Dr Michael Sweet

Dr Michael Sweet is the lead researcher in the Coral Health and Disease Laboratory at Derby University, UK and Lecturer in Invertebrate Biology. He completed his PhD on 'Microbial associates of coral reefs' and is currently a post doctorate fellow studying coral disease around the world including Australia, Fiji, Thailand and Venezuela. He mainly uses molecular tools and an understanding of the ecology of reef systems to describe diseases in detail; identify potential microbial pathogens; their sites of pathogenisis and potential cures and treatments for the specific diseases. His main focus is on bacterial and ciliate diversity associated with corals, both healthy and diseased, yet has also worked on fish, urchin and amphibian diseases to date. He initiated this website to disseminate the knowledge from Researchers to the Aquarium Industry and Hobbyists but also vice versa. Researchers pay little attention to what goes on in blog sites and web pages, referring to this as 'grey literature', however their is a vast amount of amazing knowledge available to them if they only take the time to look. We hope that this site is utilized by everyone interested in Coral Disease and welcome any feedback and comments.

Email: m.sweet@derby.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 7895155968
http://derby.academia.edu/MichaelJSweet
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/michael-j-sweet/49/16/358 

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