The Mydlarz Lab has a second coral machine learning paper out this month! @emily-vanburen.bsky.social developed a diagnostic tool that classifies two coral diseases: white plague and #SCTLD. 463 genes, some involved in inflammation and protein trafficking, characterized the diseases. rdcu.be/eCNic

Excited for a new Mydlarz Lab paper using Machine Learning to analyze coral transcriptomic data! @kelseybeavers.bsky.social used support vector machine recursive feature elimination combined with DEG analysis to describe SCTLD in coral. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Post-doc position!

About 3 years ago i agreed to update the Encyclopedia of Immunobiology chapter on Cnidarian Immunity. It turned into a labor of love because so many new discoveries had been made since it was written in 2016! We hope this is a valuable resource for everyone! www.themydlarzlab.com/uploads/5/2/...

Excited that Kelsey Beavers will defend her PhD Monday 2pm central. DM me for Teams link if you want to hear about her amazing work on Stony coral tissue loss disease!

Come join our amazing team and join a multidisciplinary dynamic lab with a great PI!

A new venture for me! Collaboration with colleagues in engineering to test concrete formulations as potential artificial reefs. www.uta.edu/news/news-re...

Fun at UTArlington planetarium watching the eclipse with the community! We got 80% coverage here in DFW. Love that my teen daughter and her friends thought it was so cool!

Happy to see this paper scim.ag/4jh from Steve Vollmer's lab with exciting data showing coral disease resistance can be linked to SNPs in 4 immune genes. See mine and Erinn Muller's Perspective in Science Magazine scim.ag/4ji for the big picture of what this means for restoration efforts.

@kelseybeavers.bsky.social giving an amazing talk at the Texas Advanced Computing Center symposium for Texas researchers! We had a great time visiting with everyone and seeing our server, Frontera ! @emily-vanburen.bsky.social

The Mydlarz lab took photos for @keishabahr.bsky.social lab colorimetry project this summer and had a lot of fun doing it! They need more photos especially during this bleaching event. See info below.