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Overview

Sinéad Collins is a researcher affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple disciplines within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong emphasis on marine and coastal systems.

The primary fields of study for Sinéad Collins include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, the main subfields of study encompass:

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Global and Planetary Change

Their research covers several key topics, reflecting the breadth of their marine and ecological focus:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Sinéad Collins's publication record includes a variety of journals with recurrent contributions in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecology Letters
  • Value in Health

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Sinéad Collins show thematic diversity and regular contributions over recent years. Notable publications include:

  • Space-for-time substitutions in climate change ecology and evolution, 2023, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology, 2022, Current Opinion in Microbiology
  • Mucospheres produced by a mixotrophic protist impact ocean carbon cycling, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Selective constraints on global plankton dispersal, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Quality-quantity trade-offs drive functional trait evolution in a model microalgal 'climate change winner', 2020, Ecology Letters

Collaborative work is a significant aspect of their research activity. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Martina A. Doblin
  • Naomi M. Levine
  • Nathan G. Walworth
  • Phoebe Argyle
  • Jana Hinners

This combination of expertise and collaborations situates Sinéad Collins at the intersection of marine environment studies, microbial ecology, and evolutionary biology within a global change context.

Best Publications

  • Experimental strategies to assess the biological ramifications of multiple drivers of global ocean change – a review

    Philip W Boyd;Philip W Boyd;Sinead Collins;Sam Dupont;Katharina Fabricius

  • Phenotypic consequences of 1,000 generations of selection at elevated CO2 in a green alga.

    Sinéad Collins;Graham Bell

  • Adaptation, extinction and global change.

    Graham Bell;Sinéad Collins

  • How epigenetic mutations can affect genetic evolution: model and mechanism.

    Filippos D. Klironomos;Johannes Berg;Sinéad Collins

  • The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world

    Juliet Brodie;Christopher J Williamson;Christopher J Williamson;Dan A Smale;Nicholas A Kamenos

  • Evolutionary potential of marine phytoplankton under ocean acidification.

    Sinéad Collins;Björn Rost;Tatiana A. Rynearson

  • Phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary demographic responses to climate change: taking theory out to the field

    Luis‐Miguel Chevin;Sinéad Collins;François Lefèvre

  • Variation in plastic responses of a globally distributed picoplankton species to ocean acidification

    Elisa Schaum;Björn Rost;Andrew J. Millar;Sinéad Collins

  • Plasticity predicts evolution in a marine alga

    C. Elisa Schaum;Sinéad Collins

  • Epigenetic mutations can both help and hinder adaptive evolution.

    Ilkka Kronholm;Ilkka Kronholm;Sinéad Collins

  • Space‐for‐time substitutions in climate change ecology and evolution

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  • Competition limits adaptation and productivity in a photosynthetic alga at elevated CO2.

    Sinéad Collins

  • Growth responses of a green alga to multiple environmental drivers

    Georgina Brennan;Sinéad Collins

  • Decreased photosynthesis and growth with reduced respiration in the model diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum grown under elevated CO2 over 1800 generations.

    Futian Li;John Beardall;John Beardall;Sinéad Collins;Kunshan Gao

  • Adaptation to different rates of environmental change in Chlamydomonas

    Sinéad Collins;Juliette de Meaux

  • FUNCTIONAL GENETIC DIVERGENCE IN HIGH CO2 ADAPTED EMILIANIA HUXLEYI POPULATIONS

    Kai T. Lohbeck;Ulf Riebesell;Sinéad Collins;Thorsten B. H. Reusch

  • Experimental evolution: experimental evolution and evolvability

    Nick Colegrave;Sinead Collins;Sinead Collins

  • Many Possible Worlds: Expanding the Ecological Scenarios in Experimental Evolution

    Sinéad Collins

  • Adaptive walks toward a moving optimum

    Sinead Collins;Juliette de Meaux;Claudia Acquisti

  • Environmental stability affects phenotypic evolution in a globally distributed marine picoplankton

    C-Elisa Schaum;C-Elisa Schaum;Björn Rost;Sinéad Collins

  • Integrating physiological, ecological and evolutionary change: a Price equation approach.

    Sinéad Collins;Andy Gardner

  • Evolution of natural algal populations at elevated CO2

    Sinéad Collins;Graham Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Riebesell
Ulf Riebesell GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Martina A. Doblin
Martina A. Doblin University of Technology Sydney
Graham Bell
Graham Bell McGill University
Philip W. Boyd
Philip W. Boyd University of Tasmania
Thorsten B.H. Reusch
Thorsten B.H. Reusch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Kunshan Gao
Kunshan Gao Xiamen University
Uwe John
Uwe John Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Marion Gehlen
Marion Gehlen French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
John A. Raven
John A. Raven University of Dundee
David C. Baulcombe
David C. Baulcombe University of Cambridge

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