Vassar student collaborators

• Stephen Evans ‘08 (URSI 2007, Senior Thesis 2008): Effects of copper-based antifouling paint on the Aiptasia symbiosis
• Annika Odea ‘08 (Senior Thesis 2008): Effect of thermal stress on the Aiptasia symbiosis
  
• Lisl Esherick ‘08 (Senior Thesis 2008): Expression patterns of stress-response genes under different environmental stressors
  
• Nick Hebert ‘09: Genotyping assays for identification of Symbiodinium
• Shirley Shangguan’10: Genotyping assays for identification of Symbiodinium

Vassar student collaborators

• Biol 324 students: annotation of genes
• Biol 282 students: identification and annotation of stress-response genes; expression patterns of selected stress response genes
• Biol/CS 353 students: characterization of 5’UTR

Collaborators

• Monica Medina and Shini Sunagawa at UC Merced (http://qsb.ucmerced.edu/mmedina/)
• Virginia Weis at Oregon State University (http://oregonstate.edu/~weisv/)
• John Pringle at Stanford University (http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Pringle/)
• Marc Smith, Vassar College (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~mlsmith/)

Field work at the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences with collaborators:

• Ross Jones and Alex Venn at BIOS (http://www.bios.edu/
• Carys Mitchelmore at CBL (http://www.cbl.umces.edu/)
  
  

PAM fluorometric assessment of photosynthetic impairment	Coral nubbins exposed to copper in temperature-controlled chamber

• Schwarz et al. 2008. Coral Life History and Symbiosis: functional genomic resources for two reef building Caribbean corals, Acropora palmata and Montastraea faveolata. BMC Genomics, 9:97. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/97
• Schwarz, J.A., Fouts, A.E., Cummings, C., Ferguson, D. and J.C. Boothroyd. 2005. A novel rhoptry protein in Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoites and merozoites. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 44:159-66. pdf
• Schwarz, J.A. and V.M. Weis. 2003. Localization of a symbiosis-related protein, sym32, in the Anthopleura elegantissima-Symbiodinium muscatinei association. Biological Bulletin 205: 339-350. pdf
• Schwarz, J.A., V.M. Weis, and D. Potts. 2002. Feeding behavior and acquisition of symbiotic dinoflagellates by larvae of the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima. Marine Biology 140: 471-478. pdf
• Schwarz, J.A., D.A. Krupp, and V.M. Weis. 1999. Late larval development and onset of symbiosis in the scleractinian coral Fungia scutaria. Biological Bulletin 196: 70-79. pdf