11ICRS: Mini-Symposium 7 - Diseases on Coral Reefs

Mini-Symposium 7:
Diseases on Coral Reefs

Poster Presentations: Monday, July 7, 2008 16:00 - 18:00 Exhibit Hall A-D (Click on presentation title to view abstract)

POSTER BOARD #	TITLE	*AUTHORS (^ indicates Presenting Author)**
7.162	Disease ecology and local patterns of yellow band syndrome in a Caribbean reef	*Susanne SOKOLOW, Patrick FOLEY, Janet FOLEY**
7.163	Catastrophic losses in coral cover in US Virgin Islands follow 2005-06 coral bleaching and disease event	*Jeff MILLER, Erinn MULLER, Caroline ROGERS, Andrea ATKINSON, Rob WAARA, Andy DAVIS, Kevin R. T. WHELAN, Matt PATTERSON, Tony SPITZACK**
7.164	Status of coral reef diseases and decline of coral reefs in Puerto Rico	*Ernesto WEIL, Aldo CROQUER, Emmanuel IRIZARRY, Kathleen FLYNN, Isabel URREIZTIETA**
7.165	Requiem or Recovery? -- Long-Term Effects of Black Band Disease, Phormidium corallictum on survival of Montastraea faveolata at Looe Key Reef, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida.	*J. Harold HUDSON, Billy D. CAUSEY, PH.D., Jeff ANDERSON, Bill GOODWIN**
7.166	Rapid coral reef decline in the southwest coast of Puerto Rico.	*Ernesto WEIL, Emmanuel IRIZARRY, Aldo CROQUER, Isabel URREIZTIETA**
7.167	How does Black Band Disease affect the benthic ecology of reefs in Los Cayos Cochinos, Honduras?	*Jonathan SHRIVES, Martin SPEIGHT**
7.168	Prevalence of coral disease and partial mortality patterns in coral colonies of Montastraea annularis, Diploria strigosa and Siderastrea siderea in the back reef of Puerto Morelos Q. Roo, Mexico.	*Miguel MALDONADO, Eric JORDAN**
7.169	A Four Year Fine Scale Record of a Coral Disease Outbreak in the Marshall Islands	Dean JACOBSON*
7.170	CORALLINE ALGAL DISEASE IN THE U.S. AFFILIATED PACIFIC ISLANDS	Bernardo VARGAS-ANGEL*
7.171	Black Band Disease Outbreak in Nikko Bay, Palau	Alma RIDEP-MORRIS*
7.172	The Black Band Disease of Indonesian Coral Reefs	*Agus SABDONO, Ocky RADJASA**
7.173	Coral and crustose coralline algae disease on the reefs of American Samoa	*Greta AEBY, Thierry WORK, Douglas FENNER, Eva DIDONATO**
7.174	Coral Disease Prevalence and Dynamics in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, South-East Sulawesi, Indonesia	*Jessica HAAPKYLA, Adrian S. SEYMOUR, David SMITH**
7.176	Preliminary Results on Coral Disease Prevalence in East Africa	*Mohammed MOHAMMED, Narriman JIDDAWI**
7.177	Impact of aspergillosis on the reproduction of the sea fan Gorgonia ventalina	*Kathleen FLYNN, Ernesto WEIL**
7.178	Seasonality of Halofolliculina sp. Infections in Acropora palmata at Los Roques National Park, Venezuela	*Sebastian RODRIGUEZ, Carolina BASTIDAS, Aldo CROQUER**
7.179	Physiological Effects of Aspergillosis in a Gorgonian from Bermuda	Lisa RODRIGUES*
7.180	International Registry of Coral Pathology	*Shawn MCLAUGHLIN, Dorothy HOWARD, Kathy PRICE, Cheryl WOODLEY**
7.181	Distribution and morphology of growth anomalies in Acropora from the Indo-Pacific	*Thierry WORK, Greta AEBY, Steve COLES**
7.182	Description of New Putative Coral Diseases Infecting Corals in the Tropical Eastern Pacific.	*Raul NAVAS-CAMACHO, Alberto RODRÍGUEZ-RAMÍREZ, Diego GIL-AGUDELO**
7.183	Identifying Potential Pathogens of Montipora White Syndrome Through Microbial Community Profiling	*Ashley SMITH, Teresa LEWIS, Greta AEBY, Thierry WORK, Jo-Ann LEONG**
7.184	The Unknowns in Coral Disease Identification: An Experiment to Assess Consensus of Opinion amongst Experts	*Edward HIND, Alasdair LINDOP**
7.185	A gall-forming copepod causes localized bleaching of the coral Porites	Hideyuki YAMASHIRO*
7.186	The infection of a parasitic copepod, Xarifia obesa on corals	*Ming-Jay HO, Yu-Rong CHENG, Chang-Feng DAI**
7.187	Characterizing surface microorganism diversity in healthy and diseased Gorgonia ventalina with universal 16S rDNA primers.	Jason MACRANDER*
7.188	Ultrastructural and Histological Analysis of Dark Spot Syndrome (DSS) in Siderastrea siderea and Agaricia agaricites	*D. Abigail RENEGAR, Patricia L. BLACKWELDER, Deborah J. GOCHFELD, Alison L. MOULDING**
7.189	Characterization of Microbial Communities Associated with Black Band Diseased Corals by Targeting the 16S rRNA and DsrAB Genes	Raju SEKAR, Longin KACZMARSKY, Laurie RICHARDSON*
7.190	Molecular analysis of bacteria associated with healthy and Yellow-band diseased Montastraea faveolata	*Joel THURMOND, Weil ERNESTO, Kim RITCHIE**
7.191	A survey of Vibrios associated with healthy and Yellow Band Diseased Montastraea faveolata	*Ross CUNNING, Joel THURMOND, Garriet SMITH, Ernesto WEIL, Kim RITCHIE**
7.192	Apoptosis in White Band Disease of Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis	*Eric BORNEMAN, Amy SATER**
7.193	Inoculation of Vibrio spp. onto Montastraea faveolata fragments to determine potential pathogenicity	*Ernesto WEIL, Kim RITCHIE, Garriet SMITH**
7.194	Incidence and Etiology of Diseases Affecting Massive Porites in Negros Oriental, Philippines	Satoshi YAMAZAKI, JB TANANGONAN*
7.195	How Quickly does Gorgonia ventalina Mount a Cellular Response to Elicitors?	*Courtney COUCH, C. Drew HARVELL, Esther PETERS, Laura MYDLARZ**
7.196	Coral Molecular Responses to Disease	*David ANDERSON, Sandra GILCHRIST, Megan PEDERSEN**
7.197	Release of Antifungal Activities from Immune Challenged Sea Fans	*Nancy DOUGLAS, Steve LOWES, C. Drew HARVELL**
7.198	The Role of Nitric Oxide in the Immune Defenses of the Sea Fan Gorgonia ventalina	*Joyce STUCKEY, Nancy DOUGLAS, Courtney SALTONSTALL, Catherine HARVELL**
7.199	Antibacterial chemical defenses in corals: widespread but selective resistance to bacterial pathogens	*Deborah GOCHFELD, Greta S. AEBY, Katerina PAPPAS**
7.200	Optimization of bacterial challenge protocols for study of Montipora White Syndrome	*Teresa LEWIS, Megan COLVIN, Ashley SMITH, Greta AEBY, Thierry WORK, Jo-Ann LEONG**
7.201	Parrotfish as vectors of coral disease - Evaluation by comparison of bacterial populations	*Christopher SHERIDAN, John C BYTHELL, Reia GUPPY, Randi D ROTJAN**
7.202	Spatio-Temporal Transmission Patterns of Black Band Disease (BBD) In a Coral Community	*Assaf ZVULONI, Yael ARTZY-RANDRUP, Lewi STONE, Esti KRAMARSKY-WINTER, Roy BARKAN, Ariel KUSHMARO, Yossi LOYA**
7.203	Spatial and temporal variability in Caribbean coral and octocoral diseases.	Ernesto WEIL, Aldo CROQUER*
7.204	Host Range and Infection Intensity of the Ectoparasite Neobenedenia melleni (MacCallum 1927) on Caribbean Coral Reef Fishes	*Paul SIKKEL, Donna NEMETH, Amber MCCAMMON, Ernest WILLIAMS, Lillian TUTTLE**
7.205	Differences in the Susceptibility to Black Band Disease (BBD) Between two Species of Diploria on the Reefs of Bermuda	*Kristin KUEHL, Ross JONES, Laurie RICHARDSON**
7.206	Reduced Fecundity in Yellow Band Diseased Colonies of the Caribbean Reef-building Species Montastraea faveolata.	*Ernesto WEIL, Aldo CROQUER, Isabel URREIZTIETA**
7.207	Ecological immunity of diseased and healthy Montastrea faveolata through the 2005 bleaching event	*Laura D. MYDLARZ, Ernesto WEIL, Courtney S. COUCH, Nancy L. DOUGLAS, C. Drew HARVELL**
7.208	On the White Plague Disease in Corals, With Remarks on the Interactions Between Disease, Environment and Host	*Santiago HERRERA, Juan SANCHEZ**
7.209	PHAGE THERAPY OF CORAL DISEASE	*Ilil ATAD, Rotem EFRONY, Eugene ROSENBERG**

Mini-Symposium 7: Diseases on Coral Reefs

Mini-Symposium 7:
Diseases on Coral Reefs