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Ms Charlotte Kvennefors
Centre for Marine Studies
The University of Queensland
Gehrmann Laboratories (#60)
St Lucia QLD 4072 Australia

(tel) +61 (0) 73365220
(fax) +61 (0) 733654755
(email) c.kvenneforsuq.edu.au

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People > Charlotte Kvennefors

Position: Honorary lab member
Last update: 12-Aug-2009

Research

Coral immunity

Charlotte (Lotta) grew up in Sweden where she also completed her masters in molecular biology (microbiology). In 2004 she moved to Australia where she carried out her honours in the marine field, working on coral disease at the University of Queensland (UQ). She further undertook her PhD at UQ studying host-pathogen interactions and immunity in reef-building corals. She is currently undertaking research in the Coral Reef Ecosystem Lab at the Centre for Marine Studies that focuses on the cnidarian immune system and its responses to climate change. Other research interests include microbial ecology, invertebrate immunology, molecular coral biology and the evolution of the innate immune system.
Keywords: coral disease, coral health, coral immunity, microbiology, molecular mechanisms

Education

BSc(Hons) coral disease - University of Queensland - First class (2004)
MSc molecular biology/microbiology - Lund University - with distinction (2004)

Awards

ARC Centre of Excellence Coral reef Studies best student papers for 2008 (2008), Winifred Violet Scott Estate foundation (2008), ACRS travel award (2007), ACRS Danielle Simmons award (2006), PADI foundation (2006), UQ International Postgraduate Research (UQIPRS) (2005), Australia International Postgraduate Research (IPRS) (2005)

Publications

Kvennefors ECE, Sampayo EM, Ridgway T, Barnes AC, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2010) Bacterial Communities of Two Ubiquitous Great Barrier Reef Corals Reveals Both Site- and Species-Specificity of Common Bacterial Associates. PLoS One 5: 10401-10401

Nawawi RA, Baiano JCF, Kvennefors ECE, Barnes AC (2009) Host-Directed Evolution of a Novel Lactate Oxidase in Streptococcus iniae Isolates from Barramundi (Lates calcarifer). APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 75: 2908-2919

Kvennefors ECE, Roff G (2009) Evidence of cyanobacteria-like endosymbionts in Acroporid corals from the Great Barrier Reef. CORAL REEFS 28: 547-547

Roff G, Kvennefors ECE, Ulstrup KE, Fine M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2008) Coral disease physiology: the impact of Acroporid white syndrome on Symbiodinium. CORAL REEFS 27: 373-377

Kvennefors ECE, Leggat W, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Degnan BM, Barnes AC (2008) An ancient and variable mannose-binding lectin from the coral Acropora millepora binds both pathogens and symbionts. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY 32: 1582-1592

Ainsworth TD, Kvennefors ECE, Blackall LL, Fine M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2007) Disease and cell death in white syndrome of Acroporid corals on the Great Barrier Reef. MARINE BIOLOGY 151: 19-29