The Ishaq lab and some of our collaborators will be presenting out work on scallop health and microbes in hatcheries at the Northeast Aquaculture Conference & Exposition (NACE) and the 43rd Milford Aquaculture Seminar (MAS), which are being held together in Providence, Rhode Island this week on January 10-12.

Session: Scallop Health in Hatcheries

Chair: Sue Ishaq

Friday, 8:00 am in the Newport/Washington room

Sue Ishaq, Assistant Professor at UMaine	Bacterial community trends associated with sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus, larvae in a hatchery system.
Ayodeji Olaniyi, Master’s student in the Ishaq Lab at UMaine	Investigating the activity of bacteria isolated from tank biofilms in a hatchery system for sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus, larvae
Adwoa Dankwa, Postdoctoral research in the Perry Lab at UMaine	Identification of bacterial communities and their association with larval mortality in Atlantic sea scallops (Placopecten magellanicus) hatchery system
Kyle Brennan, Master’s student in the Bowden Lab at UMaine	Probiotics and pathogens
Jaypee Samson, PhD Student in the Gomez-Chiarri Lab at URI	Isolation, Screening, And Selection Of Potential Pathogenic And Probiotic Bacteria From Bivalve Shellfishes
Sydney Avena, Master’s student at the Darling Marine Center	“Cracking the shell”: Lessons learned from a collaborative approach to developing hatchery production of the Atlantic sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus
Tara Riley, Shellfish and Aquatic Resources Manager for Nanucket, MA	Saving The Seed: Nantucket Bay Scallop Seed Management Of 2023

Session: Coastal Systems & Scallops

Chairs: Sue Ishaq and & Phoebe Jekielek

Friday, 1:30 pm in the Newport/Washington room

Samuel Gurr	Developmental mismatch of pCO 2 levels in a second generation of northern bay scallops
Christopher Noren	Comparing growth of ear hung and lantern net cultured sea scallops, Placopecten magellanicus, over a complete grow-out cycle to determine optimal harvest timing
Phoebe Jekielek	A comparative study of sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) energy investment strategies in farmed and wild environments
Caitlin Cleaver	Understanding wild sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) larval spatial and temporal distribution in Maine to support culture and capture fisheries
Paul Rawson	Predicting larval dispersal and population connectivity of Sea Scallops, Placopecten magellanicus, in Downeast Maine.
Griffin Harkins	Review of Nantucket Island’s Bay Scallop Spat Bag Program