Sarah W. Davies

I am a first generation college student and a female immigrant from Canada. I grew up in a small, white town in British Columbia and my community was largely conservative. When I made the move to Texas and then to North Carolina, I began to better understand the systemic challenges that BIPOC people face. I also began to recognize the racist ideas and thoughts within myself that I had learned from a young age. I have a lot of work to do, but I am dedicated to putting the time and effort in to be a stronger ally and make the Biology Department, and BU more broadly, a more diverse and inclusive space. My personal priorities on this committee are hiring and retaining BIPOC colleagues at all levels and ensuring our community is a safe space for the diversity of people who are already here.

Publications

• Davies SW, Gamache MH, Howe-Kerr LI, Kriefall NG, Baker AC, Banaszak AT, Bay LK, Bellantuono AJ, Bhattacharya D, Chan CX, Claar DC, Coffroth MA, Cunning R, Davy SK, del Campo J, Frommlet JC, Fuess LE, González-Pech RA, Goulet TL, Hoadley KD, Howells EJ, Hume BCC, Kemp DW, Kenkel CD, Kitchen SA, LaJeunesse TC, Lin S，McIlroy SE, McMinds R, Nitschke MR, Oakley CA, Peixoto RS, Prada C, Putnam HM, Quigley KM, Reich HG, Reimer JD, Rodriguez-Lanetty M, Rosales SM, Saad OS, Sampayo EM, Santos SR, Shoguchi E, Smith EG, Stat M, Stephens TG, Strader ME, Suggett DJ, Swain TD, Tran C, Traylor-Knowles N, Voolstra CR, Warner ME, Weis V, Wright RM, Xiang T, Yamashita H, Ziegler M, Correa AMS and Parkinson JE (2023) Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity. PeerJ 11:e15023.
• Bove CB, Valadez Ingersoll M and SW Davies (2022) Help me symbionts, you’re my only hope: Approaches to accelerate our understanding of holobiont interactions. Integrative and Comparative Biology icac141.
• Kriefall NG, Kanke MR, Aglyamova GV, Davies SW (2022) Reef environments shape microbial partners in a highly connected coral population. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biology 289: 20212459.
• Fifer J, Yasuda N, Yamakita T, Bove CB and SW Davies (2022) Genetic divergence and range expansion in a western North Pacific coral. Science of the Total Environment 813: 152423.
• Rivera HE and SW Davies (2021) Symbiosis maintenance in the facultative coral Oculina arbuscula relies on nitrogen cycling, cell cycle modulation, and immunity. Scientific Reports 11:21226.
• Wuitchik DM, Reyes C, Benson BE, Almanzar A, Brennan S, Chavez D, Liesegang M, Reavis K, Schniedewind M, Trumble I and SW Davies (2021) Characterizing the environmental stress responses of aposymbiotic Astrangia poculata to divergent thermal challenges. Molecular Ecology 00:1-16.
• Davies SW, Putnam HM, Ainsworth T, Baum JK, Bove CB, Crosby SC, Côté IM, Duplouy A, Fulweiler RW, Griffin AJ, Hanley TC, Hill T, Humanes A, Mangubhai S, Metaxas A, Parker LM, Rivera HE, Silbiger NJ, Smith NS, Spalding AK, Traylor-Knowles N, Weigel BL, Wright RM and AE Bates (2021) Promoting inclusive metrics of success and impact to dismantle a discriminatory reward system in science.
  Plos Biology 19(6): e3001282.
  Davies and Putnam contributed equally to this work
• Rivera HE, Aichelman HE, Fifer JE, Kriefall NG, Wuitchik DM, Wuitchik SJS and SW Davies (2021) A framework for understanding gene expression plasticity and its influence on stress tolerance. Molecular Ecology 30(6):1381-1397.