Madeleine van Oppen

A candidate transporter allowing symbiotic dinoflagellates to feed their coral hosts.

Keren Maor-Landaw, Marion Eisenhut, Giada Tortorelli, Allison van de Meene, Samantha Kurz, Gabriela Segal, Madeleine JH van Oppen, Andreas PM Weber, Geoffrey I McFadden

Journal article  |  2023  |  ISME Commun

The symbiotic partnership between corals and dinoflagellate algae is crucial to coral reefs. Corals provide their algal symbionts ..

Colonization and metabolite profiles of homologous, heterologous and experimentally evolved algal symbionts in the sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana

Sarah Jane Tsang Min Ching, Wing Yan Chan, Alexis Perez-Gonzalez, Katie E Hillyer, Patrick Buerger, Madeleine JH van Oppen

Journal article  |  2022  |  ISME Communications

AbstractThe sea anemone, Exaiptasia diaphana, is a model of coral-dinoflagellate (Symbiodiniaceae) symbiosis. However, little is k..

Coral holobiont research needs spatial analyses at the microbial scale

Madeleine JH van Oppen, Jean-Baptiste Raina

Journal article  |  2022  |  ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Advancing the protection of marine life through genomics

Madeleine JH van Oppen, Melinda A Coleman

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLOS BIOLOGY

The rapid growth in genomic techniques provides the potential to transform how we protect, manage, and conserve marine life. Furth..

The coral Acropora loripes genome reveals an alternative pathway for cysteine biosynthesis in animals

Octavio R Salazar, N Arun Prasanna, Guoxin Cui, Line K Bay, Madeleine JH van Oppen, Nicole S Webster, Manuel Aranda

Journal article  |  2022  |  SCIENCE ADVANCES

The metabolic capabilities of animals have been derived from well-studied model organisms and are generally considered to be well ..

A decade of coral biobanking science in Australia - transitioning into applied reef restoration

RJ Hobbs, JK O'Brien, LK Bay, A Severati, R Spindler, EM Henley, KM Quigley, CJ Randall, MJH van Oppen, V Carter, N Zuchowicz, M Hagedorn, J Daly

Journal article  |  2022  |  Frontiers in Marine Science

Active restoration or intervention programs will be required in the future to support the resilience and adaptation of coral reef ..

Improved Cladocopium goreaui Genome Assembly Reveals Features of a Facultative Coral Symbiont and the Complex Evolutionary History of Dinoflagellate Genes

Yibi Chen, Sarah Shah, Katherine E Dougan, Madeleine JH van Oppen, Debashish Bhattacharya, Cheong Xin Chan

Journal article  |  2022  |  MICROORGANISMS

Dinoflagellates of the family Symbiodiniaceae are crucial photosymbionts in corals and other marine organisms. Of these, Cladocopi..

Lack of evidence for the oxidative stress theory of bleaching in the sea anemone, Exaiptasia diaphana, under elevated temperature

AM Dungan, J Maire, A Perez-Gonzalez, LL Blackall, MJH van Oppen

Journal article  |  2022  |  Coral Reefs

To survive in nutrient-poor waters corals rely on a symbiotic association with intracellular microalgae. However, increased sea te..

Long-Term Heat Selection of the Coral Endosymbiont Cladocopium C1(acro) (Symbiodiniaceae) Stabilizes Associated Bacterial Communities

Patrick Buerger, Ruby T Vanstone, Justin Maire, Madeleine JH van Oppen

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Heat-tolerant strains of the coral endosymbiont, Cladocopium C1acro (Symbiodiniaceae), have previously been developed via experime..

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM): a non-traditional approach to study host-microbial symbioses

Pranali Deore, Iromi Wanigasuriya, Sarah Jane Tsang Min Ching, Douglas R Brumley, Madeleine JH van Oppen, Linda L Blackall, Elizabeth Hinde

Journal article  |  2022  |  MICROBIOLOGY AUSTRALIA

Corals and their photosynthetic endosymbiotic algae (Symbiodiniaceae) produce a strong autofluorescent signal that spans the visib..