Professor Randi Rotjan was featured prominently in “The quest for an animal model of coral health and disease,” an article in the January 27 issue of Lab Animal, a Nature research journal. The article describes how the temperate coral Astrangia poculata is being studied alongside the anemone Aiptasia as an important and emerging model system to studying corals. Rotjan is co-leading a growing group of researchers interested in this model coral. Research conducted by BU graduate students, including a Dynamic Energy Budget model by Caroline Fleming, is also referenced in the article.
Rotjan, along with Professors Finnerty, Davies, and Kaufman, have been pioneering work with this coral with BU Biology and BU Marine Program graduate and undergraduate students. Read the full article here.