Microbiome

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.

Exploring the prokaryotic and microeukaryotic communities associated with marine animals — the Gulf Toadfish, the California Sea Hare, and Mediterranean bryozoans.

Identifying and isolating probiotic bacteria to protect the critically endangered Montseny Brook Newt against chytridiomycosis.

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