Hello all! The day has finally come. My very last blog post on our favorite zooxanthellae, Symbiodinium. This week we will be discussing what I find to be the most interesting thing about these tiny algae, its role in a successful coral reef. In my last post, I went over how coral and Symbiodinium work […]

Hello again! This week we will be talking about the life cycles of our new favorite algae friend, Symbiodinium. Last week we talked about how this organism starts its life as a motile mastigote and then settles in a suitable host, most commonly a coral, and loses its flagella to become a stationary cell. Through my […]

Hello all! I’m back again with more riveting information on your favorite algae, Zooxanthellae. I was excited to get more information on this little alga, however, when I began to scour the internet, there was not a whole lot popping up in my search engine. It turns out that Zooxanthellae is an overarching term for […]

Hello all! Welcome to my blog. For my dive into microbiological research, I decided to visit the Georgia Aquarium. I vividly remembered going to the aquarium on a field trip in middle school and squishing my face up against the glass of the jelly fish tank and thinking, “THIS IS AWESOME!” Since it’s been a […]