My on-going projects include:

i. Investigating viral roles in the deadly Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD)

ii. vAMPirus: An automated and comprehensive virus amplicon sequencing analysis program

iii. Leverage endogenous virus elements to decipher the ecology of dinoRNAV, a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus which inhabits coral holobionts

iv. Symbiodiniaceae community characterization in healthy and SCTLD-affected coral colonies in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida

v. Investigating the influence of hologenomic diversity on disease spread in giant barrel sponge population inhabiting Puerto Rico coastal waters

vi. Generating and characterizing a de novo whole genome assembly of the endangered Nassau Grouper

vii. Population connectivity of Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) between US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico breeding aggregations