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Dr Valentina Hurtado-McCormick

Research Fellow

Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University, Burwood campus
221 Burwood Hwy, VIC 3125

v.hurtadomccormick@deakin.edu.au

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Valentina's research

Valentina is a marine microbial ecologist. Her research focuses on understanding the relationships between macroorganisms and the microbial communities associated with them (their microbiome).

Valentina has been studying the seagrass microbiome for over five years, while combining extensive field work and lab work experience with the application of bioinformatic and statistical approaches for the processing and analysis of sequencing and habitat-feature data. Her research interests are in the microbiomes of natural ecosystems, particularly those influencing our ocean’s health. She is intrigued by microbial communities’ dynamics at different spatial and temporal scales, and very passionate about their relationship with pathogenic diseases.

Valentina’s research at Deakin’s Blue Carbon Lab explores microbial dynamics in vegetated coastal ecosystems (mangroves, seagrass meadows, and tidal marshes). By characterising the microbial communities associated with recalcitrant forms of blue carbon, Valentina will lead the first high-throughput sequencing data mining of microbial diversity and functional potential to find ecological drivers and microbial indicators within these communities. Moreover, she will investigate the concept of microbial dormancy within the context of blue carbon ecosystems.

Keywords

Blue carbon microbiome, holobiont, seagrass, community dynamics, dormancy.

Career Highlights

  • Research Fellow, Deakin University, Australia (2021-ongoing)
  • Research Associate, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (2019-2020)
  • PhD, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (2015-2020)
  • MSc, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (2011-2012)
  • BSc, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (2007-2011)

Selected publications

Hurtado-McCormick, V, Krix, D, Tschitschko, B, Siboni, N, Ralph, PJ & Seymour, JR. 2021. Shifts in the seagrass leaf microbiome associated with seagrass wasting disease in Zostera muelleri. Mar Freshwater Res

Hurtado-McCormick, V, Kahlke, T, Krix, D, Larkum, A, Ralph, PJ & Seymour, JR. 2020. Seagrass leaf reddening alters the microbiome of Zostera muelleri. Mar Ecol Prog Ser, 646, 29-44

Trevathan-Tackett, SM, Sherman, CDH, Huggett, MJ, Campbell, AH, Laverock, B, Hurtado-McCormick, V, Seymour, JR, Firl, A, Messer, LF, Ainsworth, TD, Negandhi, KL, Daffonchio, D, Egan, S, Engelen, AH, Fusi, M, Thomas, T, Vann, L, Hernandez-Agreda, A, Gan, HM, Marzinelli, EM, Steinberg, PD, Hardtke, L, Macreadie, PI. 2019. A horizon scan of priorities for coastal marine microbiome research. Nat Ecol Evol, 3 (11), 1509-1520

Hurtado-McCormick, V, Kahlke, T, Petrou, K, Jeffries, T, Ralph, PJ & Seymour, JR. 2019. Regional and microenvironmental scale characterization of the Zostera muelleri seagrass microbiome. Front Microbiol, 10, 1011

Selected media

Eelgrass keeps the oceans alive and preserves shipwrecks, so just cope when it tickles your feet, The Conversation (2019)

Horizon-scanning prioritises coastal microbiome research, C3 News (2019)

Defining the microbiome of a key marine ecosystem engineer, the seagrass Zostera muelleri, Phyto Bytes (2017)

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  • About
    • What we are about
    • Who we are
      • Professor Peter Macreadie
      • Dr Paul Carnell
      • Dr Stacey Trevathan-Tackett
      • Dr Maria del Mar Palacios
      • Dr Pawel Waryszak
      • Dr Melissa Wartman
      • Dr Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa
      • Dr Noyan Yilmaz
      • Dr Martino Malerba
      • Dr Lukas Schuster
      • Dr Tanveer Adyel
      • Dr Valentina Hurtado-McCormick
      • Dr Elodie Camprasse
      • Dr Sabiha Marine
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    • Wetland Carbon
      • Blue Carbon
        • Seychelles Blue Carbon
        • Queensland Blue
        • Victoria’s Blue Carbon
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        • Farm dams
        • Floating wetlands
        • Revitalising Australia’s Freshwater Wetlands
      • Tea Composition H2O
    • Ecosystem services
    • Ecosystem Restoration
      • Coastal Wetland Restoration
        • The Victorian Coastal Wetland Restoration Program
        • Regenerating Our Coasts
        • Towards Blue Carbon Australian Carbon Credit Units
      • Kelp restoration
      • Freshwater Wetland Restoration
    • Citizen science
      • HSBC citizen science
      • GeelongPort citizen science
    • Microplastics
    • Marine Biosecurity
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