Graham Young-Biography
Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington
Executive Director, Western Regional Aquaculture Center
EDUCATION
1975
BSc, University of Sheffield, England Major: Zoology
1980
PhD, University of Sheffield, England Major: Zoology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1980-1982
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
1982-84
Graduate Research Zoologist, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1984-89
Assistant Research Zoologist, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1989-2002
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, Department of Zoology,
University of Otago, New Zealand
2002-2004
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho
2002-2007
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Otago, New
Zealand
2002-present Faculty (2002-2004) and Adjunct Faculty (2004 to present), Center for
Reproduction, Washington State University/University of Idaho
2004-present Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington
2004-present Executive Director, Western Regional Aquaculture Center
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
1989-2002
Member of Council (1989-2002) and Treasurer (1996-2000), Asia and Oceania
Society for Comparative Endocrinology
1997-present Member of Steering Committee, Reproductive Biology in Aquaculture Program
of the International Union of Biological Sciences
2001
Member of the International Advisory Board, 7th International Symposium on
Reproductive Physiology of Fish
2004
Co-organizer of symposium “Advances in Fish Reproduction and
Biotechnology”, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction,
Vancouver, Canada
2005
External Review Team member and Chair of the Graduate Program Review
Committee, Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University
2005-2009
External Review Panel member, Washington-Idaho Aquaculture Initiative
(USDA-funded)
2007
Regional Aquaculture Center Representative, Steering Committee for the
National Aquaculture Extension Conference
2008-2010
Faculty Mentor, Ocean and Coastal Interdisciplinary Science (OACIS) GK-20
Program
2008-2010
Faculty Mentor, University of Washington NSF GK-12 Program
2008
Chair, International Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Sex
Determination and Gametogenesis in Fish: Current Status and Future Challenges,
Honolulu HI
2011
NSF Panel Member, Physiological and Structural Systems Cluster
2012
National Sea Grant National Marine Aquaculture Initiative Preproposal Review
Panel member
2011-2013
2013
Host/Mentor, International Cooperative Research Project on the Molecular
Mechanisms Regulating Reproduction in Fish, Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science
External review panel member, University of Idaho Aquaculture Research
Institute
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Young, G., Lokman, P.M., Kusakabe, M., Nakamura, I. and Goetz F.W. Gonadal steroidogenesis
in teleost fish. In Molecular Aspects of Fish and Marine Biology (C. Hew series ed.), volume
2 (N. Sherwood and P. Melamed eds), pp. 155-223. World Scientific Press, Singapore (2005).
Kusakabe, M., Zuccarelli, M.D., Nakamura, I, Young, G. Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
in white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus): cDNA cloning, sites of expression and
transcript abundance in corticosteroidogenic tissue after an acute stressor. General and
Comparative Endocrinology 162: 233–240 (2009)
Nakamura, I, Kusakabe, M., Young, G. Differential suppressive effects of low physiological
doses of estradiol-17β in vivo on levels of mRNAs encoding steroidogenic acute regulatory
protein and three steroidogenic enzymes in previtellogenic ovarian follicles of rainbow trout.
General and Comparative Endocrinology 163: 318-323 (2009)
Lubzens, E., Young, G., Bobe, J. and Cerdà, J. Oogenesis in teleosts: how fish eggs are formed.
General and Comparative Endocrinology 165:367-389 (2010)
Beaudreau, A.H., Andrews, K.S. , Larsen, D.A., Young, G., Beckman, B. Variation in plasma
levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) in lingcod: relationships among season, size, and
gonadal steroids. Marine Biology 158:439-450 (2011).
McQuillan, H.J., Kusakabe, M., Young, G. Effects of chronic manipulation of
adrenocorticotropic hormone levels in Chinook salmon on expression of interrenal
steroidogenic acute regulatory protein and steroidogenic enzymes. General and Comparative
Endocrinology 174: 156-165 (2011)
Miura, C., Shimizu, Y., Uehara, M., Ozaki, Y., Young, G., Miura, T. Gh is produced by the testis
of Japanese eel and stimulates proliferation of spermatogonia. Reproduction 142: 869–877
(2011)
Yamamoto, Y., Luckenbach, A.J., Goetz, F.W., Young, G., and Swanson, P. Disruption of the
salmon reproductive endocrine axis through prolonged nutritional stress: changes in
circulating hormone levels and transcripts for ovarian genes involved in steroidogenesis and
apoptosis. General and Comparative Endocrinology 172: 331-343 (2011)
Forsgren, K.L. and Young, G. 2012. Stage-specific effects of androgens and estradiol-17β on
the development of late primary and early secondary ovarian follicles of coho salmon
(Oncorhynchus kisutch) in vitro. Biology of Reproduction 87: 1-14 (2012)
Shibata, Y., Iwamatsue, T., Suzuki, N., Young, G., Naruse, K., Nagahama, Y. and Yoshikuni, M.
An oocyte-specific astacin family protease, alveolin, is released from cortical granules to
trigger egg envelope hardening during fertilization in medaka (Oryzias latipes).
Developmental Biology 372: 239-248 (2012).
Baker M.R, Swanson, P. and Young, G. Injuries from non-retention in gillnet fisheries suppress
reproductive maturation in escaped fish. PLOS One 8: e69615 (2013).
Harding, L.A., Schultz, I.R., Goetz, G.W., Luckenbach, J.A., Young, G., Goetz, F.W., Swanson,
P. High-throughput sequencing and pathway analysis reveal alteration of the pituitary
transcriptome by 17a-ethynylestradiol (EE2) in female coho salmon, Oncorhychus kisutch.
Aquatic Toxicology 142-143: 146-163 (2013).