Education

• B.A., Biology, Colby College, 1985
• M.S., Zoology, University of Main at Orono, 1990
• Ph.D., Marine and Estuarine Environmental Studies, University of Maryland, 1998

Research Interests

Lipid biochemistry, host-parasite interactions, fish physiology and nutrition, aquaculture, biochemical mechanisms regulating nutrient transfer between trophic levels in marine environments.

Positions

• Assistant Research Scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Fu-Lin chu, Department of Environmental Sciences, Virginia Institute of Marine Science.  March 2003 to present.
• Post-Doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Fu-Lin Chu, Department of Environmental Sciences, Virginia Institute of Marine Science.  March 2000 to March 2003.
• Post-Doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Allen Place, Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland.  March 1999 to March 2000.

Selected Publications

• Lund, E.D., Chu, F.-L.E. and Harvey, E. (2004). Effects of temperature and salinity on fatty acid synthesis in the oyster protozoan parasite Perkinsus marinus. Journal of Experimental Biology and Ecology 307, 111-126.
• Chu, F. L-E., Soudant, P. and Lund, E.D. (2004). Perkinsus marinus, a protozoan parasite of Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica):Effects of temperature on the uptake and metabolism of fluorescent lipid analogs and lipase activities. Experimental Parasitology 105, 121-130.
• Chu, F-L.E., Lund, E.D., Harvey, E., and Adlof, R. (2004). Arachdonic acid synthetic pathway of the oyster protozoan parasite, Perkinsus marinus: evidence for usage of a delta-8 pathway. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 133, 45-51.
• Lund, E., Chu, F.L.E., Harvey, E. (2003) Progress in the development of a chemotherapeutic protocol for eliminating/reducing Dermo disease in infected oysters.  J. Shellfish Res. 22:341.
• Lund, E.D. and Chu F-L, E. (2002). Phospholipid  biosynthesis in the oyster protozoan parasite, Perkinsus marinus. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology   121, 245-253.
• Chu, F. L-E., Lund, E. D. Soudant, P. and Harvey, E. (2002). De novo arachidonic acid synthesis in Perkinsus marinus, a protozoan parasite of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 119, 179-190.
  
• Lance, V.A., Morici, L.A., Elsey, R. M., Lund, E. D. and Place, A. R. (2001). A Comparison of Vitamin E, Vitamin A, Plasma Lipids, and Steriod Hormones in Wild and Captive American Alligators. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 128B, no 2, 285-294.
• Adolf, J.E., Place, A.R., Lund, E.D., Stoecker, D.K., Harding, L.W., Jr. (2000)  Fatty acids in phototrophic and mixotrophic Gyrodinium galatheanum (Dinophyceae). J. Phycology 36 (Suppl.): 1.
• Lund, E.E., Place, A.R., and Sullivan, C.V., 2000.  Annual Cycle of Plasma Lipids in Captive Reared Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis): Effects of Environmental Conditions and Reproductive State. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 22, 263-275.
• Harel, M., Lund, E., Gavasso, S., Herbert, R. and Place, A., 2000.  Modulation of arachidonate and docosahexaenote in Morone chrysops larval tissues and the effect on growth and survival.  Lipids, Vol. 35, no. 11, 1269-1280.
• Harel, M., Ozkizilcik, S., Lund, E., Behrens, P. and Place, A.  1999.  Enhanced Absorption of Docosahexanoic Acid (DHA, 22:6n3) in Artemia nauplii using a dietary combination of DHA-Rich Phospholipids and DHA-Sodium Salts. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology  Part B, 124, 169-176.
• Lund, E.D., and Sidell, B.D.  1992.  Neutral lipid compositions of Antarctic fish tissues may reflect use of fatty acyl substrates by catabolic systems.  Marine Biology, 112, 377-382.

Presentations

• Lund, E.D., Chu, F.-L.E., and Harvey, E. (2003). Progress in the development of a chemotherapeutic protocol for eliminating/reducing dermo disease in infected oysters. National Shellfisheries Association 2003, New Orleans, LA (USA), April 13-17, 2003.
• Lund, E.D., Chu, F.-L. E. and Soudant, P. (2002). Is the temperature and salinity-dependent virulence of Perkinsus marinus associated with lipid metabolism?  National Shellfisheries Association 2002, Mystic, CT (USA), April 14-18, 2002.
• Lund, E.D., Soudant P. and Chu F.L.-E. (2001). Phospholipid synthesis in Perkinsus marinus: A preliminary investigation of factors limiting cell replication. Aquaculture 2001, Lake Buena Vista, FL (USA), Jan 21-25, 2001.
• Lund, E.D., Harrell, R. and Place, A. R. (1998). Dietary HUFAs Affects In Vitro Intestinal Proline Assimilation Rates in Striped Bass and White Bass. GUTSHOP '98. International Congress of the Biology of Fish. Towson University, Baltimore, MD (USA) July 26-30, 1998.