jeff Clements, Marie-Skłodowska Curie Postdoc
Jeffs project took a comparative approach to study the effects of multiple global change stressors on the behaviour of fishes and invertebrates by integrating empirical laboratory studies with synthesis science (meta-analyses). He now has a permanent position as Research Scientist at the Aquaculture and Coastal Ecosystems Section, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canada.
Dr Rachael Morgan
Rachael’s PhD project investigated acclimation and adaptation potential to temperature in fish. She used artificial selection in zebrafish and showed that evolution of thermal tolerance is possible but very slow in fish. Rachael is currently a postdoc working with Neil Metcalfe at the University of Glasgow.
Archana Golla, PhD candidate (Co-supervised by Jutfelt)
Archana is a PhD candidate investigating behavior, neurophysiology and stress in fish. Jutfelt is co-supervisor, Florence Kermen is main supervisor.
Dr Laura Vossen (Co-supervised by Jutfelt)
Laura's PhD project explored how elevated levels of dissolved CO2 (ocean acidification) and low concentrations of the pharmaceutical oxazepam affect the neurophysiology and behaviour of fish. Main supervisor was Svante Winberg. Laura is currently a Post-Doc at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Dr Arianna Cocco (Co-supervised by Jutfelt)
Ariannas PhD project revolved around the GABA system in fish. Arianna is currently a Senior research engineer at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Dr Andreas Ekström, PhD candidate
In his PhD project (2012-2017), Andreas studied the relationship between cardiovascular performance and thermal tolerance in fish (Co-supervised by Jutfelt, main supervisor Erik Sandblom). Andreas is currently working as a postdoc with Steven Cooke and Erika Eliason, and studies the cardiorespiratory capacity of migrating salmonids.
Dr Lars Niklasson, PhD candidate
PhD in 2013 (Co-supervised by Jutfelt, main supervisor Kristina Snuttan Sundell).
Miriam Dørum, Research technician
Miriam was head of the animal facilities, keeping our zebrafish lines thriving. She was also involved in experiments and data analysis.
Adriana de Aguiar Martins, Research technician
Adriana was head of the animal facilities, keeping our zebrafish lines thriving. She was also involved in experiments and data analysis.
Jonas Arntsen, MSc student
Jonas tested how selecting for higher and lower critical thermal maxima in zebrafish affected their thermal preference.
Mons Lien, MSc student
Mons is a 2nd year master student, writing his thesis on swim speed and metabolic rate in zebrafish.
Anders Meyer, MSc student
Anders did a two-year MSc project on the effects of oxygen and temperature on growth and appetite in fish.
Sondre Kristenstuen, MSc student
Sondre did a two-years project on how oxygen and temperature affect growth and appetite in fish, with focus on activity level and swim performance.
Marie Reiersen, MSc student
Marie is a LUR MSc student doing a project on how thermal acclimation and oxygen affect thermal tolerance (CTmax) in fish.
Sandra Steen, MSc student
Sandra studied the effects of high intensity interval training in humans. Jutfelt was co-supervisor, Trine Moholdt was main supervisor.
Anna H. Andreassen, MSc student
Anna did a two-year project on the thermal physiology, behaviour and thermal preference of wild-caught zebrafish. Her main focus was the development of an automated annular thermal preference system for fish.
Eirik Åsheim, MSc student
Eirik did a two-year project on the thermal performance and thermal tolerance of wild-caught zebrafish, in relation to environmental factors. Parts of that work is published. Eirik is now a PhD candidate with Craig Primmer at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Kristin Espolin Johnson, MSc student
Kristin investigated how VO2 affects cardiovascular risk in older adult humans. Jutfelt was co-supervisor, main supervisor Dorthe Stensvold.
Hanne Margrethe Hildrum, MSc student
Hanne did a one-year MSc project on thermal tolerance using CTmax and CTmin tests, combined with results from behaviour experiments, on zebrafish.
Tine Brusevold, MSc student
Tine did a MSc project studying differences in plasticity in behavioural traits in wild caught zebrafish lines exposed to different thermal treatments. Co supervised with Jon Wright.
Gunnar Dresler, MSc student
Gunnar did a two-year project on the thermal physiology and plasticity of wild-caught zebrafish.
Leon Green, MSc student
Leon did a MSc project on how ocean acidification may affect catsharks. Leon has recently finished his PhD in evolutionary ecology of invasive fishes under Lotta Kvarmeno at the University of Gothenburg. He is now working as an assistant professor on marine invasive species.
Maria Hedgärde, MSc student
Maria did a project investigating if cod are affected by elevated CO2 levels resulting in two papers 1,2.
Roman Motyka
Roman did a MSc project on how ocean acidification may temperate fishes.
Erasmus students
Violetta García Muñoz (Spain)
Violetta is an Erasmus student from the University of Valencia who helped with various zebrafish experiments in 2021-2022 during an internship in our lab.
Nathalie Folliard (France)
Nathalie conducted an experiment testing how heart rate in various species of crabs is affected by temperature. 2021-2022.
Margarita Villalonga Roca de Togores (Spain)
Marga is a Spanish Erasmus student who conducted various zebrafish experiments during 2019.
Mireia Silvestre (Spain)
Mireia is a Spanish Erasmus student who conducted various zebrafish experiments during 2018.
Marc Vendrell (Spain)
Marc is a Spanish Erasmus student who conducted various zebrafish experiments during 2017.
Visiting guest researchers
Jeremy de Bonville
Jay is a fish physiologist studying the impacts of warming and parasites on fish. Jay is collaborating on several projects and has been running experiments in our lab during 2022.
Daniel Sadler
Daniel is a fish ecologist who studies fish genomics, climate change, and all things fish. He ran a long temperature and hypoxia experiment at NTNU during 2022.
Dr Joanna Miest
Joanna collaborates on a project on fish olfaction and chemical ecology, and on a project testing how thermal evolutionary history affects thermal acclimation capacity.
Dr Adam Gouraguine
Adam collaborated on a project for improving two-current choice flume research.
Davide Spatafora
Davide tested how thermal acclimation affects swim performance in zebrafish.
Adrian Loh
Adrian collaborates on a project testing how thermal evolutionary history affects thermal acclimation capacity, with a focus on gene expression patterns.
Main collaborators
Josefin Sundin, SLU
Josefin is a behavioural ecologist and all-around fish expert. She collaborates on many projects in fish physiology and behaviour.
Timothy Clark, Deakin University
Tim is a collaborator on many projects on fish ecophysiology, as well as on various reproducibility efforts.
Sandra Binning, University of Montreal
Sandra is a behavioural ecologist collaborating on various fish behavior projects (and zombie science).
Graham Raby, University of Windsor
Graham collaborates on fish behavior, ocean acidification, and fishing stress.
Dominique Roche, Carleton University
Dom is a behavioural ecologist collaborating on various behavior projects, as well as reproducibility initiatives.
Ben Speers-Roesch, University of New Brunswick
Ben is a fish physiologist working on thermal biology
Florence Kermen, University of Copenhagen
The Kermen lab investigates behavior, neurophysiology and stress in fish.
Tommy Norin, DTU
Tommy is a fish physiologist interested in scaling of metabolic rate and how fish physiology is affected by various factors.
Tamzin Blewett, University of Alberta
Tamzin is a physiologist and toxicologist who examines the interactions between aquatic animals and the environment. She is a collaborator on various fish and crab physiology projects.
FIN club team
The FIN club is an unruly group of aquatic physiologists who organize annual research trips and workshops.
Rolf Erik Olsen, NTNU
Rolf Erik collaborates on gastrointestinal and thermal physiology projects, as well as a fish microplastics project.
Sam Dupont, University of Gothenburg
Sam is a collaborator on ocean acidification experiments at Kristineberg.
Svante Winberg, Uppsala University,
Professor Svante Winberg on the neural causes of the behavioural disturbances seen in some fish exposed to elevated CO2 levels. Svante is the main supervisor for Laura and Arianna.
Malin Rosengren, University of Gothenburg
Malin collaborates on fish physiology and personality projects.
Erik Sandblom, University of Gothenburg
Erik Sandblom is a collaborator on fish physiology and thermal biology.
Michael Axelsson, University of Gothenburg
Professor Michael Axelsson is a leading expert on circulatory physiology and in vivo surgical techniques in ectothermic vertebrates.
Catriona Clemmesen, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre, Kiel
Collaborator on the impacts of ocean acidification on fish larvae.
Michael Sswat, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre, Kiel
Collaborator on the impacts of ocean acidification on fish larvae.
Martina Stiasny, Institute for Marine Research, Bergen
Collaborator on the impacts of ocean acidification on fish larvae.
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