🪸 Pseudodiploria strigosa 🌎 Bocas del Toro, Panama

This is one of my favorite macro shots I’ve taken! 🪸 Scolymia lacera 🌎 Bocas del Toro, Panama

I’m really excited to have recently published my first chapter of my dissertation, which is also my first ever first author paper! 🌟 We identified a basin-wide pathogen candidate for white band disease in the Caribbean! 🪸🧪 doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Tank-based bacterial profiling identifies basin-wide white band disease pathogen candidate and no bacterial associations with coral disease resistance

Abstract. White band disease (WBD) has decimated the Caribbean staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, since its emergence in 1979, but its etiology remains

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Super excited to be giving my first ever conference talk at #Evol2025 tomorrow! I’ll be sharing my work from my first chapter, which looks at disease associations for the coral epizootic white band disease. It’s in Pathogens and Disease at 2:30, hope to see you there!

this is Acropora cervicornis, the coral I’m working with in my dissertation! and one of my favorites to photograph :) 🌟