Mark Fast

Contact Information
Title Novartis Research Chair in Fish Health, Assistant Professor
Education PhD (Dalhousie), MSc (UPEI), BSc (Dalhousie)
Office 418N
Email mfast@upei.ca
Phone (902) 620-5065
Fax (902) 566-0851

Areas of Expertise

  • Fish immunology
  • Parasitology
  • Host-pathogen interactions
  • Fish physiology
  • Molecular biology

Graduate Students

Alicia Brown (Stony Brook University)

Jaime Romany (Stony Brook University)

 

Selected Publications

Fast MD, Tse BT, Boyd JM, Johnson SC. 2009. Mutation within the Aeromonas salmonicida type III secretion system affects host macrophage activation and downstream immune responses. Fish Shellfish Immunol 27: 721-728.

Stine CB, Jacobs JM, Rhodes MR, Overton A, Fast MD, Baya AM. 2009. Expanded range and new host species of Mycobacterium shotsii and M. pseudoshotsii. J Aquat An Health 21: 179-183.

Fast MD, Sokolowksi MS, Dunton KJ, Bowser PR. 2009. Dichelesthium oblongum (Copepoda: Dichelesthiidae) infection in wild caught Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus. ICES J Mar Sci 66: 2141-2147.

Wagner GN, Fast MD, Johnson SC. 2008. Physiology and immunology of Lepeophtheirus salmonis infections on salmonids. Trends in Parasitology 24: 175-182.

Fast MD, Afonso L, Hosoya S, Johnson SC. 2008. Cortisol response and immune-related effects of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar Linnaeus) subjected to short- and long-term stress. Fish Shellfish Immunol 24:194-204.