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This page is no longer being maintained. Please bookmark our new page at https:\/\/sites.tufts.edu\/astrangia\/<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n
We ask that if your paper was inspired by the Temperate Coral Research Conference (or former Astrangia<\/em> Research Workshops) that you please add the following text to the acknowledgements section of your paper. This helps us to generate support and resources to keep our conference going and growing. Thank you!<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Acknowledgement clause for authors:<\/span> “The authors extend appreciation to the Temperate Coral Research Conferences hosted by Roger Williams University, Boston University, and Southern Connecticut State University for fostering creative conversations and collaborations leading to this work.”<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Holliman, D. K., B.A. Logan, J.S. Reblin, J.H. Baumann. 2025. Population differentiation of thermal physiology in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata. 2025. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology (590): 152114 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jembe.2025.152114<\/a><\/p>\n

Warner, J.F., R. Besemer, A. Schickle, E. Borbee, I. V. Changsut, K. Sharp, and L.S. Babonis. 2025. Microinjection, gene knockdown, and CRISPR-mediated gene knock-in in the hard coral, Astrangia poculata<\/em>. EvoDevo<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13227-025-00243-9<\/a><\/p>\n

Ianniello C, Beery G, Chen TH, Deyle E, Heiger-Bernays W, Motter I, McAlister JS,\u00a0<\/span>Rotjan RD.<\/span>\u00a02025. Stress in the City: Disentangling multi-stressor events on an urbanized coral in a changing ocean.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>M<\/i>arine Pollution Bulletin 216 (2025): 117918.<\/i>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2025.117918<\/a><\/p>\n

Sheffey, HL., DJ Barshis, AB Bochdansky, and FC Dobbs. 2025. Do microplastics, Vibrio<\/em> bacteria, and warming water temperatures impact the health and physiology of the Northern Star Coral, Astrangia poculata<\/em>? Marine Pollution Bulletin 217 (2025): 118066<\/em> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.marpolbul.2025.118066<\/a><\/p>\n

Stankiewicz, K.H., Guiglielmoni, N., Kitchen, S.A., Flot, J.F., Barott, K.L., Davies, S.W., Finnerty, J.R., Grace, S.P., Kaufman, L.S., Putnam, H.M. and Rotjan, R.D., 2025. Genomic comparison of the temperate coral\u00a0Astrangia poculata<\/em>\u00a0with tropical corals yields insights into winter quiescence, innate immunity, and sexual reproduction.\u00a0<\/span>G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics<\/i>, p.jkaf033.\u00a0https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/g3journal\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/g3journal\/jkaf033\/8020610<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Lindsay, T., Dunster, W. and Prada, C., 2025. Macroalgae and Light Availability Modulate the Distribution of the Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>Marine Ecology<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>46<\/i>(1), p.e70001. https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/maec.70001?af=R<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ashey, J., Putnam, H.M. and McManus, M.C., 2025. Guided by the northern star coral: a research synthesis and roadmap for Astrangia poculata<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>Biology Letters<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>21<\/i>(3), p.20240469. https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rsbl.2024.0469<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Villafranca, N., Changsut, I., Diaz de Villegas, S.C., Womack, H.R. and Fuess, L.E., 2023. Characterization of trade-offs between immunity and reproduction in Astrangia poculata<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>bioRxiv<\/i>, pp.2023-07.<\/span><\/p>\n

Holliman, D.K., 2023. Effects of Origin Environment and Temperature Acclimation on the Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fleming, C.G., Muller, E., McAlister, J.S. and Rotjan, R.D., 2023, February. Building a Dynamic Energy Budget for the northern star coral Astrangia poculata<\/em>: modeling and parameterizing facultative symbioses. In\u00a0<\/span>Integrative and Comparative Biology<\/i> (Vol. 62, pp. S96-S96). Oxford University Press\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Navarro, K., 2023. Host and symbiont-specific patterns of gene expression in response to cold stress in the temperate coral Astrangia poculat<\/em>a.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beans, C., 2023. Are microplastics spreading infectious disease?.\u00a0<\/span>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>120<\/i>(31), p.e2311253120.<\/span><\/p>\n

Puntin, G, Sweet, M, Fraune, S, Medina, M,\u00a0<\/span>Sharp, KH, Weis, VM, and M Ziegler. 2022. Harnessing the power of model organisms to unravel microbial functions in the coral holobiont.\u00a0<\/span>Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews<\/em> e00053-00022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Woosley, N., 2022.\u00a0<\/span>The Effects of Time, Depth, and Orientation on the Fluorescence of the Symbiont Breviolum psygmophilum in Astrangia poculata<\/i>. Southern Connecticut State University.<\/span><\/p>\n

Glass, B., Ashey, J., Okongwu, A., Putnam, H. and Barott, K., 2022. Characterization of a sperm motility signaling pathway in a gonochoric coral suggests conservation across sexual systems.\u00a0<\/span>bioRxiv<\/i>, pp.2022-12.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harman, T.E., Barshis, D.J., Salas, B.H., Hamsher, S.E. and Strychar, K.B., 2022. Indications of symbiotic state influencing melanin-synthesis immune response in the facultative coral Astrangia poculata<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>Diseases of Aquatic Organisms<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>151<\/i>, pp.63-74.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sharp, K., Apprill, A. and Brown, A., 2022. Reshuffling of the Coral Microbiome during Dormancy.\u00a0<\/span>Applied and Environmental Microbiology<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>88<\/i>(23).<\/span><\/p>\n

Ball, A., 2022. Characterization of The Northern Star Coral (Astrangia poculata<\/em>) Behavioral and Physiological Response to Microplastics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Changsut, I., Womack, H.R., Shickle, A., Sharp, K.H. and Fuess, L.E., 2022. Variation in symbiont density is linked to changes in constitutive immunity in the facultatively symbiotic coral, Astrangia poculata.\u00a0<\/span>Biology Letters<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>18<\/i>(11), p.20220273.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trumbauer, W., Grace, S.P. and Rodrigues, L.J., 2022. Seasonal variation in the bioaccumulation of potentially toxic metals in the tissues of Astrangia poculata in the northeastern United States.\u00a0<\/span>Marine Pollution Bulletin<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>174<\/i>, p.113180.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dellaert, Z., Vargas, P.A., La Riviere, P.J. and Roberson, L.M., 2022. Uncovering the effects of symbiosis and temperature on coral calcification.\u00a0<\/span>The Biological Bulletin<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>242<\/i>(1), pp.62-73.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speroff, S.M., 2022.\u00a0<\/span>Stressed out in a changed world: investigating the strength of the temperate coral response to acute and chronic anthropogenic stress<\/i> (Masters thesis, Boston University).<\/span><\/p>\n

Stankiewicz, K., 2022. Coral biology and evolution through the lens of genomics and population genetics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wuitchik, D.M., Almanzar, A., Benson, B.E., Brennan, S., Chavez, J.D., Liesegang, M.B., Reavis, J.L., Reyes, C.L., Schniedewind, M.K., Trumble, I.F. and Davies, S.W., 2021. Characterizing environmental stress responses of aposymbiotic Astrangia poculata<\/em> to divergent thermal challenges.\u00a0<\/span>Molecular Ecology<\/i>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/mec.16108<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Trumbauer, W, Grace, SP, and LJ Rodrigues. 2021. Physiological seasonality in the symbiont and host of the northern star coral, Astrangia poculata<\/em>. Coral Reefs 40: 1155\u20131166\u00a0<\/span>.<\/a><\/p>\n

DiRoberts, L.E., A. Dudek, N.E. Ray, R.W. Fulweiler, and R.D. Rotjan. 2021.\u00a0<\/span>Testing assumptions of nitrogen cycling between a temperate, model coral host and its facultative symbiont: symbiotic contributions to dissolved inorganic nitrogen assimilation.<\/a>\u00a0Marine Ecology Progress Series 670: 61-74.\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3354\/meps13731<\/a><\/p>\n

Bent SM, Miller CA,\u00a0Sharp KH, Hansel CM, Apprill A. 2021. Differential patterns of microbiota recovery in symbiotic and aposymbiotic corals following antibiotic disturbance.\u00a0mSystems<\/em>.\u00a0e01086-20.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sweet, M, Villela, H, Keller-Costa, T, Costa, R, Romano, S, Bourne, D, Cardenas, A, Huggett, M, Kerwin, A, Kuek, F, Medina, M, Meyer, J, M\u00fcller, M, Pollock, J, Rappe, M, S\u00e9r\u00e9, M,\u00a0Sharp, KH, \u00a0Voolstra, C,\u00a0Zaccardi, N*, Ziegler, M, and R. Peixoto. 2021. Insights into the cultured bacterial fraction of corals.\u00a0mSystems<\/em>\u00a0e01249-20R1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aichelman, H.E. and D.J. Barshis. 2020. Adaptive divergence, neutral panmixia, and algal symbiont population structure in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata along the Mid-Atlantic United States. <\/a>PeerJ<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/em>8<\/span><\/span>:<\/span>e10201<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7717\/peerj.10201<\/a><\/p>\n

Rotjan, R.D., K.H. Sharp, A.E. Gauthier, R. Yelton, E. Baron Lopez, J. Carilli, J.C. Kagan, and J. Urban-Rich. 2019. Patterns, dynamics and consequences of microplastic ingestion by the temperate coral, Astrangia poculata<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Proceedings of the Royal Society B\u00a0<\/em>286 (1905).<\/p>\n

Goldsmith, D., Pratte, A., Kellogg, C., Snader, S., Sharp, K. 2019. Stability of temperate coral\u00a0Astrangia poculata<\/em> microbiome is reflected across different sequencing methodologies.<\/a>\u00a0AIMS Microbiology\u00a0<\/em>5(1): 62-76.<\/p>\n

Aichelman, H., Zimmerman, R., Barshis, D. 2019.\u00a0Adaptive signatures in thermal performance of the temperate coral Astrangia poculata (Ellis & Solander, 1786)<\/a>.\u00a0Journal of Experimental Biology.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Grace, S.P.\u00a0and B. Patrizzi. 2018.\u00a0Presence of the northern star coral (Astrangia poculata<\/i>) as\u00a0an epibiont on the carapace of the spider crab\u00a0Libinia emarginata<\/i>\u00a0in the\u00a0central Long\u00a0Island Sound, USA.\u00a0Reef Encounter<\/em>. 33:54-55.<\/span><\/p>\n

Burmester, E., A. Breef-Pilz, N. Lawrence, L. Kaufman, J. Finnerty, and\u00a0R. Rotjan. 2018.\u00a0The impact of autotrophic versus heterotrophic nutritional pathways on colony health and wound recovery in corals.<\/a>\u00a0Ecology and Evolution<\/em>\u00a000:1-12.<\/p>\n

Sharp, K.H., Z.A. Pratte, A.H. Kerwin,\u00a0R.D. Rotjan, and F.J. Stewart. 2017.\u00a0Season, but not symbiont state, drives microbiome structure in the temperate coral\u00a0Astrangia poculata<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Microbiome 5(120): 1-14.<\/em><\/p>\n

Grace, S. 2017.\u00a0Winter Quiescence, Growth Rate, and the Release from Competition in the Temperate Scleractinian Coral Astrangia poculata (Ellis & Solander 1786)<\/a>.\u00a0Northeastern Naturalist. 24(7).<\/em><\/p>\n

Burmester EM, Finnerty JR, Kaufman L,\u00a0Rotjan RD. 2017.\u00a0Temperature and symbiosis affect lesion recovery in experimentally wounded, facultative symbiotic temperate corals<\/a>.\u00a0Marine Ecology Progress Series<\/em>\u00a0570: 87-99.<\/p>\n

DeFilippo, L., EM Burmester, L Kaufman, and\u00a0RD Rotjan. 2016.\u00a0Patterns of surface lesion recovery in the northern star coral,\u00a0Astrangia poculata<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology<\/em>. 481: 15-24.<\/p>\n

Perrault, Justin & Muller, E & Hall, Emily & Rotjan, Randi. 2015. Presence of the northern star coral (Astrangia poculata<\/em>) as an epibiont on the carapace of a nesting loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta<\/i>) in the western Gulf of Mexico, USA<\/a>. Reef Encounter<\/em>. 30(46).<\/p>\n

Dimond, JL, AH Kerwin,\u00a0RD Rotjan, K Sharp, FJ Stewart, and DJ Thornhill. 2013.\u00a0A simple temperature-based model predicts the upper latitudinal limit of the temperate coral\u00a0<\/a>Astrangia poculata.\u00a0Coral Reefs\u00a0<\/em>32(2): 401-409 .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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