Maria Valadez-Ingersoll

Heat and Nitrate Drive Metabolic and Immune Reprogramming Leading to the Collapse of Symbiosis in the Model Sea Anemone Aiptasia

This study examines how heat and nitrate affect symbiosis in sea anemones, finding that while nitrate can temporarily buffer thermal stress, combined stressors lead to holobiont failure.

Symbiotic State Affects Microbiome Recovery in a Facultatively Symbiotic Cnidarian

This study examines microbiome recovery in a cnidarian host after antibiotic treatment, showing that symbiotic Aiptasia reestablishes bacterial communities while aposymbiotic Aiptasia does not, with implications for host-microbe interactions.

Cell type-specific immune regulation under symbiosis in a facultatively symbiotic coral

This study investigates immune regulation in symbiotic and aposymbiotic coral tissue using multiomic approaches, revealing compartmentalized immune suppression in specific cell types during symbiosis.

Nutrient deprivation differentially affects gene expression, immunity, and pathogen susceptibility across symbiotic states in a model cnidarian

This study shows that nutrient deprivation affects gene expression, immunity, and pathogen susceptibility differently in symbiotic and aposymbiotic cnidarians.