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975 W. 6th Street
Moscow, Idaho

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1138
Moscow, ID 83844-1138

Phone: 208-885-8981

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Jie Ma

Jie (Jessie) Ma, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Office

CNR 105D

Phone

208-301-0884

Email
Mailing Address

Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1136
Moscow ID 83844-1136

Degrees

  • 2013, Ph.D., College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agriculture University, HuBei, China
  • 2008, B.Sc., Department of Animal Sciences & Technology, Hebei Normal University of Science & Technology, HeBei, China

Research Interests

  • Aquaculture Vaccine Development
  • Fish Diseases
  • Fish Immunology/Pathology
  • Molecular Diagnostics
  • Genome-editing technologies
  • Cells culture

Publications

Patent:

  • Ma J, Zeng L, Jiang N, Chen Q, Zhao H. Establishment and characterization of brain cell line from crucian carp (Carassius auratus gibelio) and its application in toxicology. Publication number: US9598671 B2

Selected Publications:

  • Ma J, Casadei E, Bruce TJ, Sepahi A, Cain KD, Salinas I. Long-term efficacy of nasal vaccination against enteric red mouth (ERM) disease and infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Vaccine. 2022 Jan 21;40(2):229-38.

  • Bruce TJ, Ma J (Co-first authors), Sudheesh PS, Cain KD. Quantification and comparison of gene expression associated with iron regulation and metabolism in a virulent and attenuated strain of Flavobacterium psychrophilum. Journal of Fish Diseases. 2021 Jul;44(7):949-60.

  • Bruce TJ, Ma J, Jones EM, Vuglar BM, Oliver LP, Cain KD. Assessment of Flavobacterium psychrophilum‐associated mortality in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). Journal of Fish Diseases. 2021 Feb 9. Journal of Fish Diseases. 2021 May;44(5):645-53.

  • Bruce TJ, Oliver LP, Ma J, Small BC, Hardy RW, Brown ML, Craig SR, Cain KD. An initial evaluation of fishmeal replacement with soy protein sources on growth and immune responses of burbot (Lota lota maculosa). Aquaculture. 2021 Dec 15;545:737157.

  • Zhang K, Ma J, Fan Y. Epidemiology of the Grass Carp Reovirus. InAquareovirus 2021 (pp. 133-148). Springer, Singapore.

  • Bruce TJ, Ma J, Oliver LP, Jones EM, LaFrentz BR, Cain KD. Isolation and experimental challenge of cultured burbot (Lota lota maculosa) with Flavobacterium columnare and Aeromonas sp. isolates. Journal of Fish Diseases. 2020 Aug;43(8):839-51.

  • Bruce TJ, Ma J, Knupp C, Loch TP, Faisal M, Cain KD. Cross‐protection of a live attenuated Flavobacterium psychrophilum immersion vaccine against novel Flavobacterium spp. and Chryseobacterium spp. strains. Journal of Fish Diseases. 2020 Aug;43(8):915-28.

  • Liu W, Zhang Y, Ma J (Co-first authors), Jiang N, Fan Y, Zhou Y, Cain K, Yi M, Jia K, Wen H, Liu W. Determination of a novel parvovirus pathogen associated with massive mortality in adult tilapia. PLoS pathogens. 2020 Sep 24;16(9): e1008765.

  • Bruce TJ, Gulen S, Oliver LP, Ma J, Cain KD. Evaluation of commercial and experimental grower diets for use in intensive burbot (Lota lota maculosa) culture. Aquaculture. 2020 May 30:735490.

  • Oliver LP, Ma J, Bruce TJ, Evavold JT, Korbel DB, Cain KD. Triploid induction in cultured burbot (Lota lota) using thermal and hydrostatic shock. Aquaculture. 2020 Jan 15;515:734582.

  • Ma J, Bruce TJ, Jones EM, Cain KD. A Review of Fish Vaccine Development Strategies: Conventional Methods and Modern Biotechnological Approaches. Microorganisms. 2019 Nov;7(11):569.

  • Ma J, Bruce TJ, Oliver LP, Cain KD. Co‐infection of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) with infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus and Flavobacterium psychrophilum. Journal of fish diseases. 2019 Jul;42(7):1065-76.

  • Ma J, Bruce TJ, Sudheesh PS, Knupp C, Loch TP, Faisal M, Cain KD. Assessment of cross‐protection to heterologous strains of Flavobacterium psychrophilum following vaccination with a live-attenuated coldwater disease immersion vaccine. Journal of fish diseases. 2019 Jan; 42(1):75-84. (Journal of Fish Diseases-front cover )

  • Ma J, Fan Y, Zhou Y, Liu W, Jiang N, Zhang J, Zeng L. Efficient resistance to grass carp reovirus infection in JAM-A knockout cells using CRISPR/Cas9. Fish & shellfish immunology. 2018 May 1;76:206-15.

  • Jiang N, Fan Y, Zhou Y, Wang W, Ma J, Zeng L. Transcriptome analysis of Aeromonas hydrophila infected hybrid sturgeon (Huso dauricus × Acipenser schrenckii). Scientific reports. 2018 Dec 18;8(1):17925.

  • Ma J, Zeng L, Lu Y. Penaeid shrimp cell culture and its applications. Reviews in Aquaculture. 2017 Mar 1;9(1):88-98.
  • Zhang L, Ma J, Fan Y, Zhou Y, Xu J, Liu W, Gu Z, Zeng L. Immune response and protection in gibel carp, Carassius gibelio, after vaccination with β-propiolactone inactivated cyprinid herpesvirus 2. Fish Shellfish Immunol. 2016 Feb;49:344-50.
  • Wang RH, Xiao TY, Zeng LB, Liu XY, Zhou Y, Ma J. Generation and use of Edwardsiella ictaluri ghosts as a vaccine against enteric septicemia of catfish (ESC). Aquaculture. 2016 Apr 1;456:9-15.
  • Ma J, Jiang N, LaPatra SE, Jin L, Xu J, Fan Y, Zhou Y, Zeng L. Establishment of a novel and highly permissive cell line for the efficient replication of cyprinid herpesvirus 2 (CyHV-2). Vet Microbiol. 2015 Jun 12;177(3-4):315-25.
  • Chen Q, Ma J (Co-first authors), Fan Y, Meng Y, Xu J, Zhou Y, Liu W, Zeng X, Zeng L. Identification of type I IFN in Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) and the response to an iridovirus infection. Mol Immunol. 2015 Jun;65(2):350-9.
  • Jiang N, Fan Y, Zhou Y, Liu W, Ma J, Meng Y, Xie C, Zeng L. Characterization of Chinese giant salamander iridovirus tissue tropism and inflammatory response after infection. Dis Aquat Organ. 2015 Jun 3;114(3):229-37.
  • Zhou Y, Fan Y, LaPatra SE, Ma J, Xu J, Meng Y, Jiang N, Zeng L. Protective immunity of a Pichia pastoris expressed recombinant iridovirus major capsid protein in the Chinese giant salamander, Andrias davidianus. Vaccine. 2015 Oct 13;33(42):5662-9.
  • Fan Y, Chang MX, Ma J, LaPatra SE, Hu YW, Huang L, Nie P, Zeng L. Transcriptomic analysis of the host response to an iridovirus infection in Chinese giant salamander, Andrias davidianus. Vet Res. 2015 Nov 20;46:136.
  • Zhou Y, Jiang N, Ma J, Fan Y, Zhang L, Xu J, Zeng L. Protective immunity in gibel carp, Carassius gibelio of the truncated proteins of cyprinid herpesvirus 2 expressed in Pichia pastoris. Fish Shellfish Immunol. 2015 Dec;47(2):1024-31.
  • Ma J, Zeng L, Zhou Y, Jiang N, Zhang H, Fan Y, Meng Y, Xu J. Ultrastructural morphogenesis of an amphibian iridovirus isolated from Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus). Journal of comparative pathology. 2014 Apr 30;150(2):325-31.
  • Meng Y, Ma J, Jiang N, Zeng LB, Xiao HB. Pathological and microbiological findings from mortality of the Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus). Archives of virology. 2014 Jun 1;159(6):1403-12.
  • Ma J, Zeng L, Fan Y, Zhou Y, Jiang N, Chen Q. Significant inhibition of two different genotypes of grass carp reovirus in vitro using multiple shRNAs expression vectors. Virus Res. 2014 Aug 30;189:47-55.
  • Liu W, Xu J, Ma J, LaPatra SE, Meng Y, Fan Y, Zhou Y, Yang X, Zeng L. Immunological responses and protection in Chinese giant salamander Andrias davidianus immunized with inactivated iridovirus. Vet Microbiol. 2014 Dec 5;174(3-4):382-390.
  • Ma J, Sun S, Zeng L, Lu Y. Establishment, characterization and viral susceptibility of two cell lines derived from leopard wrasse Macropharyngodon geoffroy. Journal of fish biology. 2013 Sep 1;83(3):560-73.
  • Xu J, Zeng L, Zhang H, Zhou Y, Ma J, Fan Y. Cyprinid herpesvirus 2 infection emerged in cultured gibel carp, Carassius auratus gibelio in China. Vet Microbiol. 2013 Sep 27;166(1-2):138-44.
  • Fan Y, Rao S, Zeng L, Ma J, Zhou Y, Xu J, Zhang H. Identification and genomic characterization of a novel fish reovirus, Hubei grass carp disease reovirus, isolated in 2009 in China. J Gen Virol. 2013 Oct;94(Pt 10):2266-77.
  • Zhou Y, Fan YD, Zeng LB, Ma J. Prokaryotic expression and immunoassay of grass carp reovirus capsid VP6 protein. Acta virologica. 2012 Dec;57(4):456-61.
  • Ma J, Wang W, Zeng L, Fan Y, Xu J, Zhou Y. Inhibition of the replication of grass carp reovirus in CIK cells with plasmid-transcribed shRNAs. J Virol Methods. 2011 Aug;175(2):182-7.

Contact Us

College of Natural Resources

Physical Address:
975 W. 6th Street
Moscow, Idaho

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1138
Moscow, ID 83844-1138

Phone: 208-885-8981

Fax: 208-885-5534

Email: cnr@uidaho.edu

Web: College of Natural Resources

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