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)
• 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)
• Establishment of primary intestinal epithelial cells and leukocytes from the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus v1 , (2022)
• Microfluidic gut-on chip system for reproducing the microbiome-immune cells interaction in Threespine Stickleback , The Journal of Immunology (2022)
• Characterization of the differential expressed genes and transcriptomic pathway analysis in the liver of sub-adult red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) exposed to Deepwater Horizon chemically dispersed oil , Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (2021)
• Characterizing transcriptomic responses of southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) chronically exposed to Deepwater Horizon oiled sediments , Aquatic Toxicology (2020)
• Effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and abiotic stressors on Fundulus grandis cardiac transcriptomics , Science of The Total Environment (2020)