Maria Ruggeri, PhD
maria-ruggeri.bsky.social
Maria Ruggeri, PhD
@maria-ruggeri.bsky.social
Postdoc in Virginia Weis’ lab at OSU 🌊 ecology, evolution, and cell biology of symbioses 🪸
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New paper on drivers of holobiont assembly in massive Porites #coral in Australia. Long story short: genetic structure trumps local environment and size class to determine both Symbiodiniaceae and microbiome communities. doi.org/10.1371/jour... @heatshok.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis #symbiosis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Anthropogenic climate change will likely outpace coral range expansion #corals www.science.org/doi/full/10....
July 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The role of holobiont composition and environmental history in thermotolerance of Tropical Eastern Pacific corals #coral #holobiont #symbionts www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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CORAL REEF RESEARCH NEWS: Marine heatwaves select for thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral

Not open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#coralreefs #coralbleaching #climatechange #seasurfacetemperature #coralhealth #thermaltolerance #marineheatwaves #marinebiology
July 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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New on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
! 🔬 Our study on Ningaloo Reef shows selective breeding can boost heat tolerance, even over small distances! A promising tool, BUT we must address climate change emissions & boost ocean protection biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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July 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Symbiodinium necroappetens outbreak and persistence in Southwestern Atlantic corals following a bleaching event #protists #protistsonsky #symbiosis #corals link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Exploring how corals connect with their environment! 🪸🌊 Our new preprint investigates the (surprisingly large!) role of diel time, genotype, and fine-scale reef variation in shaping metagenomic communities in and around corals during annual spawning: tinyurl.com/2u3jvwja
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The microbial fingerprint: fine-scale environmental, genetic, and temporal factors drive the reef metagenome during coral spawning
Understanding the stability of microbial community assembly on coral reefs is crucial for determining their response to changing environments. Here, we evaluate how the marine sediment, water column, ...
www.biorxiv.org
June 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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
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
For anyone else also struggling to adapt to Bluesky — this personalized feed of new publications is amazing!!
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
April 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Hot off the presses at Global Change Bio - Yingqi Zhang's 3rd chapter - Performance of Orbicella faveolata larval cohorts does not align with previously observed thermal tolerance of adult source populations
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
October 18, 2023 at 3:55 PM
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I'm looking to hire a postdoc in coral genomics - $66k/yr plus benefits - follow link for more info - review of apps begins Nov 10 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
October 17, 2023 at 3:36 AM