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Welcome to Symbiosis Genomics Lab at The University of Newcastle

Check out the article about our new honours student in the lab Laura Bradbury - Deep passion for the ocean inspires environmental graduate

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9th May 2018 - Check out the website for our NASA funded project on coral disease forecasting 

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19th February 2018

Welcome to Alexander (Gus) Fordyce who is starting his PhD today in the lab, you can see Gus's profile page here.
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January 2018

GRANT SUCCESS. We would like to thank the Australian Research Council for funding our project to look at providing an evidence base for coral reef management to be targeted towards regions at greatest risk, and those that have the greatest capacity for acclimation under near-future climate change. Will be great to work with Assoc. Prof Tracy Ainsworth (UNSW), Dr Scott Heron (NOAA) and Prof Andrew Baird (JCU) on this project for the next three years 

January 2018

Hi All,

The Symbiosis Genomics lab has now moved to the School of Environmental and Life Science at the University of Newcastle. Announcements soon on new PhD scholarships that will be available in the lab.
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December 2017

Congratulations to Sarah Gierz and Teressa Bobeszko, both of whom have been awarded their PhDs this month. well done guys.
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25th August 2017

Check out our new paper, Suggett et al., in Trends in Ecology and Evolution "Symbiotic dinoflagellate functional diversity mediates coral survival under ecological crisis" www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/abstract/S0169-5347(17)30190-8
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18th August 2017

Check out the new paper  from Josh Bonesso who did an Honours degree with us on recovery from injury and the interaction of elevated temperatures. Great work Josh.
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31st March 2017

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Congratulations to Alejandra for being awarded a Virginia Chadwick award for best student paper from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies for her paper on coral microbes.
Hernandez-Agreda A, Gates RD and Ainsworth TD (2016). Defining the core microbiome in corals’ microbial soup. Trends in Microbiology 25(2): 125-140.

24th March 2017

New paper on the microbiome of large benthic Foraminifera of the Great Barrier Reef shows photo-symbiosis persistence and microbiome flexibility across different reef sites

https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-017-0257-7
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17th February 2017

Congratulation to PhD student Sarah Gierz on her great new paper on the response of Symbiodinium to long term thermal stress 
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1st February 2017

Great paper from PhD student Alejandra reviewing what we know about coral microbial associates
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31st January 2017

A new paper on the effect of temperature from high latitude reefs with out New Zealand collaborators
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11th October
Check out the ABC science show catalyst, which has an episode on coral bleaching featuring research from the lab and our collaborators, Associate Professor Tracy Ainsworth, Dr Scott Heron and Associate Professor David Suggett
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27th September
​Field trip on Heron Island coming to an end

It has been an exciting two months running experiments within the Great Barrier Reef Foundation project. We have subjected corals and forams to the mixed-effects of different light and temperature levels. Stay tuned for some exciting results! 
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28th July 2016

New paper by our PhD student Alejandra Hernandez explores the microbiome of a depth-generalist coral 

Full text available at: ​http://mbio.asm.org/content/7/4/e00560-16.long
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11th May 2016

Research shows the capacity of large benthic foraminifera to acclimate to changing light levels is not affected by local habitat

Full text available at: http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v549/p69-78
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29th April 2016

New research by our PhD student Sarah Gierz investigated the effects of thermal stress on photosynthetic genes linked to the light-harvesting complex of Symbiodinium

Full text also available here: ​http://www.nature.com/articles/srep25081

15th April 2016

Our new paper shows how near-future ocean warming ​will negatively affect corals from the Great Barrier Reef

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Check it out: ​http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6283/338.full.pdf+html


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  • Home
  • About
  • PEOPLE
    • A/Prof Bill Leggat
    • Current students >
      • Mr Alexander Fordyce
      • Ms Charlotte Page
      • Tess Moriarty
      • Ms Sarah Gierz
      • Ms Alejandra Hernandez
      • Ms Kate Quigley
    • Ms Chris Bligh
  • Funded projects
  • Funding organisations
  • Publications