Clint Oakley
@clintoak.bsky.social
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Integrative Biologist and Principal Investigator specializing in coral reef biology. 🇳🇿
PhD Scholarship! 📯 Two PhD scholarships are available to study symbiont loss in coral bleaching. Students will contribute to a three-year project funded by
@royalsocietynz.bsky.social
. Students will be supervised by
@davylab.bsky.social
and
@clintoak.bsky.social
at VUW.
#PhDOpportunity
#coralreef
25 days ago
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newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
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Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain
Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their brightest.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/winner-of-top-science-prize-blames-batshit-budget-for-brain-drain/
about 1 month ago
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I saw some of these corals in person, and I'm angry that my kids won't.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#coralreefs
#climatechange
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Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef
In 2023, a record-setting marine heat wave triggered the ninth mass coral bleaching event on Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR). We examined spatial patterns of heat exposure along the ~560-kilometer length o...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx7825
about 2 months ago
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We show that anemones absorb
#lipid
nanoparticles directly from seawater, stimulating their
#metabolism
. Details, and potential applications for
#coral
reef restoration and aquaculture, in our new preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#science
#marinebiology
#symbiosis
#proteomics
2 months ago
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Clint Oakley
ICRS International Coral Reef Society
7 months ago
1/6 Call for session proposals 16th International Coral Reef Symposium, 19–24th July 2026, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Session proposal deadline: Sunday 15th June 2025. Details and submission link at
www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-ses...
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Call for Session Proposals
https://www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-session-proposals
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Corals maintain stable populations of essential photosynthetic symbionts by controlling their cell cycle, not by eating them! Our new
#PNAS
paper monitored and modelled
#aiptasia
cell cycle, autophagy, and expulsion for over a year.
#symbiosis
#microbiology
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
8 months ago
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How can new heat-resistant algae help host metabolism and immunity during
#coralbleaching
? Do they become better partners over time? Our new paper (
tinyurl.com/465k5hpx
) uses combined
#proteomics
and
#metabolomics
to show how they help their hosts, or not, during thermal stress.
#microbiology
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The Influence of Symbiont Identity on the Proteomic and Metabolomic Responses of the Model Cnidarian Aiptasia to Thermal Stress
We examined the effects of symbiont identity and heat stress on the host metabolome and proteome in the cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis. Integrated metabolome and proteome analyses characterised h...
https://tinyurl.com/465k5hpx
9 months ago
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Quoted in a new article describing the extreme fishing pressure and decline of coral reefs in Vietnam, and local efforts to reverse course:
apnews.com/article/viet...
@emmafcamp.bsky.social
#coralreefs
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Coral reefs in Vietnam face collapse. Can conservation efforts turn the tide?
The coral reefs of Nha Trang, Vietnam, are in severe decline due to climate change, overfishing, and pollution.
https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-coral-reefs-climate-change-conservation-tourism-e53c333df1d4c0488719b9619a4056e0
9 months ago
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This is Moko, an 800-year-old rimu in Ōtari-Wilton's Bush in Wellington. Enormous, covered in epiphytes, and very near the city center!
11 months ago
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Andrea's new paper explores oxylipin receptors in the coral symbiosis and how they may be important for the stability and the functional biology of coral reefs. Congrats Andrea!
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#symbiosis
#coralreefs
#cellbiology
12 months ago
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The methods and scale of coral reef restoration efforts have advanced immensely in the past few years, some of these tools are amazing. Enjoying learning about the latest global efforts at
#ReefFutures
!
12 months ago
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Hi
#TeamMassSpec
: For those of you on the facility management side of the party, how do you go about finding potential
#proteomics
clients/customers, either academic or commercial? We're considering new strategies.
about 1 year ago
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We detailed how dinoflagellate proteomes shift over time during symbiosis establishment, and contrasted physiological and immune pathways in successful and opportunistic symbionts. See our new paper in ISMEJ!
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
over 1 year ago
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