Koty Sharp Vita

Koty Sharp

Koty received her PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California San Diego) in 2006 where she worked with Dr. Margo Haygood to localize a symbiotic bacterium and the bryostatins, compounds produced by the bacteria, in the bryozoan Bugula neritina. Koty received a Marine Science Network Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce with Dr. Valerie Paul in 2006-2008, during which she investigated the microbiology of several species of Caribbean corals, primarily from the Florida Keys, Belize, and Panama. Her interests include the use of molecular tools, field experiments, and microscopy techniques for the study of symbiotic bacteria in a wide range of marine invertebrates, including corals, sponges, tunicates, bryozoans, and bivalves. In her current position with OGL, her research efforts are focused on bacterial communities within gametes, larvae, and early life stages of several Caribbean corals.

Education

2006 Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA.
1998 B.A., Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.

Publications

Sharp, K.H., Arthur, K.E., Gu, L., Ross, C., Harrison, G., Gunasekera, S., Meickle, T., Matthew, S., Luesch, H., Thacker, R.W., Sherman, D., and V.J. Paul. 2009. Phylogenetic and chemical diversity of three chemotypes of bloom-forming Lyngbya (Cyanobacteria: Oscillatoriales) from reefs of Southeast Florida. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75(9): 2879-2888.

Paul, V.J., K. Arthur, R. Ritson-Williams, C. Ross, K. Sharp. 2007. Chemical Defenses: from compounds to communities. Biological Bulletin 213: 226–251.

Sharp, K.H., S.K. Davidson, and M.G. Haygood. 2007. Localization of “Candidatus Endobugula sertula” and the bryostatins throughout the life cycle of the host bryozoan Bugula neritina. Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology 1: 693-702.

Sharp, K.H., B. Eam, D.J. Faulkner, and M. G. Haygood. 2007. Vertical transmission of diverse microbes in the tropical sponge Corticium sp. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73(2): 622–629. ** This article highlighted in Editor’s Choice, Science (2007) 314:1842.

Hildebrand, M., L.E. Waggoner, G.E. Lim, K.H. Sharp, C. P. Ridley, and M.G. Haygood. 2004. Approaches to identify, clone and express symbiont bioactive metabolite genes. Natural Products Reports 21(1): 122-142.

Trapido-Rosenthal, H.G., K.H. Sharp, T.S. Galloway, and C.E. Morrall. 2001. Nitric oxide and cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbioses: pieces of a puzzle. American Zoologist. 41(2): 247-257.

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