Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant | Research

AQUACULTURE

Research Projects

On the feasibility of establishing a saline aquaculture industry in Illinois
Principal investigator: Nandakishore Rajagopalan
Completed: August 2013
Energy efficient and sustainable aquaculture water treatment Using microbial fuel cells and membrane-supported biofilms
Principal investigator: Robert Nerenberg
Completed: November 2011
Assessing consumer preferences and demand for fish: a market analysis of the Midwest aquaculture industry
Principal investigator: David Ortega
Completed: December 2011
Real-time online access to fish consumption advice
Principal investigator: Charles Santerre
Completed: August 2011
Food webs in the 21st century: exploration of new enabling technologies to understand and predict changes in aquatic food webs and impacts of ecosystems
Principal investigator: Paul Brown
Completion date: August 2011
Genomic resources in lake sturgeon
Principal investigator: Andrew DeWoody
Completed: May 2011
Increasing the availability of veterinarians for Indiana and Illinois aquaculturists
Principal investigator: Jesse Trushenski
Completed: September 2010
Replacement of fish meal in hybrid striped bass diets with proteinaceous fermentation biomass
Principal investigator:Jesse Trushenski
Completed: September 2010
Targeted inactivation of the fish aromatase gene
Principal investigator: Paul Collodi
Completed: August 2004
News Article
Influence of upwelling events on larval and juvenile yellow perch project
Principal investigator: John Janssen
Completed: February 2003
The Development of molecular and biochemical tools to assess changes in yellow perch (Perca flavescens) growth hormone
Principal investigator: Frederick W. Goetz
Completed: March 2002
Determination of the effects of culture temperature on growth, survival and biochemical composition of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Principal investigator: James H. Tidwell
Completed: October 2001
Recruitment failure of yellow perch in Lake Michigan: evaluation of the starvation and predation hypotheses
Principal investigator: John Janssen
Completed: February 2001

Archived Projects

Peer-Reviewed Publications

To obtain abstracts and, where available, full papers, visit the National Sea Grant Library

Roberts, S., T. Barry, J. Malison and F. Goetz. 2004. Production of a recombinantly-derived growth hormone antibody and the characterization of growth hormone levels in yellow perch.Aquaculture. 232 (1-4), pp. 591-602.
Fan, L., Crodian, J. and Collodi, P. 2004. Culture of embryonic stem cell lines from zebrafish. Methods in Cell Biology. 76: 149-158.
Fan, L., Crodian, J. and Collodi, P. 2004. Production of zebrafish germline chimeras by using cultured embryonic stem (ES) cells.Methods in Cell Biology. 77: 113-119.
Fan, L., Crodian, J., Liu, X., Alestrom, P., Alestrom, A. and Collodi, P. 2004. Zebrafish embryo cells remain pluripotent and germ-line competent for multiple passages in culture. Zebrafish 1: 21-26.
Fan, L., Alestrom, A., Alestrom, P. and Collodi, P. 2004. Development of cell cultures with competency for contributing to the zebrafish germ line. Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression. 12: 43-51.
Fan, L. 2002. Progress towards cell-mediated gene transfer in zebrafish. Briefings in Functional Genomics & Proteomics. 1, 131-138.
Ma, C., L. Fan, R. Ganassin, N. Bols, and P. Collodi. 2001. Zebrafish germ line chimeras produced from embryo cell cultures. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 98:2461-2466.
Wan, P., C.R. Santerre and D.C. Deardorff. 2001. Linking solid phase extraction and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to measure chlorpyrifos in fish tissue. Journal of Food Science 66(2): 274-277.
Fan, L., Alestrom, A., Alestrom, P. and Collodi, P. 2004. Production of zebrafish germ-line chimeras from cultured cells. Methods in Molecular Medicine. 254: 289-299.
Phillips, Peter C., and Christopher C. Kohler. 1991. Establishment of Tilapia spawning families providing a continuous supply of eggs for in-vitro fertilization. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society. 22(4):217-223.