Maria Byrne (biologist)

Maria Byrne FAA is an Australian marine biologist, and professor of marine and developmental biology at the University of Sydney and a member of the Sydney Environment Institute. She spent 12 years as director of the university's research station on One Tree Island.^[1]

Maria Byrne
Nationality	Australian
Employer	University of Sydney
Known for	Marine Biology
Title	Professor

Career

Byrne is the co-editor of Australian Echinoderms.^[2] She and co-author Tim O'Hara were joint winners of the 2018 Whitley Medal for the book.^[3] She has been publishing her research on Echinodermata since the early 1980s.^[4] In 2000-2002 she was the President of the Australian Marine Sciences Association.^[5]

Her research interests include the impact of climate change on marine invertebrates,^{[6][7] [8][9]}She has published on sea-urchins and crown-of-thorns star-fish. ^[10][11], as well as evolutionary developmental biology,^[12][13] She has also published on egg-provisioning, and the use of mass-spectrometry ^[14][15][16] as well as the biology of the crown of thorns star-fish^[17][18][11] and other echinodermata.^{[14][19][16][20]} Her most cited article (October 2020) with 966^[21] (or 1314)^[22] citations is "Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals".^[21]

Byrne was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019.^[23]

Selected publications

• Uthicke, Sven; Schaffelke, Britta; Byrne, Maria (February 2009). "A boom–bust phylum? Ecological and evolutionary consequences of density variations in echinoderms". Ecological Monographs. 79 (1): 3–24. doi:10.1890/07-2136.1. ISSN 0012-9615.
• Byrne, M.; Przeslawski, R. (1 October 2013). "Multistressor Impacts of Warming and Acidification of the Ocean on Marine Invertebrates' Life Histories". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53 (4): 582–596. doi:10.1093/icb/ict049. ISSN 1540-7063. PMID 23697893.
• Byrne, Maria; O'Hara, Tim, eds. (2017), Australian Echinoderms: Biology, ecology and evolution, CSIRO Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4863-0762-3
• Byrne, Maria (22 July 2020), Keegan, Brendan F.; O’Connor, Brendan D.S. (eds.), "Ultrastructural changes in the autotomy tissues of Eupentacta quinquesemita (Selenka) (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) during evisceration", Echinodermata (1 ed.), CRC Press, pp. 413–420, doi:10.1201/9781003079224-88, ISBN 978-1-003-07922-4, S2CID 55198726, retrieved 13 October 2020

Awards

• 2019 - Established Researcher Medal for outstanding contribution to the science and management of Australian coral reefs, Australian Coral Reef Society.
• 2019 - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
• 2015 - Silver Jubilee Award, Australian Marine Sciences Association.^[24]
  

References

1. "Prof. Maria Byrne". Sydney Environment Institute. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
2. Byrne, Maria; O'Hara, Tim, eds. (2017), Australian Echinoderms: Biology, ecology and evolution, CSIRO Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4863-0762-3
3. "Whitley Awards". Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
4. Byrne, M; Fontaine, A. R. (1981). "The feeding behaviour of Florometra serratissima (Echinodermata: Crinoidea)". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 59: 11–18. doi:10.1139/z81-003 – via ResearchGate.net.
5. Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology. "Byrne, Maria - Person - Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation". www.eoas.info. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
6. Balogh, Regina; Byrne, Maria (2020). "Developing in a warming intertidal, negative carry over effects of heatwave conditions in development to the pentameral starfish in Parvulastra exigua". Marine Environmental Research. 162: 105083. Bibcode:2020MarER.16205083B. doi:10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105083. PMID 32810717. S2CID 221181137.
7. Doo, Steve S.; Leplastrier, Aero; Graba‐Landry, Alexia; Harianto, Januar; Coleman, Ross A.; Byrne, Maria (2020). "Amelioration of ocean acidification and warming effects through physiological buffering of a macroalgae". Ecology and Evolution. 10 (15): 8465–8475. doi:10.1002/ece3.6552. ISSN 2045-7758. PMC 7417211. PMID 32788994.
8. Pereira, Roberta R. C.; Scanes, Elliot; Gibbs, Mitchell; Byrne, Maria; Ross, Pauline M. (10 April 2020). Vengatesen, Thiyagarajan (ed.). "Can prior exposure to stress enhance resilience to ocean warming in two oyster species?". PLOS ONE. 15 (4): e0228527. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1528527P. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228527. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 7147797. PMID 32275675.
9. Smith, Kathryn E.; Byrne, Maria; Deaker, Dione; Hird, Cameron M.; Nielson, Clara; Wilson-McNeal, Alice; Lewis, Ceri (24 July 2019). "Sea urchin reproductive performance in a changing ocean: poor males improve while good males worsen in response to ocean acidification". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286 (1907): 20190785. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0785. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 6661356. PMID 31337311.
10. Kim, Sun W.; Sampayo, Eugenia M.; Sommer, Brigitte; Sims, Carrie A.; Gómez‐Cabrera, Maria del C.; Dalton, Steve J.; Beger, Maria; Malcolm, Hamish A.; Ferrari, Renata; Fraser, Nicola; Figueira, Will F. (2019). "Refugia under threat: Mass bleaching of coral assemblages in high‐latitude eastern Australia". Global Change Biology. 25 (11): 3918–3931. Bibcode:2019GCBio..25.3918K. doi:10.1111/gcb.14772. ISSN 1354-1013. PMID 31472029.
11. Kamya, Pamela Z.; Byrne, Maria; Mos, Benjamin; Hall, Lauren; Dworjanyn, Symon A. (14 June 2017). "Indirect effects of ocean acidification drive feeding and growth of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1856): 20170778. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.0778. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 5474082. PMID 28592677.
12. "Maria Byrne's Publons profile". publons.com. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
13. Wang, Lingyu; Israel, Jennifer W.; Edgar, Allison; Raff, Rudolf A.; Raff, Elizabeth C.; Byrne, Maria; Wray, Gregory A. (2020). "Genetic basis for divergence in developmental gene expression in two closely related sea urchins". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4 (6): 831–840. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1165-y. ISSN 2397-334X. PMID 32284581. S2CID 215750173.
14. Byrne, Maria (2020). "The Link between Autotomy and CNS Regeneration: Echinoderms as Non‐Model Species for Regenerative Biology". BioEssays. 42 (3): 1900219. doi:10.1002/bies.201900219. ISSN 0265-9247. PMID 32078178.
15. Davidson, Phillip L.; Thompson, J. Will; Foster, Matthew W.; Moseley, M. Arthur; Byrne, Maria; Wray, Gregory A. (2019). "A comparative analysis of egg provisioning using mass spectrometry during rapid life history evolution in sea urchins". Evolution & Development. 21 (4): 188–204. doi:10.1111/ede.12289. ISSN 1520-541X. PMC 7232848. PMID 31102332.
16. Davidson, Phillip L.; Thompson, J. Will; Foster, Matthew W.; Moseley, M. Arthur; Byrne, Maria; Wray, Gregory A. (2019). "A comparative analysis of egg provisioning using mass spectrometry during rapid life history evolution in sea urchins". Evolution & Development. 21 (4): 188–204. doi:10.1111/ede.12289. ISSN 1520-541X. PMC 7232848. PMID 31102332.
17. Deaker, Dione J.; Agüera, Antonio; Lin, Huang-An; Lawson, Corinne; Budden, Claire; Dworjanyn, Symon A.; Mos, Benjamin; Byrne, Maria (2020). "The hidden army: corallivorous crown-of-thorns seastars can spend years as herbivorous juveniles". Biology Letters. 16 (4): 20190849. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0849. ISSN 1744-9561. PMC 7211459. PMID 32264781.
18. Pratchett, Morgan; Caballes, Ciemon; Wilmes, Jennifer; Matthews, Samuel; Mellin, Camille; Sweatman, Hugh; Nadler, Lauren; Brodie, Jon; Thompson, Cassandra; Hoey, Jessica; Bos, Arthur (21 September 2017). "Thirty Years of Research on Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (1986–2016): Scientific Advances and Emerging Opportunities". Diversity. 9 (4): 41. doi:10.3390/d9040041. ISSN 1424-2818.
19. Edgar, Allison; Byrne, Maria; Wray, Gregory A. (17 September 2019). "Embryo microinjection of the lecithotrophic sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma". Journal of Biological Methods. 6 (3): 119. doi:10.14440/jbm.2019.292. ISSN 2326-9901. PMC 6875645. PMID 31772951.
20. Liversage, Kiran; Byrne, Maria (11 October 2018). "A note on life-history traits and conservation concerns for viviparous Australian seastars (Parvulastra parvivipara and P. vivipara)". Research Ideas and Outcomes. 4: e29766. doi:10.3897/rio.4.e29766. ISSN 2367-7163.
21. Hughes, Terry P.; Kerry, James T.; Álvarez-Noriega, Mariana; Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G.; Anderson, Kristen D.; Baird, Andrew H.; Babcock, Russell C.; Beger, Maria; Bellwood, David R.; Berkelmans, Ray; Bridge, Tom C., Bridge, Ian R. Butler, Maria Byrne, Neal E. Cantin, Steeve Comeau, Sean R. Connolly, Graeme S. Cumming, Steven J. Dalton, Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, C. Mark Eakin, Will F. Figueira, James P. Gilmour, Hugo B. Harrison, Scott F. Heron, Andrew S. Hoey, Jean-Paul A. Hobbs, Mia O. Hoogenboom, Emma V. Kennedy, Chao-yang Kuo, Janice M. Lough, Ryan J. Lowe, Gang Liu, Malcolm T. McCulloch, Hamish A. Malcolm, Michael J. McWilliam, John M. Pandolfi, Rachel J. Pears, Morgan S. Pratchett, Verena Schoepf, Tristan Simpson, William J. Skirving, Brigitte Sommer, Gergely Torda, David R. Wachenfeld, Bette L. Willis & Shaun K. Wilson (2017). "Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals". Nature. 543 (7645): 373–377. Bibcode:2017Natur.543..373H. doi:10.1038/nature21707. hdl:20.500.11937/52828. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 28300113. S2CID 205254779.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
22. "Google Scholar: Search for: Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
23. "Fellows elected in 2019". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
24. Cusick, Anne; Bye, Rosalind (2017). "Editorial: Sylvia Docker Lecture Award Silver Jubilee". Australian Occupational Therapy Journal. 64 (6): 427–428. doi:10.1111/1440-1630.12446. ISSN 0045-0766. PMID 29205386.

External links

• Sydney University Profile
• Fellows of the Australian Acacemy of Science
• Profile of Professor Maria Byrne, University of Sydney
• Video of Maria Byrne by the Australian Academy of Science, 27 May 2019