Érika P. Santoro

This study shows that ocean warming increases fungal pathogenicity in octocorals, leading to physiological collapse and microbiome reorganization.

This study shows coral probiotics reduce ecosystem-level impacts of marine heatwaves by maintaining biodiversity and microbial interactions in adjacent communities.

This study shows that coral immune priming through pathogen exposure improves resilience to heat stress and infection, mediated by microbiome changes and gene expression modulation.

The paper introduces MAGUS, a toolkit for analyzing metagenomic data from eukaryote-dominated symbiotic communities, and demonstrates its ability to resolve multiple genomes and gene catalogs from coral and hydrozoan samples.

The paper tests probiotic and postbiotic treatments on corals during a marine heatwave, showing improved photosynthetic efficiency and microbiome/metabolic changes.