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Partnerships at Hollings Marine Laboratory

Team research is the theme of the Hollings Marine Laboratory. No longer can one scientist working in one discipline, or at one institution, independently provide solutions to the coastal environmental and public health problems of this nation. The cumulative and combined expertise and skills of the Partners provide the resources that allow the research teams to assess marine environmental quality and link it to human health.

For more information about the College of Charleston
http://www.cofc.edu/~grice/

 

College of Charleston

The College of Charleston    is located in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina   , and is the nation's 13th oldest academic institution. This state-supported college was established in 1770 to provide education in the arts and sciences, education, and business, with a particular emphasis on meeting the changing demands of South Carolina's Lowcountry coastal areas. The College's Department of Biology    offers two B.S. degrees (Biology and Marine Biology), a B.A. degree in Biology, and a B.S. degree in Biology with an emphasis on Molecular Biology. The Graduate School    offers a Master's degree in Marine Biology   ; the program is located at the Grice Marine Laboratory    at Fort Johnson on James Island. A Master's degree in Environmental Studies    is also offered through the Graduate School.

Some HML scientists are faculty    for the Graduate Program in Marine Biology, faculty    for the Environmental Studies program, as well as faculty    at the Department of Biology at the College of Charleston.

HML Principal Scientists representing the College of Charleston include:

injecting a shrimp

Karen Burnett   
Email: burnettk@cofc.edu
Research interests: marine biomedicine, immunology, molecular biology of marine organisms.
Selected current projects:

  • Preliminary evaluation of a yeast product food supplement in protection against infection with bacterial and viral pathogens in the Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei.
  • Oysters as vectors of disease pathogens—establishment of a Center of Excellence in Oceans and Human Health.
oysters in aquaculture

Lou Burnett   
Email: burnettl@cofc.edu
Research interests: environmental physiology, respiration and transport processes in animals.
Selected current projects:

  • Hypercapnic hypoxia impacts shrimp immune defenses against bacterial pathogens.
  • Oysters as vectors of disease pathogens—establishment of a Center of Excellence in Oceans and Human Health.
penguin

Jack DiTullio   
Email: ditullioj@cofc.edu
Research interests: phytoplankton physiology and ecology, biogeochemical cycling.
Selected current projects:

  • Iron and light effects on Phaeocystis antarctica isolates from the Ross Sea.
  • Physiological and genomic approaches to understanding responses of the Florida red tide dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis, to iron limitation and oxidative stress.