Bullard Lab at Auburn University

 

Our research group (comprising the Southeastern Cooperative Fish Parasite and Disease Laboratory [established in 1964] and Southeastern Cooperative Fish Genetics Laboratory [established in 1972]) is housed within Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences. We integrate the study of fish health, fish parasites, and fish genetics in a resource management context to solve problems that impact commerce, fisheries management, and aquaculture production. Dr. Stephen Ashton (Ash) Bullard (Auburn University Alumni Professor) serves as the current Director of each of these multi-state cooperatives. Our collective research group includes full-time researchers, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and support staff for the operation of the multi-state cooperatives. We study fish genetics as well as all types of aquatic parasites and diseases, including those affecting fish, frogs, salamanders, turtles, snakes, birds, freshwater and marine shrimps, freshwater mussels and oysters, and a variety of other organisms. We sample habitats including Appalachian mountain streams, low-order streams, mainstem river systems, reservoirs, deltas, estuaries, barrier islands, the epipelagic zone, and the deep ocean. We conduct pathogen surveillance expeditions in Southeast Asia, South America, and Sub-Saharan Africa with our partners in those regions. We are initiating several studies related to Black Bass genetics in the Southeastern United States. We partner with anyone who shares the goal of making the United States stronger regarding the protection and management of its aquatic natural resources. Our current partners include the US Fish and Wildlife Service (via a cooperative agreement focused on Fish Health), numerous state natural resource agencies throughout the Southeastern United States, private companies, not-for-profit conservation groups, public aquaria, the aquaculture industry, and university researchers.

                                                                                             

                                                                                   Website: https://www.aquaticparasitologylab.org/infinityses.com