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Hollie Putnam

Assistant Professor (Biological sciences)

University of Rhode Island

Work in the lab is focused broadly on physiological ecology and evolutionary processes. We strive to understand how the immediate abiotic environment and biotic interactions drive organism phenotype, ecological patterning, and evolutionary processess through the interaction of symbiosis, genetics, and epigenetics. We study scleractinian, or reef-building corals, and other calcifying marine invertebrates. These organisms provide the foundation of ecosystems and fisheries and are ideal study systems to focus on biological response within the context of local environmental stress and a changing climate.

Publications

  • Divergent evolutionary histories of DNA markers in a Hawaiian population of the coral Montipora capitata. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2896v1
  • Shifting paradigms in restoration of the world's coral reefs. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13647
  • Correspondence of coral holobiont metabolome with symbiotic bacteria, archaea and Symbiodinium communities. DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12541
  • The Caligus rogercresseyi miRNome: discovery and transcriptome profiling during the sea lice ontogeny. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aggene.2017.03.002
  • Embracing Complexity in Coral–Algal Symbioses
  • Exploring the Symbiodinium rare biosphere provides evidence for symbiont switching in reef-building corals. doi:10.1038/ismej.2016.54
  • Ocean acidification influences host DNA methylation and phenotypic plasticity in environmentally susceptible corals. DOI: 10.1111/eva.12408
  • A trait-based approach to advance coral reef science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.012
  • Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals. http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13288
  • Temporal and spatial expression patterns of biomineralization proteins during early development in the stony coral Pocillopora damicornis. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0322
  • Metabolomic signatures of increases in temperature and ocean acidification from the reef-building coral, Pocillopora damicornis. DOI: 10.1007/s11306-016-0987-8
  • The Coral Trait Database, a curated database of trait information for coral species from the global oceans. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2016.17
  • Variability of Symbiodinium communities in waters, sediments, and corals of thermally distinct reef pools in American Samoa. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145099
  • Species-specific differences in thermal tolerance may define susceptibility to intracellular acidosis in reef corals. doi:10.1007/s00227-015-2617-9
  • Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1422301112
  • Preconditioning in the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis and the potential for trans-generational acclimatization in coral larvae under future climate change conditions. doi: 10.1242/jeb.123018
  • Evaluating the causal basis of ecological success within the scleractinia: an integral projection model approach. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-014-2547-y
  • Persistence and change in community composition of reef corals through present, past, and future climates. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107525
  • Pacific-wide contrast highlights resistance of reef calcifiers to ocean acidification. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1339
  • Long-term changes in Symbiodinium communities in Orbicella annularis in St. John, US Virgin Islands. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10808
  • Intracellular pH and its response to CO2-driven seawater acidification in symbiotic versus non-symbiotic coral cells. doi: 10.1242/jeb.099549
  • Multi-gene analysis of Symbiodinium dinoflagellates: a perspective on rarity, symbiosis, and evolution. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.394

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