Research Interests

My research interests are in the areas of Microbiology and Immunology.  Specifically,  the diseases that impact the successful culture of aquatic species and the development and modulation of the immune system in cultured finfish. 

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Current Projects

• Water born hazards initiative.  The development of immunological probes to detect waterborne hazards such as toxins and bacteria, in the Chesapeake Bay.

• To characterize the role of long-lived plasma cells in the protection of rainbow trout against infection.

• VH gene utilization of rainbow trout following immunization with key antigens.

• The role of antibody structural variation (redox forms) in rainbow trout, and the impacts in antibody affinity and protection of the host.

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Selected Publications

Bromage E, Ye J, Kaattari S (2005) Antibody structural variation in rainbow trout fluids (submitted). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology.

Zwollo P, Cole S, Bromage E, Kaattari S (2005) Physical and serological analyses of B cell populations in immune tissues of the rainbow trout (Accepted). J Immunol.

Kaattari S, Bromage E, Kaattari I (2005) Analysis of Long-lived Plasma Cell Production and Regulation: Implications for Vaccine Design for Aquaculture. (Accepted) Ann Rev Fish Disease.

Bromage E, Kaattari I, Zwollo P, Kaattari S (2004) Plasmablast and Plasma Cell Production and Distribution in Trout Immune Tissues. 173(12). J Immunol.

Bromage E S, Ye J, Owens L, Kaattari I, Kaattari S (2004) Use of Staphylococcal Protein A in the Analysis of Teleost Immunoglobulin Structural Diversity. Dev Comp Immunol 28. 803-814.

Munro J, Oakey J, Bromage E, Owens L (2003). Experimental bacteriophage-mediated virulence in strains of Vibrio harveyi. Dis Aqua Org 54. 187-194.

Bromage E S and Owens L (2002) Infection of barramundi Lates calcarifer with Streptococcus iniae: effects of different routes of exposure. Dis Aqua Org 52:199-205.

Cimino E J, Owens L, Bromage E, Anderson T A (2002) A newly developed ELISA showing the effect of environmental stress on levels of hsp86 in Cherax quadricarinatus and Penaeus monodon. Comp Biochem Physiol. 132A (3) pp 591-598.

Bromage E S, Thomas A, Owens L (1999) Streptococcus iniae, a bacterial infection in barramundi, Lates calcarifer. Dis Aqua Org. 36:177-181

Conference proceedings 

Bromage E S, Owens L, Kaattari I, Kaattari S (2003) Differential affinity of teleost Ig for Protein A. International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, St. Andrews Scotland.

Bromage E S, Kaattari I, Kaattari S (2003) Evidence for long-lived plasma cells in the anterior kidney of rainbow trout. International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, St. Andrews Scotland.

Kaattari S, Kaattari, I, Bromage E S, Ye J (2003) Analysis of antibody affinity subpopulations by solid phase immunoassays. International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, St. Andrews Scotland.

Munro J, Oakey J, Bromage E, Owens L (2002) Experimental bacteriophage-mediated virulence in strains of Vibrio harveyi. - 5th Symposium on diseases in Asian Aquaculture Fish Health Section and Asian Fisheries Society

Bromage E S (2000).  The Role of Streptococcus iniae in Australian aquaculture. Australian Society for Microbiology, Cairns Australia

Bromage E S and Owens L (2000).  Immunological aspects of a vaccinae trial with Streptococcus iniae in barramundi.  International Society for Developmental and Comparative Immunology, Cairns, Australia.

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