Corals and their endosymbiotic dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium have a fragile relationship that breaks down under heat stress, an event known as bleaching.

First fully-Aranda lab paper published in ISME

Maha attends YOUMARES 8, and wins 3rd best talk there.

Manuel Aranda's TEDx talk published

Maha, the champion whiner

The European Coral Reef Symposium is now open accepting abstracts and registrations!

PLOS Genetics paper on nuclear RNA editing in dinoflagellates was featured in the KAUST Discovery Magazine

Manuel was one of six KAUST professors nominated for teaching award

Paper detailing the microbiome of Aiptasia strain H2 is now out!

Publication details the genomes of two corallimopharian genomes, the closest non-calcifying relatives of reef-building corals.

Six-week SRSI internship under the tutelage of Noura and Manuel produced magnificent results at IBDAA 2017.

Manuel Aranda was one of nine invited speakers at the inaugural TEDx event in KAUST.

RNA editing in the dinoflagellate symbiont of corals may aid acclimatisation

Making science more appealing to schoolchildren!

A poster and a talk was presented at this conference by two members of the Symbiomics Lab.

Paper outlining reefgenomics.org is now out!

Availability of other dinoflagellate genomes allow comparative efforts to pick out genes essential for their livestyles

Members of the lab attended the quadriennial ICRS conference, this time in Hawaii.