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The INSITE conservation team is a group of scientists, students, and collaborators with expertise spanning animal biology and mathematical modeling to conservation management. This collaboration between multiple fields creates a new space for novel ideas and impactful research to conserve natural resources as our climate changes.
Dr. Nishiguchi is an evolutionary biologist and microbial ecologist who is interested in the evolution of animal-microbial interactions with respect to their environment. Her laboratory studies the mutualistic association between sepiolid squids (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) and their Vibrio symbionts which provides a versatile and experimentally tractable model system to study the population dynamics and cospeciation between bacterial species and their diversity among host squids.
Researchers in Dr. Nish's laboratory focus on aspects of molecular signaling, population genetics of Vibrio bacteria, molecular specificity of symbiosis genes, competitive exclusion of non-native symbionts, phylogenetic relationships among squids in the family Sepiolidae, as well as modeling certain aspects of the ecology of the association.
Dr. Bennett is an evolutionary biologist and entomologist who leverages insect systems to understand the fundamental principles of animal-microbial interactions. The overarching goal of Dr. Bennett's research program is to understand how these complex interactions evolve and function.
Dr. Bennett purposefully works with non-model organisms to gain a novel and deep understanding of animal-microbial interactions and evolution. To understand how these complex interactions function, researchers in his laboratory take a multidisciplinary approach that includes evolutionary biology, cellular and molecular biology, field biology, and bioinformatics.
Dr. Cros is a marine conservationist and the lead consultant for Resilient Oceans. She has a PhD from the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and twenty years experience working in marine conservation and coastal management with large international NGOs.
As well as her solid scientific background, Dr. Cros has expertise in supporting collaborative projects, and bridging gaps between scientists, communities, and natural resource managers.
These skills allow her to promote communication and collaboration between INSITE scientists and on-the-ground managers to ensure that scientific outcomes are clearly aligned with management priorities and challenges.
In Hawai'i we work with endemic invertebrates to understand how climate change will impact terrestrial species.
In Australia we work with marine species that can be used as indicators of extreme temperature changes.
In Florida, we are working to establish relationships with marine managers to identify how our research can support their conservation efforts.
We need your input to best align the INSITE conservation tools with your natural resource management needs.
We would like to learn
more about your management
priorities, the species
and ecosystems you manage,
and the type of
information you are
missing to be able to
predict species resilience
to climate change.
We invite you to join
the group of managers
that are helping us
develop better
management tools by
periodically participating
in meetings and providing
feedback.
If you want to learn more
about INSITE and
our work, or if you have
any questions, please fill
out the contact form or
email Annick Cros at acros@resilientoceans.org
