Category: Corals, Jellies and Sponges
A Chemical Composition to Make Them Cower: A Dive Into the Structure and Protective Adaptations of Sea Sponges
Silica biomineralization, Secondary metabolites, Plasticity, Sponge skeleton
Olivia Ghiaur, Camille Heaney, Chris Hu, Vadim Zamaruyev
Small Bodies, Big Potential: Chemically Bonding Salps and their Environment
Salps; Tunic; Biogeochemical cycling; Innate immunology; Sensory cells; Carbon cycling
Steven Lin, Stephanie Roy, Daniel Tang, Canyu Wu, Mollee Ye
Hydrozoans and Bryozoans: Chemical Engineers of the Sea
Biomineralization, Bioluminescence, Differential gene expression, Stem cells, Phenotypic plasticity, Venom, pPasticity
Aizaz Ahsan Wahla, Ocean Burland, Dante Daniel Garcia Perez & Jessica Michalski
The Chemistry Behind the Coral Colony
Biomineralization, Aragonite, Photosynthesis, Symbiosis, Zooxanthellae, Corals
Maureen Awad, Evan Chow, Luke Gailloux, Rylee McKay, Adrian Yehia
Sea Sponge Supercapabilities: An Analysis of the Physical Properties of Porifera
Spicules; Biomimetics; Filterfeeding; Lamination; Passive ventilation; Optical properties; Fluid dynamics; Bioluminescence; Holdfasts; Porifera
Olivia Ghiaur, Camille Heaney, Chris Hu, Vadim Zamaruyev
Propulsion Through the Life of Salps
Salps; Jet propulsion; Filter feeding; Asynchronous swimming; Epithelial signalling; Carbon cycling; Vortex rings; Chain aggregation; Ocean carbon sequestration
Steven Lin, Stephanie Roy, Daniel Tang, Canyu Wu, Mollee Ye
The Physical Basis of Coral Reefs
Maureen Awad, Evan Chow, Luke Gailloux, Rylee McKay, Adrian Yehia
Made to Model: Mathematical Representation of Sea Sponges
Modeling, Porifera growth, Biosilicification
Camille Heaney, Chris Hu, Vadim Zamaruyev
The Mathematics Behind Coral Reef Structure, Growth, and Survival
Coral population dynamics, Bilateral symmetry, Biradial symmetry, Symmetry, Reaction-diffusion models, Paleozoic corals, Fractal geometry, Hyperbolic geometry, Conservation
Maureen Awad, Evan Chow, Luke Gailloux, Rylee McKay, Adrian Yehia
A Mathematical Analysis of Hydra
Turing pattern, regeneration, microbial symbiosis or holobiont, feedback, topology and toplogical defects
Jessica Coulson, Magnus Duffy, Ruolin Hu, Shilong Zheng
A Chemical Analysis of Hydra
Regeneration mechanisms, neurotoxins, innate immunity, morphogenesis, antimicrobial peptides, toll-like receptors or bacterial recognition
Jessica Coulson, Magnus Duffy, Ruolin Hu, Shilong Zheng
Coral Polyps and the Chemical Symphony of Survival
Coral polyps, biomineralization, crystals, calcification, symbiotic relationships, cellular respiration, coral bleaching
Michael Beyrouthy, Cris Izzi, Claudio Petroni, Alex Tsiskakis