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Fish Health Program Lead Scientists and Areas of Expertise Active

By Fish Health Program (FHP) December 17, 2020

Collecting tissues from fish for testing virus infection

Lead Scientists - Expertise

 

William Batts - Novel fish virus identification; cell culture; virus amplification; DNA sequencing

Eveline Emmenegger - Exotic and invasive fish pathogens; aquatic biosafety laboratory procedures; virology and molecular biology of aquatic viruses

John Hansen - Molecular and cellular immunology of teleosts

Paul Hershberger - Fish health; infectious and parasitic diseases of wild marine fishes; disease ecology; biology and ecology of herring and other forage fishes

Gael Kurath - Fish virus molecular biology; epidemiology, and evolution; viral host specificity; viral fitness; and DNA vaccines for fish

Volunteer Emeritus

Diane Elliott - Fish histopathology; detection, pathogenesis, and control of fish bacterial diseases

Jim Winton - Microbiology; molecular biology; fish health

Lead Scientists - Expertise

 

William Batts - Novel fish virus identification; cell culture; virus amplification; DNA sequencing

Eveline Emmenegger - Exotic and invasive fish pathogens; aquatic biosafety laboratory procedures; virology and molecular biology of aquatic viruses

John Hansen - Molecular and cellular immunology of teleosts

Paul Hershberger - Fish health; infectious and parasitic diseases of wild marine fishes; disease ecology; biology and ecology of herring and other forage fishes

Gael Kurath - Fish virus molecular biology; epidemiology, and evolution; viral host specificity; viral fitness; and DNA vaccines for fish

Volunteer Emeritus

Diane Elliott - Fish histopathology; detection, pathogenesis, and control of fish bacterial diseases

Jim Winton - Microbiology; molecular biology; fish health