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A day in the life of a coral molecular biologist: meet Allisan Beck!

Scientist pipettes a substance into a tube.A day in the life of a coral molecular biologist: meet Allisan Beck! Allisan works in our genetics lab, studying things that cannot be seen. She is investigating the natural bacterial communities living within mesophotic coral tissue, in support of a larger effort to understand how these corals grow, survive, and reproduce in the wild. Learn more about the MDBC Coral Propagation Techniques Development project.