Peter A. Van Veld

Associate Professor of Marine Science

Email: [[vanveld]]
Phone: (804) 684-7230
Fax: (804) 684-7186
Office: Chesapeake Bay Hall N209
Department: Environmental and Aquatic Animal Health

Education

• B.S., Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• M.S., Marine Science, College of William and Mary
• Ph.D., Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia

Research Interests

Biochemical and molecular responses to environmental stress, endocrine disruption in fish and invertebrates, chemical carcinogenesis.

Current Projects

• Development of a portable, universal assay for determination of gender and reproductive status of Istiophorid billfish.  NOAA.  2005-2007.
• Dietary modulation of innate resistance to mycobacteriosis in striped bass. NOAA 2005-2006. 
• Effects of Delaware Bay water and putative endocrine disrupting compounds on horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) using proteomics and embryonic development and survival. National Fish and Wildlife Federation. 2005-2006
• Biomarker responses in eastern mosquitofish during life-cycle exposures to biosolids. Virgina Water Resources Research Center. 2005-2006.
• Investigation of endocrine disruption in fish and amphibians exposed to poultry litter-derived contaminants. Maryland Center for Agro-Ecology. 2004-2007.

Selected Publications

• Van Veld, P.A. and D. E. Nacci.  Chemical tolerance: Acclimations and adaptations to chemical stress.  In:  The Toxicology of Fishes  (R.T. Di Giulio and D.E. Hinton, Eds.) Taylor and Francis Publishers, Washington D.C.  (in press).   
• Frederick, L. A., Van Veld, P.A. and Rice, C.D. Elevated bioindicators of innate immunity and suppressed antibody responses in a creosote-adapted population of mummichogs, Fundulus heteroclitus. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health (in press)  
• Van Veld, P. A., B. S. Rutan,  C. A. Sullivan, L. D. Johnston, C. D. Rice, D. S. Fisher and L. D. Yonkos. 2005. A universal assay for vitellogenin in fish mucus and plasma. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 24(12):3048-3052.   
• Burge, E., D. Gauthier, C. Ottinger and P. Van Veld.  2004. A mycobacterium-inducible Nramp in striped bass (Morone saxatilis). Infection and Immunity. 72: 1626-1636.
• Burge, E.D., D.T. Gauthier and P.A. Van Veld (2004). In vitro response of the striped bass natural resistance-associated macrophage protein, Nramp, to LPS and Mycobacterium marinum exposure. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 138C: 391- 400.

• A Universal Assay for Vitellogenin in Fish Mucus and Plasma.  2005.

• Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vol. 24, No. 12, pp. 3048-3052.

Current Students

• Danielle Johnston
• Connie Sullivan

Courses Taught / Teaching

• MS 564: Aquatic Toxicology
• Protein Biochemistry in Marine Organisms