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Jesse Zaneveld, an assistant professor in the School of STEM\u2019s Division of Biological Sciences<\/a>, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award worth more than $940,000 over five years to support his research in coral reef microbiology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research uses data that Zaneveld and others compiled when he was a research fellow at Oregon State University. It\u2019s known as the Global Coral Microbiome Project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m humbled and grateful for the support from the people in my division, the research office and my mentors,\u201d Zaneveld said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CAREER award<\/a> recognizes early career faculty who combine innovation in research and teaching. UW Bothell faculty have received six of the prestigious awards in the past seven years, said Carolyn Brennan, the assistant vice chancellor for research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A world of complex corals <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Corals are known for their hard skeletons that build reefs in shallow tropical waters. Reefs offer shelter to many fish and other marine species and are thus critical to the natural environment. They protect shorelines and serve as an indicator of water quality. They are also are important to local economies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are about 1,500 species of corals in different shapes and colors. Most are a long way from UW Bothell, but Zaneveld has a personal interest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy parents sold everything they owned and bought this little 32-foot fiberglass sloop and sailed across the South Pacific until I was 5 and my brother was born in New Zealand,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that little boat that my dad couldn\u2019t even stand up in, except in one spot, got quite a bit too small.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a break, the family resumed sailing across the Pacific during Zaneveld\u2019s high school summers. Those ocean-going experiences provide mental images of the world of corals. Like the anemones that beachgoers might see on the Washington coast, small polyps inside the coral skeletons gather particles from the water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As humans have microorganisms, such as bacteria, in their gut that affect how they metabolize food or react to drugs, corals also have microorganisms living in and on their bodies that give them nutrients and color, among other things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got these beautiful coral reefs, and they all depend on symbiosis with microorganisms to survive,\u201d Zaneveld said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning how corals regulate their microbiome is important for understanding how corals respond to environmental stress, such as warming water or nutrient pollution, he said, noting that stress can lead to disease, decline and a mass die-off known as bleaching as reef colors fade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, like humans, corals have immune systems that play an important role in keeping out harmful bacteria, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want to test whether the coral species that get lots of diseases have different microbes from the ones that get few diseases,\u201d Zaneveld said. \u201cAnd then we want to relate that back to the immune system.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate research opportunity <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Zaneveld has been at UW Bothell since 2016 and teaches Evolution, Investigative Biology, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also brings undergraduate students into his research, giving them a deeper learning experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yttria Aniseia is a junior majoring in Applied Computing who is planning to pursue a doctorate in bioinformatics or computational biology. She connected with Zaneveld through an Undergraduate Research Fair. \u201cWorking with his lab showed me that there was a lot more to biology to learn,\u201d Aniseia said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dylan Sonett, a senior majoring in Biology, heard about Zaneveld\u2019s research in one of his classes. Sonett admits he\u2019s not attached to coral, per se, but he likes the puzzle-solving pleasure of data analysis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have discovered a love for research, exploring datasets and asking questions that nobody has thought to ask. When you\u2019re the first person to answer that question, that\u2019s incredible,\u201d said Sonett, who is applying for medical school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think I\u2019ve learned almost as much about statistics from work in this lab as I have from statistics classes,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause I\u2019ve had to implement them and run my own tests and work with the data.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educational board game <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Jesse Zaneveld, center, demonstrates Reef Scenarios game to Dylan Sonett, left, and Yttria Aniseia. Marc Studer photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Part of the CAREER grant supports development of a board game called Reef Scenarios that Zaneveld hopes will become an educational tool about climate change, water quality and overfishing. He already has a prototype he demonstrated in his office to Aniseia and Sonett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought the interactions would translate into a board game and would be a way to share some of those ideas and teach about coral reefs,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Players in the game represent corals and algae competing for the same space. Playing the whole game as designed takes about 90 minutes. Zaneveld plans to use shorter scenarios in a classroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understanding the connections between immunity and the microbiome on corals will help fill in a critical piece of how symbiosis between microorganisms and animals \u2014 including humans \u2014 evolved, Zaneveld said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying, very broadly, to understand the rules for how microorganisms and their hosts interact,\u201d he said, \u201cand that\u2019s important for our general understanding of symbiosis and immunity across the animal tree of life.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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