UT Arlington biologists taking coral reef research to Australia

A University of Texas at Arlington researcher who is working with colleagues in Puerto Rico to assess the effects of warming ocean temperatures on coral reefs will present her research at the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium  in Australia in July. Laura Mydlarz, an assistant professor of biology at UT Arlington , organized and is co-chairing a series of talks on “Immune defenses of coral reef organisms” at this summer’s conference. Coral reefs worldwide are threatened by pollution, overfishing and climate change. Mydlarz has found