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FHS Continuing Education Courses

• None at the present time...

Other Continuing Education Courses

Health and Colony Management of Laboratory Fish - Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine –15 – 19 August 2011
Application deadline June 15, 2011


The course is offered at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine during the period of 15 - 19 August 2011. Topics to be discussed will include general system design and water quality management, anatomy and histology of fish, general fish diseases and disease management strategies. Infectious and non-infectious diseases common to all fish as well as specific diseases of importance to laboratory-maintained zebrafish will be discussed. The course will consist of lecture, laboratory exercises and discussions. During the course there will be an opportunity for students to discuss unusual and/or unsolved diagnostic case experiences from their home laboratories as problem-solving exercises. The course should be particularly valuable to technical staff, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty and investigators needing skills to monitor the health of a colony of aquatic organisms.

Continuing Education Media

• Systemic Pathology of Fish
• DVD-ROM Diseases of Warmwater Fish and Trout Diseases
• Introduction to Infectious Diseases of Salmonid Fishes
• Anatomy and Histology of the Channel Catfish
• Microscopic Anatomy of Salmonids: An Atlas
• Progress in Fish Vaccinology
• Basic Atlas of Atlantic Salmon Blood Cells
• Basic Atlas of Normal and Abnormal Blood Cells in Farmed Tilapias