Graduate Program in Evolution, Ecology, and             Behavior

Professor, Department of Geology

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Office:
447 Hochstetter Hall

Laboratory:
453, 457 Hochstetter Hall
University at Buffalo-North         Campus
Buffalo,NY 14260-3050

Phone: 716 645-4871
Fax: 716 645-3999
Email: coffroth@buffalo.edu

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Research

Lab

Publications

BURR Cultures

Welcome to the Coffroth Lab.

My lab studies the population dynamics of the endosymbiotic dinoflagellate, Symbiodinium spp. and their cnidarian hosts, the early ontogeny of coral-algal symbiosis and the response of the symbiosis to environmental perturbations. I address these research areas through field and laboratory experiments. Essential to my work is a suite of molecular markers that we use to identify and characterize these algal symbionts. My research and that of my students has focused on the reefs in Panama, Meso-American Barrier Reef, the Bahamas and the Florida Keys. I am currently a professor in the Graduate Program in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior and the Department of Geology at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo NY. I obtained my MS and PhD in Biological Oceanography from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science University of Miami and received a National Science Foundation post-doctoral grant to work at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.