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)

Newsle&er  #1  May  2015  

New  staff  members,  visitors  &  students  

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  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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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

New  publica=ons  –cont.  

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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 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  publica=ons  –  cont.  

New  grants,  contracts  &  giAs  

Honors  and  Awards  

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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)  

 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.  

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/alabamas_brown_shrimp_isnt_so.html  

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