Cristiana Callieri

My research interests deal with the trophic interactions in the microbial food chain of subalpine, alpine and andine lakes in the frame of organic carbon cycle. In recent years, my research expanded towards the phylogeny, the ecophysiology and the biodiversity of freshwater picocyanobacteria in deep lakes and in the euxinic Black Sea. I isolated and purified around 100 Synechococcus and Cyanobium strains from lakes all over the world, and also from the Black Sea.