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Welcome to R2R, Tony!

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Lots to learn but we have the answers !!

 
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KrisReef said:
Welcome to Reef2Reef Tony!

Did you happen to get any video of the peppermint shrimp Thunderdome fight? We love pictures and videos, and that would be awesome to see if you did? What questions are you investigating in the Oyster lab? It all sounds very interesting. Again, Welcome to Reef2Reef.
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Regarding the peppermint gladiator fight, I unfortunately didn't document it! I went in with the back of a net to do some crowd control but they just started attacking the handle. Immediately they went back to a death match until their was only one shrimp to rule them all. I have to wonder what happened to him though, he kind of just disappeared after, I assumed he died of some injuries.

Over in the oyster lab we are looking at essential proteins involved in the immune processes of Oysters. These guys only have primary immune systems and never developed secondary immune functions, meaning they have no learned immunity unlike most mammals. As a result they've evolved to have some amazing responses to environmental pollution as well as bacterial infection. Shockingly the proteins of interest share remarkable similarity in form, function, and amino acid/DNA sequence to homologous human proteins. Looking at the efficiency of the primary immune response in oysters could lead to some interesting conclusions regarding human's sometimes lack luster primary immune systems (think cancers, auto-immune disorders, so on.) If all that fancy stuff doesn't pan out, its still relevant to Oyster farms battling diseases and pollution that can wipe out entire Oyster beds. Some nasty things lurk in Oysters, the nastiest being Vibrio Cholerae. Being on the molecular side of things means I hardly see the oysters unless I'm doing a dissection to grab some tissue for Immuno-fluorescent microscopy or for DNA/RNA extraction for sequencing and cloning.
 
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Peace River said:
It actually does sound interesting. Although I don't study anything at the molecular level, I do have several books on inverts from Spotte 1970) to Voshell (2007) and "Freshwater Mussels of Florida" (Williams et al., 2014) and have helped in oyster bed recovery projects.

You may be interested in @Chasmodes's Chesapeake Bay Oyster Reef Biotope Tank build thread that is here on R2R.
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That's great! Where abouts did you do the restoration projects? Oyster restoration has been big news over here in Long Island since Super Storm Sandy essentially cleaned out the Bays. The population has been restored quite heavily.

I just checked out that thread it was an amazing idea thank you for the link!
 
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Tony R. said:
That's great! Where abouts did you do the restoration projects?
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Tampa Bay. One of the Florida Master Naturalist Program courses is on Coastal Shoreline Restoration.
 
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