Mary Alice Coffroth Explained
Mary Alice Coffroth |
Birth Date: | [1] |
Birth Place: | Somerset, PA |
Nationality: | American |
Field: | Marine Biology |
Work Institution: | State University of New York at Buffalo |
Alma Mater: | |
Thesis Title: | Mucous sheet production by poritid corals |
Thesis Url: | https://miami-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1frgdae/01UOML_ALMA21233072230002976 |
Thesis Year: | 1988 |
Mary Alice Coffroth is an American marine biologist who is a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is known for her use of molecular tools to examine coral larval ecology, recruitment and cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis.
Education and career
Coffroth has a B.S. from the College of William and Mary (1976), and an M.S. (1981) and a Ph.D. (1988) from the University of Miami.[1] In 1990 she joined the State University of New York at Buffalo where, as of 2023, she is a professor in the geology department.[2]
Research
Her PhD research focused on the production of coral mucus by poritid corals and its role in the reef ecosystem.[3] She was an early adopter of molecular approaches in marine ecology initially examining gorgonian population genetics using DNA fingerprinting,[4] followed by research into the molecular taxonomy of cnidarian photosymbionts.[5] Coffroth has used the underwater research station Aquarius Reef Base to study genetic differences in corals.[6] Her work on coral spawning in the Caribbean has shown how corals can initially take up a range of symbiont species which are then winnowed to a predictable subset of the available species.[7] She has also examined how coral symbionts are responding to climate change and increasing sea water temperatures.[8] [9] She established a culture collection with Caribbean corals and octocorals, the BURR Culture Collection, which is used to examine the relationship between corals and their symbiotic algae.[10]
Selected publications
- Coffroth . Mary Alice . Santos . Scott R. . 2005-06-17 . Genetic Diversity of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates in the Genus Symbiodinium . Protist . en . 156 . 1 . 19–34 . 10.1016/j.protis.2005.02.004 . 16048130 . 1434-4610.
- Shoguchi . Eiichi . Shinzato . Chuya . Kawashima . Takeshi . Gyoja . Fuki . Mungpakdee . Sutada . Koyanagi . Ryo . Takeuchi . Takeshi . Hisata . Kanako . Tanaka . Makiko . Fujiwara . Mayuki . Hamada . Mayuko . Seidi . Azadeh . Fujie . Manabu . Usami . Takeshi . Goto . Hiroki . 2013-08-05 . Draft Assembly of the Symbiodinium minutum Nuclear Genome Reveals Dinoflagellate Gene Structure . Current Biology . English . 23 . 15 . 1399–1408 . 10.1016/j.cub.2013.05.062 . 0960-9822 . 23850284. 7769853 . free .
- Desalvo . M. K. . Voolstra . C. R. . Sunagawa . S. . Schwarz . J. A. . Stillman . J. H. . Coffroth . M. A. . Szmant . A. M. . Medina . M. . 2008 . Differential gene expression during thermal stress and bleaching in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata . Molecular Ecology . en . 17 . 17 . 3952–3971 . 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03879.x. 18662230 . 2082603 .
- Botsford . L. W. . White . J. W. . Coffroth . M.- A. . Paris . C. B. . Planes . S. . Shearer . T. L. . Thorrold . S. R. . Jones . G. P. . 2009 . Connectivity and resilience of coral reef metapopulations in marine protected areas: matching empirical efforts to predictive needs . Coral Reefs . en . 28 . 2 . 327–337 . 10.1007/s00338-009-0466-z . 0722-4028 . 3402229 . 22833699. 2009CorRe..28..327B .
- Kinzie . Robert A. . Takayama . Michelle . Santos . Scott R. . Coffroth . Mary Alice . 2001 . The Adaptive Bleaching Hypothesis: Experimental Tests of Critical Assumptions . The Biological Bulletin . en . 200 . 1 . 51–58 . 10.2307/1543084 . 1543084 . 11249211 . 4004814 . 0006-3185.
Notes and References
- Web site: Mary Alice Coffroth WorldCat.org . 2023-04-09 . www.worldcat.org . en.
- Web site: Dr. Mary Alice Coffroth Home Buffalo Undersea Reef Research . 2023-04-09 . burr.bio.buffalo.edu . en-US.
- Web site: Coffroth . Mary Alice . 1988 . MUCOUS SHEET PRODUCTION BY PORITID CORALS . 2023-04-09 . en.
- Coffroth . Mary Alice . Lasker . Howard R. . Diamond . Margaret E. . Bruenn . Jeremy A. . Bermingham . Eldredge . 1992 . DNA fingerprints of a gorgonian coral: a method for detecting clonal structure in a vegetative species . Marine Biology . en . 114 . 2 . 317–325 . 10.1007/BF00349534 . 84680077 . 0025-3162.
- Coffroth . Ma . Santos . Sr . Goulet . Tl . 2001 . Early ontogenetic expression of specificity in a cnidarian-algal symbiosis . Marine Ecology Progress Series . en . 222 . 85–96 . 10.3354/meps222085 . 2001MEPS..222...85C . 0171-8630. free .
- News: Watson . Stephen . 2002-05-28 . Coral reef study sends UB team into the depths . https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122563263/coral-reef-study-sends-ub-team-into-the/,https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122563426/ . The Buffalo News . 2023-04-09.
- Book: Hillis, David M. . Principles of Life . 2012 . Macmillan . 978-1-4292-5721-3 . 404 . en.
- News: Observatory. The New York Times. 15 June 2004. Fountain. Henry.
- Book: Singer . Siegfried Fred . Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years . Avery . Dennis T. . 2007 . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers . 978-0-7425-5117-6 . 91 . en.
- Book: Braverman, Irus . Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink . 2018-10-30 . Univ of California Press . 978-0-520-97083-0 . en.