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Elora Hayter López-Nandam
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University, Stanford University
Known forDr. López-Nandam area of interest is the evolution of resilience and investigate the subject on several levels. Including the molecular level, cellular level, organismal level, and ecosystem level.
Scientific career
FieldsHope for Reefs Postdoctoral Researcher
InstitutionsCalifornia Academy of Sciences

Elora H. López-Nandam is an evolutionary biologist and researcher known for her work in marine conservation, specifically pertaining to coral husbandry and genomics.

Early life[edit]

López-Nandam attended Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, CA and graduated in 2011.[1]

Education[edit]

López-Nandam obtained her Bachelor of Arts and Science at Columbia University.[2] She participated in several graduate fellowships after her undergraduate studies such as NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Morgridge Family Fellowship in 2015.[3] During her graduate studies at Stanford, she completed the Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science and Engineering and the NSF Biology REU at the American Museum of Natural History in the lab of Stephen Palumbi.[citation needed][2] López-Nandam earned her Ph.D. degree from Stanford University.[2]

Career[edit]

As part of her graduate studies, López-Nandam traveled to Marshall Islands, American Samoa, Palau, and the Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey, CA to study the genetics of coral and their adaptations to significant events like mass bleaching.[2]

The Hope for Reefs movement, initiated by the California Academy, is aimed at reversing the alarming decline of coral reefs on our planet [4] and restoring these crucial ecosystems for the benefit of all. Elora López-Nandam conducts her scientific investigations at the Coral Spawning Lab of the California Academy, a globally recognized institution for successfully reproducing coral in an aquarium.

López-Nandam postdoc projects are Aquarium Breeding Genomics research on the genomics of aquarium-spawned corals and their wild-caught parents, and Heat selection a research on the select heat-tolerance larvae to be raised into heat-tolerant adult corals [5].

Ph.D. projects [5] is conduct on coral bleaching on the differences in bleaching recovery in two Acropora species research, Genome Maintenance somatic mutations and genome stability maintenance in corals research. Ionizing Nuclear Radiation a study of the consequences of nuclear testing on wildfire research genetics, and Coral Cell Lineages a research on mutations inheritance in coral soma and sperm, as well as what it implies regarding to the coral stem cells and evolution.

At the California Academy of Sciences, López-Nandam is conducting research as a postdoctoral researcher to sequence the genomes of coral, with the aim of identifying breeds that are more resilient [6] to the threats posed by rising temperatures and lower ocean pH levels. Her focus is on selecting new corals that have better heat tolerance. Since, coral reefs play a crucial role in providing habitat to earth ecosystems approximately they cover 1% of the ocean, but contains more than 25% of marine species [7]. Coral Reefs have been experiencing a sharp decline over the last few decades, with almost 50% of them lost worldwide[7]. The effects of climate change cause the loss of corals as the warming temperatures have caused widespread bleaching reefs over recent years.

López-Nandam's first research expedition with Stanford researcher Stephan Palumbi to the Bikini Atoll was featured in a PBS series in an episode titled, "Big Pacific."[8] The episode explores the atomic bomb tests carried out in the Marshall Islands and how the ecosystem changed and thrived despite the high levels of radioactivity.[9]

López-Nandam was featured in Forbes Magazine’s Science 30 under 30 for the year 2022 for her research on the resilience of corals to warming oceans amidst climate change.[10]

Awards[edit]

2016 & 2018 Stanford Office of Graduate Education Travel Grant Award [3]

2018 & 2019 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Young Investigator Travel Award [3]

2020 Walter M. Fitch Award Finalist, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution [3]

Publications[edit]

Articles[edit]
  • Blair, Mary; Cao, Giang; Lopez-Nandam, Elora; Paniagua, Daniel; Birchette, Mark; Kenyon, Marina; Zain, Badurl; Munds, Rachel; Nekaris, K; Nijman, Vincent; Roos, Christain; Thach, Hooang; Sterling, Eleanor; Le, Minh (2023-03-03). "Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships and Unveiling Novel Genetic Diversity among Slow and Pygmy Lorises, including Resurrection of Xanthonycticebus intermedius". Genes. 14 (3): 643. doi:10.3390/genes14030643. PMC 10048081. PMID 36980915.
  • Lopez-Nandam, Elora; Albright, Rebecca; Hanson, Erik; Sheets, Elizabeth; Palumbi, Stephen (2023-01-18). "Mutations in coral soma and sperm imply lifelong stem cell renewal and cell lineage selection". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 290 (1991). doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.1766. PMC 9846893. PMID 36651044.
  • López-Nandam, Elora H.; Payne, Cheyenne Y.; Delbeek, J. Charles; Dunker, Freeland; Krol, Lana; Larkin, Lisa; Lev, Kylie; Ross, Richard; Schaeffer, Ryan; Yong, Steven; Albright, Rebecca (2022-11-14). "Kinship and genetic variation in aquarium-spawned Acropora hyacinthus corals". Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.961106.
  • Bergeron, Lucie A.; Besenbacher, Søren; Turner, Tychele; Versoza, Cyril J.; Wang, Richard J.; Price, Alivia Lee; Armstrong, Ellie; Riera, Meritxell; Carlson, Jedidiah; Chen, Hwei-yen; Hahn, Matthew W.; Harris, Kelley; Kleppe, April Snøfrid; López-Nandam, Elora H.; Moorjani, Priya; Pfeifer, Susanne P.; Tiley, George P.; Yoder, Anne D.; Zhang, Guojie; Schierup, Mikkel H. (2022-01-12). "The Mutationathon highlights the importance of reaching standardization in estimates of pedigree-based germline mutation rates". eLife. 11. doi:10.7554/eLife.73577. PMC 8830884. PMID 35018888. S2CID 245880395.
  • Palumbi, Stephen R.; López, Elora H. (2020). "Somatic Mutations and Genome Stability Maintenance in Clonal Coral Colonies". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37 (3): 828–838. doi:10.1093/molbev/msz270. PMID 31722397.
  • López, E; Eastwood, E; Drew, J (2016). "Population Connectivity Measures of Fishery-Targeted Coral Reef Species to Inform Marine Reserve Network Design in Fiji". Scientific Reports. 6: 19318. Bibcode:2016NatSR...619318E. doi:10.1038/srep19318. PMC 4726325. PMID 26805954.
Featured On[edit]

Attended in the California Academy of Science's 2022 [11] Big Bang Gala to Spotlight Hope's for Reefs held on April 28, 2022 to invite scientist and the thought leaders about science based conservation efforts to help the coral reefs survival and thrive.

Appeared in the image of the news article in The Guardian [12] in July 2017. Headline: 'Quite odd': coral and fish thrive on Bikini Atoll 70 years after nuclear tests. Where the news is covering the science team investigation contribution Paluimbi research team focus on the research efforts.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Harold, Luke (2022-01-05). "Torrey Pines grads make Forbes 30 under 30 list in science". Del Mar Times. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  2. ^ a b c d Patton, Jill (Dec 2020). "Meet Elora López-Nandam". Stanford Magazine. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  3. ^ a b c d López-Nandam, Elora. "Elora H. López-Nandam" (PDF). Elora Hayter López-Nandam CV. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  4. ^ Peach, Jeanette (April 4, 2022). "California Academy of Sciences' 2022 Big Bang Gala to Spotlight Hope for Reefs". California Academy of Science. Archived from the original on April 22, 2022. Retrieved April 4, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ a b López-Nandam, Elora. "Elora H. López-Nandam". eloralopez.github.io. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  6. ^ Duggan, Tara (2021-12-07). "Coral growing thousands of miles from home waters spawn inside a San Francisco aquarium". San Francisco Chronicle. p. 1. Archived from the original on 2023-06-26. Retrieved 2023-06-30.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ^ a b "California Academy of Sciences researchers produce first-ever 'family tree' for aquarium-bred corals". California Academy of Sciences (Press Release). November 14, 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  8. ^ "Elora Hayter López-Nandam". National Geographics Explorer Directory. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  9. ^ Jordan, Rob (2017-06-28). "The radiation-exposed corals of Bikini Atoll may hold insights on cancer". Stanford News. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  10. ^ "Forbes 30 Under 30 2022: Science". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  11. ^ Peach, Jeanette (2022-04-04). "California Academy of Sciences' 2022 Big Bang Gala to Spotlight Hope for Reefs". California Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2022-04-22. Retrieved 2022-04-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  12. ^ Ainge Roy, Eleanor (2017-07-15). "'Quite odd': coral and fish thrive on Bikini Atoll 70 years after nuclear tests". The Guardian. p. 1. Archived from the original on 2017-07-15. Retrieved 2017-07-15. Alt URL

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