The team has many awesome collaborators around the world! Here’s a list of several with whom we currently collaborate. We’re always looking for new collaborative opportunities, so if you have an idea please contact us!

Mya Breitbart, University of South Florida

Seagrass viromics and virus discovery

Mike Dawson, UC Merced

Pisaster ochraceus and Sea Star Wasting Disease

Kevin Kocot, University of Alabama

Bioinformatic mining of invertebrate transcriptomes for novel RNA viruses

Carolyn Lundquist, NIWA

Seagrass viromes in Zostera muelleri

Joel Markis, University of Alaska Southeast

Sea cucumber viruses and wasting disease

Keizo Nagasaki, Kochi University

Seagrass viromes in Zostera japonicus

Pete Raimondi, UC Santa Cruz

Sea star wasting disease

Lauren Schiebelhut, UC Merced

Sea star wasting disease

Mary Sewell, University of Auckland

Viruses and protists in New Zealand sea stars

Caroline Solomon, Gallaudet University

RNA and DNA Viruses in Anacostia River virioplankton

John Wares, University of Georgia at Athens

Sea star wasting disease and transcriptomes

Thierry Work, USGS Honolulu

Disease biology and histopathology