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.