Reefs for the Future - Nova Southeastern University

5:45 Josée Nina BOUCHARD*, Hideo YAMASAKI
Thermal Stress Stimulates the Production of Nitric Oxide in Symbiodinium Microadriaticum : Is Nitric
Oxide a Key Molecule in the Coral Bleaching Phenomenon?
July 11 (Fri) 10:00–12:30 Room - 305
10:00 Zvy DUBINSKY*, Shachar KOREN, Osnat CHOMSKY
Induced Bleaching of Stylophora Pistillata by Darkness Stress and Its Subsequent Recovery
10:15 Alexander VENN*, Jennifer QUINN, Ross JONES, Andrea BODNAR
Cellular Defense in Corals: Characterisation and Functional Analysis of a Multi-Xenobiotic Resistance (P-
Glycoprotein) Gene Homolog in the Reef-Building Coral Montastraea Franksi
10:30 Shao-En PENG*, I-Te LEE, L.H. WANG, H.J. HUANG, Lee-Shing FANG, Chii-Shiarng CHEN
Comparative Analysis of the Gastrodermal Proteome of Scleractinian Coral (Euphyllia Glabrescens) in Heat
Stressed and Subsequently Bleached State
10:45 Sara SAWYER*, Gina PAULAUSKIS
The Effect of Temperature on Integrin-Mediated Adhesion in the Sea Anemone, Aiptasia Pulchella
11:00 Lisa RODRIGUES*, Andrea GROTTOLI, Michael LESSER
Long-Term Changes in the Chlorophyll Fluorescence of Bleached and Recovering Corals from Hawaii
11:15 Badrun NESA*, Michio HIDAKA
Mechanisms of Coral Bleaching and Cell Death Under Thermal Stress
11:30 Amy ANDERSON*, Alexander VENN, Ross JONES, Michael MORGAN
Characterizing Bleaching Responses in Corals Exposed to DCMU, Copper, and Elevated Temperature Using
PAM Fluorimetry and Gene Expression Profiling
11:45 Erika M. DÍAZ-ALMEYDA, Roberto IGLESIAS-PRIETO, Patricia E. THOMÉ*
Differential Stability of the Photosynthetic Membrane of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates in Response to Elevated
Temperature
12:00 Joshua MEISEL*, Ruth REEF, Mauricio RODRIGUEZ-LANETTY, Sophie DOVE, Ove HOEGH-GULDBERG
The Role of Oxidative DNA Damage and Repair in Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis Breakdown
12:15 James CERVINO*, Nancy KRUCHER, Konrad HUGHEN
Cell-Death Pathways Associated with Vibrio Infection and Inhibition of Heat Shock Proteins and Apoptosis
“cell Death Signals” in CLADE Subtypes A,B,C,D
6 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics of Coral
Reef Organisms
Co-Chairs: M. Medina, M. A. Coffroth, J. Schwarz
July 7 (Mon) 11:15–6:00 Room - Floridian Ballroom A
11:15 David MILLER*, Eldon BALL
The Coral Transcriptome – a Beginner’s Guide
11:45 Bill LEGGAT, David YELLOWLEES, Sophie DOVE, Ove HOEGH-GULDBERG*
Gene Expression in Symbiodinium Under Stress
12:15 Cheryl WOODLEY*, Craig DOWNS
Integrating Genomics with Coral Reef Biology and Management
3:30 Christine SCHNITZLER*, Virginia WEIS
Differential Gene Expression During the Initial Onset of Coral/Algal Symbiosis Using a CDNA Microarray
3:45 Christian VOOLSTRA*, Jodi SCHWARZ, Mary Alice COFFROTH, Alina M. SZMANT, Mónica MEDINA
Coral Reef Genomics: A Genome Wide Approach to Study Establishment and Maintenance of Coral-
Zooxanthellae Symbioses
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