Postdoctoral Fellows

Arun Prasanna

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

Jit Ern Chen

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Transformations and Transfections, Algal Biology, Phylogenetics, Plant Sciences

Kashif Nawaz

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

Sebastian Schmidt-Roach

Research Interests: Coral Reefs, Marine Ecology, Climate Change

Yi Jin Liew

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Epigenetics

Yong Li

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Epigenetics, Symbiosis

Ph.D. Students

Alessandro Moret

Research Interests: Coral reef, Symbiosis, Metabolomics, Genomics

Maha Joana Cziesielski

Research Interests: Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Epigenetics

Marcela Herrera Sarrias

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Epigenetics, Ecological and Environmental Genomics, Climate Change

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

Noura Zahran

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Algal Biology, Symbiosis

Sandy Shiou-Han Hung

Research Interests: Genomics, Symbiosis, Epigenetics, Molecular Biology

Xin Wang

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Biomineralization, Comparative Genomics

Masters Students

Jessica Menzies

Research Interests: Symbiosis, Molecular Biology

Kelly Watson

Research Interests: Genomics, Symbiosis, Molecular Biology, Ecological and Environmental Genomics, Coral Reefs, Climate Change

Victoria Golding

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

Yara Alshwairikh

MSc Student​

Research Interests: Symbiosis, Molecular Biology, Conservation Biology, Algal Biology, Coral Reefs, Ecology, Climate Change

Research Group Staff

Alicia Schmidt-Roach

Research Assistant

Research Interests: Ecology, Marine Ecology

Interns

Ana Sofia Nogueira Cortes (Sofia)

VSRP Intern

Research Interests: Genomics, Epigenetics, Climate Change, Molecular Biology

Angus Li

VSRP_Intern

Research Interests: Symbiosis, Marine Microbiology

Gabriela Perna

Research Interests: Coral Reefs, Climate Change, Ecology, Physiology, Coralline Algae, Epigenetics

Juntong Hu

VSRP

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

Lucia Gastoldi

Research Interests: Symbiosis, Genomics, Coral Reefs, Proteomics

Megan Nolan

VSRP Intern

Research Interests: Marine Ecology, Coral Reefs, Environment modeling

Patrick Micke

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

Sara Campana

Research Interests: Climate Change, Genetics, Marine Ecology

Lab Technician

Subhasmita Ray

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, corals, Marine Ecology