School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000
USA

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Research Projects currently underway at the MADL:
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1. Effect of environmental factors on QPX disease in the hard clam Mercenaria mercenaria

2. Field validation of quantitative Real-Time PCR for the detection of QPX

3. New Functional genomics investigations of hard clam immunity and resistance to diseases

4. Investigations of the mechanisms of particle selection in suspension-feeding bivalves

5. Impact of environmental factors on reproductive success in the surfclams Spisula solidissima

6. Immune reponses associated with shell disease in the lobster Homarus americanus

7. Striped Bass immunological responses to mycobacterial infection

8. Effects of ectoparasitic copepod infection on behavioural and physiological responses of menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) and Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus)

9. Alternative macrophage activation in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and downstream immunological activation, following Aeromonas salmonicida infection