Author: Ana María González Angel

The Biological Oceanography course will be offered in Spring 2020. We have compiled an informative brochure about the course that you can browse here for more details. If you would like to apply for the course, please submit your form by accessing the following link. There are still a few more spots!

Sofia’s hard work starting the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) chapter at Penn State was recently featured in the Penn State news! Congratulations, Sofia! See the note here.

Please visit the link to the documentary trailer, Saving Atlantis! We have a collaborative effort with scientists at Oregon State University and they have a wonderful team that made this documentary featuring our work. We hope you enjoy the documentary as much as we do!      

The review paper entitled “Multiple Facets of Marine Invertebrate Conservation Genomics” in which our former lab member Bishoy, and Monica are coauthors got an early online release! Visit our Publications page for more details and access to the paper!

Our former lab members  Joe and Styles, and Mónica are coauthors in the article entitled “Coral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny”, which was published last week in Nature Communications. The paper highlights the vast diversity of bacteria and archaeal communities in different coral compartments; and their coevolution with the host in a wide array of […]

A new article about Varadero is out! However, this one is not focused on the science we study but something else: “Saving Atlantis”, the documentary about Varadero reef, has been recently featured locally in Colombia. This is the story of that experience and we invite you to check it out! 

Recently, our study reef, Varadero reef in Cartagena, Colombia was featured in the Penn State News. The note, with interviews and background info highlights the importance of this reef. We invite you to read the article about the Buried Treasure!

Aki had a successful PhD dissertation defense yesterday! We celebrated him with a Cassiopea-inspired cake and two crowded parties. Congratulations, Dr. Ohdera!

Dr. Allison Kerwin recently joined us in the Medina Lab in a postdoctoral researcher position. Allison got her PhD working under Spencer Nyholm’s lab at the University of Connecticut studying the ANG reproductive system symbiosis in Hawaiian bobtail squid. Allison will be using her expertise in next generation sequencing analysis and microscopy in the Global Coral […]

Our lab members Sofia and Ana joined fellow grad student Kathryn Stankiewicz in an outreach activity the group designed this fall called “Tangled up in the food web”. This activity aims to teach children how organisms interact in a toy marine trophic pyramid over a succession of beneficial and/or detrimental situations. The group was among several […]