Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Meyer Microbial Ecology Lab
Led by Julie Meyer · Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences
What we study
The lab studies microbes in Florida and Caribbean habitats like seagrass beds and coral reefs, using multi-‘omics' to understand microbial communities and their ecosystem impacts.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Bacteria & microbes
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Microbial communities in seagrass beds and coral reefs
Research focuses on microbial communities underpinning Florida and Caribbean habitats in need of conservation or restoration.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Markers of resilience to stony coral tissue loss disease and putative probiotic functions in the microbiomes of the coral, Orbicella faveolata
2026 · ISME Communications
Looks at microbial communities in corals to find traits linked to resistance to stony coral tissue loss disease.
- Assessment of antibiotic resistance genes in Caribbean corals, including those treated with amoxicillin
2026 · Coral Reefs
Checks for antibiotic resistance genes in coral microbes before and after amoxicillin treatment.
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- Evaluating the effectiveness of field-based probiotic treatments for stony coral tissue loss disease in southeast Florida, USA
2025 · Frontiers in Marine Science
Tests if a probiotic bacterium can protect corals from stony coral tissue loss disease.
- A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data
2025 · Nature Microbiology
Proposes updated guidelines for sharing microbiome data to improve research and equity.
- Divergent responses of the coral holobiont to deoxygenation and prior environmental stress
2024 · Frontiers in Marine Science
Tests how corals with different stress histories react to low oxygen in water.
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