Sarah W. Davies Ph.D.
@daviesswphd.bsky.social
she/her 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Assistant Professor of
@thedavieslab at @BU_Biology
Momma to two little girls
Interested in corals, symbiosis, genomics & mentorship
#firstgen
@thedavieslab at @BU_Biology
Momma to two little girls
Interested in corals, symbiosis, genomics & mentorship
#firstgen
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Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
June 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!
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Our lab website is up!
gonzalezpech-lab.com
gonzalezpech-lab.com
The Microbial Symbiosis Laboratory @TXST
gonzalezpech-lab.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Our lab website is up!
gonzalezpech-lab.com
gonzalezpech-lab.com
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🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature
The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I’m recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2026. We are currently focused on functional genomics, using Cnidaria to study sensory system evolution and regeneration. But we also have other side projects about life history, sexual differentiation, and reproduction.
October 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I’m recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2026. We are currently focused on functional genomics, using Cnidaria to study sensory system evolution and regeneration. But we also have other side projects about life history, sexual differentiation, and reproduction.
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TWELVE open PhD positions - what a fantastic opportunity for aspiring ocean scientists! UAF is a fantastic university with really amazing faculty, and Fairbanks is a beautiful place for outdoorsy people.
🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social
www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...
www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...
EMERGE Alaska | College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
www.uaf.edu
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
TWELVE open PhD positions - what a fantastic opportunity for aspiring ocean scientists! UAF is a fantastic university with really amazing faculty, and Fairbanks is a beautiful place for outdoorsy people.
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ICRS Darwin Medal Nominations due Dec. 15
The ICRS Darwin Medal is the Society’s highest recognition, awarded every four years to a distinguished late-career society member who has made significant scientific contributions recognized globally throughout their career. coralreefs.org/awards-honor...
The ICRS Darwin Medal is the Society’s highest recognition, awarded every four years to a distinguished late-career society member who has made significant scientific contributions recognized globally throughout their career. coralreefs.org/awards-honor...
October 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
ICRS Darwin Medal Nominations due Dec. 15
The ICRS Darwin Medal is the Society’s highest recognition, awarded every four years to a distinguished late-career society member who has made significant scientific contributions recognized globally throughout their career. coralreefs.org/awards-honor...
The ICRS Darwin Medal is the Society’s highest recognition, awarded every four years to a distinguished late-career society member who has made significant scientific contributions recognized globally throughout their career. coralreefs.org/awards-honor...
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Welcome to the new ICRS account! The International Coral Reef Society (ICRS) was founded in 1980 and is the principal association to which coral reef scientists, managers and enthusiasts from across the world belong. Swipe to learn a bit more about us, our vision and our mission!
October 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Welcome to the new ICRS account! The International Coral Reef Society (ICRS) was founded in 1980 and is the principal association to which coral reef scientists, managers and enthusiasts from across the world belong. Swipe to learn a bit more about us, our vision and our mission!
Hi folks! Is anyone recruiting masters students that pay a livable stipend? I have an excellent senior who is an incredible researcher and seeking a position. She is top notch and really interested in mechanistic questions- currently working on Aiptasia, Astrangia and Nematostella.
October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Hi folks! Is anyone recruiting masters students that pay a livable stipend? I have an excellent senior who is an incredible researcher and seeking a position. She is top notch and really interested in mechanistic questions- currently working on Aiptasia, Astrangia and Nematostella.
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We are happy to share our latest work in @nature.com . We study the genomic and cellular basis of facultative symbiosis in Oculina patagonica - a Mediterranean coral remarkable for its ability to survive long periods without algal symbionts. Led by Shani Levy and @xgrau.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We are happy to share our latest work in @nature.com . We study the genomic and cellular basis of facultative symbiosis in Oculina patagonica - a Mediterranean coral remarkable for its ability to survive long periods without algal symbionts. Led by Shani Levy and @xgrau.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eLbaZ
rdcu.be/eLbaZ
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We are searching for a technician in Next Generation Sequencing!
Come to our lab University of California, Berkeley Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
See ad:
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...
Come to our lab University of California, Berkeley Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
See ad:
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We are searching for a technician in Next Generation Sequencing!
Come to our lab University of California, Berkeley Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
See ad:
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...
Come to our lab University of California, Berkeley Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
See ad:
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...
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An article about a former lab tech in my lab, Kim Ballare, in the new NYTimes "Lost Science" series about impacts of federal cuts. Thanks to @carlzimmer.com for doing this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
An article about a former lab tech in my lab, Kim Ballare, in the new NYTimes "Lost Science" series about impacts of federal cuts. Thanks to @carlzimmer.com for doing this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
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Apply for our PhD program on Evolution Ecology Organismal Biology (Integrative! Biology)
Dec 1 2025 deadline
Check out the Flyer below for more information on our #MOILAB!
Link to Flyer
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
Dec 1 2025 deadline
Check out the Flyer below for more information on our #MOILAB!
Link to Flyer
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Apply for our PhD program on Evolution Ecology Organismal Biology (Integrative! Biology)
Dec 1 2025 deadline
Check out the Flyer below for more information on our #MOILAB!
Link to Flyer
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
Dec 1 2025 deadline
Check out the Flyer below for more information on our #MOILAB!
Link to Flyer
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
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🧪🌏 Cool results from @pcleves.bsky.social, re: basic mechanisms of coral-algal symbiosis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1) Symbiotic vacuoles are arrested lysosomes. (2) The bicarbonate transporter for the coral's carbon concentration loop is SCL26A11
October 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
🧪🌏 Cool results from @pcleves.bsky.social, re: basic mechanisms of coral-algal symbiosis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1) Symbiotic vacuoles are arrested lysosomes. (2) The bicarbonate transporter for the coral's carbon concentration loop is SCL26A11
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We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read on below!
1/12 🧵
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The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year.
We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
September 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year.
We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Call for abstracts: @icrs.bsky.social ICRS 2026 session "#26 | Cryptic diversity, hybridization, and chimerism and their influence on ecology and evolution"
www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abs...
www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abs...
Call for abstracts
www.icrs2026.nz
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Call for abstracts: @icrs.bsky.social ICRS 2026 session "#26 | Cryptic diversity, hybridization, and chimerism and their influence on ecology and evolution"
www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abs...
www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-abs...
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I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
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August 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
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Over half of the world’s corals have vanished in 50 years. To help restore reefs at scale, TNC and the Coral Restoration Consortium created a science-based guide with best practices, tools, and case studies tailored to local conditions. Resilient reefs start here. 🔗 https://nature.ly/4mRosBE
August 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Over half of the world’s corals have vanished in 50 years. To help restore reefs at scale, TNC and the Coral Restoration Consortium created a science-based guide with best practices, tools, and case studies tailored to local conditions. Resilient reefs start here. 🔗 https://nature.ly/4mRosBE
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🎉 Exciting news! The last manuscript from my dissertation was just published in Royal Society Open Science!
And in a fun twist of fate, the cover of this issue happens to feature a Caribbean coral colony 🪸 (not from our study, but still serendipitous nonetheless!)
And in a fun twist of fate, the cover of this issue happens to feature a Caribbean coral colony 🪸 (not from our study, but still serendipitous nonetheless!)
Machine learning reveals distinct gene expression signatures across tissue states in stony coral tissue loss disease | Royal Society Open Science
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has rapidly degraded Caribbean reefs, compounding
climate-related stressors and threatening ecosystem stability. Effective intervention
requires understanding t...
royalsocietypublishing.org
July 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🎉 Exciting news! The last manuscript from my dissertation was just published in Royal Society Open Science!
And in a fun twist of fate, the cover of this issue happens to feature a Caribbean coral colony 🪸 (not from our study, but still serendipitous nonetheless!)
And in a fun twist of fate, the cover of this issue happens to feature a Caribbean coral colony 🪸 (not from our study, but still serendipitous nonetheless!)
Very excited to have our first #singlecell data paper out in the world. Dr. Valadez Ingersoll worked so hard on this piece and we learned so much about #coral #symbiosis!
Cell type-specific immune regulation under symbiosis in a facultatively symbiotic coral url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
Cell type-specific immune regulation under symbiosis in a facultatively symbiotic coral url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
Cell type-specific immune regulation under symbiosis in a facultatively symbiotic coral
Abstract. Many cnidarians host single-celled algae within gastrodermal cells, yielding a mutually beneficial exchange of nutrients between host and symbion
academic.oup.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Very excited to have our first #singlecell data paper out in the world. Dr. Valadez Ingersoll worked so hard on this piece and we learned so much about #coral #symbiosis!
Cell type-specific immune regulation under symbiosis in a facultatively symbiotic coral url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
Cell type-specific immune regulation under symbiosis in a facultatively symbiotic coral url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
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Email from NSF just now:
“NSF will not implement [15%IDC] policy at this time”
“NSF will not implement [15%IDC] policy at this time”
June 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Email from NSF just now:
“NSF will not implement [15%IDC] policy at this time”
“NSF will not implement [15%IDC] policy at this time”
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NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Having supported an application this round I can say that this feels like a slap in the face for these juniors researchers who are emerging post PhD. All of that work .....
HHMI lost my good wishes when they reworded sites and cancelled in obvious bowing to fascism. www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h...
Researchers 'stunned' after HHMI abruptly cancels program to make science more inclusive
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute abruptly ended a $60 million program to improve the retention of diverse college students
www.statnews.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Having supported an application this round I can say that this feels like a slap in the face for these juniors researchers who are emerging post PhD. All of that work .....
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Katie’s amazing and an incredibly thoughtful scientist. The MSC is a collaborative and vibrant academic community. Living in the North Shore of Boston is awesome.
A postdoc in Katie’s lab helped change the path of my career for the better.
This is a dream postdoc.
A postdoc in Katie’s lab helped change the path of my career for the better.
This is a dream postdoc.
I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecological Genomics
About the Opportunity Job Summary A postdoctoral research associate is available at the Lotterhos Lab at Northeastern University. The postdoc will be based at Northeastern University’s Marine Science ...
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May 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Katie’s amazing and an incredibly thoughtful scientist. The MSC is a collaborative and vibrant academic community. Living in the North Shore of Boston is awesome.
A postdoc in Katie’s lab helped change the path of my career for the better.
This is a dream postdoc.
A postdoc in Katie’s lab helped change the path of my career for the better.
This is a dream postdoc.