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Welcome to the Lab, Finja!

We are very happy to welcome Finja Sygo to the del Campo Lab, where she will carry out her Master’s thesis in bioinformatics. 🪸🦠

Welcome to the Lab, Finja!
Towards an Academia of the common good: our chapter in La veta verda i roja

Javier del Campo and Adrià Auladell, postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, have written a chapter for La veta verda i roja (Manifest Llibres, 2026), a collective book in Catalan in which more than thirty voices from across the Països Catalans lay out the debates needed for an ecosocial transformation. 📗🌍

Towards an Academia of the common good: our chapter in La veta verda i roja
New paper in Microbiome: Coral bleaching, cell by cell

Our latest paper, led by Anthony Bonacolta and published in Microbiome, delivers the first single-cell transcriptomics of a bleaching coral and shows how the host, its two algal symbionts, bacteria, and protists all shift together as the symbiosis breaks down. 🪸🔥🦠

New paper in Microbiome: Coral bleaching, cell by cell
New paper in PLOS Biology: Symbiotic gut bacteria may drive carbonate production in marine fish

A new Discovery Report from our lab, led by Anthony Bonacolta and published in PLOS Biology, reveals that symbiotic bacteria living in the guts of marine fish may play a critical — and largely overlooked — role in the oceanic carbon cycle. 🐟🦠🪨

New paper in PLOS Biology: Symbiotic gut bacteria may drive carbonate production in marine fish
Farewell Matteo — Best of Luck on Your New Adventure!

A couple of weeks ago we said farewell to Matteo Agazzi, our Coral Genomics Technician, who has officially started a PhD in Germany. 🎉

Farewell Matteo — Best of Luck on Your New Adventure!
New paper in Cell Host & Microbe: Temporal rhythms govern coral holobiont function

Our lab’s latest paper, led by Brad Weiler and published in Cell Host & Microbe, reveals how the day-night cycle orchestrates the entire coral holobiont as an integrated system. 🪸🦠🧬

New paper in Cell Host & Microbe: Temporal rhythms govern coral holobiont function