Research Support Associate
Civil and Environmental Engineering
MIT 48-424
15 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: kgjones at mit dot edu
ORCiD: 0009-0001-2290-7258
Education:
2024 B.A. Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Publications:
Allen-Waller, L., Jones, K. G., Martynek, M. P., Brown, K. T., & Barott, K. L. (2024). Comparative physiology reveals heat stress disrupts acid-base homeostasis independent of symbiotic state in the model cnidarian Exaiptasia diaphana. Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb-246222 https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246222
Glass, B. H., Jones, K. G., Ye, A. C., Dworestzky, A. G., & Barott, K. L. (2023). Acute heat priming promotes short-term climate resilience of early life stages in a model sea anemone. PeerJ 11:e16574 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16574
In prep:
Glass, B. H., Ye, C. A., Jones, K. G., Dworetzky, A. G., Barott, K. L. Hypoxia decreases fitness of the estuarine sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Submitted to Journal of Experimental Biology, July 2024.
Allen-Waller, L., Glass, B. H., Jones, K. G., Dworetzky, A., Barott, K. L. (expected submission 2024) Intracellular pH is resilient to heat stress in a temperate coral, Astrangia poculata.
Jones, K. G. & Barott, K. L. (expected submission 2024) Phoenix effect in Porites compressa following bleaching. Target journal: PeerJ
Honors Thesis:
Jones, K. G. & Barott, K. L. (2024). Rising from the ashes after mortality: The Phoenix Effect in the coral Porites compressa. Submitted to the Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania for Independent Research Course 4999. Awarded the Department of Biology Joseph Leidy Award.