Tal Ben-Horin

A suite of ddPCR assays targeting microbial pathogens for improved management of shellfish aquaculture

Ciesielski, M., Clerkin, T., Funnell, N., Ben-Horin, T., & Noble, R. T. (2025, April 4). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 4.

Broodstock genetics, more than ploidy alone, explains oyster resilience at farm sites impacted by sudden unusual mortality syndrome

Ben-Horin, T., Audemard, C., Ciesielski, M., Clerkin, T., Krogman, N., Lucas, J., … Wilbur, A. (2025, May 11). Aquaculture, Vol. 607.

Farmed oyster mortality follows consistent Vibrio community reorganization

Smith, S., Ciesielski, M., Clerkin, T., Ben-Horin, T., & Noble, R. T. (2025, April 24).

Farmed oyster mortality follows consistent Vibrio community reorganization

Smith, S., Ciesielski, M., Clerkin, T., Ben-Horin, T., & Noble, R. T. (2025, October 2). (S. L. Ishaq, Ed.). MSystems, Vol. 10.

See Salt: Recommendations for engaging oyster growers in community-based coastal monitoring programs

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 197(10).

A newly discovered trematode parasite infecting the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians

Boggess, H. F. H., Varney, R. L., Freshwater, D. W., Ben-Horin, T., Preister, C., McCurry, H., … Buck, J. C. (2024, April 15). Aquaculture, Vol. 589.

Coculture with Eastern oysters is unlikely to reduce OsHV-1 impacts to farmed Pacific oysters: A modelling approach

Adekunle, F. O., Bidegain, G., & Ben-Horin, T. (2024, December 18). Aquaculture Reports, Vol. 40.

Shifting power: data democracy in engineering solutions

Cutts, B. B., Osia, U., Bray, L. A., Harris, A. R., Long, H. C., Goins, H., … Schnetzer, A. (2024, September 2). Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 19.

MarineEpi: A GUI-based Matlab toolbox to simulate marine pathogen transmission

Bidegain, G., Ben-Horin, T., Powell, E. N., Klinck, J. M., & Hofmann, E. E. (2023, March 17). SoftwareX, Vol. 22.

Pathology associated with summer oyster mortality in North Carolina

Ben-Horin, T., Ciesielski, M., Lucas, J., Noble, R. T., & Wilbur, A. (2023, December 29). Aquaculture Reports, Vol. 34.

Predicting the Growth of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Oysters under Varying Ambient Temperature

Fernández-Vélez, I., Bidegain, G., & Ben-Horin, T. (2023, April 29). Microorganisms, Vol. 11.

Understanding Crassostrea virginica tolerance of Perkinsus marinus through global gene expression analysis

Proestou, D. A., Sullivan, M. E., Lundgren, K. M., Ben-Horin, T., Witkop, E. M., & Hart, K. M. (2023, January 19). Frontiers in Genetics.

Evaluation of six methods for external attachment of electronic tags to fish: assessment of tag retention, growth and fish welfare

Journal of Fish Biology, 101(3), 419–430.

Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Oysters under Low Tidal Range Conditions: Is Seawater Analysis Useful for Risk Assessment?

Audemard, C., Ben-Horin, T., Kator, H. I., & Reece, K. S. (2022, December 16). Foods, Vol. 11.

Pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus Increase in Intertidal-Farmed Oysters in the Mid-Atlantic Region, but Only at Low Tide

Ben‐Horin, T., Audemard, C., Calvo, L., Reece, K. S., & Bushek, D. (2021, September 27). North American Journal of Aquaculture, Vol. 12.

Modeling Pathogen Dispersal in Marine Fish and Shellfish

Cantrell, D. L., Groner, M. L., Ben-Horin, T., Grant, J., & Revie, C. W. (2020, February 6). Trends in Parasitology, Vol. 36, pp. 239–249.

Modeling pathogen dispersal in marine fish and shellfish

Trends in Parasitology.

Modelling marine diseases

Ben-Horin, T., Bidegain, G., Leo, G., Groner, M. L., Hofmann, E., McCallum, H., & Powell, E. (2020, February 3). Oxford University Press EBooks, pp. 233–255.

Models with environmental drivers offer a plausible mechanism for the rapid spread of infectious disease outbreaks in marine organisms

Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1–10.

Defining Dermo resistance phenotypes in an eastern oyster breeding population

Aquaculture Research, 50(8), 2142–2154.

Genetic variation in anti-parasite behavior in oysters

Marine Ecology Progress Series, 594, 107–117.

Intensive oyster aquaculture can reduce disease impacts on sympatric wild oysters

Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 10, 557–567.

Quality of a fished resource: Assessing spatial and temporal dynamics

PloS One, 13(6).

Modeling the transmission of Perkinsus marinus in the Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica

Fisheries Research, 186, 82–93.

Fishing diseased abalone to promote yield and conservation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1689), 20150211.

Marine infectious disease dynamics and outbreak thresholds: contact transmission, pandemic infection, and the potential role of filter feeders

Ecosphere, 7(4), e01286.

Microparasitic disease dynamics in benthic suspension feeders: infective dose, non-focal hosts, and particle diffusion

Ecological Modelling, 328, 44–61.

Malaria control and senescence: the importance of accounting for the pace and shape of aging in wild mosquitoes

Ecosphere, 6(9), 1–13.

Mapping physiological suitability limits for malaria in Africa under climate change

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 15(12), 718–725.

Parasite transmission through suspension feeding

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 131, 155–176.

Understanding uncertainty in temperature effects on vector-borne disease: a Bayesian approach

Ecology, 96(1), 203–213.

Rising suitability and declining severity of malaria transmission in Africa under climate change

Abalone farm discharges the withering syndrome pathogen into the wild

Frontiers in Microbiology, 4, 373.

Combined analyses of kinship and FST suggest potential drivers of chaotic genetic patchiness in high gene-flow populations

Molecular Ecology, 22(13), 3476–3494.

Optimal temperature for malaria transmission is dramatically lower than previously predicted

Ecology Letters, 16(1), 22–30.

Variable intertidal temperature explains why disease endangers black abalone

Ecology, 94(1), 161–168.

Utilizing spatial demographic and life history variation to optimize sustainable yield of a temperate sex-changing fish

PloS One, 6(9).

Taking the chaos out of genetic patchiness: seascape genetics reveals ecological and oceanographic drivers of genetic patterns in three temperate reef species

SELKOE, K. I. M. B. E. R. L. Y. A., WATSON, J. A. M. E. S. R., WHITE, C. R. O. W., HORIN, T. A. L. B. E. N., IACCHEI, M. A. T. T. H. E. W., MITARAI, S. A. T. O. S. H. I., … TOONEN, R. O. B. E. R. T. J. (2010, August 13). Molecular Ecology.

Characterization of eight polymorphic microsatellite loci for the California spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus and cross-amplification in other achelate lobsters

Ben-Horin, T., Iacchei, M., Selkoe, K. A., Mai, T. T., & Toonen, R. J. (2009, July 14). Conservation Genetics Resources.