Email: vanveld@vims.edu Office: Chesapeake Bay Hall, N209 Phone: (804) 684-7230,7234 Fax: (804) 684-7186

Peter A. van Veld Associate Professor of Marine Science 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 Current Projects Selected Publications Current Students Courses Taught / Teaching Faculty / Student Awards Professional Memberships Collaborative / Interdisciplinary Efforts

Research Interests

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

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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.

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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.

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Current Students

• Danielle Johnston
• Connie Sullivan

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Courses Taught / Teaching

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

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