News/Updates

9 January 2009: Paper by Adrienne Correa, Marilyn Brandt, Tyler Smith, Dan Thornhill and Andrew Baker (“Symbiodinium associations with diseased and healthy scleractinian corals”) appears online first in the journal Coral Reefs (PDF)

25 December 2008: Paper by Adrienne Correa and Andrew Baker (“Understanding diversity in coral-algal symbiosis: a cluster-based approach to interpreting fine-scale genetic variation in the genus Symbiodinium”) appears online first in the journal Coral Reefs (PDF)

8-21 December 2008: Andrew Baker, Ross Cunning and Nitzan Soffer travel to Israel as part of US-Israel Binational Science project (with Ehud Banin at Bar Ilan University) on the role of Symbiodinium diversity in understanding bacterial bleaching

4-6 December 2008: Andrew Baker participates in SeaWeb panel at “Green: Sustainability, Significance and Style — A Conference in New York” in support of SeaWeb’s Too Precious To Wear campaign Web

1 December 2008: Article by Andrew Baker, Peter Glynn and Bernhard Riegl appears as the cover feature article in the December 2008 issue of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

6-10 November 2008: Andrew Baker is awarded a 2008 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation at the Pew Fellows Meeting in Costa Rica

8 November 2008: Ph.D. student Herman Wirshing marries Taryn Wolf in Miami. Congratulations Herman! (Photo)

15 August 2008: The lab welcomes new students Ross Cunning (Ph.D.), Xaymara Serrano (Ph.D.). Paul Jones (Baker Lab Manager from June 2006- May 2008) also joins the lab as a student (Ph.D.) and the current lab manager Roxane Boonstra also begins as a part-time Master's student.

7-11 July 2008: Andrew Baker co-chairs Climate Change session (with Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the University of Queensland) at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Web

4 May 2008: Andrew Baker appears on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric (interview pre-recorded in Miami)

4 May 2008: Avery John Charles Baker born in Miami weighing 8lbs 8oz!

1 April 2008: Ph.D. students Nitzan Soffer and Rachel Silverstein both win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Incoming Ph.D. student Ross Cunning also receives Honorable Mention Web