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Andre P Seale  , PhD
Assistant Research ProfessorDepartment of Human Nutrition, Food & Animal Sciences, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources – University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Work Email: seale@hawaii.eduINTERNET

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Research Interests

With broader implications to aquaculture and biomedical research, my main interests are in: 1) osmoreception: the signal transduction of environmental salinity changes into physiological responses at the cellular and organismic levels in fish; regulation of prolactin cells by external and neuroendocrine factors and the role of second messenger systems; 2) osmoregulation: salt and water balance and its interplay with growth, metabolism and stress in fish; and 3) environmental adaptation and growth in fish: endocrine and specialized cellular responses to changing environmental conditions.

Recent Publications

  • Petro-Sakuma, C. K., Celino-Brady, F., Breves, J. P., Seale, A. P. (2020). Growth hormone regulates intestinal gene expression of nutrient transporters in tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 292: 113464.
  •  Seale, A. P., Pavlosky, K. K., Celino-Brady, F., Lerner, D. T. (2019). Sex, salinity and sampling period dependent patterns of growth hormone mRNA expression in Mozambique tilapia. Aquaculture. 519: 734766.
  •   Celino-Brady, F., Petro-Sakuma, C. K., Breves, J. P., Lerner, D. T., Seale, A. P. (2019). Early-life exposure to 17β-estradiol and 4-nonylphenol impacts the growth hormone/insulin-like growth-factor system and estrogen receptors in Mozambique tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus. J. Aqua. Tox. 217: 105336.
  •  Seale, A. P., Pavlosky, K. K., Celino-Brady, F., Yamaguchi, Y., Breves, J. P., Lerner, D. T. (2019). Systemic versus tissue-level modulation of prolactin signaling in a euryhaline teleost subjected to tidally changing salinities. J. Comp. Physiol.189, 581-594.

Recent Grants

  • 2019-present Co-PI: Advanced Aquaculture Collaborative Programs (NOAA); “Establishing a Hawaiʻi-Pacific Aquaculture Consortium: A Revitalization and Expansion of the Aquaculture Development Program”.
  • 2018-present Co-PI; Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); “Establishing an aquaculture program at the University of Hawai‘i that leverages and integrates Land Grant and Sea Grant research, extension and education resources”.
  • 2018-present PI; National Science Foundation (IOS-1755016); “Collaborative Research: Identifying osmosensitive molecular targets using a unique vertebrate model”.
  • 2018 PI; Sea Grant Program Development Project (E/ET-1 OOPD), “Training for extension professionals in sustainable cage farming and rearing methods of Rabbitfishes (Siganidae), in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia".
  • 2017-present PI; National Institutes of Health (1R21DK111775-01); “Integrating Osmosensitivity and Autocrine Signaling in a Model for Osmoregulation”.

Current Graduate Students

  • Tharindu Malintha (PhD in Nutrition), Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences
  • Daniel Woo (MS in Animal Science), Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences
  • Ryan Chang (MS in Animal Science), Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences

Pathway to degree completion *FOR STUDENTS ADMITTED FALL 2020 OR LATER *

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Degree program faculty

Cheryl Lynn Albright, PhD, MPH
Mapuana Antonio, DrPH
Jinan Banna, PhD, RD, CDN
Marla J. Berry, PhD
Carol J. Boushey, PhD, MPH, RD
Monica Esquivel, PhD RDN CSSD
Marie Kainoa Fialkowski Revilla, PhD, RD, LDN
Adrian Franke, PhD
Yanghua He, PhD
Ronald Hetzler, PhD
Kacie Ho, PhD
Rajesh Jha, PhD
Rachel Johnson, PhD, MPH, RD
Soojin Jun, PhD
Yong Soo Kim, PhD, MS
Iris Fumiko Kimura, PhD, AT.Ret, PT
Janet Latner, PhD
Loic Le Marchand, MD, PhD
Rachael Leon Guerrero, PhD, RDN, LD
Qing X. Li, PhD
Yong Li, PhD
Unhee Lim, PhD, MS
Gertraud Maskarinec, MD PhD
Birendra Mishra, PhD, MS, DVM
Pratibha Nerurkar, PhD
Rachel Novotny, PhD RDN
Jenee Odani, DVM
May Okihiro, MD
Andre P Seale, PhD
John A Shepherd, PhD
Mark Thorne, PhD
Lynne Wilkens, DrPH, MS
Jinzeng Yang, PhD
Halina M Zaleski, PhD

Contact

Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
1955 East-West Road,
Ag Sci 216
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822
Phone: (808) 956-7095
Fax: (808) 956-4024
Email: nutrphd@hawaii.edu

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