Area of research
Ecology · Oceanography
Research interest
Research interests include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies.
Investigating the influence of <i>Diadematidae</i> scuticociliatosis on host microbiome composition.
Great Science Lost to Couriers: A Discussion of Best Practices for Shipping Scientific Research Materials at the 2025 Aquatic Sciences Meeting
Transglobal spread of an ecologically relevant sea urchin parasite
Lessons Learned from the Sea Star Wasting Disease Investigation
Diverse RNA viruses discovered in multiple seagrass species.
A scuticociliate causes mass mortality of <i>Diadema antillarum</i> in the Caribbean Sea
A scuticociliate causes mass mortality of <i>Diadema antillarum</i> in the Caribbean Sea.
Transglobal spread of an ecologically significant sea urchin parasite
A Review of Asteroid Biology in the Context of Sea Star Wasting: Possible Causes and Consequences
The RNA virome of echinoderms.
The RNA Virome of Echinoderms
Evidence That Microorganisms at the Animal-Water Interface Drive Sea Star Wasting Disease
Surveillance of densoviruses and mesomycetozoans inhabiting grossly normal tissues of three Aotearoa New Zealand asteroid species.
Diversity of Sea Star-Associated Densoviruses and Transcribed Endogenous Viral Elements of Densovirus Origin.
A Highly Prevalent and Pervasive Densovirus Discovered among Sea Stars from the North American Atlantic Coast.
Diversity of sea star-associated densoviruses and transcribed endogenized viral elements of densovirus origin
Evidence that non-pathogenic microorganisms drive sea star wasting disease through boundary layer oxygen diffusion limitation
Circular Rep encoding single stranded (CRESS) DNA virus-like sequences detected in quagga mussels (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) and sediments from the central Lake Michigan benthos
Surveillance of densoviruses and mesomycetozoans inhabiting grossly normal tissues of three New Zealand asteroid species
Virome Diversity Correlates with Intestinal Microbiome Diversity in Adult Monozygotic Twins
A highly prevalent and pervasive densovirus discovered among sea stars from the North American Atlantic Coast
Investigating the Complex Association Between Viral Ecology, Environment, and Northeast Pacific Sea Star Wasting
Distribution of circular single‐stranded <scp>DNA</scp> viruses associated with benthic amphipods of genus <i>Diporeia</i> in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Seasonal and ontogenetic variation of skin microbial communities and relationships to natural disease dynamics in declining amphibians
Up in Arms: Immune and Nervous System Response to Sea Star Wasting Disease
Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality
Molecular and microscopic evidence of viruses in marine copepods
Collaborative Research: Unraveling parasite, host, and environmental drivers of Diadematidae scuticociliatosis, a globally significant marine disease
Exploring the role of boundary layer microbial remineralization in flavivirus-host dynamics
Collaborative Proposal: Selection and Genetic Succession in the Intertidal - Population Genomics of Pisaster ochraceus During a Wasting Disease Outbreak and its Aftermath
Microbial ecology of sea star wasting disease
Biogeochemical and Ecological Impacts of Amphipod Circoviruses in Benthic Habitats
RAPID: Collaborative Research: Investigation of microbial roles in Pacific Asteroidea wasting disease
Collaborative Research: Life in the Dead Zone: Microbial respiration, production, diversity and gene expression in seasonally anoxic estuarine waters
EAGER: Exploration of the presence and ecological significance of viral pathogens in the dynamics of Daphnia, a major pelagic grazer