Linda K Medlin
Marine Biological Association, UK
Biography
Linda K Medlin obtained her PhD from Texas A&M University in 1983 and is currently a Research Fellow at the Marine Biological Association of the UK where she co-ordinated the FP7 EU project MIDTAL. During her employement at University of Paris and at Microbia Environnement, she directed two additional FP7 projects Aqua and SMS. All three of these projects involved the making of species specific probes for early warning systems for toxic algae and/or freshwater pathogens and applying them in a microarray or biosensor format and for making phylochips for the analysis of marine biodiversities using microarrays. She has published over 250 research papers including 35 chapters in books. She has participated in over 18 EU grants and many other national funding proposals from the UK and Germany.