Principal Investigator

Manuel Aranda

​Professor of Marine Science

Research Interests: Genomics, Symbiosis, Epigenetics, Molecular Biology

Postdoctoral Fellows

Arun Prasanna

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Biological Networks and Interactions, Genomics, Phylogenetics, Comparative Genomics, Transcriptomics

Guoxin Cui

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Transcriptomics, Laser Microdissection

Kashif Nawaz

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Epigenetics, Symbiosis, Comparative Genomics

Octavio Salazar Moya

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Epigenetics, Symbiosis

Sebastian Schmidt-Roach

Research Interests: Coral Reefs, Marine Ecology, Climate Change

Ph.D. Students

Alessandro Moret

Research Interests: Coral reef, Symbiosis, Metabolomics, Genomics

Huawen Zhong

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Epigenetics, Symbiosis

Marcelle Muniz Barreto

Research Interests: Marine Ecology, Coral Reefs, Climate Change, Symbiosis, Ecology, Genomics

Max Dhillon

Research Interests: Coral Reefs, Climate Change, Ecology, Conservation Biology

Migle Kotryna Konciute (Catherine)

Research Interests: Symbiosis, Algal Biology, Molecular Biology

Sandy Shiou-Han Hung

Research Interests: Genomics, Symbiosis, Epigenetics, Molecular Biology

Masters Students

Mascha F. Dix

MS student

Ricardo M. Pedraza-Pohlenz

Research Interests: Coral symbiosis, Coral resilience, Molecular Biology, Genomics, Epigenetics

Interns

Juntong Hu

VSRP

Research Interests: Coral bleaching, Symbiosis, Molecular Biology, Single-cell omics

Patrick Micke

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Data Science, marine Science, Coral reef

Lab Technician

Subhasmita Ray

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, corals, Marine Ecology