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Eric Hallerman - Professor of Fisheries and Wildlife
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Research Interests:
Genetics of fish and wildlife species; Genetic improvement of aquaculture stocks; Aquaculture biotechnology and related public policy; Genetics education
Courses Taught:
Conservation Genetics, Applied Conservation Genetics, Genetics for Aquaculturists
Selected Professional Achievements:
Director, Horseshoe Crab Research Center; President, Genetics and Introduced Fish Sections, American Fisheries Society; Editorial Boards: Aquaculture, International Journal of Recirculating Aquaculture. Co-convenor, Workshop on Aquaculture Biotechnology and Environmental Safety, Conservation Genetics Workshop on Imperiled Freshwater Mollusks and Fishes. Member, National Research Council, Committee on Scientific Concerns Regarding Animal Biotechnology, Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, Health, and the Environment.
Ongoing Research Projects:
Environmental Risk Assessments Perimeters for Growth Hormone Transgenic Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar). U.S.D.A.- CSREES Biotechnology Risk Assessments Program.
Genetic improvement of aquaculture stocks (U.S.D.A. Hatch Program, 2008-2012)
Horseshoe crab research and monitoring program (National Marine Fisheries Service, 2004 - Present)
Selected Recent Publications:
Book
Kapuscinski, A.R., S. Li, K. Hayes, G. Dana, E. Hallerman, and P. Schei, eds. 2007. Environmental risk assessment of genetically modified organisms, vol. 3: Methodologies for transgenic fish. CABI Publishers, Wallingford, UK. (Reported as in press last year, released this year)
Book chapters
Hallerman, E., P. Grobler, and J. Jones. 2007. Application of DNA markers for population genetic analysis. Pages 109-136 in Z.J. Liu, ed. Aquaculture Genome Technologies. Blackwell Publishing, Ames, Iowa. (Reported as in press last year, released this year)
Korol, A., A. Shirak, A. Cnaani, and E.M. Hallerman. 2007. Detection and analysis of QTLs for economic traits in aquatic species. Pages 169-197 in Z.J. Liu, ed. Aquaculture Genome Technologies. Blackwell Publishing, Ames, Iowa. (Reported as in press last year, released this year)
Hallerman, E.M. In press. Application of risk analysis to genetic issues in aquaculture. Understanding and Applying Risk analysis in Aquaculture Production. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Papers in refereed journals
Sandu, S., B. Brazil, and E. Hallerman. In press. Efficacy of a pilot-scale wastewater treatment plant upon solids and carbonaceous compounds in a commercial aquaculture effluent. Aquaculture Engineering.
Johnson, N.A., R.L. Vallejo, J.T. Silverstein, T.J. Welch, G.D. Wiens, E.M. Hallerman, and Y. Palti. In press. Suggestive association of major histocompatibility IB genetic markers with resistance to bacterial cold water disease in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Marine Biotechnology.
Palmer, G., J. Williams, M. Scott, E. Hallerman, K. Finne, N. Johnson, D. Dutton, and B. Murphy. In press. Genetic marker-assisted restoration of the presumptive native walleye stock in the upper New River, Virginia and West Virginia. Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Fisheries and Wildlife Agencies.
Dutton, D.J., J.H. Roberts, P.L. Angermeier, and E.M. Hallerman. 2008. Microsatellite markers for the endangered Roanoke logperch Percina rex (Percidae) and their potential utility for other darter species. Molecular Ecology Resources.
Palmer, G.C., M. Culver, D. Dutton, B.R. Murphy, and E.M. Hallerman. In press. Distinct Walleye Stocks in Claytor Lake and the Upper New River, Virginia. Proceedings of the Southeastern Association and Fish and Wildlife Agencies, 60: xxx-xxx.
Brenden, T.O., B.R. Murphy, and E.M. Hallerman. In press. Predatory impact of muskellunge on New River, Virginia smallmouth bass. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fisheries and Wildlife Agencies.
Pierce, L., Y. Palti, J. Silverstein, R. Barrows, E. Hallerman, and J. Parsons. 2008 Evaluation of family growth in response to fishmeal- and plant-based diets in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Aquaculture 278:37-42.
Interesting Web Sites:
- Conservation Genetics Workshop on Imperiled Freshwater Mollusks and Fishes, Shepherdstown, WV, June 29-30, 2004
- Performance standards
for safely conducting research into gentically modified fish and shellfish
- Introduced Fish Section of the American
Fisheries Society
- Genetics Section
of the American Fisheries Society
- American Fisheries
Society Online Bookstore
- Information Systems for Biotechnology
- E-FISH: The Virtual Aquarium
- Biotechnology Risk Assessment Data: Facts and Conclusions
E-Mail: ehallerm@vt.edu
Last update January 4, 2007