Professor Madeleine van Oppen

ARC Laureate Fellow, School of BioSciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne; Senior Principal Research Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science

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Environment

Restoring coral reefs by hedging our bets

Coral reef restoration needs a set of coral species with traits that, combined, underpin resilience, persistence, and ecosystem services

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Environment

For coral, teamwork makes the dream work

The discovery of clusters of two types of bacteria in the tentacles of corals sheds light on their role in coral reef health

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Sciences & Technology

The ‘Russian dolls’ of coral reefs

The discovery of bacteria inside the algae that live inside corals sheds new light on reef-building corals and could be important for understanding coral bleaching

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Sciences & Technology

Breeding baby corals for warmer seas

Hoping to give mother nature a helping hand, researchers are using in vitro fertilisation to breed corals better able to cope with our changing climate

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Environment

Three ways to save stressed-out coral

What if coral could be made more resistant to the effects of climate change?

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Sciences & Technology

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Under the Microscope

Helping corals survive a rapidly changing world

Professor Madeleine van Oppen wants to manipulate the complex relationship between corals and microbes to accelerate coral evolution

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