“Seminar Topic TBA”

Speaker: Dr. Cindy Palinkas
Horn Point Laboratory
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Host: Dr. Russell Hill

Location: IMET's Multi-Purpose Room (promotional seminar)

Date/Time: December 12th, 2012 at 3:00PM

Ammar Hanif, advised by Dr. Eric Schott and co-advised by Dr. Rose
Jagus, presented the results of his master's research to IMET on
11/16/12 and successfully defended his work a few days later. The title
of his thesis is "Development, validation, and application of a
quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay to assess environmental
samples for determining Hematodinium perezei prevalence" and was supported
by the NOAA-EPP funded Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center
(LMRCSC). Recently, Mr. Hanif has been awarded a two-year graduate
fellowship by Maryland SeaGrant entitled "Diet and feeding of menhaden
using barcoding identification based on cox1 sequences to enable the
linking of primary productivity to fisheries". The work will be part of a collaboration
between IMET scientist, Dr. Allen R. Place, and CBL scientist, Dr. Dave
Secor and will be funded in part by seed funding from the LMRCSC.

The Homer and Martha Gudelsky Family Foundation has made a generous gift of $250,000 to support Dr. Yoni Zohar’s sustainable aquaculture research programs at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology and UMBC's Department of Marine Biotechnology. This gift will support and enhance the important environmentally sustainable marine aquaculture studies done by Yoni Zohar and his research team. Dr. Zohar’s cutting-edge research contributes to closing the life cycle and developing efficient hatchery technologies for commercially and ecologically important marine fish and developing new generations of healthy seafood production methods to feed the growing world population, while protecting our marine and coastal environments. The gift also supports Dr. Zohar’s programs to build sustainable and healthy fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay.

“Mediation of Algal Host-virus Interactions by a Co-evolutionary Chemical Arms Race at Sea”

Speaker: Dr. Kay Bidle
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers University

Host: Dr. Feng Chen