Spotlight of the Week-7/27

Meet Madison Emery and Bianca Noguera! These ladies work in our lab as animal husbandry assistants. Madison and Bianca work every day to ensure that the sea anemones and corals are well taken care of, fed, and kept in clean living environments. For their most recent project, they have been keeping the sea anemones, Nematostella vectensis at 16°C and feeding them hearty amounts of mussels and Artemia to induce spawning.

Madison changing the anemones’ water

Bianca cleaning algae off of the corals

Nematostella with spawned eggs

Developing Nematostella under a microscope