This is a coral larva-notice its highly motile cilia. It must constantly sense its environment to decide where to start a colony. Much of reef resilience being here, yet this biology remains largely unexplored. Work from ADC-NiCE @scrippsocean.bsky.social supported by @allenphilanthro.bsky.social

How does marine life sense and respond to their changing world? The Allen Discovery Center for Neurobiology in Changing Environments is diving (literally) into this #FrontierScience. 🐋🧠 🔗 alleninstitute.org/division/fro... 📸 Dr. David Kline, Erik Jepsen, UCSD, @adc-neuroenv.bsky.social

Amebocytes of the upside-down #Cassiopea #jellyfish acidify the symbiosome using the #V-ATPAse, which promotes photosynthesis. Similarities with corals, anemones, giant clams and diatoms suggest convergence evolution and link phagocytosis symbiosis and symbiogenesis. With Angus Thies et al

#Hagfish acidifies its gut using #V-ATPAse. This is more similar to invertebrates than vertebrates with implications for food digestion, immunology and #symbiosis. Led by Alyssa Weinrauch w/ Greg Goss @garfieldkwan.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Check out our new @adc-neuroenv.bsky.social website 🎊💪🏼🎉 adc-nice.org This groundbreaking initiative will study the nervous systems of marine animals, how they adjust to naturally variable environments, and their responses to climate change @scrippsocean.bsky.social @alleninstitute.bsky.social

Bobtail squid uses the #V-ATPase proton pump to acidify the microenvironment in its light organ, which promotes specificity for the recruitment of bacterial symbionts. Does this strategy apply to other #symbioses? www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Come work with us @Scripps_Ocean and the Allen Discovery Center for Neurobiology in Changing Environments (ADC-NiCE)! You can find more details and apply for this Program Research Associate position here: employment.ucsd.edu/program-rese... #FrontierScience

How does bleaching affect coral oxygen dynamics? What are the metabolic implications? Read our recent paper, great work from Dr. Lauren Linsmayer PhD thesis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pushing immunocytochemistry to the limit, here is the pH sensing enzyme soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC) in fish red blood cells! Stay tuned for our study showing the role of sAC in RBC pH regulation and O2 binding. With Till Harter, Emma Smith, Angus Thies, Cristina Salmeron & Rod Wilson