May 2015 Issue - Auburn University School of Fisheries, Aquaculture

Newsle&er #1 May 2015 Dear colleagues,
Welcome to the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences Newsletter. This first issue summarizes our
scholarly achievements from January through April, 2015. As the Spring semester winds down it is very rewarding
to look back at everything we have accomplished in the last four months. We look forward to hearing your
comments and your success stories in the coming months.
We hope you enjoy your reading!
John, Dennis & Cova
New staff members, visitors & students We welcome the following personnel:
Staff:
-  Leighton Anderson, TES Technician (supervisor: Davis)
-  Taylor Beyea, TES Technician (supervisor: Szedlmayer)
-  Lee Collins, TES Technician (supervisor: Chappell)
-  Kris Dattilo, TES Technician (supervisor: Dunham)
-  David Drescher, TES Technician (supervisor: Dunham)
-  Troy Farmer, Postdoctoral Fellow (supervisor: Catalano)
-  Tracey Lynne Jeffery, TES Technician (supervisor: Szedlmayer)
-  Erica Levine, TES Technician (supervisor: Szedlmayer)
-  Luke Meherg, TES Technician (supervisor: Irwin)
-  Shelby Oliver, TES Technician (supervisor: Davis)
-  Gary Walker, TES Technician (supervisor: Chappell)
Undergraduate Students:
- Taylor Donelson, UG Student Worker (supervisor: Davis)
-  Brennan Hopper, UG Student Worker (supervisor: Daniels)
-  Megan Rhodes, UG Student Worker (supervisor: Booker)
Graduate Students:
-  Steven Gratz, GRA (supervisor: Hanson)
-  Kathryn Mitchell, GRA (supervisor: Stoeckel)
-  Haitham Mohammed, GRA (supervisor: Arias)
-  Xiaozhu Wang, GRA (supervisor: Liu)
New publica=ons Books:
Boyd, C. E. and A. A. McNevin. Aquaculture, Resource Use, and the Environment. 2015. Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken,
New Jersey. 337 pp.
Peer-reviewed articles:
1.  Ames, C.W., B.S. Helms, and J.A. Stoeckel. 2015. Habitat mediates the outcome of a cleaning symbiosis for a
facultatively burrowing crayfish. Freshwater Biology 60(5): 989-999
2.  Bebak, J, Wagner, B, Burnes, B, Hanson, T. 2015. Farm size, seining practices, and salt use: risk factors for
Aeromonas hydrophila outbreaks in farm-raised catfish, Alabama, USA. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 118:
161-168
3.  Beck BH, Barnett LM, Farmer BD, Peatman E, Carter D. 2015. Kaolinitic clay elicits protective effects against
Flavobacterium columnare infection in channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus. Journal of Fish Diseases 38: 241-248
4.  Blaylock R & SA Bullard. 2015. Counter-insurgents in the Blue Revolution: parasites, diseases, and perceptions.
Journal of Parasitology 100(6):743-755 (invited review)
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New publica=ons –cont. 5.  Catalano, M.J. and M. A. Bozek. 2015. Influence of environmental variables on catostomid spawning chronology in
a warmwater river. American Midland Naturalist 173:1-16
6.  Chen S, McElroy S, Dane F, Peatman E. 2015. Optimizing transcriptome assemblies for Eleusine indica leaf and
seedling by combining multiple assemblies from three de novo assemblers. The Plant Genome 02/2015; DOI:
10.3835/plantgenome2014.10.006
7.  Chumnanka, N., C. E. Boyd, R. Viriyatum, S. Tunkijjanukij. 2015. Bottom soil characteristics, survival and
production of shrimp in low-salinity, inland ponds in Alabama and Florida (USA). Journal of Soils and Sediments 15:
671-682.
8.  DeVries, D.R., R.A. Wright, D.C. Glover, T.M. Farmer, M R. Lowe, A.J. Norris, and A.C. Peer. 2015. Largemouth
Bass in coastal estuaries: A comprehensive study from the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, Alabama. In Black Bass
Diversity: Multidisciplinary Science for Conservation. American Fisheries Society Symposium 82: 297-309.
9.  Feng, JB, SK Liu, RJ Wang, JR Zhang, XL Wang, L Kaltenboeck, JL Li, et al. 2015. Molecular characterization,
phylogenetic analysis and expression profiling of myoglobin and cytoglobin genes in response to heat stress in
channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus. Journal of fish biology DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12584
10.  Holt, D. E, and C. E. Johnston. 2015. Traffic noise masks acoustic signals of freshwater stream fish. Biological
Conservation 187: 27-33.
11.  Iwashita, Marina Keiko P.; Nakandakare, Ivan B.; Terhune, Jeffery S.; et al. 2015. Dietary supplementation with
Bacillus subtilis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Aspergillus oryzae enhance immunity and disease resistance
against Aeromonas hydrophila and Streptococcus iniae infection in juvenile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus. Fish and
Shellfish Immunology, 43: 60-66
12.  Janosik, A. M., and C. E. Johnston. 2015. Environmental DNA as an effective tool for detection of imperiled fishes.
Environ. Biol. Fish. DOI 10.1007/s10641-015-0405-5
13.  Jaxion-Harm, J., and S. T. Szedlmayer. 2015. Depth and artificial reef type effects on size and distribution of red
snapper in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 35(1): 86-96.
14.  Kasinak, J.M. E., C. J. Bishop, R. A. Wright, and A. E. Wilson. 2015. Grass carp do not consume the nuisance
benthic cyanobacterium, Lyngbya wollei. Journal of Aquatic Plant Management 53:74-80.
15.  Kasinak, J.-M. E., B. M. Holt, M. F. Chislock, and A. E. Wilson. 2015. Benchtop fluorometry of phycocyanin as a
rapid approach for estimating cyanobacterial biovolume. Journal of Plankton Research 37(1):248-257.
16.  Larsen, AM, FS Rikard, WC Walton, CR Arias. 2015. Temperature effect on high salinity depuration of Vibrio
vulnificus and V. parahaemolyticus from the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica). International journal of food
microbiology 192, 66-71
17.  Larsen, AM, HH Mohammed , CR Arias. 2015. Comparison of DNA extraction protocols for the analysis of gut
microbiota in fishes. FEMS Microbiology Letters 362: DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnu031
18.  Larsen, AM, SA Bullard, M Womble, CR Arias. 2015. Community structure of skin microbiome of Gulf killifish,
Fundulus grandis, is driven by seasonality and not exposure to oiled sediments in a Louisiana salt marsh. Microbial
ecology, 1-11.
19.  Li C, Gowan S, Anil A, Beck B, Thongda W, Kucuktas H, Kaltenboeck L, Peatman E. 2015. Discovery and validation
of gene-linked diagnostic SNP markers for assessing hybridization between Largemouth bass (Micropterus
salmoides) and Florida bass (M. floridanus). Molecular Ecology Resources; 15: 395-404
20.  Li, L., C. E. Boyd, and S. Dong. 2015. Chemical profiling with modeling differentiates Ictalurid catfish produced in
fertilized and feeding ponds. Food Control 50:18-22.
21.  Li, Y, S Liu, Z Qin, J Yao, C Jiang, L Song, R Dunham, Z Liu. 2015. The serpin superfamily in channel catfish:
Identification, phylogenetic analysis and expression profiling in mucosal tissues after bacterial infections.
Developmental & Comparative Immunology 49 (2), 267-277
22.  Lyu, K., L. Zhang, X. Zhu, G. Cui, A. E. Wilson, and Z. Yang. 2015. Arginine kinase in the cladoceran Daphnia
magna: cDNA sequencing and expression is associated with resistance to toxic Microcystis. Aquatic Toxicology
160:13-21
23.  Mu, W, J Yao, J Zhang, S Liu, H Wen, J Feng, Z Liu. 2015. Expression of tumor suppressor genes in channel catfish
after bacterial infections. Developmental & Comparative Immunology 48 (1), 171-177
24.  Newcomer, B. J., P. H. Walz, M. D. Givens, and A. E. Wilson. 2015. Efficacy of bovine viral diarrhea virus
vaccination to prevent reproductive disease: a meta-analysis. Theriogenology 83:360-365
25.  Peterson BC, Peatman E, Ourth DD,Waldbieser GC. 2015. Effects of a phytogenic feed additive on growth
performance, susceptibility of channel catfish to Edwardsiella ictaluri and levels of mannose binding lectin. Fish &
Shellfish Immunology 44 (1), 21-25
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New publica=ons – cont. 26.  Salze, G P.; Davis, D. A. 2015. Taurine: a critical nutrient for future fish feeds. Aquaculture, 437: 215-229
27.  Simcox, B.L., D.R. DeVries, and R.A. Wright. 2015. Migratory characteristics and passage of paddlefish at two
Southeastern U.S. lock-and-dam systems. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 143:456-466.
28.  Sun, L, S Liu, L Bao, Y Li, J Feng, Z Liu. 2015. Claudin multigene family in channel catfish and their expression
profiles in response to bacterial infection and hypoxia as revealed by meta-analysis of RNA-Seq datasets.
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D: Genomics and Proteomics
29.  Tian, Y, J Yao, S Liu, C Jiang, J Zhang, Y Li, J Feng, Z Liu. 2015. Identification and expression analysis of 26
oncogenes of the receptor tyrosine kinase family in channel catfish after bacterial infection and hypoxic stress.
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D: Genomics and Proteomics 14
30.  Wang, J, Z Liu, W Li, X Li. 2015 Research on a frequent maximal induced subtrees mining method based on the
compression tree sequence. Expert Systems with Applications 42 (1), 94-100
31.  Womble, MR.; Orelis-Ribeiro, R, and Bullard, SA. Proterometra epholkos sp n. (Digenea: Azygiidae) from Terrapin
Creek, Alabama, USA: Molecular characterization of life cycle, redescription of Proterometra albacauda, and
updated lists of host and geographic locality records for Proterometra spp. in North America. Parasitology
International 64: 50-69.
32.  Yao, J, W Mu, S Liu, J Zhang, H Wen, Z Liu. 2015. Identification, phylogeny and expression analysis of suppressors
of cytokine signaling in channel catfish. Molecular immunology 64 (2), 276-284
33.  Zhou, L. and C. E. Boyd. 2015. An assessment of total ammonia nitrogen concentration in Alabama (USA) ictalurid
catfish ponds and the possible risk of ammonia toxicity. Aquaculture 437:263-269.
New grants, contracts & giAs NEW AWARDS
January
$485,000 Liu/Peatman USDA Development of 675K SNP Arrays for Whole Genome Mapping & Genetic Studies in
Catfish
$455,000 Liu/Dunham USDA-NIFA
February
$15,000 Davis/Daniels University of Arizona Developing a Sustainable Industry Infrastructure in Mynamar
$32,399 Boyd/Whitis SRAC Split-Pond Aquaculture Systems: Design Refinements for Catfish Producers and Evaluation
for Culturing Other Species - Year 2
$82,950 Davis USSEC Shrimp RAPCO - Auburn University
$16,681 Daniels American Soybean Association Consultancy to Provide Aquaculture Training and Support in Liberia
March
$78,058 Hanson/Davis United Soybean Board (USB) Improving High Soy Feed Formulations Supplemented with
Taurine in US Marine Fish Feeds
$55,200 Hanson/Terhune/Liles AL Dept. of Ag & Industries Emerging Virulent Aeromonas hydrophia (Vah): Research to
Understand the Pathogen and life Management through Field Trials in West Alabama
$10,000 Arias USDA_NIFA Flavobacterium 2015 Conference
April
$120,749 Irwin ADCNR Experimental stocking of sport fish in the regulated Tallapoosa River to determine critical
periods for recruitment
$186,831 Szedlmayer ADCNR Mortality estimations, movement patterns of apex predators around artificial reefs in the
northeast Gulf of Mexico
$43,091 Daniels University of California at Davis Nutrition-Horticulture Collaborative Research Program
$92,335 Stoeckel/Wang/Fowler U.S. Geological Survey 2015 USGS Water Resources Research Institute 104(b)
Program $20,000 of this Dr. Stoeckel's - "Evaluation of Thermal and Dissolved Oxygen Stress to Freshwater
Mussels in a Safe Harbor/Critical Habitat Reach of an Alabama Stream"
AMENDMENTS WITH NEW MONEY
$500,000 Szedlmayer BP-Offshore fisheries & the recent Gulf oil spill
$1,341 Wilson NSF One Year Intergovernmental Personnel Act
$48,000 Hanson The Catfish Institute Developing Catfish Reports for Processing and Feed Delivered Year 3
Continuation
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New grants, contracts & giAs -­‐ cont. $170,000 Szedlmayer BP Laboratory analysis of roughtongue bass following the DWHOS
$65,527 Hanson/Jensen/Chappell Alabama Catfish Producers Pond to Plate - Year 7
Honors and Awards Faculty: -­‐  Dennis DeVries, Auburn University Spirit of Sustainability Award, March 2015. -­‐  Stephen Bullard, Patronym: Acanthocercodes bullardi Kritsky & Diggles, 2015 (Monogenoidea: Diplectanidae) Graduate Students: -­‐  Raphael Orélis-­‐Ribeiro (PhD student; Bullard), Outstanding Interna=onal Graduate Student represen=ng School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aqua=c Sciences; The Graduate School, Auburn University -­‐  Ma^hew R. Womble,. (MS student; Bullard), Outstanding Senator, recogni=on for outstanding service to the Auburn University Graduate Student Council 2014-­‐15 -­‐  Briana Olsen (MS student; Wilson). Best student presenta=on at the Alabama Fisheries Associa=on annual mee=ng -­‐  Hisham Abdelrahman (PhD student; Boyd). USAS Merck Best Presenta=on Award. Aquaculture America 2015. -­‐  Hisham Abdelrahman (PhD student; Boyd). Alltech Young Scien=st Affilia=on Award (USA Medal, 3rd place). -­‐  Nermeen Youssef (PhD student; Dunham) honored for comple=ng PhD research under joint AU –Egyp=an Government scholarship program -­‐  Haitham Mohammed (PhD student; Arias). Best student abstract. WAS. Aquaculture America 2015 -­‐  Haitham Mohammed (PhD student; Arias). Best Spotlight Presenta=on. WAS. Aquaculture America 2015 Undergraduate Students: -­‐  Evelyn Willmon (mentor, Arias). WAS Undergraduate Fellowship. Aquaculture America 2015. Scien=fic Mee=ngs Faculty and students have been very ac=ve this year in presen=ng their research at different scien=fic mee=ngs and conferences. Those included: Plant & Animal Genome XXIII, Annual Mee=ng of the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society, 2015 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science, Alabama Fisheries Associa=on Annual Mee=ng, Aquaculture America 2015, Eastern Fish Health Workshop, Freshwater Mollusk Conserva=on Society Symposium, Southeastern Society of Parasitologists, Dauphin Island Sea Lab Marine Sciences Graduate Student Symposium, Annual Project Review Mee=ng AU-­‐ADCNR, and AU-­‐This is Research, among others. Miscellaneous -­‐  Carol Johnston’s research was highlighted in ScienceNews h^ps://www.sciencenews.org/ar=cle/highway-­‐bridge-­‐noise-­‐disturbs-­‐fish’s-­‐hearing?tgt=nr -­‐  Several SFAAS presented their research at AU-­‐This is Research Week. We thank Dave Perera, Affiliate Faculty, for serving as judge. -­‐  Two of our graduate students (Candis Ray and Haitham Mohammed) were inducted into Sigma Gamma Delta (the Honor Society of Agriculture) in April 2015 -­‐  Dennis DeVries served as a member of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize Judging Panel (April 2015) -­‐  Alan Wilson gave an invited seminar at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (March 2105) -­‐  Stephen Bullard was appointed President of the Southeastern Society of Parasitologists (April 2015) Did you know that the brown shrimp (Farfantepenaeus aztecus) is now the state of Alabama's official crustacean? h^p://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/04/
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