Maria Valadez Ingersoll

Maria Valadez Ingersoll completed her PhD at Boston University in Cellular and Molecular Biology in the labs of Dr. Sarah Davies and Dr. Tom Gilmore. Her dissertation investigated the cnidarian-algal symbiosis from molecular and immunological perspectives. In addition to her research, Maria was a trained scientific diver and assisted on other research projects characterizing species and population distribution of corals in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Her research and interests intersected with URBAN in understanding how corals and sea anemones respond, at the molecular level, to anthropogenic climate change. She completed her URBAN internship at the University of New Hampshire with New Hampshire Sea Grant, where she analyzed Whole Genome Sequencing data from strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a pathogenic bacteria isolated from New Hampshire oyster populations. Maria is now a Postdoctoral Scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where she is using her molecular and bioinformatics skills to investigate diapause (programmed developmental arrest) in Calanus finmarchicus, a keystone copepod in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Publications

Valadez-Ingersoll M, Rivera HE, Da-Anoy J, Kanke MR, Gomez-Campo K, Martinez-Rugerio MI, Metz S, Sweet M, Kwan J, Hekman R, Emili A, Gilmore TD, Davies SW (2025) Cell type-specific immune regulation under symbiosis in a facultatively symbiotic coral, The ISME Journal, wraf132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wraf132

Wang M, Valadez-Ingersoll M, Gilmore TD (2024) Control of nuclear localization of the nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2. Virology, 600, 110232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2024.110232

Donnelly HA, Valadez-Ingersoll M+, Lin M, Rivera HE, Tramonte CA, Davies SW, Wang XT (2024) Groundtruthing nitrogen isotopes as a symbiosis proxy using the facultatively symbiotic coral Oculina arbuscula. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1433382.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1433382

Valadez-Ingersoll M, Aguirre Carrión PJ, Bodnar CA*, Desai NA,* Gilmore TD, Davies SW (2024) Starvation differentially affects gene expression, immunity and pathogen susceptibility across symbiotic states in a model cnidarian. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2017), 20231685.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1685

Bove CB, Valadez-Ingersoll M, Davies SW (2022) Help me, symbionts, you’re my only hope: Approaches to accelerate our understanding of coral holobiont interactions. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 62(6), 1756–1769.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac141