John Buchanan  Director of Finfish Research

Dr. John Buchanan has held research positions at Louisiana State University, the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, and was most recently the Director of Aquaculture Therapeutics at Kent SeaTech Corporation, a leader in the application of science to farmed fish. He received his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University, and worked on methods for transgenic manipulation of transgenic eastern oysters for his doctoral research in Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at LSU. Dr. Buchanan’s finfish expertise includes work with zebrafish, white and striped bass, channel catfish, red and black drum, and speckled trout, and includes research on transgenic manipulation, artificial spawning, milt cryopreservation, ploidy manipulation, and production of all female populations. Dr. Buchanan has done extensive research into the genetic basis for virulence in aquatic and human pathogens, and has worked in vaccine development and development of novel therapeutics for aquaculture. He has been with Aqua Bounty since April, 2007.

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