Archive for November 2018

Carolyn Tepolt and I will be teaching a new course on Marine Adaptation in Spring 2019! The class will be offered to students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program as a “Topics Course.” Topics Courses meet once per week and typically provide a mix of lecture and in-depth discussion of primary literature, kind of like a seminar…

Thursday was a special day in our lab. Hanny Rivera successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled: Genetic connectivity, Adaptation, and Phenotypic Plasticity of Corals and Anemones under Thermal Stress. Much of Hanny’s work focused on characterizing genetic structure within populations of the massive reef-building coral Porites lobata. In these studies, Hanny collaborated most closely with Anne Cohen…