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Dr. Chris­tian Vool­stra: Coral reefs and cli­mate change - Mit­ig­at­ing the eco­lo­gical col­lapse

Aug 8, 2022
Join our in­vit­a­tional sem­inar!

Thursday, Au­gust 8, 2022
at 3:00 p.m. (15:00 Uhr)

Dr. Christian Voolstra (De­part­ment of Bio­logy, Uni­versity of Kon­stanz, Ger­many)

will give a di­gital sem­inar with the title:

"Coral reefs and climate change - Mitigating the ecological collapse"

 You are wel­come to join.

 
Lecture hall
Lecture hall

Coral reefs and climate change - Mitigating the ecological collapse

Coral reefs are at the brink of eco­lo­gical col­lapse. The primary driver of reef de­grad­a­tion is coral bleach­ing, the break­down of the sym­bi­osis of the coral host and its en­dosym­bi­otic al­gae driven by ocean warm­ing. This is now hap­pen­ing al­most an­nu­ally at a global scale, hasten­ing the need to de­velop strategies that mit­ig­ate the dev­ast­at­ing ef­fects of cli­mate change on coral reefs. The sem­inar will out­line our ef­forts to de­velop a stand­ard­ized frame­work to as­sess thermal tol­er­ance to identify eco­lo­gical drivers, metaor­gan­ism mem­ber spe­cies, and mo­lecu­lar mech­an­isms that con­trib­ute to in­creased stress re­si­li­ence. A par­tic­u­lar em­phasis is to identify mi­crobes that de­note stress tol­er­ance, which can then be screened for us­ing high through­put ap­proaches to bet­ter un­der­stand their func­tion, pre­val­ence, and the feas­ib­il­ity for mi­cro­bi­ome ma­nip­u­la­tion.

To join the sem­inar, please use the fol­low­ing link:

 

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