Diran H. Tashjian
dhtashjian@berkeley.edu

Education

• University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
  J.D.,May 2008
• University of California, Davis
  Ph.D., in Ecology (specialized in Toxicology, Physiology, and Phylogenetics), June 2005
• University of California, Irvine
  B.S., cum laude, in Biological Sciences, June 2001

Publications

• Tashjian, D.H., Deng, D.-F., Werner, I., Wan, C.-F., and Hung, S.S.O. The Influence of Dietary Selenium Exposure and Subsequent Heat Stress on Heat-Shock Protein Expression in White Sturgeon. In preparation for submission to a scientific journal.
• Tashjian, D.H., Bakke-McKellep, A.M., and Hung, S.S.O. Gastrointestianl Selenium Uptake by the Green Sturgeon (Acipenser Medirostris): A comparison between in vivo and in vitro sampling methodologies. In preparation for submission to a scientific journal.
• Tashjian, D.H., Cech, Jr., J.J., and Hung, S.S.O. 2007. The Influence of Dietary L-Selenomethionine Exposure on the Survival and Osmoregulatory Capacity of White Sturgeon in Fresh and Brackish Water. Fish Physiology and Biochemsitry, 33(2) : 109-119.
• Tashjian, D.H. and S.S.O. Hung. 2006. Toxicokinetics of orally dosed L-Selenomethionine in the white sturgeon. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 25(10):2618-2622.
• Tashjian, D.H., Teh, S.J., Sogomonyan, A. and Hung, S.S.O. 2006. Bioaccumulation and Chronic Toxicity of Dietary L-Selenomethionine in Juvenile White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). Aquatic Toxicology, 79(4):401-409.
• Tashjian, D and Hung S.S.O. 2005. Non-invasive surgery techniques in fish research: A review on esophageal intubation, dorsal aorta cannulation, and urinary catheterization in sturgeon. Page 131-142. Sakai, Y., J.P. McVey, D. Jang, E. McVey, M. Caesar (Eds.) Aquaculture and Pathobiology of Crustacean and other species. In the Proceedings of the 32nd U.S.-Japan Meeting on Aquaculture. Davis, California, 17, 18 & 20th November, 2003. UJNR Technical Report 32. Silver Spring, MD. NOAA Research. Pp. 180. Available online at http://www.lib.noaa.gov/japan/aquaculture/proceedings/report32/hung_corrected.pdf