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R/BT-03
The preparation of chitin oligosaccharides
Principal Investigator:
Saul RosemanStart/End Year:
1995 - 2000Institution:
Johns Hopkins UniversityTopic(s):
- Seafood Technology
Description:
To develop methods for economically producing large quantities of oligosaccharides from chitin, to facilitate research and application of this renewable resource. To devise simple methods for the economical large scale preparation of pure chitin oligosaccharides. These substances are potentially important for agriculture, medicine, and for basic research. NOTE: Omnibus 98-99; Pass-through 95-97
Funding Start Year
1995
Funding End Year
2000
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
