Uncovering the diversity, evolution, and functional roles of the microbial eukaryotes — corallicolids, algae, ciliates, and more — that live within corals and shape holobiont health.
Sequencing chromosome-level reference genomes for nine threatened Mediterranean corals — soft and hard, solitary and colonial, symbiotic and aposymbiotic — to underpin their conservation.
Studying the coral holobiont as an integrated system — pairing microbiome metabarcoding with host transcriptomics to read how host and microbes vary across space within a colony, across the diel cycle, and across the shift from health to disease.
Using single-cell transcriptomics to understand the heat stress response of reef coral holobionts.
Exploring the prokaryotic and microeukaryotic communities associated with marine animals — the Gulf Toadfish, the California Sea Hare, and Mediterranean bryozoans.
Generating the reference genome of Mediocremonas mediterraneus as part of the Catalan Initiative for the Earth Biogenome Project.
Identifying and isolating probiotic bacteria to protect the critically endangered Montseny Brook Newt against chytridiomycosis.
A curated reference database of 18S rRNA sequences for metabarcoding and phylogenetics of microeukaryotes.
