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Mónica Medina

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mum55@psu.edu
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(814) 867-2958

208 Mueller Lab
University Park, PA 16802

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IEE Research Themes
Climate and Natural Systems
Health and the Environment
Water Sustainability
Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Biology

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Research Keywords

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Coral
Symbiodinium
Symbiont
Microbiome
Reef-building Corals
Montastraea Faveolata
Dinoflagellate
Symbiosis
Coral Reefs
Coral Holobiont
Holobiont
Transcriptomics
Cladistics
Coral Host
Cnidaria
Scleractinian Corals
Coral Bleaching
Temperature Stress
Sea Hare
Skeleton

Projects

Mountainous star coral on a healthy coral reef
Reconstructing the History of Thermal and Sediment Anomalies in the Resilience of Coral in the Cartagena Bay, Colombia
A small ocean-side community in the San Bernardo archipelago
Social Adaptive Capacity in Reef-Proximate Communities: Coupled Natural-Human System Dynamics in Cartagena, Colombia
Cave divers swimming in a an underwater cave
The Caves and Coastal Ecosystems Connection

Recent Publications

Protect US racial affinity groups

Chaudhary, V. B., Kim, S., Medina, M., Srivastava, D. S., Traylor-Knowles, N., Brito-Millan, M., Camargo-Cely, A., Chatterjee, S., Chen, N., Chen, Y. H., Gotanda, K. M., Halsey, S. J., Jack, C. N., McGuire, R. M., Miller, C. M. L., Moore, A. C., Noh, S., Ong, T. W., Peralta, A. L. & Puitiza, A. & 10 others, Ramirez, L. N., Romero-Olivares, A. L., Pulido-Barriga, M. F., Sanchez, K. A., Sit, C. Y., Su, C., Vazquez-Cardona, J., Venkataraman, Y. R., Werner, C. M. & Khadempour, L., Feb 28 2025, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 387, 6737, p. 937 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Evidence for microbially-mediated tradeoffs between growth and defense throughout coral evolution

Epstein, H. E., Brown, T., Akinrinade, A. O., McMinds, R., Pollock, F. J., Sonett, D., Smith, S., Bourne, D. G., Carpenter, C. S., Knight, R., Willis, B. L., Medina, M., Lamb, J. B., Thurber, R. V. & Zaneveld, J. R., Dec 2025, In: Animal Microbiome. 7, 1, 1.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The Evolution, Assembly, and Dynamics of Marine Holobionts

González-Pech, R. A., Li, V. Y., Garcia, V., Boville, E., Mammone, M., Kitano, H., Ritchie, K. B. & Medina, M., Jan 17 2024, In: Annual Review of Marine Science. 16, p. 443-466 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Reassessing the role of herbivores on urban coral reefs: A case study from a heavily impacted reef near Cartagena Bay, Colombia

Shantz, A. A., López-Londoño, T., Gomez-Campo, K., Iglesias-Prieto, R., López-Victoria, M. & Medina, M., Jun 2024, In: Urban Ecosystems. 27, 3, p. 689-697 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Host–symbiont plasticity in the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana: strobilation across symbiont genera

Sharp, V., Kerwin, A. H., Mammone, M., Avila-Magana, V., Turnham, K., Ohdera, A., LaJeunesse, T. & Medina, M., 2024, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 12, 1333028.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Survival and physiological responses of corals exposed to elevated turbidity in the Varadero reef, Colombian Caribbean

López-Londoño, T., Gómez-Campo, K., Galindo-Martínez, C. T., González-Guerrero, L. A., Roitman, S., Pollock, F. J., Pizarro, V., López-Victoria, M., Medina, M. & Iglesias-Prieto, R., 2023, In: Boletin de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. 52, 1, p. 135-158 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The influence of photosymbiosis in Cassiopea xamachana regenerative success

Mammone, M., Sharp, V., Hewitt, M. & Medina, M., May 2023, In: Symbiosis. 90, 1, p. 61-70 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Navigating learning ecosystems: Exploring students’ use of agency in marine and environmental sciences

Martin, K., Robertson Evia, J., Peterman, K., Grimes, K., Medina, M. & Brandt, M., 2023, In: Journal of Geoscience Education. 71, 3, p. 415-427 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Comparative Genomic Insights into Bacterial Induction of Larval Settlement and Metamorphosis in the Upside-Down Jellyfish Cassiopea

Ohdera, A., Attarwala, K., Wu, V., Henry, R., Laird, H., Hofmann, D. K., Fitt, W. K. & Medina, M., Jun 2023, In: mSphere. 8, 3

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics

Pavlopoulos, G. A., Baltoumas, F. A., Liu, S., Selvitopi, O., Camargo, A. P., Nayfach, S., Azad, A., Roux, S., Call, L., Ivanova, N. N., Chen, I. M., Paez-Espino, D., Karatzas, E., Acinas, S. G., Ahlgren, N., Attwood, G., Baldrian, P., Berry, T., Bhatnagar, J. M. & Bhaya, D. & 112 others, Bidle, K. D., Blanchard, J. L., Boyd, E. S., Bowen, J. L., Bowman, J., Brawley, S. H., Brodie, E. L., Brune, A., Bryant, D. A., Buchan, A., Cadillo-Quiroz, H., Campbell, B. J., Cavicchioli, R., Chuckran, P. F., Coleman, M., Crowe, S., Colman, D. R., Currie, C. R., Dangl, J., Delherbe, N., Denef, V. J., Dijkstra, P., Distel, D. D., Eloe-Fadrosh, E., Fisher, K., Francis, C., Garoutte, A., Gaudin, A., Gerwick, L., Godoy-Vitorino, F., Guerra, P., Guo, J., Habteselassie, M. Y., Hallam, S. J., Hatzenpichler, R., Hentschel, U., Hess, M., Hirsch, A. M., Hug, L. A., Hultman, J., Hunt, D. E., Huntemann, M., Inskeep, W. P., James, T. Y., Jansson, J., Johnston, E. R., Kalyuzhnaya, M., Kelly, C. N., Kelly, R. M., Klassen, J. L., Nüsslein, K., Kostka, J. E., Lindow, S., Lilleskov, E., Lynes, M., Mackelprang, R., Martin, F. M., Mason, O. U., McKay, R. M., McMahon, K., Mead, D. A., Medina, M., Meredith, L. K., Mock, T., Mohn, W. W., Moran, M. A., Murray, A., Neufeld, J. D., Neumann, R., Norton, J. M., Partida-Martinez, L. P., Pietrasiak, N., Pelletier, D., Reddy, T. B. K., Reese, B. K., Reichart, N. J., Reiss, R., Saito, M. A., Schachtman, D. P., Seshadri, R., Shade, A., Sherman, D., Simister, R., Simon, H., Stegen, J., Stepanauskas, R., Sullivan, M., Sumner, D. Y., Teeling, H., Thamatrakoln, K., Treseder, K., Tringe, S., Vaishampayan, P., Valentine, D. L., Waldo, N. B., Waldrop, M. P., Walsh, D. A., Ward, D. M., Wilkins, M., Whitman, T., Woolet, J., Woyke, T., Iliopoulos, I., Konstantinidis, K., Tiedje, J. M., Pett-Ridge, J., Baker, D., Visel, A., Ouzounis, C. A., Ovchinnikov, S., Buluç, A. & Kyrpides, N. C., Oct 19 2023, In: Nature. 622, 7983, p. 594-602 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Exploring the Status of an Urban Coral and the Presence of Potential Probiotic Traits in Culturable Bacteria

Ruiz-Toquica, J. S., Yañez-Dukon, L. A., Herrera Khenayzir, C., Romero Borja, I., Sanjuan-Muñoz, A., Medina, M. & Franco-Herrera, A., Oct 2023, In: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 11, 10, 2006.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

A metagenomic-based study of two sites from the Barbadian reef system

Simpson, S., Bettauer, V., Ramachandran, A., Kraemer, S., Mahon, S., Medina, M., Vallès, Y., Dumeaux, V., Vallès, H., Walsh, D. & Hallett, M. T., Apr 2023, In: Coral Reefs. 42, 2, p. 359-366 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Every refuge has its price: Ostreobium as a model for understanding how algae can live in rock and stay in business

Tandon, K., Pasella, M. M., Iha, C., Ricci, F., Hu, J., O'Kelly, C. J., Medina, M., Kühl, M. & Verbruggen, H., Jan 30 2023, In: Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 134, p. 27-36 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Genomic view of the diversity and functional role of archaea and bacteria in the skeleton of the reef-building corals Porites lutea and Isopora palifera

Tandon, K., Ricci, F., Costa, J., Medina, M., Kühl, M., Blackall, L. L. & Verbruggen, H., 2023, In: GigaScience. 12, giac127.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Differing lesion recovery rates of two Caribbean stony coral species across a shallow water to mesophotic depth gradient suggest different sensitivity to repeated disturbance

Townsend, J. E., Brandt, M. E., Mukherjee, S., Medina, M. & Smith, T. B., Oct 2023, In: Coral Reefs. 42, 5, p. 1067-1077 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review