PhD @Scripps_Ocean | Marine Chemical Biology & Harmful Algae š | @DavidsonCollege @FulbrightFIN @HelsinkiUni Alum | She/Her/Hers
San Diego, California
Joined January 2015
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Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
The benthic #diatom Nitzschia navis-varingica harbors massive genomes and an expanded domoic acid (dab) gene cluster (>60 kb). Genomics + biochemistry reveal enzyme diversification driving a unique toxin chemotype. @andreweallen @BradMoore_SIO doi.org/10.1128/mbio.02079-2ā¦ #enzymology
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
š¬ Cuts to federal research funding put our family, friends, communities and planet at risk. Scripps Oceanography scientists Paul Jensen and @BradMoore_SIO spoke with NBC News on how cutting and freezing research dollars impacts crucial breakthroughs. ā¬ļø
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Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
š ā ļø If you're curious to learn more about the harmful algal bloom currently impacting Southern California waters, @SCCOOS_org director and Scripps Oceanography biological oceanographer Clarissa Anderson shares more about the event with @ocregister. ā¬ļø
ocregister.com/2025/05/02/buā¦
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
A #HarmfulAlgalBloom is affecting #SoCal marine life, and Scripps Oceanography scientists like @SCCOOS_org's Clarissa Anderson are on the frontlines to better understand its impact. She shares more on the importance of this work for @RandomLengths. ā¬ļø
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Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
With the support of @NOAA funding, Scripps PhD candidate Steffaney Wood (@steffwould) is working to better understand and predict a neurotoxin called domoic acidāa toxin directly affecting marine life along our shores. Learn more from @SpecNews1SoCal. ā¬ļø
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Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
Standing-room only as Professor Bradley Moore (@BradMoore_SIO) accepts @UCSanDiegoās prestigious Distinguished Research Award. The award is a sign of respect from his peers for his groundbreaking research mining the ocean for new medicines.
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California Department of Public Health Issues Recreational Shellfish Advisory for Santa Barbara County independent.com/2024/09/30/cā¦
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
A team of researchers from JCVI, @Scripps_Ocean, and collaborators published a groundbreaking study on predicting harmful algal blooms (HABs) that contain high levels of the neurotoxin domoic acid.
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Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
New pub today in @PNASNews that extends our @noaacoastalsci ECOHAB work at @Scripps_Ocean on domoic acid biosynthesis with @Andreweallen to support toxin forecasting during an oceanic diatom bloom pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23ā¦
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
My graduate student Steffaney Wood @steffwould is pretty cool! Check out her @Scripps_Ocean profile... scripps.ucsd.edu/news/scrippā¦
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
Out today at @ScienceMagazine - giant PKZILLA proteins spew huge polyketide marine toxins, just like #Godzilla! Witnessed by @photocyte & @VikShende at @Scripps_Ocean science.org/doi/10.1126/scieā¦
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
SCCOOS is fortunate to be led by Clarissa Anderson - take a moment find out more!!
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@SCCOOS_org @CeNCOOS @usioosgov @Scripps_Ocean
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
.@UCSanDiego has been awarded $7.35 million in @NSF and @NIH funding for the Scripps Center for Oceans and Human Health, led by faculty member Bradley Moore. The program seeks to understand marine contaminants and nutrients in a changing climate: bit.ly/3Q4uqks
ALT Photos of a person working in a hood while someone watches and a sea urchin in a tank. Text says UC San Diego Receives $7.35 million for Scripps Center for Oceans and Human Health.
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
Move over titin... introducing PKZILLA as the largest protein in life that makes one the largest nonpolymeric compounds in biology, the marine polyether toxin prymnesin. Congrats to @photocyte & @VikShende and rest of team! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/ā¦
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
New paper out in @NatureComms today!
Short-term acidification promotes diverse iron acquisition and conservation mechanisms in upwelling-associated phytoplankton
nature.com/articles/s41467-0ā¦
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
A #RedTide has been spotted off the coast of San Diegoāso what does that mean for #bioluminescence? Scripps oceanographer and @UCSDJacobs assistant professor Drew Lucas answers your questions about red tides, electric blue waves, and more. šāØ
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
Spotted yesterday! A red tide near Del Mar mooring quickly moved landward. When the phytoplankton ššŖšÆšØš¶šš°š„šŖšÆšŖš¶š® š±š°ššŗš¦š„š³š¢ form dense blooms you can see pigments that give off a reddish color. Keep an eye out forĀ bioluminescence this evening!
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
New lab pre-print up on bioRxiv! Heroic effort from Austin exploring how diverse algal neurotoxin kainoid synthases flip between radical cyclization and hydroxylation biochemistry with small substrate tweaks! More fun surprises inside - check it out here:
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Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
Clarissa Anderson, Executive Director of @SCCOOS_org at Scripps Oceanography, joined @Max_Gorden w/ @foxweather to discuss the toxic algae bloom impacting marine life. "It appears to be an offshore event, not a nearshore event," she said. Learn more: foxweather.com/earth-space/tā¦
Steffaney Wood-Rocca retweeted
A toxic algae bloom is producing a neurotoxin that is harming the brains of marine mammals. Clarissa Anderson of @SCCOOS_org & Scripps shares how harmful algae blooms form, why this event is unusual, how it's impacting marine mammals & more for @sdut. ā¬ļø
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