Eric Lacy
Director and Professor Emeritus
Marine Biomedicine & Environmental Sciences Center
Oceans & Human Health Training Program
Medical University of South Carolina
Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences Center
Dept. Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology
173 Ashley Ave. BSB 625
Charleston, SC 29425
(843) 792-3549
lacyer@musc.edu
http://www.musc.edu/mbes
Ph.D., 1979, State University of New York/ Buffalo
Research emphasis: Stingray osmoregulation and reproduction
Current and planned research projects:
- investigate the role of peritoneal fluid in the acid/base balance and osmoregulation in euryhaline stingrays
- identifying and characterizing molecules in fluids secreted by accessory reproductive organs
Selected Publications:
- Adair Dempsey, Michael Janech, Eric R. Lacy and Wayne Fitzgibbon. Localization of Facilitated Urea Transporters to Tubular Segments in the Bundle and Sinus Zones of the Kidney of the Euryhaline Stingray, Dasyatis sabina. Am. Soc. Icthyology & Herptetology, St. Louis, MO. June, 2007
- Lovelace, S, Dombrowski, K, Holland, F, Lacy, E. The Hollings Marine Laboratory, A Model for Collaborative Research. Integrating Environment and Human Health.. 7th National Conference on Integrating Science, Policy, and the Environment. Washington, DC. Feb 1-2, 2007
- Janech MJ, Fitzgibbon WR, Ploth DW, Lacy ER, Miller DH. Effect of low environmental salinity on plasma composition and renal function of the Atlantic stingray,a euryhaline elasmobranch.(Am.J.Physiol.Renal,2006,291:F770-780)
- Lacy ER. Clasper Gland and Alkaline Glands of Batiods. In Hamlett WM, ed Reproductive Biology and phylogeny of Chrondichthyes: Sharks, Skates, Stingrays and Chimaeras. Science Publishers Inc. Plymouth, UK. 2005
- Lacy,ER. Acid-base and osmoregulation in the Atlantic stingray: possible role for coelomic fluid. American Elasmobranch Society Annual Meeting, 2002, Manaus, Brazil.