Sungchul Charles Bai CURRENT TITLE: Undergraduate and Graduate Faculty Professor/Department of Aquaculture/Feeds and Foods Nutrition Research Center, Pukyong National University.   Busan 608-737, Korea (82-51) 620-6137/6874

 DATE OF BIRTH: February 23, 1954 (Korea)

 EDUCATION :           

• B.S., Animal Husbandry, Kon-Kuk University, Seoul, 1980

• M.S., Animal Nutrition, California State University, Fresno, 1984

• Ph.D., Nutrition/Physiological Chemistry, School of Veterinary Medicine,                       University of California, Davis, 1990

 PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Animal Science, Univ. of Calif., Davis, Ca, 2007.09-2008.02.

• *President (2007-08) and President-elect (2006-07), World Aquaculture Society

• *President, Vision 21 Korean Aquaculture Forum, 2003 - Present

• Board of Director, World Aquaculture Society (WAS), 2003 – 06

• Editor, J. Aquaculture (The official Journal of Korean Aquaculture Society) 2002 – 2006

• Associate Editor, The Journal of World Aquaculture Society (JWAS), 2001 - present

• Editorial Board Member, Aquaculture Research, Blackwell Science Ltd., 2000 – present

• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Asian Fisheries Society, 2005 - Present

• *Director, Feeds and Foods Nutrition and Research Center, Busan, Korea, 2000 – 2007

• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Animal Sciences, Univ. of California Davis, Davis, Ca, 1999-2000

• *Chairman (1996-98)  *Professor (1993-Present), Dept. of Aquaculture, PKNU, Busan, Korea

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Sch. of Nat. Resources, The Ohio State University, USA, 1993-93

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 1990-1992

• Postgraduate Researcher and Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, 1986-1990. 

TEACHING AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

• Current teaching: Feeds and Nutrition; Feed Technology; Fish Nutrition; Nutritional Biochem.

• Member, Faculty of Aquaculture and Fisheries Biology for Graduate School Faculty of Aquaculture for Graduate School of Industry

 RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Basic nutrition of fishes and shellfishes, with primary emphasis on species cultured for human consumption.  Research activities include determining dietary requirements for and metabolism of various nutrients.  Consideration is given to such aspects as nutritional biochemistry, nutritional energetics, and nutrition-disease interactions of fish as it relates to human health. Research is coordinated to provide a comprehensive basic fish nutrition program which are targeted to improve production efficiency in aquaculture and enhance the quality of resulting products, to develop fishmeal analog and microencapsulated larval feeds, and to develop the computer feed formulations and the analytical methodology in aquaculture and fisheries managements.

 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP :

• World Aquaculture Society (WAS), Vision 21 Korean Aquacultue Forum,

• New York Academy of Sciences, American Society of Nutritional Sciences (ASNS),

• Korean Aquaculture Society,Korean Society of Animal Nutrition & Feedstuffs,

• Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, The Korean Society for Chitin and Chitosan,

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS from 2000 to 2007: