Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology

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Dr. Sarah Alderman received a PhD in Zoology from the University of Guelph Canada where her research investigated the molecular regulation of the endocrine stress response in teleost fish. Following post-doctoral studies at the Universities of Waterloo and British Columbia Canada she is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph. Dr. Aldermans research program uses advanced molecular and cytological approaches to study how environmental stressors affect the form and function of vertebrates including the mechanisms that regulate adult neurogenesis in zebrafish and the physiological consequences of crude oil exposure in salmon. She is also pioneering the use of quantitative proteomics to identify novel bioindicators of stress exposure and organismal health for applications in fish management and conservation. Dr. Alderman is a member of the Editorial Board for the peer-reviewed journal Aquatic Toxicology was formerly an Editorial Reviews Consultant and an Outside JEB columnist for the peer-reviewed Journal of Experimental Biology and is an active member of the Canadian Society of Zoologists and the Society for Experimental Biology. Dr. Todd Gillis was educated in Canada at the University of Guelph (BSc MSc) and Simon Fraser University (PhD). His PhD thesis focused on the mechanisms that enable cardiac function in rainbow trout at their comparatively low physiological temperature. As a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Washington he studied the role of the thin filament in controlling cardiac function. Dr Gillis research program funded by NSERC and Fisheries and Oceans Canada is focused on the vertebrate heart and the mechanisms that regulate its function and capacity to respond to environmental and pathological stressors including temperature change hypoxia injury and oil exposure. This work utilizes an integrative approach that is linking changes in gene and protein expression to cellular and tissue function to whole animal responses. Dr. Gillis is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Physiology B and on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Thermal Biology Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A and Current Research in Physiology.