Ministry of Fisheries, Tonga Siolaa Malimali is a Fisheries Scientist at the Tonga Ministry of Fisheries, where he leads and coordinates the science activities within the Ministry of Fisheries in Tonga. After more than 20 years working at various at…

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology University, Japan PhD, Tokyo University in 1974. Prof. Emeritus of Kyoto University in 2009, Prof. of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School since 2019. Started coral genome scientific research around 2010. Okinawa…

Vanuatu Fisheries Department, PMB 9045, Port Vila, Vanuatu Coral reefs are the biggest and most spectacular structures made by living organisms. Although they look permanent and indestructible, what we see is the only a thin veneer of living organisms. Vanuatu’s…

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Dinard, France Antoine COLLIN is a coastal geospatial ecologist motivated by defining and modelling interactions between ecosystems with their environment. He has more than ten-year-old experience in the ecological spatial patterns and processes of the…

Professor Madeleine van Oppen is an ecological geneticist with an interest in microbial symbioses and climate change adaptation of reef corals. Her work has been published in >200 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. Her early career focused on evolutionary…

Dr Vaimiti Dubousquet studied the genetic diversity of giant clams and their response to thermal stress in French polynesia with an integrative approach of functionnal genomics. She is interested in resilience of coral reefs, and especially their symbiotic organisms, to…

Antilles University, Guadeloupe Within BOREA research unit, Malika RENE-TROUILLEFOU is responsible for the Caribbean site. Biochemist, specialized in the microbiology of scleractinian corals since 2012, she completed her PhD at the University of Montpellier 2 in 2009. Very involved in…

Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Solomon Islands With 494 known coral species from 76 genera, Solomon Islands is located within the Coral Triangle Region, the region comprises the highest coral diversity in the world. Coral reefs play an important…

Manager of the Heron Island research station, University of Queensland, AustraliaAdjunct position at the University of South Pacific, Fiji Coral Reefs are the foundation of life in the Pacific. Fiji has a vast array of coral reefs spread over an…