Coral

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

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.

Four members of the del Campo Lab present their research at Protistology Open 2026. Javier del Campo delivers the 2025 Hutner Award winner talk.

Using single-cell transcriptomics to understand the heat stress response of reef coral holobionts.