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The whole genomes of mollusk species Tridacna crocea (giant clam), Fragum fragum and F. whitley (heart cockles), and Hippopus hippopus (strawberry clam) have now been fully sequenced through the Aquatic Symbiosis Genome (ASG) project. First authors Ruiqi Li and Jingchun Li from the University of Colorado, Boulder have collaborated with ASG photosymbiosis hub leader, Joe Lopez, multiple … Continue reading Four High Quality Mollusk Genomes published in the Aquatic Symbiosis Genome Project

Professor Lopez is happy to announce that his new book has now been published by Academic Press: Assessments and Conservation of Biological Diversity from Coral Reefs to the Deep Sea: Uncovering Buried Treasures and the Value of the Benthos. The book covers various angles of studying benthic biodiversity: genomics, new technologies, monitoring and public policy. … Continue reading New book on benthic biodiversity has been published

We are pleased to see that BG23 has started with many excellent talks from our collaborators, friends and students at the Earth BioGenome Project, Sanger Institute, GMGI. Its not too late to register and have access to the recorded talks later. https://twitter.com/BiodivGenomics

Once numbering in the millions, sea turtle populations have dwindled to the thousands with six of seven extant sea turtle species currently listed as endangered or threatened globally. The decrease in their once abundant populations are primarily attributed to human actions and lifestyles such as fishing practices, illegal poaching, habitat loss, climate change, and pollution. … Continue reading New paper on sea turtle nest microbiomes published by former NSU MS student, Colleen McMaken

Lake Okeechobee (or Lake O) can be considered “Florida’s Inland Sea,”, as it is  the largest lake in the southeastern United States and is located at the center of Florida’s Everglades ecosystem. Before heavy development in the 19th century, Lake O provided freshwater to the Everglades ecosystem to its south. Now the lake has been permanently … Continue reading Paisley Samuel presents Harmful Algal Bloom of Lake Okeechobee thesis research at GEER

We are happy to announce the publication of this paper, first authored by one of our former Dept of Biological Sciences MS students, Yvain Desplat, in the journal Science of the Total Environment. This was a story with a long journey.  After finding no clear correlations of sponge microbial community changes with oil dosing in … Continue reading Publication of paper, “Morphological and transcriptional effects of crude oil and dispersant exposure on the marine sponge Cinachyrella alloclada”

We are pleased to announce the publication of our new PeerJ paper – “Change and stasis of distinct sediment microbiomes across Port Everglades Inlet (PEI) and the adjacent coral reefs” https://peerj.com/articles/14288. The results were the first to characterize sediment microbiomes from within the port and could have implications for dredging and other port activities that … Continue reading New PeerJ paper published describing distinct sediment microbiomes across Port Everglades Inlet (PEI) and the adjacent coral reefs

This week we were privileged to hear a great talk by Professor Baldomero (Toto) Olivera. He gave an innovative tale of how marine science informed medical treatment of chronic and painful neurological  disease. Baldomero Olivera is a Filipino molecular biologist  known for discovery of diversity and medical translation of  cone snail toxins important for neuroscience. These molecules, called conotoxins, led to … Continue reading The Golden Age of Science seminar series at HCAS welcomes Dr. Baldomero Olivera

Research scientist, Dr Lauren Krausfeldt, works in our molecular microbiology and genomics laboratory at Nova Southeastern University. She presented her research results on harmful algal blooms (HAB) as a talk, “The Functional Diversity And Biological Interactions That Drive Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms”, at the 2022 American Society of Microbiology general meeting in Washington DC. The … Continue reading Dr. Lauren Krausfeldt presents HAB results at ASM and interviews for Science