View/Open - HPS Repository - Arizona State University

|
Program
.
R23
in Scientific Aquaculture
This program focuses on biotechnology research, applied research on
biomedical and commercial organisms, and policy development
in
both of those areas. The biotechnology research is aimed at basic
mechanisms that control growth, behavior, reproduction, and disease
in commercially important finfish and shellfish. This includes studies on
novel regulators of growth and reproduction
in fish and shellfish,
pathogen-regulated genes in fish, and the development of molecularbased
diagnostic techniques.
In 2002, with collaborators in Spain, we established for the first time
in
any fish species a primary cell culture technique to obtain differentiated
trout macrophages. We then demonstrated that only these
differentiated macrophages can respond to pathogenic antigens by
upregulating early response genes such as tumor necrosis factors and
interleukins. It will now be possible to use global genomic techniques
to obtain all of the macrophage genes that are regulated by antigen
exposure and this is
being pursued.
We received funding from the Southeastern Massachusetts Aquaculture
Center and developed new technology to help commercial
shellfish growers overwinter quahog clam seed, which will circumvent
the 60-80% "winter-kill" common in field-planted seed.
The Policy Center for Marine Biosciences and Technology, directed by
former MBL Director Harlyn Halvorson, has now been aligned jointly
with the University of Massachusetts (Boston) and the Marine
Resources Center. The Policy Center defines major problems
in the
fields of marine aquaculture and biotechnology, and conducts
international workshops to address these important societal issues.
Photos by Elizabeth Armstrong
AMERICORPS VOLUNTEERS (SENIOR MEMBERS)
Pat Kosky
Joan Lemieux
Haskell Maude
Birgit Nelson
Joseph Sheeny
Judith Sheehy
Joyce Wynne
Laboratory of Roger Han/on
STAFF
Roger Hanlon, Senior Scientist
Jean Boal, Adjunct Scientist
Kendra Buresch, Research Assistant
Martha Delaney,
Research Assistant
Chris Florio, Graduate Student, Boston University
Nicole Gilles, Research Assistant
Mary Beth Saffo, Adjunct Scientist
Nadav Shashar, Adjunct Scientist
Mollie Tubbs. Research Assistant
VISITING INVESTIGATORS
Chuan-Chin Chiao, Postdoc, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
Melissa Grable, Graduate Student, Boston University
Marine Program
Nuutti Kangas. Postdoc, Academy of Finland
Miranda Karson, Graduate Student, Michigan
State University
Allen Mensinger, University of Minnesota at Duluth
Marie-Jose Naud. Graduate Student, Flinders University
Andrew Simpson, MMBR Student, University of
California, Santa Barbara
INTERNS
Angela Abbott, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Melissa Cox, Purdue University
Robert Nobuhara, Colorado State University
Reshma Patel, Emory University
Camille Riviere, EN. S.A.I. A.
Eric Stone, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Kate Sweeney, Colby College
Continued. .