Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center Physiology Section Amy M. Moeckel 1 Migratory Way-P.O. Box 796 Turners Falls, MA 01376 voice: 413-863-3809 fax: 413-863-9810

Research Physiologist Education M. S. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001 B. S. University of Vermont, Burlington, 1988 Research Interests 1. Physiological and ecological aspects of Atlantic salmon life history especially as related to population reintroduction and recovery efforts in the Northeastern US. 2. Smolt development, migration and timing and how environmental pollutants affect these processes. 3. Some methods employed to evaluate physiologic parameters include ELISA, RIA, SDS-PAGE, Western Blotting, and immunocytochemistry. Annual smolt migration patterns are examined using (Passive Integrated Transponders) PIT tag system set up in Southern Vermont tributary. Publications McCormick, S.D., O'Dea, M.F., Moeckel, A.M., Björnsson, B.Th. 2003. Endocrine and physiological changes in Atlantic salmon smolts following hatchery release. Aquaculture 222: 45-57. Jean S. Campbell. Rony Seger, Amy M. Jensen, and Edwin G. Krebs. The Map Kinase Cascade. Recent Progress in Hormone Research. Vol. 50, pp. 131-159, 1995. Natalie G. Ahn, Jean S. Campbell, Rony Seger, Amy M. Jensen, Lee M. Graves, and Edwin G. Krebs. Metabolic Labeling of Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Kinase in A431 Cells Demonstrates Phosphorylation on Serine and Threonine Residues. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. Vol. 90, pp. 5143-5147, June 1993. Rony Seger, Natalie G. Ahn, James Posada, Erlynda S. Munar, Amy M. Jensen, Jonathan Cooper, Melanie H. Cobb, and Edwin G. Krebs. Purification and Characterization of Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Activators from Epidermal Growth Factor Stimulated A431 Cells. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 267(20), pp. 14373-14381, July 15, 1992. Rony Seger, Dalia Seger, Fred J. Lozeman, Natalie G. Ahn, Lee M. Graves, Jean S. Campbell, Lowell Ericsson, Maria Harrylock, Amy M. Jensen, and Edwin G. Krebs. Human T-Cell Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Kinases are Related to Yeast Signal Transduction Kinases. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 267(36), pp. 25628-25631, Dec 25, 1992. G.K. Farrington, P. Lynch, A. Jensen, E. Bonhlein, R. Doten, T. Maione, T. Daly, and J. Rusche. The Lentivirus Regulatory Proteins REV and REX are Site Specific RNA Binding Proteins. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. Vol. 303, pp. 15-22, 1991