New paper on using #coral nurseries as experimental units for studying host x symbiont genotype interactions. Congrats to recent PhD student (now Dr.) Matt Gamache! @cmarinescience.bsky.social rdcu.be/eVA2C

Some additional coverage of our report on the major loss of acroporid corals in the Florida Keys by @cbsnews.com: www.cbsnews.com/news/florida...

Results I'm sad to share but must be told - branching coral are now functionally extinct in Florida - to learn more check out the full study www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and our personal summary theconversation.com/2-iconic-cor...

This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

USF media produced a nice article about our lab! Many thanks to those who put it together, and of course to my students who make the research possible. www.usf.edu/arts-science...

Proactive assisted gene flow for Caribbean corals in an era of rapid coral reef decline | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor! Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!

After months of official silence, mass mortality of corals in Western Australia - since January - is finally getting attention. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

Our "Guide to communicating microbiomes in the media", created in collaboration @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social aims to help navigate the complexities of communicating microbiome research. Click the link in our bio to read and download the guide.

Change is coming to microbiology publishing. A new space for authoritative reviews and forward-looking perspectives is on the horizon. Be the first to hear the full announcement at #Microbio25.

Congrats to Parkinson lab PhD students Lauren & Matt (and former postdoc Raul!) and the whole team for putting together this nice perspective on efforts to incorporate microbiome analyses into conservation efforts.

Florida elkhorn corals need active genetic help to handle climate change, they cannot do it on their own. The risk is far less than the risk of doing nothing. 🌏🧪https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14920439 @coralconsortium.bsky.social

Congrats to Peter Fisichella for presenting his undergraduate research on #Symbiodiniaceae thermal tolerance this weekend at the #Florida Undergraduate Research Conference! (hosted this year in Tampa @ USF) @usouthflorida.bsky.social hflorida.bsky.social

I don't come on social media often anymore, but I can't resist when there's a new #JurassicPark trailer to share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jan5...

PSA: pre-print of Symbiodiniaceae chapter for the upcoming coral microbiome book; was super fun to write w/ @parkinsonje.bsky.social & Raquel Peixoto; I find this very accessible & hopefully fun to read, have a look & stay tuned for the upcoming book doi.org/10.31219/osf... @unikonstanz.bsky.social

A very helpful guide!

Caribbean Acropora genomes/maps now available. Congrats @ibaums.bsky.social et al.! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reading: Novel plastid genome characteristics in Fugacium kawagutii and the trend of accelerated evolution of plastid proteins in dinoflagellates doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Great artwork! (and tools) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Take a deep dive into the world of cassiosomes and their photosymbionts with @gaelletoullec.bsky.social’s first PhD paper. These autonomous cell structures of rhizostome jellyfish could be exciting model systems to study cnidarian symbioses! 🧫🪸🔬 doi.org/10.1128/msph... @cpogoreutz.bsky.social

We're hiring! The University of South Florida, Tampa is searching for a Marine/Coastal Biologist (assistant professor / tenure track). Come join a great department! Details: bit.ly/usf_marine_bio_search

Hot off the presses at Global Change Bio - Yingqi Zhang's 3rd chapter - Performance of Orbicella faveolata larval cohorts does not align with previously observed thermal tolerance of adult source populations doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Come help us with an expansive coral GWAS! Cool data, great team, and I hear Los Angeles is fun.