Aldebaran is also featuring our article on the HIV inhibition potential of the brown algae Lobophora.

Lauren Yum successfully defended her PhD. Congratulations!

The German Leibniz society is featuring our study on the HIV inhibition of the brown algae Lobophora.

Farah defended her PhD!

The publication describes the influence of hypersaline desalination discharge on the Red Sea coral Fungia granulosa.

'Marine brown algae may inhibit HIV infection' - Nature Middle East article on our PLOS publication

In this study we show for the first time that Lobophora variegata extracts inhibit HIV-1 entry, thereby suggesting this alga as promising source for the development of novel HIV-1 inhibitors.

Please have a look at our new publication on Spatio-Temporal Analyses of Symbiodinium Physiology of the Coral Pocillopora verrucosa along Large-Scale Nutrient and Temperature Gradients in the Red Sea​

Maren successfully defended her PhD thesis today!

New open access manuscript that details availability of three Endozoicomonas genomes from cultured resources published.

Welcome Anny and Nils.

Read about the physiological plasticity of P. verrucosa in changing light regimes and how this explains this species' observed depth pattern on the eastern shore of the central Red Sea

Check out our new paper on assessing Symbiodinium diversity via next-generation sequencing-based genotyping

Our most recent ISME publication on bacterial profiling in coral disease, this time we looked at coral transcriptome states and Symbiodinium association too :)

Check out the latest sponge metatranscriptomics paper :)

We welcome our new lab member Claudia Pogoreutz!

FEATURED ARTICLE
The effect of overfishing and eutrophication on coral reefs in the Central Red Sea
APRIL 8, 2014 - In the Central Red Sea, healthy coral reefs meet intense coastal development, but there are almost no data on the effects of this development on coral reefs. This in situ study investigated how the settlement of reef invertebrates might be affected by overfishing and eutrophication via fertilizer. The results suggest that if these effects are not brought under control, we may see a shift from dominance by hard corals to that of other invertebrates at shaded reef locations, hence affecting coral reef ecology
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New open access study on 'In situ effects of simulated overfishing and eutrophication on settlement of benthic coral reef invertebrates in the Central Red Sea' published. Check it out!

New open access papper on the 'Identification of MicroRNAs in the Coral Stylophora pistillata' out

Check out our publication section. A great start in 2014 with four papers!