14:05 Latitudinal Gradients and Coral Reef Benthic Characteristics Affecting Cryptic Communities in the Red Sea Rodrigo Villalobos, KAUST PI: Michael Berumen

14:20 SymPortal: a novel analytical framework and platform for coral algal symbiont next-generation sequencing ITS2 profiling (one year on) Dr. Benjamin Hume, KAUST PI: Christian Voolstra

14:35 Simulating Coral Reef Connectivity at the Southern Red Sea Yixin Wang, KAUST PI: Ibrahim Hoteit

14:50 Profiling the genetic diversity and structure of Pocilloporid coral populations along the Red Sea using a population genomics approach Carol N Buitrago Lopez, KAUST PI: Christian Voolstra

Session Chair: Nojood Aalismail