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Gretchen E. Hofmann is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in oceanography, global and planetary change, and ecology.

Hofmann's work addresses topics related to ocean acidification effects and responses, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, coral and marine ecosystems research, marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, marine and fisheries research, as well as epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Marie E. Strader, Juliet M. Wong, Samuel N. Bogan, Terence S. Leach, and Jannine D. Chamorro.

Their publication record shows strong involvement with several scientific journals and platforms, especially:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Marine Biology
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Frontiers in Zoology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hofmann demonstrate a focus on the impacts of environmental factors on marine organisms. These include:

  • Ocean acidification promotes broad transcriptomic responses in marine metazoans: a literature survey (2020), published in Frontiers in Zoology
  • Examining the Role of DNA Methylation in Transcriptomic Plasticity of Early Stage Sea Urchins: Developmental and Maternal Effects in a Kelp Forest Herbivore (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Changes in Genome-Wide Methylation and Gene Expression in Response to Future pCO2 Extremes in the Antarctic Pteropod Limacina helicina antarctica (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Exploring impacts of marine heatwaves: paternal heat exposure diminishes fertilization success in the purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) (2021), published in Marine Biology
  • The effects of temperature and pCO2 on the size, thermal tolerance and metabolic rate of the red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus) during early development (2020), published in Marine Biology

Best Publications

  • Heat-shock proteins, molecular chaperones, and the stress response: evolutionary and ecological physiology

    Martin E. Feder;Gretchen E. Hofmann

  • The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.

    Erica Sodergren;George M. Weinstock;Eric H. Davidson;R. Andrew Cameron

  • High-Frequency Dynamics of Ocean pH: A Multi- Ecosystem Comparison

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;Jennifer E. Smith;Kenneth S. Johnson;Uwe Send

  • Climate Change and Latitudinal Patterns of Intertidal Thermal Stress

    Brian Helmuth;Christopher D. G. Harley;Christopher D. G. Harley;Patricia M. Halpin;Patricia M. Halpin;Michael O'Donnell

  • Living in the Now: Physiological Mechanisms to Tolerate a Rapidly Changing Environment

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;Anne E. Todgham

  • Microhabitats, Thermal Heterogeneity, and Patterns of Physiological Stress in the Rocky Intertidal Zone

    Brian S. T. Helmuth;Gretchen E. Hofmann

  • The Effect of Ocean Acidification on Calcifying Organisms in Marine Ecosystems: An Organism to Ecosystem Perspective

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;James P. Barry;Peter J. Edmunds;Ruth D. Gates

  • MOSAIC PATTERNS OF THERMAL STRESS IN THE ROCKY INTERTIDAL ZONE: IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

    Brian Helmuth;Bernardo R. Broitman;Carol A. Blanchette;Sarah Gilman

  • Evidence for protein damage at environmental temperatures: seasonal changes in levels of ubiquitin conjugates and hsp70 in the intertidal mussel Mytilus trossulus

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;George N. Somero

  • Heat-shock protein expression is absent in the antarctic fish Trematomus bernacchii (family Nototheniidae)

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;Bradley A. Buckley;Susanna Airaksinen;John E. Keen

  • Adjusting the thermostat: the threshold induction temperature for the heat-shock response in intertidal mussels (genus Mytilus) changes as a function of thermal history.

    Bradley A. Buckley;Marie-Eve Owen;Gretchen E. Hofmann

  • Transcriptomic response of sea urchin larvae Strongylocentrotus purpuratus to CO2-driven seawater acidification.

    Anne E. Todgham;Gretchen E. Hofmann

  • Heat-Shock Protein Expression in Mytilus californianus: Acclimatization (Seasonal and Tidal-Height Comparisons) and Acclimation Effects.

    D A Roberts;G E Hofmann;G N Somero

  • Interspecific variation in thermal denaturation of proteins in the congeneric musselsMytilus trossulus andM. galloprovincialis: evidence from the heat-shock response and protein ubiquitination

    G. E. Hofmann;G. N. Somero

  • Adaptation and the physiology of ocean acidification

    Morgan W. Kelly;Gretchen E. Hofmann

  • Natural variation and the capacity to adapt to ocean acidification in the keystone sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

    Morgan W. Kelly;Jacqueline L. Padilla-Gamiño;Gretchen E. Hofmann

  • Ocean acidification alters skeletogenesis and gene expression in larval sea urchins

    Michael J. O’Donnell;Anne E. Todgham;Mary A. Sewell;LaTisha M. Hammond

  • Persistent spatial structuring of coastal ocean acidification in the California Current System

    F. Chan;J. A. Barth;C. A. Blanchette;R. H. Byrne

  • Constitutive expression of a stress-inducible heat shock protein gene, hsp70, in phylogenetically distant Antarctic fish

    Sean P. Place;Sean P. Place;Gretchen E. Hofmann

  • Improving conservation outcomes with a new paradigm for understanding species’ fundamental and realized adaptive capacity

    Erik A. Beever;Erik A. Beever;John O’Leary;Claudia Mengelt;Jordan M. West

  • Predicted impact of ocean acidification on a marine invertebrate: elevated CO2 alters response to thermal stress in sea urchin larvae

    Michael J. O’Donnell;Michael J. O’Donnell;LaTisha M. Hammond;Gretchen E. Hofmann

  • Defining the limits of physiological plasticity: how gene expression can assess and predict the consequences of ocean change

    Tyler G. Evans;Gretchen E. Hofmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce A. Menge
Bruce A. Menge Oregon State University
Carol A. Blanchette
Carol A. Blanchette University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael J. O'Donnell
Michael J. O'Donnell McMaster University
George N. Somero
George N. Somero Stanford University
Mary A. Sewell
Mary A. Sewell University of Auckland
Eric Sanford
Eric Sanford University of California, Davis
Brian Helmuth
Brian Helmuth Northeastern University
Brian Gaylord
Brian Gaylord University of California, Davis
Libe Washburn
Libe Washburn University of California, Santa Barbara
Margaret A. McManus
Margaret A. McManus University of Hawaii at Manoa

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