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ResearchPresently the Kent lab is focusing on two major research areas; diseases of zebrafish in research facilities and impacts of pathogens in wild fishes in Oregon. In both areas, we are focusing on the study of chronic infectious diseases. In the past 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in the use of zebrafish as a model in biomedical research. Underlying chronic diseases are of concern as they relate to non-protocol induced variation in laboratory fish, as they would with any laboratory animal. Microsporidosis (caused by Pseudoloma neurophilia); mycobacteriosis (caused by various species of Mycobacterium); the nematode Pseudocapillaria tomentosa, are all common in zebrafish facilities, and are under investigation at this time. This work is supported by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (NIH ORIP), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH NIAID), the National Cancer Institute (NIH NCI), and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Thomas Sharpton (Departments of Microbiology and Statistics) is his main collaborator for this research. He and Dr. Robyn Tanguay established the SPF (Specific Pathogen Free) zebrafish research colony at the Sinnhuber Aquatic Resource Center (OSU). This was supported by the NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Center and NIH ORIP. Dr. Kent is also a Co-PI at the NIH Zebrafish International Resource Center at the University of Oregon where he assists with health studies and their diagnostic service.

Another main research area of the Kent laboratory is investigations on the cause of prespawn mortality (PSM) in adult Chinook Salmon in Oregon, which in some river systems often exceeds 50% in certain years. He leads studies on the role of pathogens and specific pathologic changes in this phenomenon, and most recently we have discovered a severe intestinal disease/premature senescence that is correlated with PSM. This research has been supported by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USDA APHIS National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN), Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Department of Microbiology. We have a large, multidisciplinary team, with colleagues from the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conversation and the U.S. Geological Survey, Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (Drs. Jim Peterson, Carl Schreck and Claire Couch), Dr. Julie Alexander (Department of Microbiology) and Dr. Tamsen Polley (Department of Biomedical Sciences).

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The goal is two-fold: 1) to train veterinarian- and physician-scientists, and 2) support graduate students pursuing dual DVM-PhD degrees to integrate the study of companion animals, which have naturally occurring cancers, with human cancer biology and therapy (comparative oncology). This will create a new generation of scientists engaged in basic and translational cancer research that advances the health of people and animals.

The fundamental repeating unit of chromatin, the nucleosome, is composed of a disc-shaped octamer of histone proteins around which is wrapped approximately 150-base pairs of genomic DNA. Nucleosomes regulate access to genes by forming a steric block to transcription factors and RNA polymerase. Less clear is how nucleosome positioning on DNA is regulated. Recent studies show that nucleosomes are strategically positioned throughout genomes, and that even subtle changes in nucleosome positioning can have profound effects on gene expression. These results raise the possibility that alterations in nucleosome positioning could result in heritable silencing of genes, and the generation of new forms and functions at the organismal level. Such alterations are independent of changes in DNA sequence (i.e., epigenetic alterations) and may be another source of variation acted upon by natural selection. An understanding of this process requires an understanding of how cells encode nucleosome positioning information, and how that information is inherited. The keys to this process are the evolutionarily conserved histone proteins, the building blocks of nucleosomes; which, like DNA, are semi-conserved during DNA replication. Posttranslational modifications of histones provide a potential vehicle for the heritable transmission of epigenetic traits. Understanding how this process works is one of the central questions in biology today.

While most recent prion meetings have focused on either mammals or fungi, the conference on prion biology held near Cambridge this September stood out as an attempt to represent research on mammalian and fungal prions equally, in order to provoke discussion on fundamental questions of prion structure, biogenesis, variability and biological role. e24fc04721