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Christopher B. Wall
contact: cbwall [at] ucsd.edu citations: 715 h-index: 15 i10-index: 17 GoogleScholar Github ORCID ResearchGate The Shurin Lab at UCSD RESEARCH INTERESTS - Climate change, environmental stress, trophic ecology - Marine and freshwater ecology - Stable isotope biogeochemistry and nutritional plasticity - Nutrient fluxes in host-symbiont interactions - Microbial ecology and hosts-associated microbiomes EDUCATION Ph.D. Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2019) M.Sc. Biology, California State University Northridge (2010) B.Sc. Biology, minor Chemistry, University of North Texas (2008) A.Sc. Biology, North Lake College (2005) PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Research 2021 – Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Diego 2021 – Affiliate Researcher, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Department of Earth Sciences 2019 – 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher Pacific Biosciences Research Center, UH-Mānoa 2016 Denise B. Evans Research Fellow in Oceanographic Research, UH-Mānoa 2015 – 2019 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) STAR Research Fellow, UH-Mānoa Teaching 2022 – Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, National University 2021 Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies, Cal State Univ, Dominguez Hills 2013 – Adjunct Professor, Life Sciences Department, Santa Monica College PUBLICATIONS Published manuscripts 25. Khen A, Wall CB, Smith JE. (2023) Standardization of coral bleaching measurements highlights the variability in genus, morphology, and region-specific responses. PeerJ 11:e16100. pdf link 24. Mannochio-Russo H, Swift SIO, Nakayama K, Wall CB, Gentry EC, Panitchpakdi M, Caraballo Rodriguez AM, Aron AT, Petras D, Dorrestein K, Dorrestein T, Williams TM, Nalley E, Altman-Kurosaki NT, Martinelli M, Kuwabara J, Darcy JL, Bolzani VS, Kelly LW, Mora C, Yew J, Amend AS, Hynson NA, Dorrestein PC, Nelson CE. (2023) Association networks of microbiomes and metabolomes among dominant coral reef primary producer holobionts illustrate a potential role for immunolipids in marine symbioses. Communications Biology 6, 896. pdf link 23. Wall CB, Swift SIO, D’Antonio CM, Gebauer G, Hynson NA. (2023) Isoscapes of remnant and restored Hawaiian montane forests reveal differences in biological nitrogen fixation and carbon inputs. PeerJ 11:e15468. pdf link 22. Kajihara KT*, Egan CP, Swift SOI, Wall CB, Muir CD, Hynson NA. Core arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are predicted by a high abundance-occupancy relationship and host specialists are rare and geographically structured. New Phytologist. 234:1464–1476. pdf link 21. Wall CB, Wallsgrove, NJ, Gates RD, Popp BN. Amino acid δ13C and δ15N analyses reveal distinct species-specific patterns of trophic plasticity in a marine symbiosis. Limnology and Oceanography 66:2033–2050 pdf link 20. Wall CB, Ricci CA, Wen AD*, Ledbetter BE, Klinger DE, Mydlarz LD, Gates RD, Putnam HM. Shifting baselines: Physiological legacies contribute to the response of reef corals to frequent heatwaves heat waves. Functional Ecology 35:1366–1378. pdf link 19. Bernard J, Wall CB, Constantini MS, Rollins RL, Atkins ML, Cabrera FP, et al.,.. Amend AS (2020) Fungal and bacterial communities have contrasting compositional patterns on plant tissues over a steep environmental gradient in a tropical forest. ISME J. pdf link 18. Wall CB, Egan C, Swift S, Hynson NA (2020) Three decades post reforestation has not led to the reassembly of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities associated with remnant primary forests. Molecular Ecology 29:4234–4247 pdf link 17. Mason RAB, Wall CB, Cunning R, Dove S, Gates RD (2020) High light alongside elevated pCO2 alleviates thermal depression of photosynthesis in a hard coral (Pocillopora acuta). Journal of Experimental Biology 223, jeb223198 pdf link 16. Kitchen RM*, Piscetta M*, Lenz EA, de Souza MR, Schar D, Gates RD, Wall CB (2020) Symbiont transmission and reproductive mode influence responses of three Hawaiian coral larvae to elevated temperature and nutrients. Coral Reefs 39:419–431 pdf link 15. Wall CB, Kaluhiokalani M*, Popp BN, Donahue MJ, Gates RD (2020) Divergent symbiont communities determine the physiology and nutrition of a reef coral across a light-availability gradient. The ISME Journal 14:945–958 pdf link 14. Shih JL, Selph KE, Wall CB, Wallsgrove NJ, Lesser MP, Popp BN (2020) Trophic ecology of the tropical Pacific sponge Mycale grandis inferred from amino acid compound specific isotopic analyses. Microbial Ecology 79:495–510 pdf link 13. Wall CB, Ritson-Williams R, Popp BN, Gates RD (2019) Spatial variation in the biochemical and isotopic composition of corals during bleaching and recovery. Limnology and Oceanography 64: 2011-2028. pdf link 12. Neilson BJ, Wall CB, Mancini FT, Gewecke CA (2018). Herbivore biocontrol and manual removal successfully reduce invasive macroalgae on coral reefs. PeerJ 6: e5332 pdf link 11. Wall CB, Ricci CA, Foulds GE, Mydlarz LD, Gates RD, Putnam HM (2018) The effects of environmental history and thermal stress on coral physiology and immunity. Marine Biology 165:56-71 pdf link 10. Innis T, Cunning R, Ritson-Williams R, Wall CB, Gates RD (2018) Coral color and depth drive symbiosis ecology of Montipora capitata in Kāne‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. Coral Reefs 37:423-430 pdf link 9. Wall CB, Mason RA, Ellis WR, Cunning R, Gates RD (2017) Elevated pCO2 affects tissue biomass composition, but not calcification, in a reef coral under two light regimes. Royal Society Open Science. 4:170683 pdf link 8. Donovan MK, Friedlander AM, Usseglio P, Goodell W, Iglesias I, Schemmel EM, Stamoulis K, Filous A, Giddens J, Kamikawa K, Koike H, McCoy K, Wall CB (2016) Effects of gear restriction on the abundance of juvenile fishes along sandy beaches in Hawai‘i. PLoS ONE 11:e0155221 pdf link 7. Wall CB, Stevens KJ. Assessing wetland mitigation efforts using standing vegetation and seed bank community structure in neighboring natural and compensatory wetlands (2015) Wetlands Ecology and Management 23:149-166 pdf link 6. Edmunds PJ, Burgess SC, Putnam HM, Baskett ML, Bramanti L, Fabina NS, Han X, Lesser MP, Wall CB, Yost DM, Gates RD (2014) Evaluating the causal basis of ecological success within the Scleractinia: An integral projection model approach. Marine Biology 161:2719-2734 pdf link 5. Edmunds PJ, Wall CB (2014) Evidence that high pCO2 affects protein metabolism in tropical reef corals. Biological Bulletin 227:68-77 pdf link 4. Wall CB, Fan T, Edmunds PJ (2014) Ocean acidification has no effect on thermal bleaching in the coral Seriatopora caliendrum. Coral Reefs 33:119-130 pdf link 3. Wall CB, Edmunds PJ. In situ effects of low pH and elevated HCO3- on juvenile Porites spp. in Moorea, French Polynesia (2013) Biological Bulletin 225:92-101 pdf link 2. Cumbo VR, Edmunds PJ, Wall CB, Fan T-Y (2013) Brooded coral larvae differ in their response to high temperature and elevated pCO2 depending on the day of release. Marine Biology 160:2903-2917 pdf link 1. Stevens KJ, Wall CB, Janssen JA (2011) Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on seedling growth and development of two wetland plants, Bidens frondosa L., and Eclipta prostrata (L.) L., grown under three levels of water availability. Mycorrhiza 21:279-288 pdf link Theses 2. Wall CB (2019) Environmental and biological effects on nutritional mode and resource partitioning in scleractinian corals. Ph.D., Dissertation, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. pdf link 1. Wall CB (2013) Effects of temperature and ocean acidification on juvenile scleractinian corals (2012) MSc Thesis, Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge pdf link RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2021 – Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California San Diego 2019 – 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, UH Mānoa 2015 Division of Land and Natural Resources 2015 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Rapid Assessment and Monitoring Program research cruise Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument; NOAA Research Vessel, Hi‘ialakai; Chief Scientist: Scott Godwin 2013 – 2019 Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, Dr. Ruth Gates Laboratory 2010 – 2012 Edmunds Polyp Laboratory, Dr. Peter Edmunds 2009 – 2010 Laboratory for Marine Conservation Physiology; Dr. Ione Hunt von Herbing 2008 – 2010 Wetland Ecology Research Group; Dr. Kevin Stevens; University of North Texas 2007 – 2008 Dr. Kevin Stevens; undergraduate research; University of North Texas 2005 Hawaiian Field Studies Program; North Lake College TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructorships 2022 – Adjunct faculty: National University, San Diego, CA 2021 – Adjunct faculty: Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Cal State Univ., Dominguez Hills 2013 – Adjunct faculty: College of Life Sciences, Santa Monica College 2018 – 2019 Associate Teaching assistant: Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2017 – 2018 Teaching assistant: Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2013 – 2016 Teaching assistant: Department of Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2005 Teaching assistant: Hawaiian Field Studies, North Lake College 2003 – 2008 Teaching assistant: North Lake College, Science Center ... 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