The upcoming El Niño event will be somewhere between 'very bad' and 'catastrophic' for coral reefs. www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-...

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

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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.

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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

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...

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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

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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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/...

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

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...

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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

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.

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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!

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

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 !

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.

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...