Benjamin Kramer

Past Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Minnesota Duluth

[email protected]

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Dr. Christopher Gobler with students Ben Kramer and Megan Ladds at the State of the Bays presentation last week at Stony Brook Southampton.

Benjamin Kramer talking about cyanoHABs and the types of work the Gobler Lab at Stony Brook U. does to monitor and mitigate them.

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Dr. Benjamin Kramer recently joined CIGLR as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Assistant Professor Dr. Cody Sheik (University of Minnesota Duluth) and Research Ecologist Dr. Reagan Errera (NOAA GLERL). Their research focuses on the effects of climate change and eutrophication on cyanobacterial diazotrophs in the Great Lakes, particularly with respect to N2-fixation, toxin production, as well as changes community composition and gene expression. Dr. Kramer’s previous work includes observing the effects of fixed nitrogen enrichment, CO2, and temperature on the toxin production, N2-fixation, and growth of Nostocales strains and populations.

Education:
  • Ph.D., Marine Science, Stony Brook University (2021)
  • M.S., Marine Biology, UNC Wilmington (2015)
  • B.S., Applied Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology (2010)
Research Interest/Area of Expertise:
  • Marine Sciences
  • Fluorescence Microscopy
  • Mesocosm Experimentation
  • Toxicology, Analytical Chemistry
  • Transcriptomic and Metagenomic Analyses
  • Algal Toxin Sampling, Plankton Culturing 
Recent Publications: 

Kramer, B., Davis, T., Meyer, K., Rosen, B., Goleski, J., Dick, G., Oh, G., and Gobler, C. (2018). Nitrogen limitation, toxin synthesis potential, and toxicity of cyanobacterial populations in Lake Okeechobee and the St. Lucie River Estuary, Florida, during the 2016 state of emergency event. PLoS One. 13, 1-26. (DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0196278). [Altmetric Score]

Kramer, B., Bourdelais, A., Kitchen, S., and Taylor, A. (2019). Uptake and localization of fluorescently-labeled Karenia brevis metabolites in non-toxic marine microbial taxa. Journal of Phycology. 55, 47-59. (DOI:10.1111/jpy.12787). [Altmetric Score]

Chia, M., Jankowiak, J., Kramer, B., Goleski, J., Huang, I., Zimba, P., Bittencourt-Oliveira, M., and Gobler, C. (2018). Succession and toxicity of Microcystis and Anabaena (Dolichospermum) blooms are controlled by nutrient-dependent allelopathic interactions. Harmful Algae. 74, 67-77. (DOI:10.1016/j.hal.2018.03.002). [Altmetric Score]

Chia, M., Kramer, B., Jankowiak, J., Bittencourt-Oliveira, M., and Gobler, C. (2019). The Individual and Combined Effects of the Cyanotoxins, Anatoxin-a and Microcystin-LR, on the Growth, Toxin Production, and Nitrogen Fixation of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Algae. Toxins. 11, 1-17. (DOI:10.3390/toxins11010043). [Altmetric Score]

Jankowiak, J., Hattenrath-Lehmann, T., Kramer, B., Ladds, M., and Gobler, C. (2019). Deciphering the effects of nitrogen, phosphorus, and temperature on cyanobacterial bloom intensification, diversity, and toxicity in western Lake Erie. Limnology and Oceanography. 64, 1347-1370. (DOI:10.1002/lno.11120). [Altmetric Score]


Recent Presentations:

16th Annual International Conference of Harmful Algae, Wellington, NZ 2014. “Brevetoxin Accumulation in Co-Occurring Marine Microbes”

9th Annual United States Harmful Algal Symposium, Baltimore, MD 2017. “The Interactive Roles of Nitrogen Loading and Warming in Controlling Microcystin Production in Microcystis”

18th Annual International Conference of Harmful Algae, Nantes, FR 2017. “Transcriptomic and Physiological Responses of Dolichospermum sp. 54, an anatoxin-producing cyanobacterium, to different nutrient regimes”

2019 Gordon Research Seminar on Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins, Easton, MA. “The Effects of Carbon Dioxide and Nutrients on Anabaena: A Harmful, Diazotrophic Cyanobacterial Genus.”

10th Annual United States Harmful Algal Symposium, Baltimore, AL 2019. “The Effect of Climate Change and Eutrophication on Dolichospermum, a Harmful, Diazotrophic, Cyanobacterial Genus.”