Emily K. Meier

This paper validates Aiptasia larvae as a coral bleaching model and introduces SYMPHONY, an ML pipeline that efficiently identifies algal localization in larvae under heat stress.

The paper identifies lysosomal protein co-option in symbiosomes of coral and anemone models, showing its role in supporting photosymbiosis through carbon-concentrating and sulfate transport mechanisms.

The paper uses CRISPR/Cas9 to show that heat-tolerant corals rely less on HSF1 for survival during heat stress compared to heat-sensitive corals.