Research

How will pathogens respond to the global expansion of marine aquaculture?

Marine aquaculture’s global expansion has transformed marine ecosystems. We work to understand how these transformations impact disease-causing pathogens, particularly in the context of environmental change. Our current projects include investigating how selecting for disease resistance in open-water shellfish aquaculture can influence disease impacts to coastal ecosystems, how triploid oysters respond to multiple environmental stressors, and shellfisheries as sentinels for toxin-producing algae. This applied research is driven by close collaborations with industry and management and is generously supported by grants from state and federal agencies and foundations. See our Publications page for products from our ongoing research activities.