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  • How does your (coral) garden grow?

    Reading our previous blog posts you will see that we keep corals in the various labs contributing to the project. Coral husbandry is very common in marine sciences (Fig. 1), it allows us to study coral colonies under controlled conditions and assess their behaviour, biology and physiology. We can...

  • Corals at the University of Washington

    The Laboratory for Engineered Materials and Structures (LEMS) is located in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington. Like most of our NSF team members, we are also new to corals. However, we – as aerospace engineers – hope to bring new perspectives to coral ...

  • Coral toxicology at Virginia Commonwealth University

    In the Lewinski Lab at VCU, we are interested in understanding the interactions of engineered nanoparticles with biological systems. Unlike small molecules, nanoparticles can have a physical interaction as well as a chemical interaction with cells and organisms. This physical interaction was ob...

  • Corals at the Colorado School of Mines

    The learning curve of saltwater tanks: Our group at Colorado School of Mines is new to corals and specifically how to keep them alive to do controlled experiments. We went to a local saltwater tank store that helped us with initial ideas and setup, but each tank is unique to its species and the h...

  • Kickoff Meeting

    The corals group has been meeting weekly by video-conference, but it was a treatto all gather, together with the students, and finally meet in person!! We had a 2-day kickoff meeting on November 21-22: we met Thursday, November 21 on the Tufts campus in the Boston area (hosted by Lenore Cowen), ...