Elizabeth Weatherup

Working at Smithsonian Marine Station on coral diseases, BS Marine Bio Eckerd College 19', most commonly found pipetting in lab or exploring in the ocean 🐠🔬

[Tessa Vekich @TessaVekich]

Super exciting, Smithsonian marine station has a new video up my coworker and I got to take part in. Watch us bust some myths about corals!
https://t.co/LuplMQgHNZ

[SmithsonianMarineStn @SmithsonianSMS]

SEA STAR WARS! Check out this video of a nine-armed sea star from our Ecosystems Exhibit coming to get you... #MayTheFourth

https://t.co/SbPgYeru32

[SmithsonianMarineStn @SmithsonianSMS]

So, we don’t have these creatures here... but we think everyone could use a big hug right now.

[Elizabeth Weatherup @efwxup]

Love my SMS family!!

[SmithsonianMarineStn @SmithsonianSMS]

Proud to have @efwxup on our team.

[Elizabeth Weatherup @efwxup]

@SmithsonianSMS Love this team!!!

[Dr. Blake Ushijima @VibrioSoup]

Here's the digital version of the public lecture I was going to give on some of the work we have been doing on #coralprobiotics to treat #SCTLD. @PolypProtectors

[Elizabeth Weatherup @efwxup]

All thanks to EC Marine Science!

[EC Marine Science @ECMarineScience]

Kudos to Elizabeth Weatherup '19, @EckerdAlumni #marine_science currently interning @SmithsonianSMS on #coral probiotic research and #SCTLD; now headed for Dr. @RyanBCarnegie's team @VIMS_News and #oyster_parasitology research. An @eckerdcollege Rising Star!!

[Dr. Blake Ushijima @VibrioSoup]

Glad to see @uvimmes spreading the word on #SCTLD. The @PolypProtectors can help in any way!

[The Coral Health and Marine Probiotics Lab @PolypProtectors]

Before and after I see my quarantine snacks...While the rest of our lab is working from home, our coral husbandry team takes turns going into the lab to feed our corals. @TessaVekich fed the corals this morning and took this shot of a C. nat coral with its mouths wide open.

[The Coral Health and Marine Probiotics Lab @PolypProtectors]

CHAMP lab happy fact!
Our brain coral produces the protein GFP that fluoresces when exposed to UV light! GFP is invaluable to molecular biology and was discovered in the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, which are cnidarians like corals.