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Jarst van Belle SUN Samuel Sai Man Kiki Kots GOTOH Tetsuo Emmanouil Domazakis OHTA Hiroyuki Amalia Diaz Granados Francesca Maio Sara Buti Peter Bourke Marcel Dicke Gene-Sheng Tung Paul Gutierrez Shih-Wen Chung Jeng-Chuann Yang Chien-Wen Chen ZHANG Jianhua Ming-Nan Chen FUNG Ming Chiu Indira P. Sarethy View MoreWilliam N Batts
Professor
Biologist
Western Fisheries Research Center
Romania
Research on all kinds of fish viruses. However, I am focused primarily on RNA viruses of fish. Provide technical assistance to fish health professionals whether they are from state, government, tribal, commercial or from other countries. Specialize in detection and identification methods for existing and novel viruses. I have studied a wide variety of virus types for genomic comparisons: IHNV, VHSV, and other rhabdoviruses of fish, paramyxoviruses, orthomyxoviruses, hepeviruses, nidoviruses, bunyaviruses, picornaviruses, reoviruses, birnaviruses, herpesviruses and iridoviruses. Have performed fish exposure studies to ascertain control and prevention strategies on fish viruses. Investigated various potential virus transmission modes. Overall, I'm just trying to understand how the various viruses do what they do and try to give the fish a better chance for survival.