I'm attending @icrs.bsky.social #ICRS2026 this week in Auckland, New Zealand, and I'm excited to be giving a talk this Wednesday -- on our efforts towards predicting coral predation on Florida's Coral Reef!
Dr. Allyson DeMerlis
@ademerlis.bsky.social
Postdoc at UMiami | PhD from UMiami Rosenstiel and NOAA AOML | Coral resilience and coral restoration in Florida! allysondemerlis.com
Last month, my second #PhD chapter was published in @frontiersin.bsky.social - a collaboration with @coralcitycamera.bsky.social to characterize the transcriptomic response of staghorn coral in the Port of Miami! Read the open-access article here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
My first #PhD dissertation chapter was just published in Ecology and Evolution! We characterized the gene expression patterns of staghorn and knobby brain corals in response to thermal preconditioning. read our #openaccess paper here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
So excited for this!! Amazing graphic abstract!
Brad Weiler@bradweilerdives.bsky.social · 12mo ago🚨New Preprint Alert🚨 P. strigosa, a reef-building coral shows tightly regulated transcriptional control over natural diel cycles. #CoralReefs #Symbiosky #bioinformatics #marinemicrobes #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hot off the press from Cat Lachnit et al. of @rescueareef.bsky.social ! Urchins help corals grow by keeping algae at bay, but retention of different urchin species is a key factor in the longevity of this success! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Tandem reef restoration using corals and sea urchins: Building complex habitat for herbivores
Amidst the decline of coral reef ecosystems, restoration practitioners are expanding their focus to incorporate key reef community components, such as grazers, to improve site conditions and the long-...
journals.plos.org
Wanted to share this pre-print from my collaborators at Mote Marine Lab in Summerland Key!! The effort and analyses in this manuscript is super impressive to me. When I was an intern at Mote, I helped take care of these AGF Curaçao-Florida babies 😍 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Assisted gene flow yields Acropora palmata corals with robust physiological performance under warmer water temperatures in a land-based nursery
Assisted gene flow (AGF) is a conservation approach that facilitates the spread of alleles and may accelerate the recovery of genetically depauperate cohorts. The threatened Caribbean coral Acropora p...
biorxiv.org
📣 JOB ALERT📣 The Silbiger Lab is hiring a full time research tech @ University of Hawai’i at Mānoa to support research on intertidal ecology in Hawai’i & coral reef/coastal oceanography in Okinawa, Japan. RCUH ID: 225085 application link below. 1 year to start, but have several years of funding.
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Technician/Biologist - Coral spawning, fertilization, larval settlement and recruit rearing (Mote Marine Lab and Aquarium) mote.org/about/employ... #coralreefs #coralspawning #coralgardening #coraljobs #coralcareers #coralrestoration #coralrecruitment #coralscience #marinebiology
(Hopefully) working on the last samples of my PhD!
