Aquaculture 2022

February 28 - March 4, 2022

San Diego, California

MANGROVE SHELLFISH SESSION: A ONE HEALTH PERSPECTIVE ON ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE, FOOD SAFETY AND FOOD SECURITY

 

Acacia Alcivar-Warren, DVM, MSc, PhD

Programa ‘ UNA SALUD / ONE HEALTH Epigenomics and Microbiomes:

Somos lo que comemos / We are what we eat’

 Fundación para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad (FUCOBI),

Quito, ECUADOR, and

ONE HEALTH Epigenomics Educational Initiative

Environmental Genomics Inc.

P. O. Box 196, Southborough, MA 01772 USA

environmentalgenomics.warren@gmail.com , fucobi@gmail.com

 



The MANGROVE SHELLFISH session will address the following topics: mangrove biodiversity, conservation and reforestation ; the Mangrove Epigenome (MangroveENCODE ) Project o f t he FUCOBI Fo undation o f Ecuador: A One Health a pproach t o Conservation o f Healthy Mangroves, t o p roduce h ealthy s hellfish a nd f ish, t o p rotect p eople’s h ealth long-term;  genomes, transcriptomes, and epigenomes of mangrove trees, epigenetic regulation in shellfish; transposable elements (TEs) in mangroves and shellfish (shrimp, oysters) genomes; Gypsy long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon and mangrove resilience (pH and temperature); greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration (b lue c arbon) in response to climate change and human management in coastal wetlands / mangroves; the status of mangroves in Ecuador; status of mangrove f orests i n Honduras: metals and pesticides;  mangrove microbiomes; antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of pathogens in mangrove sediment; endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) like heavy metals, pesticides, antimicrobial herbicide glyphosate, metals chelated by glyphosate, bacterial transgene  Bacillus thurigiensis , Vibrios spp. and plastics in mangrove sediment and shellfish (clams, shrimp); Shrimp Scampi: a citizens science project to examine the levels of endocrine disrupting chemicals (metals, glyphosate, bisphenol A) in frozen seafood sold at US supermarkets; microplastics and organic pollutants in mangrove sediments and marsh clam (Polymesoda expansa ) from selected coastal areas of Negros Oriental, Philippines, as i ndicators of coastal pollution,  among others.  A female researcher, Suhua Shi from China, will receive a recognition as ’2022 Outstanding ONE HEALTH Researchers in Aquaculture’ by the Foundation for Conservation of Biodiversity (FUCOBI) of Ecuador in recognition of her research on mangroves genomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes.