Postdoc | Cornell University | Ecophysiology | Photosymbioses | Marine Biology | He/Him 🏳️🌈
New York, USA
Joined August 2017
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Breaking! #TaraPacific expedition: We integrate genomic, transcriptomic, and environmental data to describe symbiotic fidelity and plasticity in Pocillopora across the Pacific. An all star team and incredible #OpenAccess dataset! nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @GenoLAGE @TaraOceans_Sci
Nice summary from @JaninetheJourn of recent bleaching physiology work by @shengsayco et al.
Also a nice shout-out from @MeilinNeo that we have so much still to learn about non-coral photosymbioses! #giantclam #photosymbiosis #OceanScience #CoralReef
Like corals, giant clams bleach when they’re stressed—often in response to excessively warm water. The large bivalves can lose the algae that live in their fleshy mantles, leaving the bleached clams with less energy and nutrients.
By @JaninetheJourn.
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Hopping into this new year with renewed energy and hope for good things to come! #lunarnewyear #yearoftherabbit #puerhtea #gongfucha instagram.com/p/CnwUrpaN3zY/…
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For this #MolluscMonday check out our work on OA, warming, and #giantclam #shells. ⬆️ Temp = ⬆️ Mg. ⬆️ pCO2 = ⬆️ growth and Ba. Multistressor = ⬆️ variation and ⬇️ Nitrogen suggesting a tipping point. @watsonsueann @Stillman_JH PieroCalosi nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Cool new #research! 🦀 #crab reproductive state affects thermal physiology, altering behavior and motor nerves. For brooding moms, avoiding heat = dealing with crowds! @EmilyKathrynLam Metadel Abegaz @Gunderwhelming @BTsukimura @Stillman_JH @EOS_Center
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Throughout my career, I’ve found myself constantly revisiting Dr. Trench’s work for inspiration and enlightenment. The brilliance (pun intended) of his early work in photosymbioses is still staggering!
Robert K. Trench, a Belizean who became a pioneer in symbiosis research. Want to learn more? Please read:
link.springer.com/article/10…
#Symbiodiniaceae #sacoglossa #Cyanophora #symbiosis #InternationalSymbiosisSociety
@ICRSCoralReefs
I'll join the 'states visited' trend. Pretty much a map of the most direct routes between my hometown and every marine lab I've worked in. TBH though, I spent more time in Iowa on that one road trip west than I've spent in the UP ...
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📢 If you’re attending #icrs2021 and interested in learning about how #giantclams use acid to bore into coral reefs check out my e-poster (ICRS-0900) and join me in the chat tomorrow from 18:30 CEST! Shout out to my all collaborators @berkeleyIB @EOS_Center and @Scripps_Ocean
Current postdoc mood: Am I writing a “10k genes” paper, a “No, THESE 10k genes paper”, or a “Climate Change is also a thing” paper? It’s definitely one of those three ... 😆
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So cool! Biomimicry of the color-producing iridocytes in #giantclams has already been proposed to improve solar capture tech, but now we learn they could also play a role in improved data transfer! These #molluscs truly are amazing! #MolluscMonday
We discovered the iridocytes that confer the colorful patterns to giant clams to be the best materials to support optical data transfer
Gian clams may unlock a future for optical LiFi!
Learn about our findings at
#OSA_OMEx osapublishing.org/ome/fullte…
Great explanations of the causes and effects of OA by @watsonsueann! Also loved the #giantclam cameos. 😃
What is ocean acidification? How does it affect marine animals and their environments? Senior Curator Marine Invertebrates Dr Sue-Ann Watson (@watsonsueann) chats about her important work and research at the museum.
#QMNetwork #museumoftropicalqld @CoralCoE @qldmuseum
#Giantclams have this whole #symbiosis thing figured out! Cool new work by @SusiDoesScience @duarteoceans @reefgenomics showing environmentally-mediated symbiont-host associations!
new work led by @SusiDoesScience, Ben H, @duarteoceans: giant clam-Symbiodiniaceae associations across the Red Sea highlight flexible associations across environmental gradient, check out Fig. 4 #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @UniKonstanz (maps done with #reefMapMaker)
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For today’s #MolluscMonday I present to you the amazing, extendable proboscis of the Orange Turbo #snail, Babylonia zeylanica. Great for grabbing detritus out of nooks and crannies and for reaching the food the human is trying to keep you away from! #reeftank
Even the #clownfish have a tough time getting out of bed on the weekend. #entacmea #amphiprion #reeftank
In honor of #SeaSlugDay here’s a little nugget (aka Pruvotfolia pselliotes) to say hello! These animals are so beautiful and have a lot to tell us about how Climate Change is affecting our shores. #nudibranch #tidepooling
That moment when you realize that the "couvre feu" (cover fire) everyone is talking about in France is (1) actually referring to a curfew and that (2) “curfew”, etymologically, must surely be a terrible English borrowing of the original French. 🤯 – at Perpignan, France
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A great opportunity to work with an amazing advisor in a beautiful city. Definitely give this one a look! – at Perpignan, France
Recruiting a talented grad student join our insect ecophysiology group in the Williams lab at UC Berkeley @berkeleyIB. Check out the advertisement here: cmwilliamslab.com/opportunit…
Successful first #nudibranch search in #France with the spring tides this past weekend. It was cool to discover new species, including this usually nocturnal Pruvotfolia pselliotes! #tidepools #MolluscMonday – at Sainte-Marie-de-Ré, France
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Looking forward to learning more about the great research @SusiDoesScience is doing in #giantclams!
This week on Ask a Scientist, Susann Rossbach @SusiDoesScience from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology talks to us about life underwater, including her research on giant clams! Episode out October 6!
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What a pleasant surprise to find this Hermissenda #nudibranch pin from @AlenaESPhoto waiting for me in the mail today! 😃
