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Lauren Howe-Kerr

@lhowekerr.bsky.social

Marine ecologist interested in symbioses, climate change, and ocean policy | Postdoc at Minderoo Foundation; Conservation 'Omics Lab | 2022 Knauss Fellow (she/her)

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

9 of the Executive Orders that Trump signed on Day 1 of his administration specifically assault our environment and our ability to address climate change. Here's a summary of the worst of it: ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/trumps-day...

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Trump’s Day 1 Attacks on the Environment 🤬

And what you can do.

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Lauren Howe-Kerr @lhowekerr.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

wonderful team @adriennecorrea.bsky.social @cgrupstra.bsky.social @jordansims.bsky.social & many others! Anna Knochel, Matthew Meyer, Carly Karrick, Alex Veglia, Andrew Thurber, Rebecca Vega Thurber & thanks NSF for funding that supported this work! +3 insightful reviewers

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Lauren Howe-Kerr @lhowekerr.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

6/ Crystalline array observed in a Symbiodiniaceae cell expelled from Acropora hyacinthus

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Lauren Howe-Kerr @lhowekerr.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

5/ Some other fun highlights- check out our symbiont capture device- deployed in aquariums and on the reef to catch symbionts expelled from Acropora

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Lauren Howe-Kerr @lhowekerr.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

4/ we observed putative virion formation in symbionts of bleaching Acropora- we’d love to hear if you’ve seen anything similar in TEMs!

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Lauren Howe-Kerr @lhowekerr.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

3/ fVLPs are not exclusive to SCTLD-affected reef regions: we compare South Pacific fVLPs to those described in Work et al 2021 from SCTLD infected & non infected corals from Florida & fVLPs are found in Breviolum, Cladocopium, & Durusdinium dominated corals

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Lauren Howe-Kerr @lhowekerr.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

2/ We found more Symbiodiniaceae cells with fVLPs in corals sampled during a marine heatwave 🔥🌊 also found in symbionts expelled from corals- read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Filamentous virus-like particles are present in coral dinoflagellates across genera and ocean basins...

The ISME Journal - Filamentous virus-like particles are present in coral dinoflagellates across genera and ocean basins

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Lauren Howe-Kerr @lhowekerr.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Out today in ISME Journal thru extensive TEM imaging, we show that a diversity of Pacific coral symbionts contain filamentous virus-like particles (fVLPs) see below for highlights

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