Publications

Jia Zhang, Zoe T. Richards, Arne A. S. Adam, Cheong Xin Chan, Chuya Shinzato, James Gilmour, Luke Thomas, Jan M. Strugnell, David J. Miller, Ira Cooke (2022). Evolutionary responses of a reef-building coral to climate change at the end of the last glacial maximum. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39 (10),

Adam, A. A. S., Thomas, L., Underwood, J., Gilmour, J., & Richards, Z. T. (2022). Population connectivity and genetic offset in the spawning coral Acropora digitifera in Western Australia. Molecular Ecology, 31, 3533– 3547.

Adam, A. A. S., Garcia R., Galaiduk R., Tomlinson S., Radford B., Thomas L., Richards Z. T. (2021). Diminishing potential for tropical reefs to function as coral diversity strongholds under climate change conditions. Diversity and Distributions, 27(11), 2245-2261

Dugal, L., Thomas, L., Wilkinson, S.P., Richards, Z.T., Alexander, J.B., Adam, A.A., Kennington, W.J., Jarman, S., Ryan, N.M., Bunce, M. and Gilmour, J.P. (2021), Coral monitoring in northwest Australia with environmental DNA metabarcoding using a curated reference database for optimized detection. Environmental DNA, 4, 63-76.

West, K. M.*, Adam, A. A. S.*, White, N, et al. The applicability of eDNA metabarcoding approaches for sessile benthic surveying in the Kimberley region, north-western Australia. Environmental DNA. 2022; 4, 34– 49

Thomas L., Underwood J.N., Adam A.A.S., Richards Z.T., Dugal L, Miller K. J., Gilmour, J. P. (2020). Contrasting patterns of genetic connectivity in brooding and spawning corals across a remote atoll system in northwest Australia. Coral Reefs. 39(1), 55-60

Alexander J.B., Bunce M., White N., Wilkinson S.P., Adam A.A.S, Berry T., Stat M., Thomas L., Newman, S. J., Dugal L., Richards Z.T. (2020). Development of a multi-assay approach for monitoring coral diversity using eDNA metabarcoding. Coral Reefs. 39(1), 159-171

Conway J.R.W. et al. (2018) Intravital imaging to monitor therapeutic response in moving hypoxic regions resistant to PI3K pathway targeting in pancreatic cancer. Cell Reports, 23(11), pp. 3312-3326

del Monte-Nieto G. et al. (2018). Control of cardiac jelly dynamics by NOTCH1 and NRG1 defines the building plan for trabeculation. Nature, 557(7705), 439-445. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0110-6

Bourke L. et al. (2017). Loss of Rearranged L-Myc Fusion (RLF) results in defects in heart development in the mouse, Differentiation, vol. 94, pp. 8 – 2

Vennin C., et al. (2017). Transient tissue priming via ROCK inhibition uncouples pancreatic cancer progression, sensitivity to chemotherapy, and metastasis. Science Translational Medicine 9, eaai8504

Ferrari R., Figueira W.F., Pratchett M.S., Boube T., Adam A., Kobelkowsky-Vidrio T., Doo S.S., Atwood T.B.,Byrne, M. (2017). 3D photogrammetry quantifies growth and external erosion of individual coral colonies and skeletons. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 1-9.

Arne Adam

As a marine biologist, I’ve always been fascinated by the complexity of interactive processes that are at play in and around our oceans, specifically related to coral reefs. From the driving forces behind range shifts of tropical species to temperate regions to unravelling the genetic signature that defines why certain coral populations survive extreme temperature conditions better than others. Thereby, the combination of holistic ecological marine research and genetics has guided me through different disciplines and countries.

I finished my Bachelor in Biology and Master in Marine and Lacustrine Sciences at the University of Ghent and Brussels in Belgium researching the attractiveness of marine life on artificial reefs in the North and Mediterranean Sea. After finishing my undergrads, I moved across the oceans to Australia where I volunteered at the University of Sydney assisting on marine 3D photogrammetry as well as benthic and animal behaviour research. In 2016, I crossed fields with the goal to gain more experience in applying genetic research while working in developmental research of the human heart at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, researching the early stages of heart development. In 2017, I had the opportunity to start my PhD at the TrEnD lab at Curtin University in Perth investigating the integration of population genetic and abundance data in species distribution models to assess potential future range shifts of coral populations across the coastline of Western Australia. During my PhD, I also worked on coral eDNA projects while working as a part time postdoc at the Australian Institute of Marine Science on coral population projects after which I joined the MSEL group at the University of Queensland in October 2023.

Over the course of my academic career, my interest in ecological modelling has grown exponentially which is reflected in my current research. As a postdoctoral fellow within the MSEL group at UQ, my research focusses on developing informed intervention strategies with the mechanistic model, ReefMod at its base, to investigate restoration benefits at different spatio-temporal scales across the Great Barrier Reef. Thereby, I work closely with Yves-Marie Bozec, John Hedley and Prof. Peter Mumby as well as the extended Modelling and Decision-Making Team within RRAP (AIMS, CSIRO, QUT, UQ).