People

Dawson lab (University of California, Merced)


Michael N Dawson
PI
Karly H. Higgins-Poling
Graduate Student

Lauren M. Schiebelhut
Project Scientist
Lisa Xie Paggeot
Graduate Student

Melissa DeBiasse
Project Scientist
Nattanon Wutthituntisil
Graduate Student

Bailey Carlson
Graduate Student
Alumni

Dannise V. Ruiz-Ramos
Postdoctoral Scholar
Vanessa Guerra Canedo
Postdoctoral Scholar
We work on Mastigias in Palau, pelagic symbioses, and sea stars in the northeastern Pacific

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Wares lab (University of Georgia)

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John Wares
PI
Paige Duffin
Graduate Student

Lindsay lab (JAMSTEC)


Dhugal Lindsay
PI
Javier Montenegro
Project Researcher
Pelagic Symbioses Project Partners, Species of Interest: Colobonema sericeum, Crossota rufobrunnea, Solmissus incisa, Arctapodema, Praya dubia, Atolla, Periphylla periphylla, Pelagia noctiluca, Beroe abyssicola, Beroe mitrata

Prieto lab (ICMAN)


Laura Prieto
Researcher
Angélica Enrique Navarro
Graduate Student
Pelagic Symbioses Project Partner, Species of Interest: Cotylorhiza tuberculata

Aquatic Biodiversity & Systematics Research Community (University of Kerala)

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Biju Kumar
PI
Pelagic Symbioses Project Partners, Species of Interest: Cassiopea Andromeda, Netrostoma coerulescens, Thysanostoma loriferum, Mastigias papua, Lychnorhiza malayensis, Catostylus perezi, Porpita porpita, Physalia physalis 

Waryani lab (University of Sindh)


Baradi Waryani
PI
Pelagic Symbioses Project Partners, Species of Interest:

Laboratory for Cultivation and Cnidaria Studies (University of Sao Paulo)

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Andre C. Morandini
PI
Pelagic Symbioses Project Partners, Species of Interest: Cassiopea andromeda, Cassiopea xamachana, Porpita, Linuche unguiculata, Nausithoe aurea, Cephea cephea, Cotylorhiza tuberculata, Mastigias papua

Microbial Oceanography Lab (Portland State University)

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Anne Thompson
PI
Pelagic Symbioses Project Partners, Species of Interest: Pyrosoma atlanticum, Arctapodema, Praya dubia

Griffith Sea Jellies Research Lab (Griffith University)

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Kylie Pitt
PI
Pelagic Symbioses Project Partners, Species of Interest: Cassiopea sp., Phyllorhiza punctata, Symsagittifera roscoffensis, Arctapodema, Praya dubia

Ames lab (Tohoku University)

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Cheryl Ames
PI
Pelagic Symbioses Project Partners, Species of Interest: Mastigias papua, Netrostoma setouchianum, Rhopilema esculentum, Cassiopea sp., Mastigias albipunctatus, Cephea cephea

Developmental Biology Research Laboratory of Villefranche (Oceanographic Observatory of Villefranche)

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Alexandre Alie
Researcher
Pelagic Symbioses Project Partners, Species of Interest: Cassiopea sp., Phyllorhiza punctata, Symsagittifera roscoffensis, Arctapodema, Praya dubia

Gibbons lab (University of the Western Cape)


Mark Gibbons
PI
Pelagic Symbioses Project Partners, Species of Interest: Porpita porpita, Physalia physalis, Pelagia noctiluca, Velella velella

Weis lab (Oregon State University)

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Virginia Weiss
PI
Samuel Bedgood
Postdoctoral Researcher
Pelagic Symbioses Project Partners, Species of Interest: Anthopleura xanthogrammica

Additional Collaborators

Pelagic Symbioses Project Partners


Brendan Cornwell
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hopkins Marine Station
Species: Anthopleura xanthogrammica, Anthopleura artemisia

Aki Ohdera
Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology
Species: Cassiopea xamachana, Cassiopea andromeda, Drymonema larsoni, Stomolophus meleagris