2007 Edwin W. Pauley Summer Program in Marine Biology

The Biology Of Corals: Developing A Fundamental Understanding Of The Coral Stress Response

June 2 to July 15, 2007

The 2007 Edwin W. Pauley Summer Program in Marine Biology will focus on developing a better understanding of the stress responses in reef corals and will be co-funded by the World Bank funded Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building Project. In conducting the course we hope to improve our basic understanding of coral biology by providing cross-disciplinary instruction to outstanding students through research, seminars and informal discussion with internationally recognized coral biologists. Specifically, we will examine the impacts of temperature disturbances and land-based pollutants on corals both in the field and through a series of controlled laboratory manipulations. Coral biology will be explored using a suite of measure that include species abundance, morphology and colony size (field survey techniques), colony physiology (pulse amplitude modulated fluorometry and respirometry), endosymbiont diversity, (molecular genetics), metabolite exchange (high pressure liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry) and the activities of functional genes in both the coral hosts and their endosymbionts (comparative transcriptomics using microarrays and quantitative PCR).

 

HOUSING AND FEES:

The summer program will cover return airfare and accommodation costs. Medical insurance coverage is required and can be obtained locally at UH for those not covered by their own policies

 

TO APPLY:

Please send your CV, a statement outlining how the program will influence your career development and the contact details for two professional references to Dr. Ruth D. Gates, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, P.O. Box 1346, Kaneohe, HI 96744: email: rgates@hawaii.edu. Closing date for applications is April 1, 2007.

 

PARTICIPATING FACULTY

Dr. Andrea Grottoli, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University
Dr. Bill Leggat, Department of Biochemistry, James Cook University, Australia
Dr. David Obura, East Africa regional coordinator of CORDIO
Dr. Florence Thomas, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, UH Manoa
Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal, Department of Oceanography, UH Manoa
Dr. John Bythell, School of Biology and Psychology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Dr. Laetitia Hedouin, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, UH Manoa
Dr. Marla Fisher, Department of Biology, UH Hilo
Dr. Michael Lesser, Zoology Department, University of New Hampshire and Biological Oceanography Program, National Science Foundation
Dr. Michael Stat, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, UH Manoa
Dr. Misaki Takabayashi, Department of Marine Sciences, UH Hilo
Dr. Rebecca Vega Thurber, Biology Department, San Diego State University
Dr. Robert Toonen, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, UH Manoa
Dr. Roberto Iglesias Prieto, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dr. Ruth D. Gates, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, UH Manoa
Dr. Sophie Dove, Center for Marine Science, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Stephen Karl, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, UH Manoa
Dr. Teresa Lewis, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, UH Manoa
Dr. Tracy Ainsworth, Center for Marine Science, University of Queensland
Dr. Xavier Pochon, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, UH Manoa
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director, Center for Marine Science, University of Queensland
Professor William Fitt, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia

 

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