Metabarcoding

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.

Characterising the microbial eukaryotes — protists — that live in and on marine animals across the full symbiotic spectrum, from mutualists to parasites, and building the tools to detect them.

Building and curating the reference databases — PR2, EukRef, eKOI and more — that turn microeukaryote metabarcoding reads into named, placed, and ecologically meaningful taxa.