报告题目：Climate change impacts on the spread of disease in shellfish aquaculture
报告时间：9月28日上午10:00-11:30
报告地点：食品与环境学院办公楼D05-209
报告人：Professor Sarah Culloty
报告摘要：
Shellfish are an important commercial and cultural food product in Ireland and the European Union. However in recent years production has been impacted on by a range of shellfish pathogens including viruses and bacteria. This has resulted in significant mortality rates but also impacts in the greater environment due to the important role of bivalves in the ecosystems in which they are found. Of particular interest is the speed at which these diseases have spread globally. The focus of the presentation will be on the impacts of climate change on the spread of disease and how an understanding of host:parasite dynamics in marine environments can help elucidate some of the important drivers of ecosystem dynamics.
报告人简介：
Sarah Culloty
Head
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall
Cork,
Ireland
T: 00 353 21 4904646
F: 00 353 21 4904664
E: s.culloty@ucc.ie
Director
Environmental Research Institute
University College Cork
Ireland
T: 00 353 214901946
Prof. Sarah Culloty is Head of the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Environmental Research Institute at UCC. Prof. Culloty's main area of research interest is in ecological parasitology with a particular focus on molluscan diseases. Research centres on pathogen life cycles, epidemiology, diagnostics and approaches to ameliorate impacts of disease.
Research Interests
The main emphasis of my research is in the area of ecological parasitology and immunology. Much of the research focuses on diseases of commercially significant bivalve shellfish (oysters, clams, mussels, scallops, cockles) but research is also ongoing on other groups (crabs, polychaetes, gastropods, tunicates) on general aspects of invertebrate biology such as reproduction. Disease research is on host:parasite interactions, epidemiology, parasite life cycles, diagnostics and mathematical modelling of host:parasite interactions.
