ORAL PRESENTATIONS Michael P. Acquafredda, Ximing Guo, and Daphne Munroe PHENOTYPIC AND TRANSCRIPTOMIC RESPONSE OF FARMED ATLANTIC SURFCLAMS (SPISULA SOLIDISSIMA) TO REPEATED HEAT STRESS AND THE FEASIBILITY OF SELECTIVE BREEDING FOR GREATER HEAT TOLERANCE Michael P. Acquafredda, Nicole Deck, Michael Whiteside, Daphne Munroe, Lisa M. Ragone Calvo, David Bushek, Michael De Luca, and Ximing Guo DIVERSIFICATION OF BIVALVE AQUACULTURE IN THE NORTHEAST: TESTING SURVIVAL AND GROWTH OF BAY SCALLOPS (ARGOPECTEN IRRADIANS) IN NEW JERSEY M. Victoria Agnew, Colleen A. Burge, Morgan E. Eisenlord, and Carolyn S. Friedman CAN PACIFIC OYSTERS BE USED TO MITIGATE EELGRASS WASTING DISEASE? Ali A. Albadran and Masami Fujiwara DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGES OF THE WHITE SHRIMP, LITOPENAEUS SETIFERUS, UNDER THE EXPOSURE OF PHENYLPYRAZOLE FIPRONIL Ali A. Albadran and Masami Fujiwara EFFECTS OF INSECTICIDES, FIPRONIL, AND IMIDACLOPRID ON THE GROWTH, SURVIVAL, AND BEHAVIOR OF BROWN SHRIMP, FARFANTEPENAEUS AZTECUS Pedro Alcivar-Marcillo, Miriam Alcivar-Arteaga, Gober Asunción, Mayra Galindo, Christian Saltos, Sofía Figueroa, Diana Villota, Diana Calvache, Benjamin Hall, Brenna Kelley, Joe Singh, Shana Singh, Cristian Argandona, Liliana Zuniga, Daniela Espinoza, Arturo Ruiz Luna, Cesar Alejandro Berlanga-Robles, Jorge Echevarria, Chika F. Ikeogu, and Acacia Alcivar-Warren THE MANGROVE GENOME AND EPIGENOME (MANGROVEENCODE) PROJECT: EFFORTS TO CONSERVE HEALTHY MANGROVES AND WETLANDS ECOSYSTEMS Acacia Alcivar-Warren ONE HEALTH EPIGENOMICS AND MICROBIOMES: FROM SOIL TO PEOPLE WORKSHOP: RECOGNITION TO WINNERS OF STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS AND OUTSTANDING RESEARCHERS IN AQUACULTURE – ONE HEALTH PIONEERS ADDRESSING ECOSYSTEM, ANIMAL, AND PUBLIC HEALTH Acacia Alcivar-Warren THE SHRIMP GENOME AND EPIGENOME: A REVIEW OF GENOME SIZES, TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS, SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEATS, INTEGRATED VIRUSES AND EPIGENETIC COMPONENTS OF PENAEIDS Ricky J. Alexander, Liese Siemann, and Ronald Smolowitz UTILIZING TIME-LAPSE IMAGERY TO QUANTIFY POST-TRANSPLANT SCALLOP BEHAVIOR Stephanie T. Alexander, Jeffrey Alexander, Robert Carey, Alex Golding, Alicia Klages, Julie Trommatter, Steven Weschler, and Stacey Willey HATCHERY OPERATIONS IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY: BENDING WITH THE TIDE AT HORN POINT OYSTER HATCHERY, MARYLAND, USA Standish K. Allen, Jr. HATCHERY OPERATIONS FOR GENETIC IMPROVEMENT OF SHELLFISH Chinnaiah Amutha and Dharshana Dinesh ASSESSMENT OF THE OXIDATIVE STRESS AND BIO-TRANSFORMATION ENZYMATIC EFFECTS OF GLYPHOSATE EXPOSURE ON THE PACIFIC WHITELEG SHRIMP, PENAEUS (LITOPENAEUS) VANNAMEI Roberto Arredondo-Espinoza, Cristina Escobedo-Fregoso, Maria Teresa Sicard- Gonzales, Alberto Peña-Rodríguez, Steven Roberts, and Ana María Ibarra HEAT SHOCK STRESS RESPONSE GENES REGULATED BY METHYLATION IN THE PACIFIC OYSTER, CRASSOSTREA GIGAS Samantha E. Askin, Robert A. Fisher, and Jan R. McDowell CHANNELED WHELK, BUSYCOTYPUS CANALICULATUS, POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE IN THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION Gober Asuncion, Kathy F.J. Tang, and Acacia Alcivar-Warren THE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE (RT) OF RTE-3_LVA NON-LTR RETROTRANSPOSON FROM SPF PENAEUS (LITOPENAEUS) VANNAMEI IS SIMILAR TO RT FROM P. MONODON ENDOGENOUS VIRUS IHHNV - INSIGHTS INTO HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER OF A DNA PARVOVIRUS T. Bachvaroff, L. Plough, and J. Sook Chung CRACKING THE GENOME OF THE BLUE CRAB, CALLINECTES SAPIDUS Weidong Bao, Kathy Tang, and Acacia Alcivar-Warren THE COMPLETE GENOME OF AN ENDOGENOUS NIMAVIRUS (NIMAV-1_LVA) FROM THE PACIFIC WHITELEG SHRIMP, PENAEUS (LITOPENAEUS) VANNAMEI Bruce J. Barber GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF NORTHERN (MERCENARIA MERCENARIA) AND SOUTHERN (M. CAMPECHIENSIS) QUAHOGS IN FLORIDA: HATCHERY AND NURSERY PHASES Michelle Barbosa, Caroline Schwaner, Sarah Farhat, Emmanuelle Pales Espinosa, and Bassem Allam EXAMINING THE POTENTIAL FOR ACCLIMATION OF CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA LARVAE TO OCEAN ACIDIFICATION João Barbossa, Guilherme Jeremias, Joana L. Pereira, and Jana Asselman THE INCORPORATION OF EPIGENETIC EFFECTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT: APPROACHES FOR NON-MODEL SPECIES Brian F. Beal and Kyle Pepperman SOFTSHELL CLAM AND ARCTIC SURFCLAM HATCHERY DEVELOPMENT IN MAINE Brian F. Beal, Chad R. Coffin, and Sara F. Randall EFFECTS OF GREEN CRAB, CARCINUS MAENAS, PREDATION ON SOFTSHELL CLAM, MYA ARENARIA, POPULATIONS IN MAINE DURING A WARMING OCEAN ENVIRONMENT Brian F. Beal, Kyle Pepperman, and Bennett Ellis ARCTIC SURFCLAM, MACTROMERIS POLYNYMA, FIELD GROWOUT TRIALS IN EASTERN MAINE, USA, USING CULTURED JUVENILES Christopher D. Bentley, Richard Snyder, Reza Ovissipour, Michael Schwarz, Setareh Shiroodi, Steve Urick, and Jonathan van Senten HETEROTROPHICALLY CONDITIONED RECIRCULATION SYSTEM FOR BIVALVE LARVAL CULTURE Marcia R. Berman, Roger Mann, James Wesson, Melissa Southworth, and Tamia Rudnicky A GEOSPATIAL ASSESSMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY TO DESIGNATE ALTERNATIVE USES OF PUBLIC BAYLOR GROUNDS IN SUPPORT OF AQUACULTURE EXPANSION IN VIRGINIA, USA N. David Bethoney and Kevin D. E. Stokesbury THE DISAPPEARANCE OF NEARLY 2 BILLION SCALLOPS Subha Bhassu and Tze Chiew Christie Soo DIFFERENTIAL TRANSCRIPTOMICS APPROACH ON AHPND-CHALLENGED DISEASE TOLERANT MADAGASAR-MALAYSIA PENEAUS MONODON REVEALS SIGNATURE EXPRESSION IN CONSERVED DOMAINS OF FUNCTIONAL GENES Lydia M. Bienlien and Ryan B. Carnegie ENVIRONMENTAL ABUNDANCE OF PERKINSUS MARINUS IN THE YORK RIVER, VIRGINIA, USA Kelsey A. Bisker, F. Scott Rikard, Glen Chaplin, and William C. Walton EFFECTS OF DIFFERENCES IN DURATION OF LARVAL PERIOD UPON THE FIELD PERFORMANCE OF CULTURED EASTERN OYSTERS (CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA): 2019 RESULTS Phil Bloch, Marlene Meaders, Kelly Muething, and Chris Cziesla COMPARATIVE HABITAT USE OF ESTUARINE HABITATS WITH AND WITHOUT OYSTER AQUACULTURE S. Borsetti, E.A. Bochenek, D.B. Rudders, C. Dobson, Jui-Han Chang, and D. Munroe EVALUATION OF LIFE HISTORY AND REPRODUCTIVE TIMING OF WAVED WHELK (BUCCINUM UNDATUM) ON THE U.S. MID-ATLANTIC CONTINENTAL SHELF Sarah. A. Bouboulis, Joshua A. Moody, Irina Beal, Matthew J. Gentry, and Danielle A. Kreeger MAXIMIZING SHELLFISH RECRUITMENT IN LIVING SHORELINES FOR RESTORATION AND HABITAT CONSERVATION EFFORTS Isabelle Boutet, François Lallier, Jean-Yves Toullec, Ann Andersen, Eric Bonnivard, Benoit Salaun, Ricardo Gonzales-Araya, Corentin Chevalier, Sarah Farhat, Emmanuelle Pales Espinosa, Bassem Allam, Ximing Guo, Takeshi Takeuchi, Romain Koszul, Martial Marbouty, Lyam Baudry, and Arnaud Tanguy DEVELOPMENT OF GENOMIC TOOLS TO STUDY THE RESISTANCE OF OSTREA EDULIS TO ITS PARASITES IN THE CONTEXT OF GENETIC SELECTION AND OYSTER RESTORATION Carolina M. Bourque and Patrick Banks CURRENT STATUS OF THE PUBLIC OYSTERS AREAS IN LOUISIANA Daniel J. Bowling and David B. Eggleston HURRICANE IMPACTS ON THE NATURAL OYSTER REEFS OF NORTH CAROLINA: IS THIS THE NEW PARADIGM? Tenise Bowman, Rosanne Wallach, Margaret A. Carroll, and Edward J. Catapane CARNOSINE REDUCES THE TOXIC EFFECT OF MANGANESE ON MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL Jacob Boyd and Michael Graven THE NORTH CAROLINA SHELLFISH LEASE PROGRAM Gabriela Bradt and Dr. Marissa McMahan DEVELOPING FISHERIES AND MARKETS FOR THE INVASIVE EUROPEAN GREEN CRAB Christopher Brianik, Sabrina Geraci-Yee, and Bassem Allam COMPLETING THE LIFE CYCLE OF QPX: EVIDENCE OF ZOOSPORES AND DESCRIPTION OF A NEW REPLICATION PATHWAY Joy Brown, Melissa Strickland, and Nicole Pehl SITING A LARGE-SCALE LIVING SHORELINE OYSTER REEF PROJECT IN SOUTH CAROLINA, USA David G. Bruce, John V. Lazar, Andrew McGowan, and Stephanie R. Westby SPATIAL DATA AND METHODS USED IN PLANNING LARGE-SCALE OYSTER RESTORATION IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY, USA Jeff F. Brunson, Graham A. Wagner, Elizabeth L. Gooding, Michael R. Kendrick, and Peter R. Kingsley-Smith REFINING REPRODUCTIVE ASSESSMENT PROTOCOLS TO BETTER INFORM MANAGEMENT OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA WHITE SHRIMP (PENAEUS SETIFERUS) FISHERY Colleen A. Burge, M. Victoria Agnew, Sukanya M. Dayal, M. Kachmar, Carolyn S. Friedman, Arun K. Dhar, Lionel Dégremont, Benjamin Morga, Peter Kirkland, Chris Langdon, Blaine Schoolfield, Konstantin Divilov, and Brett Dumbauld HOW DO OSHV-1 MICROVARIANTS MEASURE UP? A LAB-BASED COMPARISON AMONG MICROVARIANTS AND COMMON USA OYSTER SPECIES Lisa Calvo, Karen Hudson, David Bushek, Ryan Carnegie, Lori Gustafson, Robert Rheault, and Lucas Marxen A HATCHERY CERTIFICATION PROGRAM FOR THE INTERSTATE TRANSFER OF SHELLFISH SEED Joseph Caracappa, Daphne Munroe, Robert Chant, and Heidi Fuchs MATERNAL AND BEHAVIORAL INFLUENCES ON LARVAL TRANSPORT IN BLUE CRABS Ryan B. Carnegie FINDING A FOCUS ON SUMMER MORTALITY IN OYSTERS Kyle Cassidy, Alexander Zygmunt, and Kevin Stokesbury ASSESSING LARVAL LOBSTER DENSITY IN BOTH INSHORE AND OFFSHORE ENVIRONMENTS Dinorah H. Chacin, Susan S. Bell, and Christopher D. Stallings RED MANGROVES (RHIZOPHORA MANGLE) POSITIVELY INFLUENCE THE EASTERN OYSTER (CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA) ALONG AN INTERTIDAL GRADIENT Michael D. Chambers, M. Robertson Swift, Pete Flanigan, Vinnie Prien, and Chris Duffy ADVANCING SUBMERGED MUSSEL FARMING TECHNOLOGIES TO ALLEVIATE EIDER DUCK PREDATION Kurt M. Cheng, Danielle A. Kreeger, Angela T. Padeletti, and Matt J. Gentry MUSSELS FOR CLEAN WATER INITIATIVE: EXPANDING WATER FILTRATION SCIENCE BEYOND SALTWATER AND INTO FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC Diana W. Chin, Jimmy de Fouw, Tjisse van der Heide, Brianna V. Cahill, Kevin Katcher, Valerie J. Paul, Justin E. Campbell, and Bradley J. Peterson OBLIGATE AND FACULTATIVE FACILITATION OF SEAGRASSES BY CHEMOSYMBIOTIC BIVALVES Mohammed Shah Nawaz Chowdhury, Brenda Walles, S.M. Sharifuzzaman, M. Shahadat