Research is about finding ways to do things that nobody has ever done.
Research is about finding ways to do things that nobody has ever done. Sometimes it’s a trivial thing, but sometimes it’s really fundamental. Then all of a sudden, folks around the world, the country, the state, your town get a new tool for change that becomes important to everybody’s present and future.
My lab uses genetic tools to answer questions about life in the ocean that you just can’t answer any other way.
One of our biggest projects right now focuses on how marine life reacts to heat waves. This June was the hottest in Europe ever. And there was a massive heat wave in the United States right before that. In the tropics, heat waves affect coral reefs by making them bleach and die. We are doing basic research in genomics, cell biology, physiology, and ecology of corals to understand why this happens and what we can do to avoid it.
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