Marie Strader
Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: stradermarie[at]gmail.com
Office: MSRB 2411
Website: mariestrader.weebly.com
CV: Download here

I am broadly interested in the impact of early life-history traits on fitness in marine invertebrates, especially in regards to mechanisms that enable embryos and larvae to exist in and respond to a variable and rapidly changing environment. I tackle this using an integrative approach that combines ecology, experimental biology and genomics. 

In the Hofmann lab, I will characterize physiological and epigenetic mechanisms that enable acclimatization of early life-stages to predicted climate change scenarios using the ecologically relevant model Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. My PhD work examined how natural variation in complex larval traits (fluorescence and larval competence) may contribute to the propensity to disperse in the reef-building coral Acropora millepora (See website for more details). 
Publications: 

Strader ME, Aglyamova GV & Matz MV (In submission) Developmental gene expression and manipulative experiments in a reef-building coral reveal key pathways involved in larval competency.
 
Cleves, PA*, Strader ME*, Bay LK, Pringle, JR, Matz MV (In preparation) CRISPR/Cas9– mediated genome editing in the reef-building coral Acropora millepora. *Co-first author
 
Quigley KM* & Strader ME* (In preparation) Acropora millepora juvenile fluorescence is associated with uptake of divergent Symbiodinium communities and types. *Co-first author
 
Davies SW,* Strader ME*, Kool JT, Kenkel CD, Matz MV (2017) Coral life history differences determine the refugium potential of a remote Caribbean reef. Coral Reefs doi: 10.1101/062869 *Co-first author
 
Strader ME, Aglyamova GV &Matz MV. (2016) Red Fluorescence in coral larvae is associated with a diapause-like state. Molecular Ecology 25:2 559-569 doi: 10.1111/mec.13488
 
Strader ME, Davies SW, Matz M V (2015) Differential responses of coral larvae to the colour of ambient light guide them to suitable settlement microhabitat. Royal Society Open Science, 2. doi:10.1098/rsos.150358
 
Manning L, Heckscher ES, Purice MD, Roberts J, Bennett AL, Kroll JR, Pollard JL, Strader ME et al. (2012) A Resource for manipulating gene expression and analyzing cis-regulatory modules in the Drosophila CNS. Cell Reports 2: 1-12.
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