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6. Collaborated with John Hurst and Robert Dow (Maine Department 
of Marine Resources, West Boothbay Harbor, Me.) and Sing C. 
Chang on a study to determine if germinomas in the soft clam, 
Mya arenaria , from an oil spill site were caused by hydrocar¬ 
bons in the environment and to determine if nuclear inclusions 
in tumor cells are virus. 
B. Other activities : 
1. Member of the World Committee International Association for 
Comparative Research on Leukemia and Related Diseases. 
2. Member of the Interagency Collaborative Group on Environmental 
Carcinogenesis. 
3. Member of the Permanent Program Committee of the Society for 
Invertebrate Pathology. 
4. Member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Fish Diseases". 
5. President of the Washington, D. C. Chapter of Sigma Xi. ^ 
6. Attended the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences 
course, "Essentials of Toxicology," National Institutes of 
Health, Bethesda, Md., Spring 1979. 
C. Meetings ; 
1. Participated in the International Council for the Exploration 
of the Sea (ICES) Workshop on Problems of Monitoring Biologi¬ 
cal Effects of Pollution in the Sea, February 26-March 2, 1979, 
Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina. 
2. Presented "Overview of neoplastic diseases and cytoplasmic 
procaryote diseases in fish and shellfish," Fourth Annual Fish 
Health Workshop, June 25-27, 1979, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 
3. Presented "Neoplastic diseases of fish: significance to cancer 
research," 116th Annual Meeting of the American Veterinary 
Medical Association, July 23-26, 1979, Seattle, Washington. 
4. Attended the Xllth Annual Meeting of the Society for Inverte¬ 
brate Pathology, August 26-30, 1979, Gainesville, Florida. 
5. Presented "Hematopoietic neoplasms in Invertebrates and cold¬ 
blooded vertebrates," IXth International Symposium on Compara¬ 
tive Research on Leukemia and Related Diseases, October 2-6, 
1979, Pitsunda, Russia. 
6. Attended Pollutant Responses in Marine Animals (PRIMA) Advisory 
Meeting, October 21-23, 1979, Texas A & M University, College 
Station, Texas. 
