The breathtaking diversity of life that surrounds us is the underlying inspiration for our lab’s research and training goals that are powered by collaborations worldwide.
The Bhattacharya Lab (dblab) has long-standing interests in algal/protist and coral evolution and genomics and specific projects include elucidating the endosymbiotic origin of photosynthetic organelles (plastids), advancing coral biology and conservation, erecting and testing the eukaryotic tree of life, understanding the role of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryote evolution, and developing engineering solutions for field monitoring of threatened species.
Latest News
- Shrinivas Nandi and Miriam Arroyo Present Their Posters at the Rutgers Climate Symposium 2025
- Vi-an at her Aresty poster session
- Omics-tools for Coral Research
- Rutgers Researchers Chart Next Steps for Developing Lateral Flow COVID-19-Type Tests to Monitor Coral Health
- Work done by Erin Chille and Timothy Stephens in Ulithi Atoll
- Debashish was Plenary speaker at the “Bridging Science and Action Research for a Sustainable Future” Conference
- Jiayi Pu presents her research poster a the Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium
- Daisy Cifuentes presents her research poster a the Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium
2026 Publications from the Bhattacharya Lab and Collaborators
A Portable, Low-Cost, Point-of-Care DNA Amplification Kit with Impedance-Based Detection for Decentralized Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostics. 2026.
Karimi, Koosha & Arroyo, Miriam & Chille, Erin & Stephens, Timothy & Barrett, Donal & Pelechano, Vicent & Bhattacharya, Debashish & Javanmard, Mehdi. Lab on a Chip. 10.1039/D6LC00062B.
Fascinating single‐cell red algae: models for evolution and adaptation. 2026.
Berger, Frederic & Bhattacharya, Debashish & Cho, Chung Hyun & Choi, Seok‐Wan & Van Etten, Julia & Hirooka, Shunsuke & Huang, Tzu‐Yen & Lauersen, Kyle & Lee, Yongsung & Liu, Shao-Lun & Miyagishima, Shin-Ya & Rader, Stephen & Schubert, Daniel. New Phytologist. 10.1111/nph.71024.
The Host Coral Bleaching Response Viewed Through the Lens of Multi-Omics. 2026.
Debashish Bhattacharya, Shrinivas Nandi, Erin E. Chille, Miriam Arroyo, Timothy G. Stephens. BioEssays. 10.1002/bies.70110
2025 Publications from the Bhattacharya Lab and Collaborators
Shifts in the microbiome and virome are associated with stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). 2025.
Shrinivas Nandi, Timothy G. Stephens, Kasey Walsh, Rebecca García-Camps, Maria F. Villalpando, Rita I. Sellares-Blasco, Ainhoa L. Zubillaga, Aldo Croquer, Debashish Bhattacharya
Green fluorescent proteins show divergent patterns among species and strains of Porites from the Great Barrier Reef. 2025.
Samantha Goyen, Erin E. Chille, Timothy G. Stephens, Shrinivas Nandi, Line K. Bay, Debashish Bhattacharya. PREPRINT (Version 1). Research Square
Gene expression and co-expression heterogeneity patterns and biodemography analyses during the cell cycle encourage aging studies in archaea. 2025. Dai Y, Gomez-Raya-Vilanova MV, Teulière J, Toucourou M, Corel E, Haraoui LP, Lopez P, Lapointe FJ, Franceschi C, Baudisch A, Bhattacharya D, Cvirkaite-Krupovic V, Krupovic M, Bapteste E. Geroscience.
Transcriptional landscape of the archaeal cell cycle is broadly conserved in eukaryotes. 2025. Miguel V. Gomez-Raya-Vilanova, Jérôme Teulière, Sofia Medvedeva, Yuping Dai, Eduardo Corel, Philippe Lopez, François-Joseph Lapointe, Debashish Bhattacharya, Louis-Patrick Haraoui, Elodie Turc, Marc Monot, Virginija Cvirkaite-Krupovic, Eric Bapteste, Mart Krupovic. bioRxiv.
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) destabilizes the coral microbiome.
2025. Shrinivas Nandi, Timothy G. Stephens, Kasey Walsh, Rebecca Garcia, Maria F. Villalpando, Rita I. Sellares-Blasco, Ainhoa L Zubillaga, Aldo Croquer, Debashish Bhattacharya. bioRxiv 2025.06.19.660612.
Gene transfer drives community cooperation in geothermal habitats. 2025. Debashish Bhattacharya, Julia Van Etten, Gabriella Panayotakis, Timothy McDermott, Timothy G. Stephens. Trends in Microbiology.
Coral Restoration in the Omics Era: Development of Point-of-Care Tools for Monitoring Disease, Reproduction, and Thermal Stress.
2025. Erin E. Chille, Timothy G. Stephens, Shrinivas Nandi, Haoyu Jiang, Michael J. Gerdes, Olivia M. Williamson, Alexander Neufeld, Phanor Montoya-Maya, Debashish Bhattacharya
26 April 2025. BioEssays.
Genome Evolution of Two Intertidal Sargassum Species (S. fusiforme and S. thunbergii) and Their Response to Abiotic Stressors.
2025. Hocheol Kim, Jihoon Jo, Ji Hyun Yang, Khaoula Ettahi, Yukyoung Jeon, Jundong Yu, Debashish Bhattacharya, Jong Hwan Kwak, Hwan Su Yoon, Genome Evolution of Two Intertidal Sargassum Species (S. fusiforme and S. thunbergii) and Their Response to Abiotic Stressors, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 17, Issue 5, May 2025, evaf084.
Metaproteome analysis of the coral holobiont demonstrates algal symbiont dampening under thermal stress.
2025. Shrinivas Nandi, Timothy G. Stephens, Erin E. Chille, Samantha Goyen, Line K. Bay, Debashish Bhattacharya. bioRxiv 2025.03.25.645042.
Genetic Transfer in Action: Uncovering DNA Flow in an Extremophilic Microbial Community.
2025. Julia Van Etten, Timothy G. Stephens, Debashish Bhattacharya.
First published: 03 February 2025
Towards predictive coral phenomics-Evaluating the potential of hyperspectral imaging.
2025. Goyen, Samantha, Debashish Bhattacharya, Eric Hochberg, and Line Bay. In Bulletin of Marine Science, vol. 101, no. 1. 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149 USA: Rosenstiel SCH MAR ATMOS SCI, 2025.
Obligate intracellular bacterial pathogens as major players in the metabolic integration of organelles.
2025. Steven Ball; Denis Baurain; Marie Leleu; Ingrid Lafontaine; Ugo Cenci; Christophe Colleoni; Olivier Vallon; Gilbert Greub; Andreas Weber; Debashish Bhattacharya. Comptes Rendus. Biologies, Volume 348 (2025), pp. 107-135.
