2022 Annual Virginia HAB Meeting

The HAB Meeting will be held virtually on Friday February 24, 2023. As information is provided to the meeting hosts, the below titles will become clickable.

Meeting Agenda

Speaker Bios

Meeting Recording

VIMS – Smith Lab 2022 Recap – Speed Talks

Optimization of SPATT production method and determination of storage viability, Joshua Garber
Comparison of Intra and Extracellular Diarrhetic Shellfish Toxins and pectenotoxins in the York River from 2018 – 2022, Vanessa Strohm
Effects of low-level exposure to HAB toxins (PTX2, YTX, and AZA) on the larval life stage of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica, Nour Ayache
  

ODU Mulholland Lab Marine Recap 2022

Margie Mulholland, ODU

  

VDH Marine Biotoxin Recap 2022

Todd Egerton, VDH

 

VIMS Reece Lab Marine Recap 2022

Kim Reece, VIMS

ODU Mulholland Lab Freshwater Recap 2022

Leah Anne Gibala-Smith, ODU 

VDH Freshwater Advisory & Alert Recap 2022

Margaret Smigo, VDH

Overview of Virginia DEQ Harmful Algae Bloom Monitoring; Planning for the 2023 Recreational Season

Drew Garey, DEQ

Potomac Basin Freshwater HABs: Areas of interest and lessons learned

Mike Selckmann, ICPRB

VIMS – Reece Lab – Exposure of the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, to Alexandrium monilatum: toxicity pathway, histopathology and gene expression

Sylvain Gaillard, VIMS

 VIMS – Next steps in 2023 – Smith Lab

Juliette Smith, VIMS

 ODU – Mulholland Lab – Expanding capacity for biotoxins analysis and imaging technologies

Leah Anne Gibala-Smith, ODU 

VCU – Zimba Lab  – The PVZimba lab, the newest addition to Rice River Center/VCU’s HAB team

Paul Zimba, VCU

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Last Updated: May 30, 2025