Gail Scott

Education

• B.S.  Biology, College of William & Mary
• M.A.  Biology, College of William & Mary

Duties/Specialties

Manager of the Marine Molecular Genetics Laboratory.
My research interests include genetic analysis of aquaculture species and disease organisms. My current projects include development of molecular diagnostics for the detection of harmful algal bloom organisms, investigating the potential human health impact these organisms may have, and looking at correlations between water quality parameters and late summer harmful algal blooms in the lower Chesapeake Bay.

Publications

• Yu X, Tomlinson MC, Shen J, Li Y, Hounshell AG, Scott GP and KS Reece (2025) Using a coupled satellite image-numerical model framework to simulate Margalefidinum polykrikoides in the York River estuary. Front. Mar. Sci. 12:1561340.
• Gaillard S, Small HJ, Ayache N, Tanniou S, Hess P, Réveillon D, Harris CM, Harris TM, Scott GP, MacIntyre A and KS Reece (2024) Investigating the allelochemical interaction of Alexandrium monilatum with diatoms and other dinoflagellates. Harmful Algae 139:102706.
• Pease SKD, Egerton TA, Reece KS, Sanderson MP, Onofrio MD, Yeargan E, Wood A, Roach A, Huang I-SW, Scott GP, Place AR, Hayes AM and JL Smith (2023) Co-occurrence of marine and freshwater phycotoxins in oysters, and analysis of possible predictors for management. Toxicon: X 19:100166.
• Wolny J, Tomlinson MC, Uz SS, Egerton TA, McKay JR, Meredith A, Reece KS, Scott GP and RP Stumpf (2020) Current and future remote sensing of harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay to support the shellfish industry. Frontiers in Marine Science 7:337.
• Harris CM, Reece KS, Stec DF, Scott GP, Jones WM, Hobbs PLM and TM Harris (2020) The toxin goniodomin, produced by Alexandrium spp., is identical to goniodomin A. Harmful Algae 92:101707. 
• Reece KS, Scott GP, Dang C and CF Dungan (2017) A novel monoclonal Perkinsus chesapeaki in vitro isolate from an Australian cockle, Anadara trapezia. J. Invert. Pathol. 148:86-93. 
• Vandersea MW, Kibler SR, Van Sant SB, Tester PA, Eckert G, Camarata C, Reece KS, Scott GP, Place A, Holderied K, Hondolero D and RW Litaker (2017) qPCR assays for Alexandrium fundyense and A. ostenfeldii identified from Alaskan coastal waters and a review of species-specific Alexandrium molecular assays. Phycologia 56:303-320.
• Dang C, Dungan CF, Scott GP and KS Reece (2015) Perkinsus sp. infections and in vitro isolates from Anadara trapezia (mud arks) of Queensland, Australia. Dis. Aquat. Org. 113:31-58. 
• da Silva PM, Scardua MP, Vianna RT, Mendonça RC, Vieira CB, Dungan CF, Scott GP and KS Reece (2014) Two Perkinsus spp. infect Crassostrea gasar oysters from cultured and wild populations of the Rio São Francisco estuary, Sergipe, northeastern Brazil. J. Inv. Parasit. 119:62-71. 
• Lowen M, Scott G and P Zwollo (2001) Functional analysis of two alternative isoforms of transcription factor Pax-5. J. Biol. Chem. 276(45):42565-74.  
• Anspach J, Poulsen (Scott) G, Kaattari I, Pollock R and P Zwollo (2000) Reduction in DNA binding activity of the transcription factor Pax-5a in B lymphocytes of aged mice. J. Immunol. 166:2617-26.  

Research Staff

• Alanna MacIntyre
• Mika Ulewicz

Supervisor

Dr. Kimberly Reece