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ECOHAB Fiscal Year 2006 Project Abstracts

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• Title: Spread of a Sodium Channel Mutation in Softshell Clam, Mya arenaria, Populations: Implications for Risk Assessment and Management of PSP Toxins.
  Investigators: L. Connell, V.M. Bricelj, P. Rawson
  Institutions:University of Maine, National Research Council Canada
  
• Title: Engineering Upgrades and Field Trials of the Autonomous Microbial Genosensor
  Investigators: J.H. Paul, D.P. Fries, M. Smith
  Institution: University of South Florida
  
• Title: Identifying Regulatory Mechanisms for Heterosigma akashiwo Bloom Formation: Predation Interactions with Algal Behavior and Resource Use
  Investigators: S. L. Strom and S. Menden-Deuer
  Institution: Western Washington University
  
• Title: Intraspecific Variation in a Toxin-producing Dinoflagellate
  Investigators: L. Campbell, J.R., Gold
  Institution: Texas A&M University
  
• Title: Relation Between Grazer Toxin Dynamics and Resistance to Toxic Dinoflagellates
  Investigator: Hans G. Dam
  Institution: University of Connecticut
  
• Title: GOMTOX: Dynamics of Alexandrium fundyense Distributions in the Gulf of Maine: An Observational and Modeling Study of Nearshore and Offshore Shellfish Toxicity, Vertical Toxin Flux, and Bloom Dynamics in a Complex Shelf Sea
  Investigators: D.M. Anderson, D.J. McGillicuddy, Jr., R. He, B.A. Keafer, C.H.Pilskaln, J. Martin, J. Manning, V.M. Bricelj, J. Deeds, S. Etheridge, S. Hall, J.T. Turner, N.R. Pettigrew, A. Thomas, D.W. Townsend
  Institutions: Woods Hole Oceanographic Insititution, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, NOAA/Northeast Fisheries Science Center, National Research Council Canada, Food and Drug Administration, University of Massachusetss, Univeristy of Maine, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
  
• Title: ECOHAB: Karenia Nutrient Dynamics in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
  Investigators: C. A. Heil, D. Bronk, L.K. Dixon, G. Hitchcock, G. Kirkpatrick, M. Mulholland, J. OíNeil, J.J. Walsh, R. Weisberg
  Institutions: Fish & Wildlife Research Institution,Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Mote Marine Laboratory, University of Miami, Old Dominion University Research Foundation, University of Maryland, University of South Florida
  
• Title: Understanding Shellfish Resistance Strategies as a Means to Predict and Manage PSP Toxicity
  Investigators: T. Scheuer, W.A.Catterall, V. Trainer, V.M. Bricelj
  Institutions: University of Washington, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Research Council Canada
  
• Title: Investigating Chronic Toxicity and Bioaccumulation of Microcystins in Freshwater Fish Using Toxicogenomics and Histopathology
  Investigators: T.B. Henry, G.S. Sayler, S.W. Wilhelm, R. J. Strange
  Institution: The University of Tennessee