Tal Ben-Horin PhD

Bio

Dr. Tal Ben-Horin joined the Department of Clinical Sciences as an Assistant Professor of Shellfish Pathology in July 2019. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers University Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory and a USDA Food and Agricultural Research Fellow at the Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Rhode Island. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont in 2001, and his MESM (2007) and PhD (2013) from the University of California Santa Barbara.

Area(s) of Expertise

Aquatic pathology, aquaculture biosecurity, and infectious disease ecology in coastal marine ecosystems

Research in my lab focuses on the ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases in coastal marine ecosystems. My work integrates field studies, laboratory experiments, and mathematical models to study disease processes in fish and shellfish populations and identify biosecurity measures to minimize disease impacts to aquaculture and fisheries.

Publications

• A newly discovered trematode parasite infecting the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians , AQUACULTURE (2024)
• Shifting power: data democracy in engineering solutions , ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS (2024)
• MarineEpi: A GUI-based Matlab toolbox to simulate marine pathogen transmission , SOFTWAREX (2023)
• Pathology associated with summer oyster mortality in North Carolina , AQUACULTURE REPORTS (2023)
• Predicting the Growth of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Oysters under Varying Ambient Temperature , MICROORGANISMS (2023)
• Understanding Crassostrea virginica tolerance of Perkinsus marinus through global gene expression analysis , Frontiers in Genetics (2023)
• Evaluation of six methods for external attachment of electronic tags to fish: assessment of tag retention, growth and fish welfare , Journal of Fish Biology (2022)
• Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Oysters under Low Tidal Range Conditions: Is Seawater Analysis Useful for Risk Assessment? , FOODS (2022)
• Pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus Increase in Intertidal-Farmed Oysters in the Mid-Atlantic Region, but Only at Low Tide , NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AQUACULTURE (2021)
• Modeling Pathogen Dispersal in Marine Fish and Shellfish , TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY (2020)