MARN4010/5010 Biological Oceanography (Spring)

MARN5015/3015 Molecular Approaches to Biological Oceanography (Fall in odd-numbered years)

MARN5014 Algae and the Environment (formerly Marine Phytoplankton Ecology and Physiology; Fall in even-numbered years)

MARN5830 Seminar in (Molecular) Oceanography (Spring in odd-numbered years)

MARN6010 Advanced Biological Oceanography-Pelagic Processes (Fall in even-numbered years)

MARN6012 Marine Genomics (Spring in even-numbered years)

MARN4001 Measurement and Analysis in Coastal Ecosystems (Fall)

MARN1002 Introduction to Oceanography (Spring)

Publications

Authored Books

1. Lin, S. 2025. Ecological Genomics of Algae. CRC Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida. 464 pp. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003344056. ISBN: 1032382252, 9781032382258.
2. Lin, S. Harmful Algal Blooms: Environmental Factors and Molecular Mechanisms. Elsevier Academic Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 306 pp. Paperback ISBN: 9780443157431. eBook ISBN: 9780443157448.

Book Chapters

1. Lopez, G., Carey, D., Carlton, J. T….Lin, S…. 2008. Biology and ecology of Long Island Sound. In: Latimer, J. S., Tedesco, M. A., Swanson, R. L., Yarish, C., Stacey, P. E. and Corey Garza (eds.), Long Island Sound: Prospects for the Urban Sea. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Springer. pp. 285-480.
2. Lin, S., Zhang, H. and Gray, M. W. 2008. RNA editing in dinoflagellates and its implications for the evolutionary history of the editing machinery. In: H. Smith (ed.), RNA and DNA editing: Molecular Mechanisms and Their Integration into Biological Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p280-309.
3. Lin, S. and Carpenter, E. J. 1999. Molecular ecology of marine Phytoplankton: A practical procedure. In: Xu, H. and Colwell, R. R. (eds.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Progress and Prospect of Marine Biotechnology (ISPPMB’98). China Ocean Press. 255-268.
4. Carpenter, E. J., Lin, S. and Chang, J. 1998. Phytoplankton growth studies by cell Cycle analysis. In: K. E. Cooksey [Ed.] Some Molecular Approaches to the Study of the Ocean. Chapman & Hall. p227-245.

Journal articles (selected 12 out of >270; for the full list or more information, check Google Scholar, ResearchGate, or www.phytoplankton.uconn.edu). (*co-corresponding authors)

Lin, S. and Francoeur, A. 2025. The marine phosphorus cycle driven by an unlikely microbe. Nat. Commun. 16: 9790. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64456-1.

Cui, L., Xie, L., Zheng, J.-W., Zhang, L., Yang, B., Xu, J., Tan, L., Xiao, B., Lin, S.*, Dong, Y*. and Lü, S*. 2025. Unique mechanisms of light harvesting complex proteins in photoprotection of the brown tide alga. Nat. Commun. 16: 11089. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66000-7

Sanders, J. and Lin, S. 2025. Molecular techniques for understanding harmful algal blooms: A review. Harmful Algae 148: 102909. DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2025.102909.

Zheng, X., Wu, S., Qiu, J., Li, A., Li, L., Yan, G., Li, M., Meng, F., Zhang, K. and Lin, S. 2025. Iron limitation induces a novel toxin via cysteine synthase regulation in diatoms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 122(24): e2424843122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.242484312

Deng, Y., Yue, C., Yang, H., Li, F., Hu, X., Shang, L., Chai, Z., Lin, S.* and Tang, Y.* 2025. Broad active metabolic pathways, autophagy, and antagonistic hormones regulate dinoflagellate cyst dormancy in marine sediments. Science Advances 11: eads7789. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads7789

Gómez, F., Zhang, H., Artigas, L. F. and Lin, S. 2025. The enigmatic dinoflagellate Gloeodinium marinum is a Prorocentrum species, P. palmelloides nom. nov. (Dinophyceae). J. Phycol.  61(5): 1521–1527. DOI: 10.1111/jpy.70060

Zhang, H., Wang, X., Qu, M., Yu, H., Yin, J., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Zhang, B., Zhang, Y., Wei, Z., Yang, F., Wang, J., Shi, C., Fan, G., Sun, J., Long, L., Hutchins, D. A., Bowler, C., Lin, S.*, Wang, D.* and Lin, Q.* 2024. Genome of Halimeda opuntia reveals differentiation of subgenomes and molecular bases of multinucleation and calcification in algae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 121(39): e2403222121. (*co-corresponding authors). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2403222121

Lin, S. 2024. A decade of dinoflagellate genomics illuminating an enigmatic eukaryote cell. BMC Genomics 25: 932. DOI: 10.1186/s12864-024-10847-5

Lin, S., Wu, S., He, J., Wang, X. and Grossman, A. R. 2024. Shining light on dinoflagellate photosystem I. Nat. Commun. 15: 3337. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47797-1

Lin, S. 2023. Phosphate limitation and ocean acidification co-shape phytoplankton physiology and community structure. Nat. Communi. 14: 2699. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38381-0

You, Y., Sun, X., Ma, M., He, J., Li, L., Porto, F. and Lin, S. 2022. Trypsin is a coordinate regulator of N and P nutrients in marine phytoplankton. Nat. Communi. 13: 4022. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31802-6

Faktorova, D., Nisbet, R. E., Robledo, J. A. F,….Lin, S.,…, Sprecher, B., Wang, L. Zhang, H.….2020. Genetic tool development in marine protists: Emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology. Nat. Methods 17(5): 481-494. DOI: 10.1038/s41592-020-0796-x

Major Services and Synergistic Activities

Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) Eutrophication Study Group (2023-).

Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON)–UN Ocean Decade partnership

Journal of Phycology (Associate Editor)

ISME J (Editorial Board member)

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography

Sigma Xi member

Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering