Iglesias-Prieto Lab

Congratulations to the three newly minted coral doctors from the @TheBaumsLab: @ConnTrinity , Cornelia Osborne and Nicolas Locatelli! You did amazing work individually and collectively. It's been wonderful to see all these insights on Caribbean corals emerge from your theses.

Fresh in ME -> @Kellogs82 et al discover the remarkable adaptability of reef-building corals 😮 Highlights phenotypic plasticity in light harvesting & intricate epigenomic and transcriptomic responses to strategically adjust to environmental cues. link: buff.ly/4aJiugJ

Excited to share our latest research on #corals!🌊🪸🌞🔬. Our recent study reveals how colony morphology mediates light exposure, photoacclimation and energetic performance in symbiotic corals dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… #MarineBiology #ClimateChange #CoralReefs #PLOSONE

We identified key methylome–transcriptome networks containing a large number of hub genes that appear integral to inducing changes in biomineralization, polyp formation and ultimately colony shape. doi.org/10.1111/mec.17…

Biometrics revealed how light absorption efficiency changes with skeletal morphology, while intragenic methylome repatterning was discovered by signal detection with machine learning-based analysis.

New pub in @molecology. Reciprocal transplants to simulate intra-colonial light environment revealed phenotype-to methylome associations. @PSUScience @TheBaumsLab @huckinstitutes Sally Mackenzie doi.org/10.1111/mec.17…

⚠️ Sadly, the presence of the stony coral tissue loss disease #SCTLD has been reported for the first time in the Atoll Banco Chinchorro, Mexico, after 5 years when it started to spread throughout the Caribbean. 🧵1/n

Congratulations to Prof. Virginia Weis for being selected as 2022 AAAS Fellow! 👏 She is commended her contributions in the fields of coral reef biology and coral-algal symbiosis. beav.es/5td #coralreef #symbiosis #womeninscience #TeamScience

@LajeunesseTodd @PennStateBio @momedinamunoz @ProfessorFungus @IlianaBaums Congratulations Dr. Turnham @turnkira for a successful defense. You did a great job!

A rare and momentous event it is to graduate a Ph.D. student. So proud of Kira E. Turnham who successfully defended here dissertation before a supportive and pleased grad committee on Thursday Dec. 9th @PennStateBio with @momedinamunoz @lab_prieto @ProfessorFungus @IlianaBaums

📢NEW RESEARCH ALERT📢 What are the driving forces of biodiversity in coral reef ecosystems? A new paper published in @SciReports by @lab_prieto and Enríquez Lab has found a link between symbiont productivity and coral biodiversity with depth How did we find this link? 1/4 🧵

I am thrilled to share that I'm starting a Postdoc position at Scripps UC San Diego in January 2023 #newPostdoc #LatinXinSTEM #NewAdventure #ecophysiology more details coming soon

Our next episode of Life From All Angles, highlighting the groundbreaking #epigenetics research done by Penn State Plant Institute Director Sally Mackenzie, drops next week on YouTube. Here's a clip from her recent appearance on the Symbiotic Podcast:

Phenotypic descriptions mark the start of a new experiment for @izamtz06 at @PSUScience. Thanks for the help @Kellogs82 . Discovering light sensing mechanisms in reef-built corals 🌙 ☀️ | Ofav PE-curves | @ICRSreefstudent

Happy #FeatureFriday! This week we have @izamtz06 from @lab_prieto who studies light sensing in reef-building corals 🪸🌊 ☀️ @PSUScience

"This is a time when we celebrate with pride and joy our roots and commemorate the importance of our differences." — @penn_state graduate student @izamtz06 of @PennStateBio buff.ly/3BHKRfG

Congratulations @IlianaBaums and team!

Corals don’t follow the rules. We (@TheBaumsLab, @KVasquezKuntz, @ConnTrinity, @CoralSci, @andiechan13, Sam Vohsen, Mark Vermeji, and Chris Page) are excited to share our work on somatic mutation inheritance in Elkhorn coral offspring out today @ScienceAdvances.

Frontiers e-book, with articles featured in The Cellular Stress Response and Physiological Adaptations of Corals Subjected to Environmental Stressors and Pollutants has been compiled and is now available online frontiersin.org/research-topic…. Our Perspective here frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

⁦@IlianaBaums⁩ presents the next generation of coral genetic research- the role of de novo somatic mutations in adaptive evolution #icrs2022

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The gang made it to Bremen 🪸 @medinaLabPSU @TheBaumsLab @Symbiodiniaceae @lab_prieto . Excited for their presentations, catching up with coral friends and meeting new ones at #ICRS2022 @ICRS_2022 @ICRSreefstudent