Eco-Physiology, High-latitude and Marginal coral communities, Nuclear Power Plant, Seasonal dynamics, Seasonal diversity

U.S. Pacific coast and tropical Pacific, population genomics, local adaptation, host-symbiont interactions

symbiosis, microbiome, octocorals,Caribbean, Atlantic temperate reefs

Symbiosis, environmental sensing, photosynthesis, fluorescence, oxidative stress, Breviolum

Taxonomy, Ecology, Physiology, Photobiology, Niche, Simulation, Traits, Competition, Molecular Biology

ecophysiology; global change; Caribbean/Atlantic

Population genetics, Cladocopium, ITS2 metabarcoding, gene expression, symbiosis and dysbiosis

Simancas-Giraldo

Eco-Physiology, Octocorals, ocean acidification, thermal stress, eutrophication, microscopy, Caribean, Red Sea

Molecular ecology, Scleractinian corals, mesophotic coral ecosystems

symbiosis, heat stress, glycomics, nutritional dynamics, host-symbiont interactions, Aiptasia, CRISPR knockouts

Cnidarian, coral bleaching, single-cell RNA seq, heat stress

Centre for Marine Socioecology, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania

ames.cheryl.lynn.a1@tohoku.co.jp

Associate Professor

Microbiome, Genomics, Transcriptomics, metabarcoding, metagenomics, eDNA

Scirè Scappuzzo

MSc/grant holder/looking for PhD position

Ecology, fisheries, sclerocronology, growth patterns, artisanal fishing, recreational fishing, biological traits

Caribbean, reef restoratation, reef ecology, transcriptomics

symbiosis, host-microbe interactions, microbe-microbe interactions, microbial metabolism, co-cultures, NanoSIMS, biogeochemistry, chemical ecology

Physiology, thermal tolerance, omics, modeling

Department of Animal Sciences and Marine Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

The Persian Gulf, Corals, Coral Associated Bacteria, Coral restoration

Undergraduate student (graduating spring 2023)

Symbiosis, coral, Aiptasia, population genetics, Indo-Pacific, microbiome, ecology

Water quality, Gulf of Mexico, hardbottom, conservation and management

Gulf of Mexico, ecology and taxonomy, hardbottom habitat, rresilienec, natural resource management, climate change

Symbiodiniacea diversity, biogeography, ecology and taxonomy, coral bleaching, resilience, Brazilian corals, ITS2, metabarcoding , Coral connectivity

Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency

Symbiodiniaceae, cultures, free-living, symbiosis, microscopic observations, Acropora, Tridacna, Japan

Genomics, population genetics, its2, mesophotic, ecology

Caribbean, coral restoration, reef ecology, coal health, stress response, microplastics, climate change, Acropora cervicornis, physiology

Interspecies interaction in Symbiodiniaceae cultures, Symbiodiniaceae microbial change under temp/nutrient stress, Exaiptasia pallida

Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Octocorals, Plasticity

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel; Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

Indopacific, stony corals, symbiont engineering, microbiome, evolutionary ecology, omics

stony corals, octocorals, symbiosis, holobiont, stress response, epigenetics,

Pocillopora, Montipora, Hawaii, Moorea, Pacific, psbA, ITS2, larvae, evolution, ecology

Symbiosis, recognition, thermal stress, resilience, symbionts competition

corals, climate change, coral restroation, reef ecology, coral physilogy, eco-physiology, climate change stressors, bleaching environmental history, ecosystem services, tradeoffs

Symbiodiniaceae, Montipora, Hawaii, -omics, coral resilience, evolution, symbiosis, physiolgy, ecology, climate change

U.S. Pacific coast and tropical Pacific, population genomics, local adaptation, host-symbiont interactions

India, Andaman reef, Gulf of Mannar reef, ITS2,Microbiome, Distribution and Diversity

Microbiome, Eukaryome, Metagenomics, Single-cell Methods

South China Sea, Straits of Malacca, Scleractinian corals, ecophysiology, diversity, restoration (#ProjectPULIH)

Regions (Caribbean, Indo-Pacific, South and North Pacific, Red Sea), Species (Acropora spp, Montipora spp, Favites spp, Lobactis/Fungia spp, Pocillopora spp, Montastrea spp.), ecophysiology, metabolism (photosynthesis, respiration, calcification), energy reserves (lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates), pigment content (chlorophylls), heat tolerance, C:N and trace elements, photobiology, reproduction, skeletal properties, cryopreservation, carbonate budgets, atolls/fringing reefs/barrier reefs, ecosystem services and values, photogrammetry

Symbiodiniacea biogeography, coral physiology, coral bleaching, adaptation

Modelling, population ecology, evolution, climate change

GBR, corals, sponges, transcriptomics, heat stress

Caribbean, ITS2, symbiont community dynamics, symbiont shuffling, microbiome, symbiosis modeling, RStats

Indopacific, Red Sea, Galaxea and other stony corals, symbiosis, coral bleaching, aquarium experiments, symbiont engineering, molecular ecology, ecophysiology

Microbiome, Probiotics, Vitamins, Metabolomics

Red Sea, Cassiopea, cnidarian-Symbiodiniaceae symbiosis, transcriptomics, genome, model organism

Pedraza-Pohlenz

Red Sea, Aiptasia, genomics, heat stress, spawning

Red Sea, Stylophora, coral ecology, physiology

Red Sea, hard coral Agariciidae, diverisity, phylogeny, mesophotic

SCTLD, Caribbean, predictive modeling of coral disease transmission

Assisted evolution, Omics, single-cell seq, genetic engineering

Molecular taxanony stusies in coral endosymbionts in palk

Holobiont, symbiosis, microbiome, conservation

Symbiosis, ecology, technology, sequencing, modelling, adaptation

Community diversity, symbiont-symbiont interactions, resilience, Symbiodiniaceae viruses, meiosis

Australia, Coral Reef and Marine Habitat Restoration, Symbiotic Resilience, Networking, Potential Work Experience Research Sites

Caribbean, Pacific, ecophysiology, symbiosis, heat tolerance, climate change, Symbiodiniaceae, ecology, evolution

Caribbean, Network Science, ecophysiology, SCTLD

Taxonomy, ecology, niche, latitudinal variation, zoantharians and other understudied hosts, diversity

Indian coral reefs, Coral bleaching, Symbiodiniaceae, Multiple stressors

Caribbean, SCTLD, Symbiodiniaceae diversity, Restoration, coral disease

Taiwan, sun coral microbiome, ocean acidification, calcification

Carballo-Bolaños

Pacific Ocean, ecophysiology, metabolic and nutritional performance, adaptation, acclimatization

Coral systematics, coevolution, community ecology, population genetics

Mexico, Ofav, Apal, Cxam, Symbiodinium, physiology, thermotolerance, omics

Pacific, Acropora, Microbiome, Proteomics, Physiology, Heat Stress, ITS2, 16s, MS

Heat tolerance heritability, intrapopulation variation is heat tolerance, selective breeding

Rocha de Souza

Hawaii, ITS2 metabarcoding, Durusdinium, Cladocopium, Bleaching

restoration, amplicon sequencing, bleaching, trade-offs, immunity

Symbiosis, systems biology, phylogenetic comparative methods, meta-analyses

Caribbean, SCTLD, algal symbionts, symbiosis, susceptibilty

Pacific, Red Sea, Florida, ecophysiology, thermal tolerance, 'omics, gene expression

Coral/Symbiont genomics, Heat tolerance genetic basis

Evolution, physiology, ecology, info pacific, cultures

Microbiome, omics, synthetic communities, probiotics

Comparative genomics, symbiosis, genome evolution, Symbiodiniaceae

Transcriptomics, genomics, central pacific, resiliance, restoration, stony corals

Red Sea, Egypt, Symbiodiniaceae genetic diversity, SymPortal profiling, Reef resilience, Coral bleaching.

ITS2 metabarcoding, sequencing, Symbiodiniacea ecology, algal culturing, Red Sea