Friday, July 9, 2010

Pictures from previous days...

7:00 AM: Breakfast

8:00 – 9:00 AM: Comparative Morphology of Fishes

Presenter: Dr Roy Yanong, Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, University of Florida

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Comparative Physiology of Fishes

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Keliow, Louisiana State University

Keliow gave an overview of fish physiology, metabolism, and parmacokinectics/ toxicokinetics in fishes. This included cardiorespiratory and renal physiology. Emphasis was placed on the gill as a respiratory, metabolic, and excretory organ. We also examined Phase I and Phase II metabolism by fishes. Keliow also spent time discussing the influence of body size, temperature, and other environmental variables on xenobiotic fate in fishes.

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Stress in Fishes

Presenter: Dr. Kat Hadfield, National Aquarium

Temperature, crowding, biological oxygen demand, and the ammonia cycle all have a large effect on the generalized stress response in confined fishes. Hadfield demonstrated these principles with case studies.

12:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 PM: Physical Examination methods for Fishes.

Presenter: Dr. Hadfield

2:00 – 3:00 PM: Viral and Bacterial Diseases of Fishes

Hadfield discussed important viral and bacterial diseases of fishes related to environmental management (restocking, introductions of exotic species, nutrient loading, water quality problems, pathogen pollution).

3:00 – 6:00 PM: Fish Parasitology and Ecosystem Health

Presenter: Dr. Yanong and Dr. Jan Lovy, Atlantic Veterinary College

Yanong described metazoan parasites of fishes and how environmental change can influence parasitic disease. Lovy then talked about his work in protozoan, microsporidia, and myxosporea of fishes as well as the pathogenesis and major diseases caused by these organisms.

6:00 – 7:00 PM: Dinner

Evening:

Everyone was pretty exhausted after another long day. When we got back to the hotel many classmates joined my roommates and I in our room to watch Harry Potter.