Michael John Sweet

SeCAT is a Nextflow pipeline that harmonizes 16S rRNA metabarcoding datasets by identifying a consensus sequence window and testing its impact on community structure before merging datasets.

This study investigates immune regulation in symbiotic and aposymbiotic coral tissue using multiomic approaches, revealing compartmentalized immune suppression in specific cell types during symbiosis.

This study characterizes the bacterial microbiome of symbiotic and menthol-bleached Galaxea fascicularis corals from different regions, finding distinct microbiomes between colonies and a stochastic response to bleaching.

This paper identifies Galaxea fascicularis as a new model coral species for studying symbiosis, showing it can be bleached and reinfected with non-native algae and complete its gametogenic cycle in captivity.