Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alumni
I grew up in southern Australia and was always fascinated by the coastal environments of the region. This fascination lead me to complete an undergraduate degree in marine biology at Deakin University in Warrnambool. Afterwards I moved to Darwin in tropical northern Australia, where I completed a Ph.D. looking at using polychaetes (marine worms) as indicators of marine health.
Currently I am a joint postdoctoral fellow with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA, and the Red Sea Research Centre here at KAUST. My research involves using genomic sequencing, microscopy techniques and metabolomic profiling to understand the functional role of the symbiotic bacterial genus Endozoicomonas. These bacteria have been associated with soft and hard corals from the Mediterranean and Red Seas and reef-building corals from the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific. Understanding these associations will provide information about the ecology of the hosts and how host-microbial complexes respond to environmental change.
Using genomic sequencing, microscopy techniques and metabolomic profiling to understand the functional role of the symbiotic bacterial genus Endozoicomonas. These bacteria have been associated with soft and hard corals from the Mediterranean and Red Seas
and reef-building corals from the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific. Understanding these associations will provide information about the ecology of the hosts and how host-microbial complexes respond to environmental change.
Neave, MJ., Streten-Joyce, C., Glasby, CJ., McGuinness, KA., Parry, DL., Gibb, KS., 2012. The bacterial community associated with the marine polychaete Ophelina sp.1 (Annelida: Opheliidae) is altered by copper and zinc contamination in sediments. Microbial Ecology 63, 639-650.
Ph.D., Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia, 2011.
B.Sc. (Hons), Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia, 2007.
B.Sc., Deakin University, Warrnambool, Australia, 2006.