Mary Alice Coffroth
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| Born | 1954 Somerset, PA |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
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Mary Alice Coffroth is an American marine biologist. She is affiliated with the Department of Geology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research is focused on coral larval ecology, recruitment and cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis.
Early years and education
Coffroth was born in Somerset, PA in 1954. She is the daughter of James Merwin and Mardelle Redrick Coffroth. Her father was a geologist and her mother a secretary. She grew up in Marion, VA, St. Albans, WV and Manassas, Va., and graduated from Stonewall Jackson High School.[disambiguation needed] She obtained a B.S. in Biology in 1976 from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, her M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography (1988) from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. She was a postdoctoral research associate at SUNY Buffalo (1988-1989) in the laboratories of H.R. Lasker and J.A. Bruenn working on molecular biology of gorgonian corals. She received an NSF Biotechnology postdoctoral fellowship to work on population genetics of gorgonians which was carried out at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (1990-1992).
Academic career
After her postdoctoral training, Coffroth was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at SUNY Buffalo from 1992 to 1997. She was then an Assistant (2000-2001), Associate (2001-2005) and Full (2005-2006) Professor in the same department. She was a Full Professor in the Department of Geology at SUNY Buffalo from 2006 to 2016. She is currently a Research Professor (semi-retired) in the same department. She was a visiting professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in Nice, France in 2014 and a Visiting Scientist at Institut de Ciències del Mar, Barcelona, Spain in 2014.
Research
Her Ph.D. research focused on the production of coral mucus by poritid corals and its role in the reef ecosystem[1][2]. She was an early adopter of molecular approaches in marine ecology initially examining gorgonian population genetics using DNA fingerprinting. Subsequently, Coffroth was a pioneer in the use of molecular taxonomy of cnidarian photosymbionts and conducted some of the first studies on the early ontogeny of the symbiosis[3]. She has worked extensively on coral spawning in the Caribbean[4][5][6]. Her work has shown how corals can initially take up a range of symbiont species which are then winnowed to a predictable subset of the available species. Her more recent work examines how these symbionts are responding to climate change and increasing sea water temperatures[7][8][9]. She established one of the largest algal collections for cultures from Caribbean corals and octocorals (BURR Culture Collection). Her cultures are widely used by labs around the world. She has also carried out research on the Upside-down Jellyfish Cassiopea.
Selected awards and professional service
- 2014 Visiting Professor - Fellowship, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, November 2014
- 1990 NSF Marine Biotechnology Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1986 Rowlands Fellowship, RSMAS, University of Miami
- 1985 Reitmeister Fellowship, RSMAS, University of Miami
- 1983 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) Short-Term Fellowship
- 1978-81 Maytag Fellowship, RSMAS
- 1976 Phi Beta Kappa
Selected publications
- Coffroth, M.A. and Santos, S.R. Genetic diversity in Symbiodinium Protist 156:19-34 (2005) (Invited review)
- Shoguchi, E., Shinzato, C., Kawashima, T. Gyoja, F., Mungpakdee S., Koyanagi R, Takeuchi T, Hisata K, Tanaka M, Fujiwara M, Hamada M, Seidi, A, Fujie M, Usami T, Goto H, Yamasaki S, Arakaki N, Suzuki Y, Sugano S, Toyoda A, Kuroki Y, Fujiyama A, Medina M, Coffroth MA, Bhattacharya D and Satoh N. Draft assembly of the Symbiodinium genome reveals dinoflagellate gene structure. Current Biology 23:1-10 (2013)
- DeSalvo MK, Voolstra CR, Sunagawa S, Schwarz JA, Stillman JH, Coffroth MA, Szmant AM, Medina M. Differential gene expression during thermal stress and bleaching in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata Molecular Ecology 17:3952-3971 (2008)
- Botsford L.W , White J.W., Coffroth M.-A., Paris C.B., Planes S., Shearer T.L., Thorrold S.R., Jones, G.P. Connectivity and resilience of coral reef metapopulations in marine protective areas: matching empirical efforts to predictive needs. Coral Reefs 28:327-337 DOI 10.1007/s00338-009-0466-z (2009)
- Kinzie, R.A., Takayama, M., Santos, S.R., and Coffroth, M.A. The adaptive bleaching hypothesis: Experimental tests of critical assumptions. Biol. Bull. 200: 51-58. (2001)
References
- ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mary_Alice_Coffroth
- ↑ https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nRNMe6cAAAAJ
- ↑ http://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2012/coral_spawning.html
- ↑ https://burrcoralspawn09.blogspot.com/2009/08/
- ↑ https://burrcoralspawn11.blogspot.com/
- ↑ https://spawning2012.blogspot.com/
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/15/science/observatory.html
- ↑ http://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2020/12/coffroth-coral-bleaching.html
- ↑ https://www.esa.org/blog/2020/12/03/scientists-tackling-crisis-of-coral-bleaching/
External links
- https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/geology/faculty-staff/faculty.host.html/content/shared/arts-sciences/geology/new-faculty-profiles/coffroth-mary-alice.html
- Mary Alice Coffroth publications indexed by Google Scholar
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