Maria Rodgers

Bio

The Rodgers Lab broadly focuses on research questions in immunotoxicology and comparative immunology in coastal and marine organisms. Ongoing projects include examining humoral immune responses in wild sea turtles, understanding how PFAS chemicals influence intestinal immunity and microbial assemblages in fish species, and exploring the influence of multistressor scenarios (particularly those indicative of future climate conditions) on immunity of various marine organisms.

Publications

• Fishy factors: Recognizing biological variation and its implications for fish immuno(eco)toxicology research , Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2025)
• Acute thermal stress influence on immunity on stony corals in the middle Florida Keys , 52nd Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting (2024)
• Rates of evolution differ between cell types identified by single-cell RNAseq in threespine stickleback , (2024)
• The Dominance of Coinfecting Parasites’ Indirect Genetic Effects on Host Traits , The American Naturalist (2024)
• Opening a can of worms: a test of the co-infection facilitation hypothesis , Oecologia (2023)
• Temperature Mediation of PFAS Toxicity for Estuarine Fish in the Long Island Sound Watershed , 44th Annual Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America Meeting (2023)
• Cestode infection facilitates co-infection by other parasites in a metapopulation of threespine stickleback , Dryad (2022)
• Establishment of primary intestinal epithelial cells and leukocytes from the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus v1 , (2022)
• Evolution of cell types within the stickleback intestine , 10th International Conference on Stickleback Behaviour and Evolution (2022)
• Microfluidic gut-on chip system for reproducing the microbiome-immune cells interaction in Threespine Stickleback , The Journal of Immunology (2022)