Dr. Taylor I Heckman

Jungers, H. T., Knych, H. K., Henderson, E. E., Abraham, T. N., Heckman, T. I., Quijano Cardé, E. M., Yazdi, Z., Nguyen, D. T., Silva, I. M., Krol, L., Dunker, F. H., Martínez-López, B., Soto, E. 2024. PHARMACOKINETICS OF CEFTAZIDIME IN SIGNAL CRAYFISH (PACIFASTACUS LENIUSCULUS) FOLLOWING A SINGLE DOSE. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 55(4):949-958.

Heckman, T. I., Yazdi, Z., Older, C. E., Griffin, M. J., Waldbieser, G. C., Chow, A. M., Medina Silva, I., Anenson, K. M., García, J. C., LaFrentz, B. R., Slavic, D., Toohey-Kurth, K. L., Yant, P., Fritz, H. M., Henderson, E. E., McDowall, R., Cai, H., Adkison, M., Soto, E. 2024. Redefining piscine lactococcosis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 90(5).

Quijano Cardé, E. M., Anenson, K. M., Yun, S., Heckman, T. I., Jungers, H. T., Henderson, E. E., Purcell, S. L., Fast, M., Soto, E. 2024. Effects of Acipenserid herpesvirus 2 on the outcome of a Streptococcus iniae co-infection in white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). Frontiers in Aquaculture 3.

Older, C. E., Yamamoto, F., Griffin, M. J., Ware, C., Heckman, T. I., Soto, E., Bosworth, B. G., Waldbieser, G. C. 2023. Comparison of high‐throughput sequencing methods for bacterial microbiota profiling in catfish aquaculture. North American Journal of Aquaculture 86(1):39-54.

Abraham, T., Yazdi, Z., Littman, E., Shahin, K., Heckman, T. I., Quijano Cardé, E. M., Nguyen, D. T., Hu, R., Adkison, M., Veek, T., Mukkatira, K., Richey, C., Kwak, K., Mohammed, H. H., Ortega, C., Avendaño‐Herrera, R., Keleher, W., LePage, V., Gardner, I., Welch, T. J., Soto, E. 2023. Detection and virulence of Lactococcus garvieae and L. petauri from four lakes in southern California. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 35(3):187-198.

Littman, E. M., Heckman, T. I., Yazdi, Z., Veek, T., Mukkatira, K., Adkison, M., Powell, A., Camus, A., Soto, E. 2023. Temperature-associated virulence, species susceptibility and interspecies transmission of a Lactococcus petauri strain from rainbow trout. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 155:147-158.

Heckman, T. I., Yazdi, Z., Pomaranski, E. K., Sebastião, F. d., Mukkatira, K., Vuglar, B. M., Cain, K. D., Loch, T. P., Soto, E. 2023. Atypical flavobacteria recovered from diseased fish in the Western United States. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 13.

Pulpipat, T., Heckman, T. I., Boonyawiwat, V., Kerddee, P., Phatthanakunanan, S., Soto, E., Surachetpong, W. 2023. Concurrent infections of Streptococcus iniae and Aeromonas veronii in farmed Giant snakehead (Channa micropeltes). Journal of Fish Diseases 46(6):629-641.

Shoemaker, C. A., Heckman, T. I., Soto, E., LaFrentz, B. R., Beck, B., Paulson, M., Garcia, J. C. 2022. Coinfection by Group C Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis and Flavobacterium davisii in Nile Tilapia from the United States. Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists 42(2):67-78.

Morick, D., Davidovich, N., Zemah-Shamir, Z., Bigal, E., Rokney, A., Ron, M., Blum, S. E., Fleker, M., Soto, E., Heckman, T. I., Lau, S. C., Wosnick, N., Tchernov, D., Scheinin, A. P. 2022. First Isolation and Characterization of Streptococcus agalactiae From a Stranded Wild Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis). Frontiers in Marine Science 9.

Shahin, K., Mukkatira, K., Yazdi, Z., Richey, C., Kwak, K., Heckman, T. I., Mohammed, H. H., Ortega, C., Avendaño‐Herrera, R., Keleher, B., Hyatt, M. W., Drennan, J. D., Adkison, M., Griffin, M. J., Soto, E. 2022. Development of a quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay for detection of the aetiological agents of piscine lactococcosis. Journal of Fish Diseases 45(6):847-859.

Heckman, T. I., Shahin, K., Henderson, E. E., Griffin, M. J., Soto, E. 2022. Development and efficacy of Streptococcus iniae live-attenuated vaccines in Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. Fish & Shellfish Immunology 121:152-162.

Shahin, K., Veek, T., Heckman, T. I., Littman, E., Mukkatira, K., Adkison, M., Welch, T. J., Imai, D. M., Pastenkos, G., Camus, A., Soto, E. 2021. Isolation and characterization ofLactococcus garvieaefrom rainbow trout, Onchorhyncus mykiss, from California, USA. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 69(4):2326-2343.

Hawke, J. P., Daniel, R., Strother, K., Sokolova, Y., Elliott, J., Carossino, M., Langohr, I., Del Piero, F., López‐Porras, A., Heckman, T. I., Soto, E., Griffin, M. J. 2021. Streptococcus dysgalactiae: A Pathogen of Feral Populations of Silver Carp from a Fish Kill Event. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 33(4):231-242.

Sebastião, F. d., Shahin, K., Heckman, T. I., LaFrentz, B. R., Griffin, M. J., Loch, T. P., Mukkatira, K., Veek, T., Richey, C., Adkison, M., Holt, R. A., Soto, E. 2021. Genetic characterization of Flavobacterium columnare isolates from the Pacific Northwest, USA. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 144:151-158.

Heckman, T. I., Soto, E. 2021. Streptococcus iniae biofilm formation enhances environmental persistence and resistance to antimicrobials and disinfectants. Aquaculture 540:736739.

Ang, J., Kim, S., Heckman, T. I., Sebastião, F., Yazdi, Z., Abdelrazek, S. M., Soto, E. 2021. Use of Topical Treatments and Effects of Water Temperature on Wound Healing in Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 52(1):103-116.

Heckman, T. I., Griffin, M. J., Camus, A. C., LaFrentz, B. R., Morick, D., Smirnov, R., Ofek, T., Soto, E. 2020. Multilocus sequence analysis of diverse Streptococcus iniae isolates indicates an underlying genetic basis for phenotypic heterogeneity. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 141:53-69.

Pierezan, F., Shahin, K., Heckman, T. I., Ang, J., Byrne, B. A., Soto, E. 2020. Outbreaks of severe myositis in cultured white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus L.) associated with Streptococcus iniae. Journal of Fish Diseases 43(4):485-490.

Herr, K. L., Carey, A. M., Heckman, T. I., Laki Chávez, J., Johnson, C. N., Gamroth, W. A., Wulfing, B. S., Van Kessel, R. A., Marks, M. E. 2018. Exopolysaccharide production in Caulobacter crescentus: A resource allocation trade-off between protection and proliferation. PLOS One 13(1).