Fish Disease

• Whirling disease in rainbow trout
• Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia in Pacific herring
• Ichthyophonus infections of chinook salmon in the Yukon River
• Mortality in Salton Sea Tilapia and possible links to avian botulism
• IHN Virus Bibliography

Physiology and Behavior

• Gas bubble disease monitoring and research of juvenile salmonids
• Effects of swimming and exhaustive stress in Pacific lamprey (Lampetra tridentata): implications for upstream migrations past dams

Detection, Transmission, and Immunology

• Heritability of disease resistance in immune function in chinook salmon, with special emphasis on broodstock culling to control bacterial kidney disease
• Transmission of Renibacterium salmoninarum in Pacific salmon
• Evaluation of procedures for collection, transportation, and downstream passage of outmigrating salmonids
• Studies on the detection, transmission, and development of Renibacterium salmoninarum infections in Great Lakes salmonid fishes
• Salmonid immune function

Microbiology and Molecular Tools

• Characterization of a heat shock gene of chinook salmon
• Development of DNA vaccines for salmonids
• IHN virus strain differentiation and field epidemiology in salmonids
• Fish virus molecular biology and genetics