Marine microbial ecologist, integrative biologist and Principal Investigator specializing in coral reef biology. 🇳🇿
Clint Oakley
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These scholarships fully fund the three-year PhD program.
To apply, send the following to Prof. Simon Davy [email protected]:
- Cover letter
- CV
- Copies of academic transcripts
- Writing sample (e.g. Publication, MSc thesis chapter)
- Names of two academic referees (inc. a thesis supervisor)
1/6 Call for session proposals
16th International Coral Reef Symposium, 19–24th July 2026, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Session proposal deadline: Sunday 15th June 2025.
Details and submission link at www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-ses...
Clint Oakley
The upcoming El Niño event will be somewhere between 'very bad' and 'catastrophic' for coral reefs.
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-...
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Corals maintain stable populations of essential photosynthetic symbionts by controlling their cell cycle, not by eating them! Our new #PNAS paper monitored and modelled #aiptasia cell cycle, autophagy, and expulsion for over a year. #symbiosis #microbiology www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I saw some of these corals in person, and I'm angry that my kids won't. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#coralreefs #climatechange
We show that anemones absorb #lipid nanoparticles directly from seawater, stimulating their #metabolism. Details, and potential applications for #coral reef restoration and aquaculture, in our new preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#science #marinebiology #symbiosis #proteomics
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PhD Scholarship! 📯
Two PhD scholarships are available to study symbiont loss in coral bleaching. Students will contribute to a three-year project funded by @royalsocietynz.bsky.social . Students will be supervised by @davylab.bsky.social and @clintoak.bsky.social at VUW. #PhDOpportunity #coralreef
