Corina Brussaard

**Corina PD Brussaard** babban masaniyan  kimiyya ce dana  ilimin halittu na Antarctic   tana  aiki da Cibiyar Nazarin Teku ta Royal (NIOZ) kuma Farfesa ce na Musamman na Ilimin Halittu na Kwayoyin cuta a Cibiyar Nazarin Halittu da Tsarin Halittu na Jami'ar Amsterdam . UvA).  

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
Brussaard tayi karatu a Jami'ar Groningen (RUG), Netherlands, yana nazarin ilimin halittun ruwa, da ilimin halittu.  Ta kare karatunta na PhD akan 'Phytoplankton cell lysis da tasirin muhalli' a cikin 1997. An ba ta kyautar Marie Curie TMR-gwargwadon da EC ta ba ta don bincike na Post Doctoral na shekaru 2 a Jami'ar Bergen, Norway.  A 2000 ta fara a matsayin mai zaman kanta Research Fellow a NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research inda ta shiga cikin aikin EC-FP5 BIOHAB (Biological Control of Harmful Algal Blooms - rawar eutrophication ) tana nazarin girma da mace-mace na nau'in HAB, yayin da a lokaci guda kafa shirin binciken ilimin halittu na ƙwayoyin cuta. Ta zama babban masanin kimiyyar bincike a NIOZ a cikin 2003,  kuma ta sami kujera ta musamman a cikin ilimin halittu na Viral a Cibiyar Nazarin Halittu da Tsarin Halitta (IBED) a Jami'ar Amsterdam (UvA) a cikin 2013.

## Sana'a da tasiri
Brussaard masanin kimiyya ne don ilimin halittu na Antarctic,   ƙididdigewa da ƙimar mahimmancin mace-macen ƙwayoyin cuta na ƙwayoyin cuta don haɓakar yawan jama'a, haɓakar al'umma, da samarwa da haɓakar gidan yanar gizon abinci na pelagic . Binciken Brussaard ya mayar da hankali kan nazarin hulɗar da ke tsakanin ƙwayoyin cuta da algae mai masaukinsu dangane da sauyin yanayi, kuma musamman game da yadda wannan hulɗar ke shafar abubuwan muhalli, irin su CO 2 maida hankali da zafin jiki, samun haske da kayan abinci.  

Brussaard yana nazarin rawar da ƙwayoyin cuta ke takawa a cikin teku, tare da haɗa aikin filin da cikakken binciken dakin gwaje-gwaje.  Ta bincika mahimmancin ƙananan ƙwayoyin cuta (phytoplankton da ƙwayoyin cuta) adadin mutuwar cell  da sakamakonsa ga hawan keke na biogeochemical (carbon, abubuwan gina jiki ciki har da baƙin ƙarfe), da kuma keɓewar ƙwayoyin cuta na algae -infecting (misali ƙwayoyin cuta da ke kamuwa da *Phaeocystis* mallakar su). dangin Mimiviridae mai suna manyan-genome kwanan nan).  Ta kuma gano kwayar cutar dsRNA ta farko wacce ke cutar da protists  da ƙwayoyin cuta na *Micromonas* mai ɗauke da lipid membrane.  Bugu da ƙari, ta ɓullo da hanyoyin gano saurin ganowa  da ƙididdige ƙwayoyin cuta, da kuma auna ma'aunin ƙwayoyin sel  sakamakon kamuwa da ƙwayoyin cuta.

Brussaard shi ne Shugaban Ƙungiyar Ƙasa ta Duniya (ISVM)  kuma shi ne Shugaban Kwamitin Kimiyya na Netherlands game da Binciken Oceanic (SCOR) daga 2006 har zuwa 2016 da sakatarensa daga 2014-2018.   Har ila yau, ta kasance memba na Kwamitin Polar Netherlands daga 2010-2014  kuma shi ne Fellow of American Academy Microbiology  kuma na Majalisar Duniya da Kimiyyar Rayuwa  na Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. .

Binciken Brussaard ya sami sha'awa daga rediyo, jaridu da mujallu.     Bugu da ƙari, Brussaard ya kasance baƙo a kan wasan kwaikwayo na gidan talabijin na Dutch Pauw &amp;amp; Witteman akan 23 Janairu 2013 don tattauna sabon dakin gwaje-gwaje na Dirck Gerritsz Dutch. 

A cikin Maris 2016, an zaɓi Brussaard a matsayin ɗan'uwan Cibiyar Nazarin Kwayoyin Halitta ta Amurka. 

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