Robert A. Andersen

Contact

raa48@uw.edu
906-370-1886

Adjunct Professor, Biological Sciences
Senior Research Scientist, University of Washington
Emeritus Director, Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota (CCMP, now NCMA)

BS, Botany, North Dakota State University
MA, Aquatic Biology, St. Cloud State College
PhD, Botany/Phycology, University of Arkansas

Biography

My primary interest is in the systematic biology (nomenclature, phylogeny, taxonomy) of golden algae (heterokont and haptophyte algae). I am also interested in growing both freshwater and marine species in culture. I collect algae from bogs, ponds, lakes and streams in the Keweenaw, including the open regions of Lake Superior.

Research Interests

Chrysophyte algae
Algal Systematics
Algal Culturing

Recent Publications

Park, S.I., Cho, C.H., Ciniglia, C., Huang, T.-Z., Liu, S.-L., Bustamante, D.E., Calderon, M.S., Mansilla, A., McDermott, T., Andersen, R.A. and Yoon, H.S. 2023. Revised classification of the Cyanidiophyceae based on plastid genome data with descriptions of the Cavernulicolales ord. nov. and Galdieriales ord. nov. J. Phycol. 59.
Wetherbee, R., Bringloe, T.T., van de Meene, A., Andersen, R.A. and Verbruggen, H. 2023. Structure and formation of the perforated theca defining the Pelagophyceae (Heterokonta), and three new genera that substantiate the diverse nature of the class. J. Phycol. 59: 126-151.
Andersen, R.A. 2021. The ultrastructure of Lepochromulina bursa Scherffel (Chrysophyceae) from Michigan, USA, with ultrastructural observations on the flagellar apparatus and lorica. pp. 9-26. In (Beszteri, B. and Jordan, R.W. Eds): Diatoms and Chrysophytes – unravelling their mysteries through light and electron microscopy. (Richard M. Crawford – A lifetime dedicated to microalgal research. On the occasion of his 80th birthday.) Nova Hedwigia, Beihefte 151: 314 pp.
Graf, L., Yang, E.C., Young, H.K., Küpper, F., Benes, K.M., Oyadomari, J., Herbert, J.H., Verbruggen, H., Wetherbee, R., Andersen, R.A. & Yoon, H.S. 2020. Multigen phylogeny, morphological observation and re-examination of the literature lead to the description of the Phaeosacciophyceae classis nova and four new species of the Heterokontophyta SI Clade. Protist 171: 1-25. doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2020.125781
Wetherbee, R., Bringloe, T.T., Costa, J.F., van de Meene, A., Andersen, R.A. and Verbruggen, H. 2020. New pelagophytes show a novel mode of algal colony development and reveal a perforated theca that may define the class. J. Phycol. (doi:10.1111/jpy.13074).
Andersen, R.A. 2020. Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Algae: 22. Taxon 69: 1099-1101.
Andersen, R.A. 2020. Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Algae: 21. Taxon 69: 390.
Graf, L., Yang, E.C., Boo, H.G., Andersen, R.A. & Yoon, H.S. 2020. Further investigations on the Phaeothamniophyceae using multigeny phylogeny, with descriptions of five new species. J. Phycol. 56: 358-379.
Remias, D., Procházková,L., Nedbalová, L. & Andersen, R.A. 2020.Two new Kremastochryopsis species, K. austriaca sp. nov. and K. americana sp. nov. (Chrysophyceae). J. Phycol. 56: 135-145.
Theroux S., Toney J.L., Andersen R.A., Nyren P., Bohn R., Salacup J., Murphy L., Huang Y. & Amaral-Zettler L. 2020. Successional blooms of alkenone-producing haptophytes in Lake George, North Dakota: implications for paleoclimate reconstructions. Limnology and Oceanography 65: 413-425.
Wetherbee, R., Marcelino, V.R., Costa J.F., Grant, B., Crawford, S., Waller, R.F., Andersen, R.A., Berry, D., McFadden, G.I. & Verbruggen, H. 2019. A new marine prasinophyte genus alternates between a flagellate and a dominant benthic stage with microrhizoids for adhesion. J. Phycol. 55: 1210-1225. DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12909
Han, K., Maciszewski, K., Graf, L., Andersen, R.A., Karnkowska, A., & Yoon, H.S. 2019. Four genomes, three different structures: a study of Dictyochophyceae plastid genomes reveals unusual variability of their organization J. Phycol. 55: 1166-1180.
Andersen, R.A. 2019. Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Algae: 20. Taxon 68: 398-399.
Ganuza, E., Yang, S., Amezquita, M., Giraldo-Silva, A. & Andersen, R.A. 2019. Genomics, biology and phylogeny Aurantiochytrium acetophilum sp. nov. (Thraustrochytriaceae), including first evidence of sexual reproduction. Protist 170: 209-232.
Hovde BT, Deodato, CR, Andersen RA, Starkenburg SR, Barlow SB, Cattolico RA. 2019. Chrysochromulina: Genomic assessment and taxonomic diagnosis of the type species for an olgeaginous algal clade. Algal Research 37: 307-319.
Andersen, R.A. 2018. Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Algae: 19. Taxon 67: 1029-1030.
Andersen, R.A. & Ganuza E. 2018. Nomenclatural errors in the Thraustochytridales (Heterokonta/Straminipila), especially with regard to the type species of Schizochytrium. Notulae Algarum 64: 1-8.
Andersen R.A. 2018. Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Algae: 18. Taxon 67: 437-438.
Guiry, M.D. & Andersen, R.A. 2018. Validation of the genus name Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae, Suessiaceae) revisited. Notulae Algarum 58: 1-5.
Han K.Y., Graf L., Pérez Reyes C., Yoon H.S. & Melkonian M. 2018. A re-investigation of Sarcinochrysis marina (Sarcinochrysidales, Pelagophyceae) from its type locality and the descriptions of Arachnochrysis, Pelagospilus, Sargassococcus and Sungminbooa genera nov. Protist 169: 79-106.
Andersen, R.A., Graf, L., Malakhov, Y. & Yoon, H.-S. 2017. Rediscovery of the Ochromonas type species, Ochromonas triangulata Vysotskii, from its type locality (Lake Veysove, Donetsk region, Ukraine). Phycologia 56: 591-604.
Lhee, D., Yang, E.C., Kim, J.I., Nakayama, T., Zuccarello, G., Andersen, R.A. and Yoon, H.S. 2017. Diversity of the photosynthetic Paulinella species, with the description of Paulinella micropora sp. nov. and the chromatophore genome sequence for strain KR01. Protist 168: 155-170.
Andersen, R.A. & Woelkerling, W.J. 2017. Lectotype designation for Anthophysa vegetans (O.F.Müller) F.Stein (Ochromonadales, Chrysophyceae). Notulae Algarum 22: 1-5.
Zheng Y., Huang Y., Andersen R.A. & Amaral-Zettler L.A. 2016. Excluding di-unsaturated alkenone in UK37 index strengthens temperature correlation for the common lacustrine and brackish-water haptophytes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 175: 36-46.