• Shellfish physiology
• Particle selection mechanisms in suspension-feeding bivalves
• Algology 

Outreach activities: “Meet with an Oceanographer” event series

Emmanuelle initiated and is the coordinator of this monthly event. The series takes place at the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead, NY. Every month, an oceanographer from the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences provides an attractive learning experience to the young and “less young” public of the aquarium. For more details about this event, visit the dedicated event website at: http://you.stonybrook.edu/mwao1/

Recent publications: (since 2016; pdf files are accessible here)

Schwaner C, Farhat S, Boutet I, Tanguy A, Barbosa M, Grouzdev D, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2023). Combination of RNAseq and RADseq to Identify Physiological and Adaptive Responses to Acidification in the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica). Marine Biotechnology. In Press.

Czaja R, Beal B, Pepperman K, Pales Espinosa E, Munroe D, Cerrato R, Busch E, Allam B. (2023). Interactive roles of temperature and food availability in predicting habitat suitability for marine invertebrates. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. In Press.

Czaja R, Pales Espinosa E, Cerrato R, Lwiza K, Allam B. (2023). Using meta-analysis to explore the roles of global upwelling exposure and experimental design in bivalve responses to low pH. Science of The Total Environment. In Press.

Czaja Jr R, Holmberg R, Pales Espinosa E, Hennen D, Cerrato R, Lwiza K, O’Dwyer J, Beal B, Root K, Zuklie H, Allam, B. (2023). Behavioral and physiological effects of ocean acidification and warming on larvae of a continental shelf bivalve. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 192, 115048.

Pales Espinosa E, Bouallegui Y, Grouzdev D, Brianik C, Czaja R, Geraci-Yee S, Kristmundsson A, Muehl M, Schwaner C, Tettelbach ST, Tobi H, Allam B. (2023). An apicomplexan parasite drives the collapse of the bay scallop population in New York. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 6655. pdf

Tettelbach ST, Czaja R, Tobi H, Hughes S, Peterson BJ, Heck S, MacGregor J, DeLany F, Scannell B, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2023). Collapse of the New York Bay Scallop Fishery Despite Sustained Larval and Juvenile Recruitment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 714, 45-56. pdf

Schwaner C, Barbosa M, Schwemmer T, Pales Espinosa E,  Allam B. (2023). Increased food resources help eastern oyster mitigate the negative impacts of coastal acidification. Invited Research Paper. Animals 13(7): 1161. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/7/1161

Schwaner C, Pales Espinosa E,  Allam B. (2023). RNAi silencing of the biomineralization gene Perlucin impairs oyster ability to cope with ocean acidification. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(4), 3661; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24043661

Czaja R, Hennen R, Cerrato R, Lwiza K, Pales Espinosa E, O’Dwyer J, Allam B. (2023). Using LASSO regularization to project recruitment under CMIP6 climate scenarios in a coastal fishery with spatial oceanographic gradients. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 80(6): 1032-1046. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2022-0091

Schwaner C, Farhat S, Barbosa M, Boutet I, Tanguy A, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2023). Molecular features associated with resilience to ocean acidification in the northern quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria. Marine Biotechnology 25(1): 83-99. doi: 10.1007/s10126-022-10183-3

Schwaner C, Farhat S, Haley J, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2022). Proteomic and transcriptomic responses enable clams to correct the pH of calcifying fluids and sustain biomineralization in acidified environments. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23, 16066. pdf

Barbosa M, Schwaner C, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2022). A transcriptomic analysis of phenotypic plasticity in Crassostrea virginica larvae under experimental acidification. Genes 22(13): 1529. pdf

Boutet I., Monteiro HJA, Takeuchi T, Baudry L, Bonnivard E, Billoud B, Farhat S, Gonzales-Haraya R, Salaun B, Andersen A, Toullec J-Y, Lallier F, Flot J-F, Guiglielmoni N, Guo X, Cui L, Allam B, Pales-Espinosa E, Hemmer-Hansen J, Marbouty M, Koszul R, & Tanguy A. (2022). Chromosomal assembly of the flat oyster (Ostrea edulis L.) genome as a new genetic ressource for aquaculture. Evolutionary Applications. In Press.

Pales Espinosa E, Eckstein M, Allam B. (2022). Density of compatible ligands on the surface of food particles modulates sorting efficiency in the blue mussel Mytilus edulis. Frontiers in Marine Sciences 9: 882356. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.882356 pdf

Schwaner C, Farhat S, Haley J, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2022). Transcriptomic, proteomic, and functional assays underline the dual role of extrapallial hemocytes in immunity and biomineralization in the hard clam Mercenaria mercenaria. Frontiers in Immunology 13: 838530. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.838530 pdf

Farhat S, Bonnivard E, Pales Espinosa E, Tanguy A, Boutet I, Guiglielmoni N, Flot J-F, Allam B. (2022). Comparative analysis of the Mercenaria mercenaria genome provides insights into the diversity of transposable elements and immune molecules in bivalve mollusks. BMC Genomics 23:192. doi: 10.1186/s12864-021-08262-1 pdf

Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2021). High spatial resolution mapping of the mucosal proteome of the gills of Crassostrea virginica: implication in particle processing. Journal of Experimental Biology 224, jeb233361. doi:10.1242/jeb.233361  pdf

Cerullo A, Lai T-Y, Allam B, Baer A, Barnes J, Barrientos Z, Deheyn D, Fudge D, Gould J, Harrington M, Holford M, Hung C-S, Jain G, Mayer G, Medina-Munoz M, Monge J, Napolitano T, Pales Espinosa E, Schmidt S, Thompson E, Braunschweig A. (2020). Comparative animal mucomics: Inspiration for functional materials from ubiquitous and understudied biopolymers. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 6(10): 5377-5398.

Farhat S, Tanguy A, Pales Espinosa E, Guo X, Boutet I, Smolowitz R, Murphy D, Rivara G, Allam B. (2020). Identification of variants associated with hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, resistance to Quahog Parasite Unknown disease. Genomics 112(6): 4887-4896.

Allam S, Allam B, Pales Espinosa E. (2020). Regulation of mucosal lectins in the oyster Crassostrea virginica in response to food availability and environmental factors. Journal of Molluscan Studies. In Press.

Jones J, Allam B, Pales Espinosa E. (2020). Particle selection in suspension-feeding bivalves: Does one model fit all? Biological Bulletin 238: 41-53.

Schwaner C, Barbosa M, Connors P, Park TJ, de Silva D, Griffith A, Gobler CJ, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2020). Experimental acidification increases susceptibility of Mercenaria mercenaria to infection by Vibrio species. Marine Environmental Research 154: 104872

Barbosa M, Schwaner C, Schwemmer T, Pales Espinoa E, Allam B. (2019). Effect of food resource availability on the resilience of eastern oyster larvae to ocean acidification. World Aquaculture 5(30)

Fernández-Robledo JA, Yadavalli R, Allam B, Pales-Espinosa E, Gerdol M, Greco S, Stevick RJ, Gómez-Chiarri M, Zhang Y, Heil CA, Tracy AN, Bishop-Bailey D, Metzger MJ. (2019). From the raw bar to the bench: Bivalves as models for human health. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 92: 260-282.

Lau Y-T, Santos B, Barbosa M, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2018). Regulation of apoptosis-related genes during interactions between oyster hemocytes and the alveolate parasite Perkinsus marinus. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 83: 180-189.

Hartman R, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2018). Identification of clam plasma proteins that bind its pathogen Quahog Parasite Unknown. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 77: 214-221.

Hornstein J, Pales Espinosa E, Cerrato R, Lwiza K, Allam B. (2018). The influence of temperature stress on the physiology of the Atlantic surfclam, Spisula solidissima. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 222: 66-73.

Lau Y-T, Gambino L, Santos B, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2018). Regulation of oyster (Crassostrea virginica) hemocyte motility by the intracellular parasite Perkinsus marinus: A possible mechanism for host infection. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 78: 18-25.

Lau Y-T, Gambino L, Santos B, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2018). Transepithelial migration of mucosal hemocytes in Crassostrea virginica and potential role in Perkinsus marinus pathogenesis. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 153:122-129.

Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2018). Reverse genetics demonstrate the role of mucosal C-type lectins in food particle selection in the oyster Crassostrea virginica. Journal of Experimental Biology.

Lau Y-T, Sussman L, Pales Espinosa E, Katalai S, Allam B. (2017). Characterization of hemocytes from different body fluids of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 71: 372-379.

Rubin E, Tanguy A, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2017). Differential gene expression in five isolates of the clam pathogen, quahog parasite unknown (QPX). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 64: 647-654.

Liu Q, Collier JL, Allam B. (2017). Seasonality of QPX disease in the Raritan Bay (NY) wild hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) population. Aquaculture Research 48: 1269-1278.

Rubin E, Werneburg GT, Pales Espinosa E, Thanassi DG, Allam B. (2016). Identification and characterization of peptidases secreted by quahog parasite unknown (QPX), the protistan parasite of hard clams. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 122: 21-33.

Wang K, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2016). Effect of “heat shock” treatments on QPX disease and stress response in the hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 138: 39-49.

Allam B, Pales Espinosa E. (2016). Bivalve immunity and response to infections: Are we looking at the right place? Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 53: 4-12.

Wang K, Del Castillo C, Corre E, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. (2016). Clam focal and systemic immune responses to QPX by RNA-Seq technology. BMC Genomics, 17:146.

Pales Espinosa E, Cerrato R, Wikfors G, Allam B. (2016). Modeling food choice in the two suspension-feeding bivalves, Crassostrea virginica and Mytilus edulis. Marine Biology, 163(2): 1-13.

Wang K, Pales Espinosa E, Tanguy A, Allam B. (2016). Alterations of the immune transcriptome in resistant and susceptible hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) in response to Quahog Parasite Unknown (QPX) and temperature. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 49: 163-176.

Pales Espinosa E, Koller A, Allam B. (2016). Proteomic characterization of mucosal secretions in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica. Journal of Proteomics 132: 63-76.