Eric Chiles is a metabolomics researcher who co-leads our coral metabolite analysis. Eric has been to Hawaii where he collected samples, processed them, generated the data at Rutgers, and interpreted the results. Eric has broad and deep knowledge of coral metabolomics and is already an excellent researcher.
Amanda is a National Science Foundation-GRFP funded doctoral researcher who is interested in the chemical ecology of coral reefs. With her strong background in chemistry, Amanda is using multi-omics methods to study coral stress biology with a focus on what metabolites tell us about coral health.
Xiaoyang Su is a leading expert in metabolomics with a background in human disease biology, who has expanded his expertise to corals and leads this aspect of the basic science and conservation projects.
Jananan Pathmanathan is a postdoctoral researcher from France who is a graph theorist and leads the network analysis of coral multi-omics data to integrate these complex information streams into a coherent picture. This is a highly challenging goal but well worth the effort.
Alex Shumaker is completing his doctoral research at Rutgers and is an expert in coral genomics and functional genomics. He led the Montipora capitata (Hawaiian rice coral) project.
JunMo Lee is a former postdoc @bhattacharyalab who is now an Assistant Professor at Kyungpook National University in Daegu, Korea. He leads the Porites compressa genome project and will contribute to several future coral genomics and genetics projects. He is very interested in the mysterious “dark” genes that arose in corals and have unknown functions.
Mehdi Javanmard is an engineer with expertise in microfluidic based sensor technology. He is leading the instrument development and testing for coral health monitoring in the field using diagnostic metabolite and protein markers.
Deeksha Misri is an Aresty undergraduate scholar who is working on coral algal genomics and holobiont metabolomics. She is quickly “learning the ropes” of coral research and will make some important contributions in the coming year.