Curriculum Vitae
Kinlan M.G. Jan 
PhD Student in Marine Biology
Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University
Education
PhD in Marine Biology Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm University September 2021 — Present
Preliminary thesis title: Implication of plankton-fish interactions and dynamics for the Baltic Sea food webs
Expected defense date: January 2026
Courses: - Introduction to Stock Assessment, ICES, Denmark 2024
- Scientific Writing, BioResearch School, Stockholm University, Sweden 2023 – 2024
- RaukR - Advanced R for Bioinformatics, NBIS, Sweden 2023
- Introduction to Bioinformatics using NGS data, NBIS, Sweden 2022
- Fish and Fisheries Ecology, SLU, Sweden 2021
MSc in Marine Biology Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm University August 2019 — June 2021
Master project title: Copepod feeding preferences along the Baltic Sea environmental gradients
Courses: - Baltic Sea Ecosystem: Applications, Modeling and Management 2020
- Management of Aquatic Resources in the Tropics 2020
- Applied Marine Conservation Ecology 2019-2020
- Biological Statistics 2019
- Marine Ecosystem Dynamics 2019
BSc in Biology Neuchâtel, Switzerland
The University of Neuchâtel September 2017 — June 2019
Teaching
Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden
Marine ecosystem dynamics, MSc course 2021 — Present
Marine ecology, BSc course 2022
The University of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel, Switzerland
From molecules to cells, BSc course 2018 — 2019
Commissions of trust
Chair of the PhD council 2023
Vice-chair of the PhD council 2022
Technical assistance with PhD hybrid defenses 2022 — 2023
Awards and grants
Elisabeth och Herman Rhodin Memorial Foundation 2024
Travel grant
ICES travel funds for early career scientists 2024
Travel grant
BalticWaters Scholarship program for early career researchers 2024
Competition between forage fish in the open waters of the Baltic Sea
Dryssen Award for best Master’s Theses in Marine Sciences 2021
Copepod feeding preferences along the Baltic Sea environmental gradients - an assessment of zooplankton interactions using DNA metabarcoding
Experience
Field work
Fish sampling
Herring Larvae Survey in the Stockholm archipelago 2023 — 2024
Sprat Acoustic Survey in the Baltic Sea 2022 — 2023
Zooplankton sampling
Monitoring survey in the Baltic Sea September 2020
Laboratory
DNA Metabarcoding
Library preparation | DNA extraction | PCR | Gel electrophoresis
Zooplankton identification
Microscopy
Publications
Jan KMG, Hentati-Sundberg J, Larson N, Winder M. 2025. Limited resource use overlaps among small pelagic fish species in the central Baltic Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science 82:9. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsaf122
Serandour B, Blenckner T, Jan KMG, Leroy B, Ramiro-Sánchez B, Campbell E, Winder M. 2024. Projections of spatial distributions of suitable environmental conditions for key Baltic Sea zooplankton species. Limnology and Oceanography 69:12, 2801-2814. doi:10.1002/lno.12705
Jan KMG, Serandour B, Walve J, Winder M. 2024. Plankton blooms over the annual cycle shape trophic interactions under climate change. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 9:3, 209-218. doi: 10.1002/lol2.10385
Novotny A, Serandour B, Kortsch S, Gauzens B, Jan KMG, Winder M. 2023. DNA metabarcoding highlights cyanobacteria as the main source of primary production in a pelagic food web model. Science advances 9:17, eadg1096. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adg1096
Serandour B, Jan KMG, Novotny A, Winder M. 2023. Opportunisitic vs selective feeding strategies of zooplankton under changing environmental conditions. Journal of Plankton Research 45:2, 389-403. doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbad007
Novotny A, Jan KMG, Dierking J, Winder M. 2022. Niche partitioning between planktivorous fish in the pelagic Baltic Sea assessed by DNA metabarcoding, qPCR and microscopy. Scientific Reports 12, 10952. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-15116-7
Conferences
Swedish Oikos Meeting 2025 | Talk Stockholm, Sweden
Jan KMG, Hentati-Sundberg J, Larson N, Winder M. Resource competition between small pelagic fish in the central Baltic Sea.
Marine Research Days 2024 | Talk Kalmar, Sweden
Jan KMG, Hentati-Sundberg J, Larson N, Winder M. Are small pelagic fish competing for their resources in the central Baltic Sea?.
ICES Annual Science Conference 2024 | Poster Gateshead, United Kingdom
Jan KMG, Hentati-Sundberg J, Larson N, Winder M. Implication of resource competition for forage fish dynamics in the central Baltic Sea.
Baltic Sea Science Congress 2023 | Talk Helsinki, Finland
Jan KMG, Serandour B, Walve J, Winder M. Species-specific phenological responses to climate pose consequences for trophic coupling.
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2023 | Poster Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Jan KMG, Serandour B, Walve J, Winder M. Species-specific phenological responses to climate pose consequences for higher trophic levels.
Marine Research Days 2022 | Talk Stockholm, Sweden
Jan KMG, Serandour B, Winder M. Coupling of plankton and small pelagic fish in the Baltic Sea.
18th ISME 2022 | Poster Lausanne, Switzerland
Jan KMG, Novotny A, Dierking J, Winder M. The role of eukaryotic microorganisms for niche partitioning of planktivorous fish.
Marine Research Days 2021 | Talk Gothenburg, Sweden
Jan KMG. Copepod feeding preferences along the Baltic Sea environmental gradients - an assessment of zooplankton interactions using DNA metabarcoding.
Academic services
Ad-hoc reviews
Limnology and Oceanography Letters
Molecular Ecology
Marine Ecology Progress Series