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URL:https://www.eng.ufl.edu/news-events/events/w3-seminar-managing-microbi
 omes-for-coral-conservation/
SUMMARY:W3 Seminar: Managing microbiomes for coral conservation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: \nJulie Meyer\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor\, Departme
 nt of Soil\, Water and Ecosystem Sciences\, UF\n\nTitle: \nManaging microb
 iomes for coral conservation: Lessons learned from the development of prob
 iotic treatments for coral disease\n\nAbstract: \nMicrobes drive global bi
 ogeochemical cycles and have profound impacts on their multicellular hosts
 \, including ecosystem engineers like stony corals. Warming ocean temperat
 ures\, ocean deoxygenation\, and disease all threaten the survival of cora
 l reefs\, but is it possible to use our understanding of beneficial host-a
 ssociated microbes to mitigate the loss of coral cover? As part of a colla
 borative\, multi-year intervention project\, we developed and tested in si
 tu probiotic treatments for stony coral tissue loss disease on Florida’s
  Coral Reef. Applying probiotic bacteria underwater in natural environment
 s is unprecedented\, especially for endangered and protected species like 
 corals\, which reflects the severity of this decade-long disease outbreak.
  This talk will provide an overview of the lessons we learned in the appli
 cation of coral probiotics\, including feasibility in the field\, the effe
 ct of probiotics on coral survival\, and how the coral microbiome responds
  to probiotic treatment.
CATEGORIES:Seminars
LOCATION:Phelps Lab Room 101\, 1953 Museum Road\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\
 , United States
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