SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK

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Biomedicine, School of Teacher Education, Kristianstad University

Postal Address: Sektionen för Lärarutbildning, Högskolan i Kristianstad, SE-291 88 Kristianstad, Sweden
Visiting address: Elmetorpsvägen 15
Web page: http://www.hkr.se/

Contact person: Associate Professor Ann-Sofi Rehnstam Holm, phone: +46 (0)44 20 34 52. Personal web page.

Research connected to South Asia

Ann-Sofi Rehnstam-Holm is involved in a research project titled ”Use of molecular techniques to study the influence of benthic resting stages on the dynamics of harmful algal blooms along the south west coast of India”. It is part of a collaboration with Marine Botany, Department of Marine Ecology at Göteborg University, and Karnataka Animal Veterinary and Fisheries Science University in India. Read an abstract of the India project.

In November 2006 In November 2006, Ann-Sofi Rehnstam-Holm received SEK 1.2 M as a two-years grant (2007-08) from Sida's Developing Country Research Council (U-landsforskningsrådet) for this project. More information about South Asia related Sida grants 2006.

A year earlier, in November 2005, she received SEK 450 000 as a three-years grant for the same project from the Swedish Research Links programme (administered by Sida and the Swedish Research Council). This grant funds the work of a PhD candidate, Karolina Härnström, former student of Kristianstad University but now connected to Marine Botany at Göteborg University. More information about Swedish Research Links grants 2005.

In November 2008 Dr. Holm again received a Swedish Research Links (Asian–Swedish research partnership programme) grant – SEK 600 000 for three years (2009-11) for a new collaboration project with Indian colleagues at the Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University in Mangalore. The project is titled ”Characterization and survival of Pathogenic and non-pathogenic vibrios in the indian marine environment”. The main collaboration partner on the Indian side is Dr. Indrani Karunasagar. See the full list of South Asia related projects given Swedish Research Links gants 2008.