{"id":69288,"date":"2005-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/tiverton-residents-research-at-uri-aids-in-understanding-oyster-susceptibility-to-disease\/"},"modified":"2005-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T00:00:00","slug":"tiverton-residents-research-at-uri-aids-in-understanding-oyster-susceptibility-to-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/11\/tiverton-residents-research-at-uri-aids-in-understanding-oyster-susceptibility-to-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiverton resident\u2019s research at 溏心vlog免费B站 aids in understanding oyster susceptibility to disease"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — November 22, 2005 — 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Rachel Hadley has become immersed in a world of DNA amplification, bacteria cultures, disease surveys and histological investigations. These complex processes have helped the Tiverton resident play an important role in research to learn why some types of oysters are susceptible to disease pathogens.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOur ultimate goal is to identify the molecular marker in their genes that is involved in resistance to disease,\u201d said Hadley, a 22-year-old biology and psychology major. \u201cFirst we have to find those that don\u2019t die from the disease, and then we try to understand why.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tHadley has spent the last six months working with 溏心vlog免费B站 fisheries researcher Marta Gomez-Chiarri testing claims that some strains of oysters are less susceptible to two common pathogens \u2013 Vibrio and juvenile oyster disease. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI found that the larvae are very susceptible to disease and they die quickly, but as they get bigger they become better at evading the pathogen and they have better defense mechanisms,\u201d she explained. \u201cThe Vibrio cluster around the edge of the oyster larvae, and when the larvae open up to feed, the bacteria invade. Once they are infected with the bacteria, they spin around, settle to the bottom and die.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFunding for Hadley\u2019s research was provided by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Coastal Fellows Program, a unique initiative designed to involve undergraduate students in addressing current environmental problems. Now in its tenth year, the program based in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of the Environment and Life Sciences teams students with faculty, research staff and graduate students to help them gain skills that will ensure their future success. Additional research funding was provided by the Rhode Island Aquaculture Initiative.<\/p>\n


\nIt took a while for Hadley\u2019s interest in biology to blossom. She started out as an education major, switched to business and then to psychology. \u201cWhat I like most about psychology is the biology of psychology,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re biological beings with a psyche, one unit that functions together. I\u2019m interested in investigating the interrelationships between our biology and psychology.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe former president of the 溏心vlog免费B站 chapter of Psi Chi, the national psychology honor society, Hadley isn\u2019t quite sure yet how to merge her two majors into a career. She knows she\u2019ll have to go to graduate school, and she is weighing potential jobs in research and higher education.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI have so many interests, I can see myself going so many places, it\u2019s hard to pinpoint what kind of career path I want to dedicate myself to,\u201d said the 溏心vlog免费B站 student. \u201cI\u2019ve also thought about a career as a high school science teacher, or maybe I\u2019ll go straight into molecular research.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cBiology is new and exciting to me, and there\u2019s so much left to learn that I feel like I\u2019m on the tip of the iceberg,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019m just so excited to be pursuing knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — November 22, 2005 — 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Rachel Hadley has become immersed in a world of DNA amplification, bacteria cultures, disease surveys and histological investigations. These complex processes have helped the Tiverton resident play an important role in research to learn why some types of oysters are susceptible to disease […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}