Coral Holobiont

Uncovering the diversity, evolution, and functional roles of the microbial eukaryotes — corallicolids, algae, ciliates, and more — that live within corals and shape holobiont health.

Generating chromosome-scale reference genomes across the eukaryotic tree of life — from protists to corals to fish — to study biodiversity and evolution, as part of the Earth BioGenome Project and its Catalan (CBP) and European (ERGA) nodes.

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.