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Research INterests
I have always been fascinated by the microbial world, in particular how microbes function and interact with the environments surrounding them. Below, I have organized my research into three broad categories: Development of Astrangia poculata as a model system for studying symbiosis, the biodiversity and biogeography of marine protist communities across Indonesia, and the energetic and immune tradeoffs associated with coral-microbe symbioses.
I also strongly believe in transparency in research and using open access tools to make my research as accessible and reproducible as possible. Because of this, I make all of my analysis and code used in publications publicly available on my GitHub page linked below.
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Development of Astrangia Poculata as a model for studying symbiosis
Unlike tropical corals, Astrangia poculata has a facultative relationship with its dinoflagellate symbiont which in turn makes it an ideal system to study the ecology and evolution of symbiosis. In order to establish it as a model, we have worked on multiple projects including working to complete the A. poculata life cycle in captivity
Development of AStrangia poculata as a model system for studying symbiosis
Biodiversity and biogeography of marine protist communities across Indonesia
Indonesia has a long history of biodiversity research. Here, we expand that history of biodiversity research to investigate the biodiversity of microbial eukaryotes across the Indo-Pacific and the environmental factors that drive their community structure.
Biodiversity and biogeography of marine protist communities across Indonesia
The energetic and immune tradeoffs associated with coral-microbe Symbioses
Symbiosis is know to suppress coral immunity during establishment, but also increases overall energetic budget. Here, we use a model system to investigate the net cost/benefit of symbiosis in corals using transcriptomics and metabolomics.
The energetic and immune tradeoffs associated with coral-microbe symbioses
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