PhD candidate

Fatima Albohairy

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Marine Ecology, Symbiosis

Mascha Fiona Dix

Research Interests: Apitasia, Epigenetics, Gene Expression, Bioinformatics

Ricardo M. Pedraza-Pohlenz

Research Interests: Coral Thermal Resilience, Ecological Genomics, Population Genetics,, coral-algal symbiosis, Climate resilience, Image-based phenotyping, Coral reproduction, Epigenetics

Shoug AlguthmiPhD Student

Research Interests: Genetics, Bioinformatics, Population Genetics,, Evolutionary Biology,, Molecular Biology

Research Scientist

Guoxin Cui

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

Principal Investigator

Manuel Aranda

​Professor of Marine Science

Research Interests: Genomics, Symbiosis, Epigenetics, Molecular Biology

Postdoctoral Fellows

Octavio Salazar Moya

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Epigenetics, Symbiosis

Ph.D. Students

Huawen Zhong

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Epigenetics, Symbiosis

Masters Students

Wenyi You

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Transcriptomics, Genomics

Research Group Staff

Holger Anlauf

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Coral resilience, Coral reproduction, Coral Reefs, Environment modeling, optical phenotyping, Marine Conservation