{"id":32256,"date":"2022-06-09T16:33:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T20:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/?p=32256"},"modified":"2023-08-31T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:48:08","slug":"sharp-lab-displays-ri-coral-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/sharp-lab-displays-ri-coral-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp Lab Displays RI Coral 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rhode Island Coral on Display:<\/h2>\n

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Hosted by Dr. Koty Sharp\u2019s Lab, Roger Williams University<\/h3>\n

The research team from Dr. Koty Sharp\u2019s Lab at Roger Williams University<\/strong> participated in the exhibit \u201cAbout Planet Earth, the Environment and Our Future\u201d at Providence\u2019s Waterfire Gallery. The free exhibit ran from March 29th<\/sup> to May 1st<\/sup>. 2021, and showcased art and science communicating the threats of global climate change. On display was a tank of live colonies of Astrangia poculata<\/em>, Rhode Island’s newly designated Official State Coral, prepared by Alicia Schickle (SURF \u201918, Post-baccalaureate ’19-22).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cRI-INBRE\u2019s support of my research program gave me the research momentum and freedom to start and maintain a large, multi-institutional research and training collaborative, dedicated to studies of RI\u2019s state coral\u201d<\/blockquote>Dr. Koty Sharp, Roger Williams University<\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n
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Along with other research stories in the \u201cScience and Society\u201d display, the exhibit highlighted the RI-INBRE-supported research from the Sharp Lab on microbiomes and microplastic pollution in Narragansett Bay, and the lab\u2019s efforts to establish Astrangia poculata<\/em> as a widely used experimental system to address issues such as coral bleaching and climate change. Dr. Sharp shared “RI-INBRE<\/strong>\u2019s support of my research program gave me the research momentum and freedom to start and maintain a large, multi-institutional research and training collaborative, dedicated to studies of RI\u2019s state coral \u2013 where we are able to do investigations both in our wet lab and in molecular biology lab spaces to lead the way on developing the coral Astrangia poculata<\/em> as a model system for studying coral physiology and animal development.”<\/p>\n

On April 23rd, Dr. Sharp and her group led an event during which visitors fed the Northern Star Coral and got an up-close look at the coral animals via microscopy and camera imaging.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Polyethylene microbeads ingested by the temperate coral Astrangia poculata in a laboratory assay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Close-up image of the temperate coral Astrangia poculata<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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The temperate coral Astrangia poculata in tanks at the Roger Williams University Wet Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Photos by Alicia Schickle and courtesy of the Sharp Lab at Roger Williams University<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Credit: Alicia Schickle. Courtesy of the Sharp Lab, RWU<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rhode Island Coral on Display:   Hosted by Dr. Koty Sharp\u2019s Lab, Roger Williams University The research team from Dr. Koty Sharp\u2019s Lab at Roger Williams University participated in the exhibit \u201cAbout Planet Earth, the Environment and Our Future\u201d at Providence\u2019s Waterfire Gallery. The free exhibit ran from March 29th to May 1st. 2021, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1036,"featured_media":32262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[556,637],"tags":[721,653,720,722],"class_list":["post-32256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drpp","category-enews","tag-astrangia-poculata","tag-rwu","tag-sharp-lab","tag-waterfire"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34562,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32256\/revisions\/34562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/riinbre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}