Amin R Mohamed

Amin R Mohamed

@aminmoh.bsky.social

馃嚘馃嚭|馃嚜馃嚞 PhD Coral Reef Genomics, NYUAD Researcher| JCU alumnus | CSIRO fellow馃嚘馃嚭 corals, symbiosis, climate change, microbes, omics

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Nature Microbiology
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Out Now! Bacterial steroid hormones shape coral immunity during heat stress #MicroSky

go.nature.comBacterial steroid hormones shape coral immunity during heat stressNature Microbiology, Published online: 26 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02534-wCoral-associated Endozoicomonas convert cholesterol into testosterone and progesterone, steroid hormones that reprogram coral immune responses during heat stress. The findings reveal unexpected chemical communication that could contribute to coral resilience as marine heatwaves intensify.

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del Campo Lab
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馃搫 Do not throw away your chloroplast reads. Plastid-derived 16S sequences carry real ecological signal, and microeukaryote-inclusive surveys are needed to understand the coral holobiont. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #corals #microbiome #symbiosis

biorxiv.orgGlobal distribution and host specificity of plastid-bearing microeukaryotes across coral holobiontsCorals form intricate symbiotic relationships with diverse microbial communities that influence their physiology, evolution, and ecological function. In 16S rRNA gene microbiome analyses, sequences ta...

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Nature Microbiology
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Out Now! Steroid hormones produced by coral-associated Endozoicomonas influence coral immune response during thermal stress #MicroSky

go.nature.comSteroid hormones produced by coral-associated Endozoicomonas influence coral immune response during thermal stressNature Microbiology, Published online: 22 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02494-1Multi-omics and laboratory experiments reveal that a coral-associated bacterium can produce testosterone and progesterone; these two hormones alter the coral host鈥檚 innate immune responses during thermal stress.

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Javier del Campo
@fonamental.bsky.social

Coral bleaching looks like a reef-scale catastrophe. But it starts as a breakdown between single cells. Published in @microbiomej.bsky.social, led by @ambonacolta.bsky.social we watched it at that scale for the first time: the first single-cell transcriptomics of a bleaching coral 馃 #CoralReefs

Anthony M. Bonacolta@ambonacolta.bsky.social

My final PhD chapter is now published in Microbiome (@microbiomej.bsky.social)! Using metabarcoding, photochemical measurements, and the first scRNAseq of a bleaching coral, we examined the microbial ecology of coral bleaching at the single-cell level! 馃馃敟 #CoralReefs 馃敆 rdcu.be/zWHQ92WqZQUa

link.springer.comSingle-cell ecology of coral-algal symbiosis breakdown - MicrobiomeBackground The symbiosis between corals and dinoflagellate algae is disrupted by heat stress, leading to bleaching and subsequent coral mortality, devastating reef habitats. Despite its planetary-scal...

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Nature Microbiology
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Our August issue is now online! Read about 馃 Malaria drug resistance 馃 Ebola persistence 馃挧 Groundwater microbiome 馃拤 FMT for urinary infection 馃 Antimicrobials from prions 馃拪 Antifungal drug targets 馃 Therapeutic BtBots 馃К Bacterial evolution and much more! #MicroSky www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

Amin R Mohamed
@aminmoh.bsky.social

I'm delighted to share that our latest manuscript has been accepted for publication in a Nature Portfolio journal 馃槉 This paper has been years in the making. I'm incredibly proud of the work and deeply grateful to my collaborators, and everyone who contributed! #nature #microbiology #endozoicomonas

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Steven Robbins
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It's out! Excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 馃檪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comThe planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef - NatureThe Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database compiles prokaryotic, viral and eukaryotic genomes from seawater collected from the Great Barrier Reef, providing a rich resource for the study of mar...
Amin R Mohamed
@aminmoh.bsky.social

Happy to share that my colleague Trent Haydon will be presenting our latest research at #icrs2026 in Auckland, New Zealand. We show a previously unrecognized role for "unusual" bacterial steroid production in regulating coral immune responses during thermal stress! #icrs2026 #coral #microbiome

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