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Tal Ben-Horin PhD

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Bio

Tal Ben-Horin is an Assistant Professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. He completed his graduate work (Master of Environmental Science and Management and PhD) at the University of California Santa Barbara and a Bachelor of Science at the University of Vermont. He leads the Shellfish Pathology Laboratory at NC State where his research group explores pathology and disease impacts associated with global aquaculture expansion.

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF INTERESTS:
My research explores how marine aquaculture’s global expansion has transformed marine ecosystems and how these transformations impact disease-causing pathogens, particularly in the context of environmental change. Ongoing projects in my lab are investigating how selecting for disease resistance in open-water shellfish aquaculture can influence disease impacts to coastal ecosystems, how triploid oysters respond to multiple environmental stressors, and how shellfisheries can serve as both a sentinel and vector for human exposure to algae toxins. All my work is inherently interdisciplinary and I look forward to establishing new collaborations in environmental and ocean modeling, marine microbial ecology, fisheries science, and economics.

https://shellfishpathology.wordpress.ncsu.edu/

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