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Come see me Saturday after lunch at #ACRS2022

Special thanks to Hisatake (Take) Ishida who joined our lab meeting today to present his interesting metagenomic work on Symbiodiniaceae & Prokaryotes in Acropora!

Last week we had Tali from the Treibitz Marine Imaging Lab 🇮🇱 visiting our lab at the California Academy of Sciences. Find out more about their amazing research on novel marine imaging systems and computer vision: viseaon.haifa.ac.il

Last day of resurveying our long-term monitoring plots in Curacao. Yet another critical timepoint collected! 📸 Michelle Achlatis & Emma Alves #CARMABI

We assembled a chromosome-level Acropora hyacinthus genome, then used it and other samples to come up with a new hypothesis on how coral cells develop (potentially i-cell-like stem cells), how mutations are passed on from parents to their gametes, and... royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

In today's lab meeting - each of us reflected on achievements of the past year 🥳, major projects ahead 🤩 & challenges/resolutions 🤔 for this year. Was great to hear from everybody & identify common challenges to tackle!

Yesterday we had Andreas Eich (Andreas Eich) present his PhD plans during our weekly labmeeting. Exciting plans for a great study system and in an amazing location criobe_pf!

Great feature by lab member @MaxineMouly & #CARMABI Edu about #mesophotic coral ecosystems in Curaçao - published this week in two Curaçaoan newspapers (#AntilliaansDagblad and @ExtraCuracao) California Academy of Sciences Substation Curacao #HopeForReefs

Analysis of growth pattern of extinct tabulate corals revealed convergent mechanisms of light-induced colony morphology - a second Ph. D. paper by Aleksander Majchrzyk (congratulations!). Thanks for collaboration Pim Bongaerts ! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Interested in coral reefs and 3D point clouds? We will soon be looking to recruit a postdoc or tech in the Reefscape Genomics Lab @ CalAcademy lab with Python & CV | ML | 3D skills to work on coral mass-phenotyping and microhabitat characterization. Please DM for info! 📽️ Mike Schmitt / California Academy of Sciences

📢 Check out our new paper in BMC Biology: "Global phylogenomic assessment of Leptoseris and Agaricia reveals substantial undescribed diversity at mesophotic depths"🌍🪸🧬my 1st 1st author paper, where we used RAD sequencing to explore these dominant mesophotic coral genera (1/3)

Massive congrats to johannagijsbers for leading this awesome collaborative paper that just came out in BMC Biology highlighting how much of #mesophotic coral diversity still remains undiscovered BMC California Academy of Sciences #hopeforreefs bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Katharine Prata gave a killer talk to close out the last session on coral dispersal and our relatively sparse knowledge on the subject so far! Interesting negative trends between coral dispersal distance and densities in mostly Caribbean environments! #AMSA2023 #TeamCoral

#Mesophotic corals from Pim Bongaerts collection California Academy of Sciences - amazing diversity of tiny epizoans! Narodowe Centrum Nauki research grant on #Palaeozoic mesophotic coral ecosystems and their recent analogues.

Thanks so much for the invitation Richard Coleman, and to the organizers for such an opportunity to discuss our work with such a diverse and interested audience #kavlifrontiers #kfos_balikpapan2023 #kfos_indonesia

Our lab has just returned from 3 wks in Curacao resurveying our monitoring sites during the ongoing coral bleaching event. Despite the heartbreak of witnessing the reefs' deterioration and the loss of century-old colonies, there were also hopeful signs of recovery and resilience

This time last year we conducted our first expedition as part of the Inkfish Coastal Seas program, studying the mesophotic coral ecosystems of Curaçao in collaboration with the Carmabi Foundation: youtube.com/watch?v=bCmDpX…

Excited to see this paper led by Katharine Prata out in Royal Society Publishing, inferring generational dispersal distances of corals using a reefscape genomics approach: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… UQ Science California Academy of Sciences Reefscape Genomics Lab @ CalAcademy

Our new paper "Hybridization and inbreeding affect the survival of a critically endangered coral" is out in Current Biology | California Academy of Sciences IBED UQ News #CARMABI #EndangeredSpecies #coral #Helioseriscucullata #mesophotic #hopeforreefs 🗞️: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jvxE3QW8S6G…

The RG lab boarded the R/V Hydra for Leg 3 of @InkfishExpeditions’ 4-month scientific endeavour in the Solomon Islands. The team will focus on characterizing the biodiversity and ecology of mesophotic & shallow coral reef ecosystems🪸 #3Dimaging #coralreefs #SolomonIslands