Ione Hunt von Herbing wants everyone to pursue their calling – just like she did at 3 years old when she realized she wanted to be a scientist. In her career, the associate professor and director of the Marine Conservation and Aquatic Physiological Laboratory (MCAPL) in UNT’s Department of Biological Sciences has experienced amazing sights, including peering through her microscope as a bluehead wrasse larva transformed itself into a swimming, twitching larval fish. Dr. Ione Hunt von Herbing is associate professor
and director of the Marine Conservation and
Aquatic Physiological Laboratory (MCAPL) in
UNT’s Department of Biological Sciences. Over
the past 15 years, her concern for the deteriorating
health of global oceans and wild fisheries — and
lack of sustainably farmed fish — led her to
use probiotics in her research to increase the
health and productivity of farmed fish in Texas
and Mexico. In conjunction with UNT graduate
students, she holds two patents, including a
treatment for the human disease PKU using a
genetically modified probiotic. Most recently, Dr.
Hunt von Herbing teamed with UNT chemists,
physicists and engineers to learn more about the
diverse challenges of climate change on ocean
and human health to identify interdisciplinary and
global solutions for a better future. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
