Dr. Ulla Susanna Kaasalainen

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsEvolution and Systematics of Plants and Fungi,Palaeontology
KeywordsParmeliaceae, symbiosis, lichen, Amber fossil

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityGöttingen

Host during sponsorship

Priv. Doz. Dr. Alexander SchmidtCourant Forschungszentrum, Research Centre Geobiology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2014

Programme(s)

2014Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2022Schmidt AR, Steuernagel L, Behling H, Seyfullah LJ, Beimforde C, Sadowski EM, Rikkinen J, Kaasalainen U: Fossil evidence of lichen grazing from Palaeogene amber. In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 302, 2022, 104664
2020Kaasalainen U, Rikkinen J, Schmidt AR: Fossil Usnea and similar fruticose lichens from Palaeogene amber. In: The Lichenologist, 52, 2020, 319-324
2019Kaasalainen U, Kukwa M, Rikkinen J, Schmidt AR: Crustose lichens with lichenicolous fungi from Paleogene amber. In: Scientific Reports, 9, 2019, 10360
2017Ulla Kaasalainen, Jochen Heinrichs, Matthew A. M. Renner, Lars Hedenäs, Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp, Gaik Ee Lee, Michael S. Ignatov, Jouko Rikkinen, Alexander R. Schmidt: A Caribbean epiphyte community preserved in Miocene Dominican amber. In: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2017,
2017Ulla Kaasalainen, Alexander R. Schmidt, Jouko Rikkinen: Diversity and ecological adaptations in Palaeogene lichens. In: Nature Plants, 2017, 17049
2015Ulla Kaasalainen, Jochen Heinrichs, Michael Krings, Leena Myllys, Heinrich Grabenhorst, Jouko Rikkinen, Alexander R. Schmidt: Alectorioid Morphologies in Paleogene Lichens: New Evidence and Re-Evaluation of the Fossil Alectoria succini Mägdefrau. In: PLoS ONE, 2015, e0129526
2015Ulla Kaasalainen, Sanna Olsson, Jouko Rikkinen: Evolution of the tRNALeu (UAA) Intron and Congruence of Genetic Markers in Lichen-Symbiotic Nostoc. In: PLoS ONE, 2015, e0131223
2015Christoph Hartl, Alexander R. Schmidt, Jochen Heinrichs, Leyla J. Seyfullah, Nadine Schäfer, Carsten Gröhn, Jouko Rikkinen, Ulla Kaasalainen: Lichen preservation in amber: morphology, ultrastructure, chemofossils, and taphonomic alteration. In: Fossil Record, 2015, 127-135