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Current undergraduate and prospective graduate students may contact this person about availability as a faculty advisor.
I am a new arrival to the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, having spent the past few years at the MBL in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. It was there that I began research efforts focusing on the physiological responses of shellfish to disease and their environment. This is a focus that continues here at the University of Washington with the inclusion of local species. I also maintain an interest (initiated during my graduate work) in characterizing the biological role of growth factors in aquatic organisms. Currently we are looking at myostatin and other regulatory proteins in salmonids. To get a better idea of specific projects going on in the lab check out our current research projects webpage.
In general, my research addresses issues concerning aquaculture and natural resource conservation using a comparative genomic approach. By studying the expressed portion of an organism's genome we hope to gain a better understanding of responses to physiological and environmental change. These molecular-based approaches are revealing amazing adaptive traits in aquatic organisms and surprising conservation of signalling pathways across taxas. If you are a student interested in learning more about opportunities in my lab please refer to this page for more information, or contact me directly.