Runar Stokke
Position
Researcher
Affiliation
- runar.stokke@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55583833
- Visitor address
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Christies gate 12
5015 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7803NO-5020 BergenNorway
Runar Stokke
Position
Researcher
Affiliation
Research groups
Research
My research has a strong focus on deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems.
In spite of the recent technological and analytical advancement in the field of hydrothermal vent research and metagenomics, fundamental and systematic knowledge on the biodiversity of microbial life and their functional role in the unique deep sea vent environments can still be considered as in its infancy and in the exploratory phase. This hampers our ability to evaluate the global ecological role of the hydrothermal vent biota. Since genomic knowledge is still missing for most of the uncultivated lineages in hydrothermal vents, there is a comprehensive knowledge need and potential to discover new microbial lineages with novel and primordial metabolisms, as well as new metabolic inter-dependencies and species interactions. At present, knowledge is also lacking on the encoded capacity of hydrothermal vent microorganisms to produce bioactive compounds to be used in communications between and across trophic levels in the ecosystem, and in turn represent compounds for human benefit.
Integrated studies combining genome-centric metagenomics with metatrascriptomics and high-resolution microscopy is central in my research to infer potential functions of uncultured novel hydrothermal vent microbial lineages, and identifying microbial metabolic interdependencies and co-operations.
Publications
2023
- Hribovšek, Petra; Denny, Emily Maria; Dahle, Håkon et al. (2023). Putative novel hydrogen- and iron-oxidizing sheath-producing Zetaproteobacteria thrive at the Fåvne deep-sea hydrothermal vent field. (external link)
- Vulcano, Francesca; Hribovšek, Petra; Denny, Emily Maria et al. (2023). Potential for homoacetogenesis via the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway in Korarchaeia lineages from marine hydrothermal vents. (external link)
- Røyseth, Victoria; M. Hurysz, Brianna; Kaczorowska, Anna-Karina et al. (2023). Activation mechanism and activity of globupain, a thermostable C11 protease from the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge hydrothermal system. (external link)
- Nguyen, Trong Thuc; Steen, Ida Helene; Stokke, Runar (2023). More than a drop in the ocean: biosynthetic potential and antimicrobial products from the deep-sea microbes. (external link)
- Esteban Vazquez, Brenda Lizbeth; Eilertsen, Mari Heggernes; Kongsrud, Jon Anders et al. (2023). Rissoid gastropods in Arctic CBEs. (external link)
- Panieri, Giuliana; Argentino, Claudio; Ramalho, Sofia P. et al. (2023). An Arctic natural oil seep investigated from space to the seafloor. (external link)
- Røyseth, Victoria; M. Hurysz, Brianna; Kaczorowska, Anna-Karina et al. (2023). Activation mechanism and activity of globupain, a thermostable C11 protease from the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge hydrothermal system. (external link)
2022
- Vulcano, Francesca; Hahn, Cedric Jasper; Roerdink, Desiree Lisette et al. (2022). Phylogenetic and functional diverse ANME-1 thrive in Arctic hydrothermal vents. (external link)
- Sass, Katharina; Steen, Ida Helene; Stokke, Runar (2022). Revealing the chitinolytic potential of microbial communities in Arctic deep-sea hydrothermal sediments. . (external link)
- Denny, Emily Maria; Mall, Achim; Hribovšek, Petra et al. (2022). Interpretation of microbial food webs from metagenomic data in deep-sea hydrothermal vents across the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. (external link)
Projects
Current and previous projects
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
2021-2025 DeepSeaQuence; Uncovering the metabolic secrets and capacity of Arctic deep-sea hydrothermal vent microbiomes. Research Council of Norway, FRINATEK Researcher Project
PROJECT PARTNER/COLLABORATOR:
2022 - 2025 RIALHE: Remote Intelligent Access to Labs in Higher Education. Erasmus+, Cooperation partnerships in higher education.
2021 - UiB Centre for Deep-Sea Research - Trond Mohn Foundation
2021 - 2024 Eco-Safe Ridge Mining: environmental risk studies towards sustainable deep-sea mining on the Mid-Ocean Ridge in Norway
2021 - 2023 RAS-TOOLS: A microbial toolbox for RAS production and innovation
2017-2021: KG Jebsen centre for Deep-Sea Research (leading WP6; Biodiscovery and Bioprospecting)
Kompetanse
Key qualifications:
- Kultivering av ekstremopfile mikroorganismer
- Uttrykking og rensing av rekombinante proteiner
- Proteinkjemi og strukturbiologi
- Proteinstabilitet
- Bioinformatikk
- Proteomikk
- Metagenomikk, metaproteomikk og metatranskriptomikk
- Genomsammenstilling og funksjonell annotering