Former BGC PhD student Dr Emily Broadwell has had her PhD research, newly published in ISME Communications, featured in a University of Bristol press release.

Emily’s research, supervised by Dr Chris Williamson and also co-authored by BGC members Paulina Cifuentes-Uribe and Jasmin Millar, shed light on novel diversity of snow and glacier algae species at Signy Island, part of the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. This included a novel form of the glacier alga called Ancylonema that has never been recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.

Emily is now a postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Microbiology at Aarhus University in Denmark. You can read her featured research in ISME Communications.

Emily L M Broadwell, Alexander M C Bowles, Paulina Cifuentes-Uribe, Jasmin L Millar, Daniel Remias, Peter Convey, Christopher J Williamson, Remote Antarctic Island Reveals Unique Algal Dynamics in Snow and Ice, ISME Communications, 2026;, ycag100, https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycag100

Congratulations Emily!