Matters Microbial #140: Out of Many, One — Coral and Jellyfish Holobionts

Today Dr. Monica Medina, Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA, joins the quality quorum to discuss how organisms are made up of myriad other organisms—the holonbiont concept. Dr. Medina and her research group focus on studying this in jellyfish and coral.

Host: Mark O. Martin

Guest: Monica Medina

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• A link to my host city in New Zealand, Christchurch.
• A link to the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch New Zealand.
• The website for the laboratory of Dr. Tom Miller of UC Riverside.
• A recent video exploring the holobiont concept.
• A recent article describing how the holobiont concept is involved in coral biology.
• A recent review article describing the holobiont concept.
• The life cycle of the cnidarian Cassiopia xamachana used by Dr. Medina's research group as a model system.
• A book chapter from Dr. Medina describing the use of Cassiopia xamachana as a cnidarian model system for symbiosis and holobiont studies.
• A video description of how to raise Cassiopia xamachana from a member of Dr. Medina's research group.
• An article from Dr. Medina's research group discussing the microbial community of the holobiont of coral.
• An article from Dr. Medina's research group discussing the coral-algal symbiosis.
• An article about Dr. Medina and colleagues' work on ancient coral DNA to study the holobiont concept over time.
• A video of Dr. Medina discussing her research.
• A link showing Dr. Medina's interest in the intersection between art and science.
• A link showing Dr. Medina's interest in the intersection between coral art and science.
• A very informative Wikipedia page about Dr. Medina.
• A link to Dr. Medina's research group website.
• A link to Dr. Medina's faculty website.

Intro music is by Reber Clark

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