Lara Beckmann

Corals in the deep-sea

I’m Lara and I’m a PhD student and works as a marine biologist in Tjärnö. I work with the most fascinating but also most inaccessible animals on our planet: deep-sea corals.

Everyone has heard of tropical corals, but corals and their relatives also thrive in deep and cold water. In my work I try to find out basic information, for example how corals reproduce and live in the deep ocean. Corals produce eggs and sperm, which they release into the water column in a synchronized spawning event that often lasts only a few days a year.

To examine this essential process, I study corals in the laboratory and look at what happens after sperm encounters an egg and further raise the resulting larvae.

Om besöket är på plats kan jag komma till

Strömstad, Göteborg. I can travel by bus and train to Gothenburg or surroundings, and anywhere close to Strömstad (15 km).

Praktisk information

I understand Swedish but would be more comfortable presenting in english 🙂

Göteborgs universitet

Institutionen för marina vetenskaper

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