Marine Immunology
Basic and applied research on the health and immune systems of marine vertebrates
Fun Facts
- Mote researchers have more than 13,000 colonies of the threatened Staghorn coral growing in their underwater coral nursery, equivalent to more than 6 miles of living coral.
- Mote scientists have discovered ways to grow Staghorn coral 4 times faster than in the wild.
- Researchers with Mote's Coral Reef Monitoring & Assessment program each spend more than 500 hours per year underwater conducting research and monitoring of coral reefs in the Florida Keys.
