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Koty Sharp

Director Center for Economic & Environmental Development Associate Professor Biology Marine Biology & Environmental Science

Roger Williams University

Affiliations

Feinstein School of Social and Natural Sciences

Center For Economic And Environmental Development (Ceed)

Department of Biology

College of Arts & Sciences

College Of Arts And Sciences

Center For Economic And Environmental Development (Ceed)

Coral & Marine Microbiology Laboratory

Roger Williams University

College Of Arts And Sciences

School of Social and Natural Sciences

Koty Sharp is currently serving as a Center For Economic And Environmental Development (Ceed) Director Center for Economic & Environmental Development Associate Professor Biology Marine Biology & Environmental Science at Roger Williams University.

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Koty Sharp

Roger Williams University

Director Center for Economic & Environmental Development Associate Professor Biology Marine Biology & Environmental Science

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marine biology ecology coral reefs biology climate change microbiology marine ecology microbial ecology marine biota oceanography evolutionary biology environmental microbiology symbiosis bacteria microbiome marine systems marine environments marine genomics applied microbiology genome biology microplastics temperate coral microplastic ingestion biofilms applied phycology marine chemistry harmful microalgae biological oceanography microbial diversity algal biology porites astreoides symbiotic coral algal research animal ecology fungal ecology fish biology plo biology ocean sciences functional ecology harmful algae marine micropaleontology marine drug marine biodiversity bacteriology plant diversity cyanobacteria bloom ecology marine ecosystem-based management marine biotechnology environmental exposures host response integrative biology host factors microscopy methods nematology phylogenomics parasite genomics microbial systematics chemical oceanography metatranscriptomics short-term variability evolutionary developmental biology multiple caribbean corals biofilm bacterium chemical cue tetrabromopyrrole chemical defenses early life stages bacterial communities marine ecosystems symbiont state microbiome structure cultured bacterial fraction bacterial acquisition marine chemical ecology geobiology aquatic toxicology conservation biology environmental science ecological monograph marine policy environmental research ecology and evolutionary biology aquatic conservation evolutionary ecology marine ornithology invertebrate pathology metagenomics coastal conservation aquaculture biogeography freshwater biology aquatic ecosystems entomology microorganisms biodiversity fisheries human impacts on the environment hydrobiologia marine pollution microbial consortium community (ecology)

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Controlled Temperature-Induced Dormancy Leads to Predictable Microbial Recovery in the Temperate Coral Microbiome. Frontiers in Microbiology (2026)

Coral Larvae Have Unique Transcriptomic Responses to Pathogenic and Probiotic Bacteria. Coral Reefs (2026)

unique transcriptomic responsesbiologyprobiotic bacteriamicrobiologymicrobial pathogenesismarine genomicscoral larvaeinvertebrate pathologymicrobiomemetatranscriptomicsbacteriamarine biotagut microbescoral reefs

Evolutionary Rewiring of the Endomesoderm Gene Regulatory Networks Specify Skeleton Secreting Cells in Stony Corals. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026)

biologymolecular cell biologygene expressionpattern formationdevelopmental biologymolecular biologymorphogenesisdevelopmental cellevolutionary developmental biologyevolutionary rewiringcoral reefsstony coralsdevelopmental system

Genomic Comparison of the Temperate Coral Astrangia Poculata With Tropical Corals Yields Insights Into Winter Quiescence, Innate Immunity, and Sexual Reproduction. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics (2025)

Kathryn H StankiewiczNadège GuiglielmoniSheila A KitchenJean-François FlotKatie L BarottSarah W DaviesJohn R FinnertySean P GraceLeslie S KaufmanHollie M PutnamRandi D RotjanKoty H SharpEsther C PetersIliana B Baums

geneticssexual reproductionmarine genomicsgenomicsinnate immunitywinter quiescencegenomic comparisonmolecular biologygenome biologygenetic variationevolutionary biology

Microinjection, Gene Knockdown, and Crispr-Mediated Gene Knock-in in the Hard Coral, Astrangia Poculata. EvoDevo (2025)

Jacob F WarnerRyan BesemerAlicia SchickleErin BorbeeIsabella V ChangsutKoty SharpLeslie S Babonis

geneticshard coralsbiologyfunctional genomicsmolecular geneticsmarine genomicsgenomicsgene expressionmolecular ecologyshort hairpin rnasmarine biotagenome biologycoral reefsgenome editing

Photosymbiont Density is Correlated With Constitutive and Induced Immunity in the Facultatively Symbiotic Coral, Astrangia Poculata. Integrative and Comparative Biology (2024)

Isabella V ChangsutErin M BorbeeHaley R WomackAlicia ShickleKoty H SharpLauren E Fuess

ecologyhost factorshost responsephotosymbiont densityimmunologycoral reefsclimate changeintegrative biologymarine biologysymbiotic coralinduced immunity

Exposure to Global Change and Microplastics Elicits an Immune Response in an Endangered Coral. Frontiers in Marine Science (2023)

CB BoveK GreeneS SugierskiNG KriefallAK HuzarAM Hughes...

oceanographymicroplasticsmarine environmentsglobal changeenvironmental scienceecologyclimate changeenvironmental exposuresmarine ecologyimmunologyimmune responsesmarine biology

Harnessing the Power of Model Organisms to Unravel Microbial Functions in the Coral Holobiont. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews (2022)

Giulia PuntinMichael SweetSebastian FrauneMónica MedinaKoty SharpVirginia M. WeisMaren Ziegler

microbial functionsmodel organismsmicrobiologycoral holobiontmarine biology

Reshuffling of the Coral Microbiome During Dormancy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2022)

Anya L. BrownKoty SharpAmy Apprill

microbiologymicrobiomeapplied microbiologycoral microbiomeenvironmental microbiologymicrobial ecology

Variation in Symbiont Density is Linked to Changes in Constitutive Immunity in the Facultatively Symbiotic Coral, Astrangia Poculata. Biology Letters (2022)

Isabella ChangsutHaley R. WomackAlicia ShickleKoty H. SharpLauren E. Fuess

biologyecologysymbiont densitysymbiosisconstitutive immunityimmunologycoral reefsclimate changemarine biologysymbiotic coral

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Koty Sharp

Director Center for Economic & Environmental Development Associate Professor Biology Marine Biology & Environmental Science

Roger Williams University

Affiliations

Feinstein School of Social and Natural Sciences

Center For Economic And Environmental Development (Ceed)

Department of Biology

College of Arts & Sciences

College Of Arts And Sciences

Center For Economic And Environmental Development (Ceed)

Coral & Marine Microbiology Laboratory

Roger Williams University

College Of Arts And Sciences

School of Social and Natural Sciences

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Koty Sharp

Roger Williams University

Director Center for Economic & Environmental Development Associate Professor Biology Marine Biology & Environmental Science

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Controlled Temperature-Induced Dormancy Leads to Predictable Microbial Recovery in the Temperate Coral Microbiome. Frontiers in Microbiology (2026)

Coral Larvae Have Unique Transcriptomic Responses to Pathogenic and Probiotic Bacteria. Coral Reefs (2026)

Evolutionary Rewiring of the Endomesoderm Gene Regulatory Networks Specify Skeleton Secreting Cells in Stony Corals. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026)

Genomic Comparison of the Temperate Coral Astrangia Poculata With Tropical Corals Yields Insights Into Winter Quiescence, Innate Immunity, and Sexual Reproduction. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics (2025)

geneticssexual reproductionmarine genomicsgenomicsinnate immunitywinter quiescencegenomic comparisonmolecular biologygenome biologygenetic variationevolutionary biology

Microinjection, Gene Knockdown, and Crispr-Mediated Gene Knock-in in the Hard Coral, Astrangia Poculata. EvoDevo (2025)

Jacob F WarnerRyan BesemerAlicia SchickleErin BorbeeIsabella V ChangsutKoty SharpLeslie S Babonis

geneticshard coralsbiologyfunctional genomicsmolecular geneticsmarine genomicsgenomicsgene expressionmolecular ecologyshort hairpin rnasmarine biotagenome biologycoral reefsgenome editing

Photosymbiont Density is Correlated With Constitutive and Induced Immunity in the Facultatively Symbiotic Coral, Astrangia Poculata. Integrative and Comparative Biology (2024)

Isabella V ChangsutErin M BorbeeHaley R WomackAlicia ShickleKoty H SharpLauren E Fuess

ecologyhost factorshost responsephotosymbiont densityimmunologycoral reefsclimate changeintegrative biologymarine biologysymbiotic coralinduced immunity

Exposure to Global Change and Microplastics Elicits an Immune Response in an Endangered Coral. Frontiers in Marine Science (2023)

CB BoveK GreeneS SugierskiNG KriefallAK HuzarAM Hughes...

oceanographymicroplasticsmarine environmentsglobal changeenvironmental scienceecologyclimate changeenvironmental exposuresmarine ecologyimmunologyimmune responsesmarine biology

Harnessing the Power of Model Organisms to Unravel Microbial Functions in the Coral Holobiont. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews (2022)

Giulia PuntinMichael SweetSebastian FrauneMónica MedinaKoty SharpVirginia M. WeisMaren Ziegler

microbial functionsmodel organismsmicrobiologycoral holobiontmarine biology

Reshuffling of the Coral Microbiome During Dormancy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2022)

Anya L. BrownKoty SharpAmy Apprill

microbiologymicrobiomeapplied microbiologycoral microbiomeenvironmental microbiologymicrobial ecology

Variation in Symbiont Density is Linked to Changes in Constitutive Immunity in the Facultatively Symbiotic Coral, Astrangia Poculata. Biology Letters (2022)

Isabella ChangsutHaley R. WomackAlicia ShickleKoty H. SharpLauren E. Fuess

biologyecologysymbiont densitysymbiosisconstitutive immunityimmunologycoral reefsclimate changemarine biologysymbiotic coral

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