Diving into the Red Sea Research with Céline Cousteau

Assistant Professor Manuel Aranda from @RSRC_KAUST will be one of the panelists at the Sci-Café event on the theme of Extreme Marine Environments. Watch live on our KAUST Official Facebook page on Wednesday, October 17 at 4:00pm.

She presented her work on epigenetics, particularly histone modifications, and how this knowledge can aid us in training corals to have higher thermal resilience.

Manuel Aranda, a marine scientist at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and the author of two studies published in June and August in the journal Science Advances, thinks the first warming event activates genes that prime the coral to cope with the next round of heat stress.

Wang Xin defended his thesis with presentation focussing on "How corals got bone -- comparative genomics reveals the evolution of coral calcification"

The chapter is called: For a World without Boundaries: Connectivity between marine tropical ecosystems in times of change. It is focused on understanding climate change impacts such as rising sea levels, acidifcation and temperature on mangroves, seagrasses and coral reefs. We then discuss how these three ecosystems are connected and hence, a downfall in one will lead to loss and degradation in another.

Prof. Manuel Aranda interviewed by Paul Ross on the TalkRadio show. The interview was broadcasted live and is only 10min long, check the last slot 4:30-5:00 am starting around minute 2:22.

The symbiotic relationship between cnidarians and dinoflagellates is the cornerstone of coral reef ecosystems.

Reef Recovery on Magnetic Island is an innovative project in partnership with government, researchers, industry and community that aims to make a positive environmental, social and economic benefit for our local reefs and communities.

The ISS Congress is the sanctioned meeting of the International Symbiosis Society and is held every three years.

There are increasing concerns that the current rate of climate change might outpace the ability of reef-building corals to adapt to future conditions.

Maha's work offers an angle of hope for understanding coral temperature tolerance and duly recognized in BBC News feature !

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