Timothy Ravasi

Timothy Ravasi is a Professor of Marine Sciences and the Principal Investigator of the Marine Climate Change Unit at OIST, an Adjunct Professor at the University of California in San Diego and Visiting Scientist at the RIKEN institute in Japan. The research carried out by his group concentrates on the marine organisms, as the group aims to understand the mechanisms of acclimation and adaptation of marine organisms to the environment; they are particularly interested in looking at ecologically relevant issues in the light of rapid environmental change, such as climate change. The Ravasi group designed experiments using both model and non-model organisms, and some of their research programmes involves the direct investigation of fish populations in natural ecosystems. Large-scale genomics approaches are used, and obtained resources in the form of assembled genomes, transcriptomes and proteome are catalogued and developed into genome databases shared by the lab, with one example being the Nemo Genome DB. Resilience, acclimation to environmental stressors and adaptation potential will determine future species distribution and population structure and persistence. Ravasi’s group suggests with the understanding of these determinant factors, in combination with environmental predictions and models, future species distributions and ecosystem change could be predicted.

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  1. Monroe AA, Zhang H, Schunter C, Ravasi T. Probing SWATH-MS as a tool for proteome level quantification in a nonmodel fish [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jul 20]. Mol Ecol Resour. 2020;10.1111/1755-0998.13229. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13229

  2. Bernal MA, Schunter C, Lehmann R, et al. Species-specific molecular responses of wild coral reef fishes during a marine heatwave. Sci Adv. 2020;6(12):eaay3423. Published 2020 Mar 18. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aay3423

  3. Martínez-Banderas AI, Aires A, Plaza-García S, et al. Magnetic core-shell nanowires as MRI contrast agents for cell tracking. J Nanobiotechnology. 2020;18(1):42. Published 2020 Mar 12. doi:10.1186/s12951-020-00597-3

  4. Schunter C, Ravasi T, Munday PL, Nilsson GE. Neural effects of elevated CO2 in fish may be amplified by a vicious cycle. Conserv Physiol. 2019;7(1):coz100. Published 2019 Dec 8. doi:10.1093/conphys/coz100

  5. Martínez-Banderas AI, Aires A, Quintanilla M, et al. Iron-Based Core-Shell Nanowires for Combinatorial Drug Delivery and Photothermal and Magnetic Therapy. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2019;11(47):43976-43988. doi:10.1021/acsami.9b17512


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