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Dr Pennie Lindeque

Molecular Ecologist



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Dr Pennie Lindeque is a senior scientist with more than 18 years expertise in the area of development, systematics and trophic interactions of eukaryotes, in particular zooplankton. Current focus includes investigating the bioavailability and impact of microplastics on marine biota combining laboratory experiments and field sampling. As a molecular biologist her research has also centred on using molecular techniques to help answer ecological questions; including developing molecular techniques for identification of holoplankton and meroplankton, including Next Generation Sequencing technologies, and investigating trophic interactions through molecular gut content analysis.

Pennie has published 34 peer reviewed papers with more than 1600 citations (h-index 17). She has led a number of field campaigns, most recently looking at the abundance and distribution of microplastics in coastal and open ocean areas. She has supervised a number of MSc and MRes students plus 8 PhD students (4 to completion and 4 current) with academic links to University of Plymouth, University of Exeter, University of Swansea, Queen Mary University of London and Stazione Zoological, Naples (Open University).

Projects

OPTIMAL

Optical Methods for Marine Litter detection (OPTIMAL)

Contact: Dr Victor Martinez-Vicente

Marine litter consists predominantly of plastics and is an increasing global concern because of its worldwide distribution and its impacts on the...

Bioavailability and biological effects of microscopic plastic debris in the ocean
Completed

Bioavailability and biological effects of microscopic plastic debris in the ocean

Contact: Dr Pennie Lindeque

Every year, millions of tonnes of plastic are discarded as waste, and marine plastic litter is emerging as both a threat to the oceans and a...

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Other key projects

In the last 5 years Dr Lindeque has been PI or Co-I on a number of UK and EU research grants currently including:

  • NERC Changing Arctic Ocean Programme 2017-2021; Mechanistic understanding of the role of diatoms in the success of the Arctic Calanus complex and implications for a warmer Arctic (DIAPOD). Lindeque PI.
  • NERC Highlight Topic Grant 2016-2020; SeA-DNA: Development and application of eDNA tools to assess the structure and function of coastal sea ecosystems. Lindeque PI.

Recent publications

  • Nelms, SE; Galloway, TSG; Godley, BJ; Jarvis, DS; Lindeque, PK. 2018 Investigating microplastic trophic transfer in marine top predators. Environmental Pollution. 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.02.016
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  • Coppock, RL; Cole, MJ; Lindeque, PK; Queiros, AM ; Galloway, TJ. 2017 A small-scale, portable method for extracting microplastics from marine sediments. Environmental Pollution, 230. 829-837. 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.07.017
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  • Bucklin, A; Lindeque, PK; Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, N; Albaina, A; Lehtiniemi, M. 2016 Metabarcoding of marine zooplankton: prospects, progress and pitfalls. Journal of Plankton Research, 38 (3). 393-400. 10.1093/plankt/fbw023
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  • Lindeque, PK; Smolina, I; Harmer, R; Hoarau, G. 2016 Reduced up-regulation of gene expression in response to elevated temperatures in the mid-Atlantic population of Calanus finmarchicus. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 483. 88-93. doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2016.09.003
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  • Clark, JR; Cole, MJ; Lindeque, PK; Fileman, ES; Blackford, JC; Lewis, C; Lenton, TM; Galloway, TS. 2016 Marine microplastic debris: a targeted plan for understanding and quantifying interactions with marine life. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14 (6). 317-324. 10.1002/fee.1297
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  • Nelms, SE; Coombes, C; Foster, LC; Godley, BJ; Galloway, TSG; Lindeque, PK; Witt, MJ. 2017 Marine anthropogenic litter on British beaches: a 10-year nationwide assessment using citizen science data. STOTEN. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.137
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Selected key publications

M Cole, PK Lindeque, E Fileman, C Halsband, T Galloway (2015). The impact of microplastics on feeding, function and fecundity in the copepod Calanus helgolandicus. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(2): 1130–1137. (DOI: 10.1021/es504525u)

G Cripps, PK Lindeque, K Flynn (2014) Have we been underestimating the effects of ocean acidification in zooplankton? Global Change Biology. 20(11): 3377-3385. (doi: 10.1111/gcb.12582)

I Smolina, S Kollias, M Poortvliet, T G Nielsen, PK Lindeque, C Castellani, EF Moller, L Blanco-Bercial, G Hoarau (2014) Genome- and transcriptome-assisted development of nuclear insertion/ deletion markers for Calanus species (Copepoda: Calanoida) identification. Molecular Ecology Resources 14(5): 1072-1079. (doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12241)

Lindeque PK, Parry HE, Harmer RA, Somerfield PJ, Atkinson A (2013) Next Generation Sequencing Reveals the Hidden Diversity of Zooplankton Assemblages. PLoS ONE 8(11): e81327.

Other activities

Dr Lindeque has held the post of Head of Postgraduate Studies at PML, including PML's involvement with the three Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs), GW4+, Spitfire and EnvEast, since 2014.

Pennie is an invited chair of the Study Group on Integrated Morphological and Molecular Taxonomy (SGIMT).

Recent impact and outreach activities include:

  • Presentation to the Parliamentary and Scientific committee on the problem of plastics and plankton (London, 2016).
  • Contribution to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) briefing on public policy issues related to marine microplastic pollution (2016).
  • Popular science articles including International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES) feature article on ‘Plastics and Plankton’ (August 2016); Marine Biologists article ‘Plastics, plankton and pollution’ (Oct 2016), ‘Microplastics, Major problem’, Pipeline magazine, Surfers against sewage 2015.
  • BBC Inside Out feature on microplastics in the marine environment, Oct 2015.
  • Involvement with the production of educational films and lessons plans for GSCE national curriculum based around microplastic research in the marine environment.