Education:

September 2016
PhD Student in Oceanography
Laval University, Lovejoy’s Laboratory, Québec (Canada)

June 2016
2nd Year Master’s Degree in Sciences and Technologies of Marine Environment (STEM)
Marine Biodiversity and Biomolecules (BioMar) option
University of Toulon (France)

June 2014
BSc Honours 4th year Degree Applied Bioscience, Microbiology option
University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland (UK)

June 2013
Bachelor’s Degree in Cellular Biology
Faculty of Sciences, Luminy Marseille (France)

Research Interests:

I work on the ecological and evolutionary implications of saltwater - freshwater transitions in Arctic marine microbial eukaryotes. I my research interest is on selecting genera found in both marine and freshwater systems in the Arctic and the exploration of biogeography and phylogeny of key genes. Planktonic communities will be studied under several conditions (salinity, light exposure, nutrients sources, level of carbon dioxide and toxicity). Moreover, high throughput technologies and recent molecular techniques (bioinformatics, metatranscriptomics and next generation sequencing) will be use to analyse large data sets and to be able to answer important questions about Arctic microbial eukaryotes communities. Furthermore, during my PhD in oceanography, I will have the chance with my project to go on field and sampled in different location sites in the Arctic Ocean (Eastern and Western Hudson Bay, Cambridge Bay and the top of Ellesmere Island) during summer 2017.

Research experience

January – June 2016
"Transfection Strategies In Marine Microeukaryotes"
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
East Boothbay, ME, USA
Supervisor: José A. Fernández-Robledo

April – May 2015
‘’The role of amoebae in structuring biofilms formed by marine bacteria’’
MAPIEM Laboratory
Toulon, France
Supervisors: Dr. M. Molmeret and R. Guillonneau

January – May 2014
“Idenification of clinical isolates of Candida from genito-urinary infections and
their antifungal sensitivity/resistance pattern”
University of the West of Scotland
Paisley, Scotland, UK
Supervisor: Dr. R. Risk

Publications

Emma R. Cold, Nastasia J. Freyria, Joaquim Mardnez Mardnez, José A. Fernández Robledo. Published 5th of May 2016, An Agar-Based Method for Plating Marine Protozoan Parasites of the Genus Perkinsus PLoS ONE 11(5): e0155015. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155015

Nastasia J. Freyria, Emma R. Cold, Claudio H. Slamovits José A. Fernández Robledo. TransfecSon Strategies In Marine Microeukaryotes. International Marine Biotechnology Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
August 28 - September 2, 2016