Bradley Weiler

Bradley Weiler smiels at the camera with blue te shit on white wall

Research Interests

Coral microbial interactions, Coral disease, Microbial ecology, ‘Omics

Bradley Allen Weiler, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate, NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

786.475.7960

Bradley.Weiler@noaa.gov

Bradley Weiler, Ph.D. 

4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, Florida 33149

About

Bradley is a postdoctoral researcher in the CIMAS/AOML Coral Program exploring coral and microbial functional roles at the cellular level. Using a suite of molecular tools, Bradley aims to establish healthy baseline homeostasis data to better inform the impacts on the coral host and their microbes through environmental stress and disease. Bradley obtained both his undergraduate and Master’s degree in Canada, and his Ph.D. from the University of Miami. His dissertation research explored the cellular response to coral disease from a host and microbial perspective. Bradley was awarded Canada’s prestigious NSERC PGS-Doctoral award to facilitate his molecular work in tropical coral reefs.

Current Work & CV

Current Work

Postdoctoral researcher, Coral Program, Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division

Education

2016, B.Sc. Biology, Honors, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2019, M.Sc. Biology, Honors, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada

2024, Ph.D. Marine Biology and Ecology, Honors, University of Miami, FL, USA

Publications

Bonacolta A.M., Weiler B.A., Porta-Fitó T., Sweet M., Keeling P., del Campo J. (2023). Beyond the Symbiodiniaceae: diversity and role of microeukaryotic coral symbionts. Coral Reefs. doi:10.1007/s00338-023-02352-0.

Weiler B.A., Sà E.L., Sieracki M.E., Massana R., del Campo J. (2020) Mediocremonas mediterraneus, a new member within the Developea. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. doi:10.1111/jeu.12825.

Weiler B.A., Van Leeuwen T.E., and Stump K.L. (2019) The extent of coral bleaching, disease, and mortality for data-deficient reefs in Eleuthera, The Bahamas after the 2014–2017 global bleaching event”. Coral Reefs.

Weiler B.A., Verhoeven J.T.P., and Dufour S.C. (2018) Bacterial communities in tissues and surficial mucus of the cold-Water coral Paragorgia arborea. Front. Mar. Sci. 5, 1-14. doi:10.3389/fmars.2018.00378 

Awards

2024 Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, University of Miami
2024 Best Departmental Student Seminar, University of Miami
2021-2024 Institute for Data Science & Computing – Early Career Researcher Awards
2020-2023 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship Award – Doctoral
2019 Recipient of AAAS/Science Program for Excellence
2015 Alfred and Isabel Badar Award for Research Travel