About Dr. Warren
Dr. Acacia A. Warren, has a DVM degree from the University of Guayaquil, Ecuador, a MS (Reproductive Physiology) and a PhD (Immunobiology) degree from Iowa State University. Acacia is a former Fulbright Fellow and Organization of American States Fellow at Iowa State University. She is an associate professor at the Department of Environmental and Population Health at TCSVM where she performs research on population and conservation genetics and genomics of marine shrimp and other wild and domestic species. She is the director of the 'International Marine Shrimp Environmental Genomics Initiative (IMSEGI): Monitoring Ecosystem, Animal and Public Health' aimed at studying genetic diversity, disease prevalence, and pollutant load (viruses, heavy metals, PCBs, and PAHs) in marine shrimp from different geographic regions throughout the natural range of the species.
Her current research is being performed in Latin America (Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico) and Asia (Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and China). Funded by USDA, Acacia is also developing a high-density Genetic Linkage Map for Shrimp and mapping candidate genes or QTLs associated with disease resistance and high growth. Supported by Tufts University and NIH Short Training Grants, she is also searching for genes associated with sex-determination and cadmium bioaccumulation in shrimp. Dr. Warren is co-editor of the Proceedings of the First International "Aquaculture Species Genome Mapping Project Workshop" held in North Dartmouth MA, of which she was the principal organizer, a member of USDA-funded NRSP-8 project, editor of the Proceedings of the Symposium on "Aquaculture and Marine Shrimp Biodiversity" held in Grafton in December 1998, and advises environmental groups on conservation of shrimp biodiversity issues. Besides studying gene expression in septic and control foals, she is also developing genetic markers (microsatellites and SNPs) for genetic diversity and comparative genomics research associated with susceptibility to pollutants in shrimp, foals, common loons, bald eagle and rhinoceros. Acacia is author of numerous articles on regulation of gene expression, genetic diversity, genome mapping and disease susceptibility of animals.
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