NCRR Training Grant

NCRR Training Grant – Veterinary Training in Aquatic Animal Models in Toxicology

This NCRR training grant provides veterinarians with training in biomedical research, specifically focused on using aquatic research models. The program provides concentrated mentored research training emphasizing laboratory research using multidisciplinary approaches. Training in the use of fish as models for toxicological, oncology, and infectious diseases of fishes is emphasized.  Trainees will have opportunities to gain knowledge in fish husbandry, infectious diseases and health of fishes, molecular techniques, physiology, transgenics, and diagnostics. Support is available on a competitive basis to applicants with a veterinary degree, and provides the opportunity to obtain a research degree (MS or PhD).

The focus of the program is research, but candidates will also be given opportunities to expand their skills in general fish husbandry and aquatic diagnostics through externships or longer term research collaborations at OSU and with local research partners. Laboratories affiliated with the program that are conducting in vivo research with aquatics are listed below.

Two postions are available starting July 1, 2010. Contact Dr. Michael L. Kent, Deputy Director for further information. Michael.Kent@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-8652.

Faculty

The training faculty from several colleges and departments at OSU has a long history using aquatic models for biomedical research and the study of fish health, with outstanding and unique facilities and infrastructure.

• Dr. Robert Tanguay, Director, and Associate Professor, Enivron. Mol. Toxiocol.- aquatic toxicology, zebrafish models
• Dr. Michael Kent, Deputy Director and Professor, Microbiology and Biomedical Sciences - infectious diseases in zebrafish and salmonids
• Dr. Christopher Bayne, Emeritus Professor, Zoology, comparative immunology
• Dr. Luiz Bermudez,  Chair and Professor, Dept. Biomedical Sciences – zebrafish models for mycobacteriosis
• Dr. Jerry Heidel, Professor, Biomedical Sciences and Director Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory -  fish histopathology, diseases of ornamental fishes
• Dr. Dan Rockey, Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences – bacterial pathogenesis and genome project with Renibacterium salmoninarum
• Dr. Carl Schreck, Professor, Fisheries and Wildlife & Leader of the Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit – salmonids, fish physiology
• Dr. Martin Schuster, Assistant Professor, Microbiology - molecular mechanisms of quorum sensing gene regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Dr. Janine Trempy, Professor, Microbiology – fish cell models for assessing stress and toxins
• Dr. David Williams, Professor, Enivorn. and Mol. Toxicol. - mammalian and fish models in research on the mechanism of toxicity of environmental chemicals.

Facilities for Aquatic Animal Research
Several laboratories are present at OSU or in collaborating institutes that will be available for conducting studies with fish and other aquatic species

• Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory
• John L. Fryer Salmon Disease Laboratory
  
• Fish Performance and Genetics Laboratory. Dr. Schreck oversees this facility, which houses experiments using salmonids, sturgeon, and other species.
• Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory 
• Hatfield Marine Science Center
• Oregon Hatchery Research Center
• Zebrafish International Resource Center (University of Oregon)

John L. Fryer Salmon Disease Laboratory	Oregon Hatchery Research Center View Video
Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory	Veterinary Diagnostic Lab