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Cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis research using Aiptasia as a model system.

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Davy Lab @davylab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hi, I'm Marcie! I'm from the UK and recently moved to New Zealand to join the Davy lab, where I'm doing my PhD studying Aiptasia and coral responses to starvation, focusing on the immune system and symbiosomes. I'm really excited to be here, and I can't wait to get stuck into the research!
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Davy Lab @davylab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The coral Astrangia spawning during the Symbiosis course at MBL last year! @mblscience.bsky.social
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Davy Lab @davylab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Davy Lab student Salvatore won one of the ECR poster awards at the ISME20 conference in Auckland!🧊🦠🎉@isme-microbes.bsky.social
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Davy Lab @davylab.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Thank you to all who came out to ICRS 2026! Here is a picture of our lab, including past and present students. #ICRS2026 @icrs.bsky.social
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Davy Lab @davylab.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Happy friday from some very hungry anemones capturing brine shrimp! #MarineBiology
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Davy Lab @davylab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The aiptasia in our tanks are growing very quickly!
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Davy Lab @davylab.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Check out our new paper on the volatilome during bleaching in sea anemones! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Thermal stress restructures volatile gas emissions from the model cnidarian Aiptasia - Coral Reefs
Coral bleaching events, in which symbionts are lost from host tissues, have become more frequent and severe because of climate change—specifically, elevated temperatures. How such events impact biogen...
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Davy Lab @davylab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Join the Davy Lab to study corals in New Zealand! Two PhD scholarships are available to research potential mechanisms of symbiont loss in the coral bleaching process. www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
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Marsden PhD Scholarship in Coral Reef Biology | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
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Davy Lab @davylab.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Our recent paper characterizes the importance of different regulatory mechanisms cnidarian hosts use to control their symbiont population: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Primary mechanisms hypothesized to control the resident symbiont population in the cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis.
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Davy Lab @davylab.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Handactis nutrix is a species of intertidal sea anemone that lives on brown algae. We are currently growing the anemones with and without their seaweed host to observe the effects of this symbiosis. Preliminary results demonstrated nutrient transport from the anemone to the host.
Experimental setup.Tanks containing anemones growing on their host algae.
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