Reefs for the Future - Nova Southeastern University

4:30 Bishoy HANNA*, Felipe CHAMBERGO, Hamza EL DORRY, Moshira HASSAN, I CHAMBERGO, Amira MAHMOUD
Genomic Insight Into Drupella Sp.: Establishment and Analysis of an EST Database
4:45 Amita JATKAR*, John BYTHELL, Barbara BROWN, Jeff PEARSON, Nick MORRIS, Reia GUPPY
Do Corals Possess the Protective Mucus Encoding MUC Genes?
5:00 Anke KLUETER*, Jonathon L. NIELSON
New Applications for a Proven Tool: Metabolite Profiling and Chemometrics to Characterise Effects of
Turbidity and Sedimentation on the Coral Acropora Millepora
7. Diseases on Coral Reefs
Co-Chairs: K. Kim, D. Harvell, C. Page
July 9 (Wed) 10:00–6:00 Room - Floridian Ballroom A
10:00 Deborah SANTAVY*, Susan YEE, Mace BARRON
Patterns of Coral Diseases in the Florida Keys from 1998 – 2005
10:15 Eric JORDÁN-DAHLGREN*, Rosa RODRÍGUEZ-MARTÍNEZ, Adan Guillermo JORDÁN-GARZA, David M. BAKER,
Jason ANDRAS, Leonardo VAZQUEZ-VERA
The Role of Diseases in Coral Community Structure Shifts in Mexican Caribbean Reefs
10:30 Andrew BRUCKNER*, Ron HILL
Recent Changes to Montastraea Annularis and M. Faveolata Populations in Southwestern Puerto Rico and
Associated Islands from Disease and Bleaching
10:45 Caroline ROGERS*, Erinn MULLER, Tony SPITZACK, Jeff MILLER
The Future of Coral Reefs in the US Virgin Islands: Why Acropora Palmata Is More Likely to Recover Than
Montastraea Annularis Complex
11:00 Angela RICHARDS DONA*, J.M. CERVINO, Vicky KARACHUN, Elizabeth LORENCE, Erich BARTELS, Konrad HUGHEN,
Garriet SMITH, Thomas GOREAU
Coral Yellow Band Disease; Current Status in the Caribbean, Outbreaks and the Links to New Indo-Pacific
Lesions
11:15 Bernardo VARGAS-ANGEL*, Benjamin WHEELER, Jean KENYON, James MARAGOS, Bonnie DEJOSEPH
Coral Health and Disease Assessment in the U.S. Pacific Trerritories and Affiliated States
11:30 Roxanna MYERS*, Laurie RAYMUNDO
Guam Reefs Show a Link Between the Dominant Genus Porites and Disease Prevalence
11:45 Longin T. KACZMARSKY*, Raju SEKAR, DeEtta K. MILLS, Esther C. PETERS, Laurie L. RICHARDSON
Characterizations of the Major Coral Diseases of the Philippines: Porites Ulcerative White Spot Syndrome
and Novel Growth Anomalies of Porites
12:00 Gareth WILLIAMS*, Greta AEBY, Thierry WORK, Simon DAVY
Coral Disease at Palmyra Atoll in the Remote Central Pacific: Patterns of Distribution and Histological
Characterization
12:15 Akiyuki IRIKAWA*
Effects of Quick and Slow Diseases at Acropora Cytherea in Kerama Islands
3:30 Kathryn SUTHERLAND*, James PORTER, Jeffrey TURNER, Brian THOMAS, Erin LOONEY, Trevor LUNA,
Victoria WATSON, Erin LIPP
Prevalence and Potential Origin of the White Pox Disease Pathogen in the Florida Keys, USA
3:45 Greta AEBY*, Megan ROSS, Thierry WORK, Teresa LEWIS
Epizootiology of Montipora white Syndrome in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii
4:00 Orit BARNEAH, Eitan BEN-DOV, Esti KRAMARSKY-WINTER, Yossi LOYA, Ariel KUSHMARO*
Black Band Disease (BBD): A Possible Polymicrobial Disease
4:15 Joshua D. VOSS*, DeEtta K. MILLS, Sara E. EDGE, Laurie L. RICHARDSON
Black Band Disease Dynamics and Variation in the Pathogenic Microbial Community
4:30 Krystal RYPIEN*, Jason ANDRAS, Ginger GARRISON, C. Drew HARVELL
The Origin of Aspergillus Sydowii, an Opportunistic Pathogen of Caribbean Gorgonian Corals
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