Welcome
Welcome to the website for the
Coral Reef Ecosystems (CRE) Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia. Under the guidance of
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and
Associate Professor Sophie Dove, the lab is conducting research into a variety of topics related to coral reef ecosystems.
The lab currently hosts 26 people from 17 different countries. This website gives access to their personal profiles and 318 of their peer-reviewed publications.
Latest news
| | New lab paper in The ISME Journal 29-Jan-2012
Lab member Mathieu Pernice and his colleagues published a paper in the prestigious ISME journal. In this study, he developed the use of high-resolution ion microprobe (NanoSIMS) analysis to image and quantify the dynamic incorporation of ammonium within the intact symbiosis between scleractinian corals and photosynthetic dinoflagellates. His results establish, for the first time, the relative capability of dinoflagellate and coral cells to assimilate nitrogen from seawater and indicate the potential of NanoSIMS to dramatically improve our understanding of the metabolic activities that lie at the very heart of coral reef ecosystems.
More info: The ISME Journal / Posted by Pim Bongaerts
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| | CRE lab featured in EnergyNow episode 17-Oct-2011
EnergyNow is a weekly TV news magazine engaging America on the critical energy issues of the day. Their correspondent Josh Zepps traveled to Australia to meet with lab members Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Pim Bongaerts and talk about the detrimental effects of climate change on coral reefs. Click here to watch the full episode.
More info: EnergyNow video / Posted by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
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| | Lab member gets awarded the 2010 Bommies Award 17-Oct-2011
The Bommies Award of the Great Barrier Reef searches out innovative concepts to preserve the Great Barrier Reef in the face of climate change. This year the prize was awarded to lab member Pim Bongaerts for his concept entitled ‘Deep Coral Reefs: a lifeline to shallow reefs in the face of climate change’.
More info: GBR Foundation Website / Posted by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
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Latest publications
| | Phylogenetic analysis of genes involved in mycosporine-like amino acid biosynthesis in symbiotic dinoflagellates (2012)
Rosic NN
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol - in press |
| | A single-cell view of ammonium assimilation in coral–dinoflagellate symbiosis (2012)
Pernice M, Meibom A, Van Den Heuvel A, Kopp C, Domart-Coulon I, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Dove S
The ISME Journal - in press |
| | Mushroom corals overcome live burial through pulsed inflation (2012)
Bongaerts P, Hoeksema BW, Hay KB, Hoegh-Guldberg O
CORAL REEFS - in press |
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Latest OceanSpace report
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Lab publications
| 2012 |  4 | | 2011 |  31 | | 2010 | 36 | | 2009 | 27 |
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Heartland Institute faces fresh scrutiny over tax status
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent. The Guardian, Feb 17 2012
The Heartland Institute, the libertarian thinktank whose project to undermine science lessons for schoolchildren was exposed this week, faces new scrutiny of its finances – including its donors and tax status.
The Guardian has learned of a whistleblower complaint to the Internal [...]
Letter aimed at the heart
An Open Letter to the Heartland Institute: Feb 17 2012
As scientists who have had their emails stolen, posted online and grossly misrepresented, we can appreciate the difficulties the Heartland Institute is currently experiencing following the online posting of the organization’s internal documents earlier this week. However, we are greatly disappointed [...]
Bob Carter responds.
After being identified as being someone who will receive $1667 per month from Heartland Institute (which is supported by fossil fuel interests and seeks to undermine the science of climate change), Adjunct Prof Bob Carter from James Cook University has responded “The details of any of these payments are private to me. I can’t imagine that Heartland has released this [...]
Latest research snapshots
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