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

• The Dominance of Coinfecting Parasites' Indirect Genetic Effects on Host Traits , AMERICAN NATURALIST (2024)
• Opening a can of worms: a test of the co-infection facilitation hypothesis , OECOLOGIA (2023)
• Cestode infection facilitates co-infection by other parasites in a metapopulation of threespine stickleback , Dryad (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)
• Galaxolide and tonalide modulate neuroendocrine activity in marine species from two taxonomic groups , Environmental Research (2021)
• Isolating and growing fibroblast cells from threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) , protocols.io (2021)
• Isolating and growing fibroblast cells from threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) v2 , (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)
• Exposure to Oil and Hypoxia Results in Alterations of Immune Transcriptional Patterns in Developing Sheepshead Minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus) , Scientific Reports (2020)