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The student will work with our team that includes researchers at Rutgers with collaborators from Australia, Micronesia, Hawaii, and the Dominican Republic to analyze omics data that address the coral stress response, reproduction, and population structure. The project is aimed at identifying the genetic 'toolkit' used by corals to deal with climate change (e.g., lowered pH and increased temperatures), elucidating its evolution, and distribution across coral lineages. The work involves genomics, metabolic, bioinformatics, and biological manipulation of corals. The work will lead to publications and training in genomic (and other omics) methods as well as knowledge about coral conservation biology.
Here are some relevant papers associated with the project:
Chille EE, Stephens TG, Misri D, Strand EL, Putnam HM, Bhattacharya D. Gene expression response under thermal stress in two Hawaiian corals is dominated by ploidy and genotype. Ecol Evol. 2024 Jul 24;14(7):e70037. doi: 10.1002/ece3.70037.
Dougan KE, Bellantuono AJ, Kahlke T, Abbriano RM, Chen Y, Shah S, Granados-Cifuentes C, van Oppen MJH, Bhattacharya D, Suggett DJ, Rodriguez-Lanetty M, Chan CX. Whole-genome duplication in an algal symbiont bolsters coral heat tolerance. Sci Adv. 2024 Jul 19;10(29):eadn2218. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adn2218.
Bhattacharya D, Stephens TG, Chille EE, Benites LF, Chan CX. Facultative lifestyle drives diversity of coral algal symbionts. Trends Ecol Evol. 2023 Nov 10:S0169-5347(23)00270-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.10.005.
Shah S, Dougan KE, Chen Y, Bhattacharya D, Chan CX. Gene duplication is the primary driver of intraspecific genomic divergence in coral algal symbionts. Open Biol. 2023 Sep;13(9):230182. doi: 10.1098/rsob.230182.
Stephens TG, Strand EL, Putnam HM, Bhattacharya D. Ploidy Variation and Its Implications for Reproduction and Population Dynamics in Two Sympatric Hawaiian Coral Species. Genome Biol Evol. 2023 Aug 1;15(8):evad149. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evad149.
Stephens TG, Lee J, Jeong Y, Yoon HS, Putnam HM, Majerová E, Bhattacharya D. High-quality genome assembles from key Hawaiian coral species. Gigascience. 2022 Nov 9;11:giac098. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giac098.
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