Elora Hayter López-Nandam

Elora H. López-Nandam obtain Bachelor of Arts and Science at Columbia University and a Ph.D. degree at Stanford University. At the California Academy of Sciences, Dr. Elora H. López-Nandam is conducting research as a postdoctoral researcher to sequence the genomes of coral, with the aim of identifying breeds that are more resilient to the threats posed by rising temperatures and lower ocean pH levels. Her focus is on selecting new corals that have better heat tolerance. Since, coral reefs play a crucial role in providing habitat to earth ecosystems approximately they cover 1% of the ocean, but contains more than 25% of marine species . Coral Reefs have been experiencing a sharp decline over the last few decades, with almost 50% of them lost worldwide. The effects of climate change cause the loss of corals as the warming temperatures have caused widespread bleaching reefs over recent years. 
==Early life==
In the following 2011 year Dr. Elora H. López-Nandam has received Columbia Undergraduate Scholars Program (CUSP) then later in 2014 join NSF Biology REU Mentor-Student, and Columbia Undergraduate Scholars Program mentor Dr. Mary Blair. She enter the Undergraduate Scholars Program (CSUP) Summer Enhancement Fellowship to further her education. 
==Education==
After gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree follow up by to enter NSF Graduate Research Fellowship at 2015 . In the following year 2015 year enter Morgridge Family Fellowship Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science and Engineering, NSF Biology REU at the American Museum of Natural History. Later on, she follow by from her already establish degree from B.A. and B.S. degree to an Ph.D. at Stanford University.
==Career==
The Hope for Reefs movement, initiated by the California Academy, is aimed at reversing the alarming decline of coral reefs on our planet and restoring these crucial ecosystems for the benefit of all Elora López-Nandam conducts her scientific investigations at the Coral Spawning Lab of the California Academy, a globally recognized institution for successfully reproducing coral in an aquarium. 
López-Nandam postdoc projects are Aquarium Breeding Genomics research on the genomics of aquarium-spawned corals and their wild-caught parents, and Heat selection a research on the select heat-tolerance larvae to be raised into heat-tolerant adult corals . 
Ph.D. projects is conduct on coral bleaching on the differences in bleaching recovery in two Acropora species research, Genome Maintenance somatic mutations and genome stability maintenance in corals research. Ionizing Nuclear Radiation a study of the consequences of nuclear testing on wildfire research genetics, and Coral Cell Lineages a research on mutations inheritance in coral soma and sperm, as well as what it implies regarding to the coral stem cells and evolution. 
==Publications==
====Magazine====
Featured in Forbes Magazine’s Science 30 under 30 at the year 2022 and was honor on her research on the resilience of corals to warming oceans amidst climate change. 
=====Articles=====
Blair, Mary E et al. “Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships and Unveiling Novel Genetic Diversity among Slow and Pygmy Lorises, including Resurrection of Xanthonycticebus intermedius.” Genes vol. 14,3 643. 3 Mar. 2023, doi:10.3390/genes14030643. 
Elora H. López-Nandam, Rebecca Albright, Erik A. Hanson, Elizabeth A. Sheets and Stephen R. Palumbi. Mutations in coral soma and sperm imply lifelong stem cell renewal and cell lineage selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 290, Issue 1991.Published:18 January 2023. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1766.
Lopez-Nandam EH, Payne CY, Delbeek JC, Dunker F, Krol L, Larkin L, Lev K, Ross R, Schaeffer R, Yong S and Albright R (2022) Kinship and genetic variation in aquarium-spawned Acropora hyacinthus corals. Front. Mar. Sci. 9:961106. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.961106. 
Lucie A Bergeron, Søren Besenbacher, Tychele Turner, Cyril J Versoza, Richard J Wang, Alivia Lee Price, Ellie Armstrong, Meritxell Riera, Jedidiah Carlson, Hwei-yen Chen, Matthew W Hahn, Kelley Harris, April Snøfrid Kleppe, Elora H López-Nandam, Priya Moorjani, Susanne P Pfeifer, George P Tiley, Anne D Yoder, Guojie Zhang, Mikkel H Schierup (2022) The Mutationathon highlights the importance of reaching standardization in estimates of pedigree-based germline mutation rates eLife 11:e73577. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.73577 . 
Elora H López , Stephen R Palumbi, Somatic Mutations and Genome Stability Maintenance in Clonal Coral Colonies, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 37, Issue 3, March 2020, Pages 828–838, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz270 . 
Eastwood, E., López, E. & Drew, J. Population Connectivity Measures of Fishery-Targeted Coral Reef Species to Inform Marine Reserve Network Design in Fiji. Sci Rep 6, 19318 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19318 . 
======Featured On======
Attended in the California Academy of Science's 2022 Big Bang Gala to Spotlight Hope's for Reefs held on April 28, 2022 to invite scientist and the thought leaders about science based conservation efforts to help the coral reefs survival and thrive. 
Appeared in the image of the news article in The Guardian on July 2017. Headline: 'Quite odd': coral and fish thrive on Bikini Atoll 70 years after nuclear tests. Where the news is covering the science team investigation contribution Paluimbi research team focus on the research efforts.
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