Australia has lost 50% of the Great Barrier Reef since 1985,
with five mass bleaching events occurring in the last two decades
WITH NO SIGN OF CORAL BLEACHING STOPPING

You see, coral polyps provide a home for symbiotic algae, which in turn give the coral
energy and its vibrant colour.
THE PROBLEM
But since...


... SEA TEMPERATURES ARE RISING
and corals are becoming more "bleached".
OUR SOLUTION
Engineer Symbiodinium (in particular, Symbiodinium goreaui) to express a glutathione recycling enzyme system and small heat shock proteins (sHSP)

Introduce enzymes that produce and recycle glutathione, a molecule that neutralises ROS

Introduce small heat shock proteins originally found in a different heat-loving algae to mitigate protein unfolding