As the fisheries and aquaculture industries continue to expand in the state of Maine and
\nworldwide, the need for new disease control methods and diagnostic tests will increase
\ndramatically. Through the studies outlined in this proposal, we hope to better understand and
\npotentiate the innate immune response, which is the first line of host defense against pathogens,
\nand then to modulate this immune function to enhance host response to infection. We have used the zebrafish as a model for economically important species because of the vast body of
\nscientific information and reagents that are readily available for this species. The information
\ngained through this model system will be transferred directly to other fish species, such as
\nrainbow trout and Atlantic salmon, economically important fish of Maine. Findings of these
\nstudies will enable the development of novel strategies for potentiating fish immune function,
\nimproving disease control and facilitating new vaccine strategies, which will ultimately lead to
\nincreased productivity in the aquaculture industry.<\/p>\n
Investigator: <\/strong>Kim, C.<\/p>\n Unit: <\/strong>Molecular and Biomedical Sciences<\/p>\n Termination Date: <\/strong>30-Sep-20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the fisheries and aquaculture industries continue to expand in the state of Maine and worldwide, the need for new disease control methods and diagnostic tests will increase dramatically. Through the studies outlined in this proposal, we hope to better understand and potentiate the innate immune response, which is the first line of host defense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[58,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine","category-research-programs"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":58,"label":"Marine"},{"value":44,"label":"Research Programs"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2016\/01\/Carol-Kim_0693.jpg",802,444,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":58,"name":"Marine","slug":"marine","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":58,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":44,"count":27,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":58,"category_count":27,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Marine","category_nicename":"marine","category_parent":44},{"term_id":44,"name":"Research Programs","slug":"research-programs","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":81,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":44,"category_count":81,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Research Programs","category_nicename":"research-programs","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}