Faculty and Staff

Theodore B. Henry

Research Assistant Professor

Email: thenry8@utk.edu

Research interests

Dr. Ted Henry is a Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Environmental Biotechnology and Adjunct Assistant Professor in The Center for Wildlife Health in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.  In November 2008, he began a Research Council of the United Kingdom (RC-UK) Academic Fellowship at the University of Plymouth in Plymouth, England and maintains his appointments at the University of Tennessee. His position at the University of Plymouth is a permanent academic track position focussing on the ecotoxicology of environmental contaminants (http://innovatecentre.co.uk/stressbiol/). He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Aquatic Biology at the University of California Santa Barbara and worked as a fisheries extension/rural community development agent in the Akebou region of Togo West Africa as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer.  He received a Master of Science from the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures at Auburn University (AL) with thesis research on the aquatic toxicology of acid mine drainage mixing zones in warmwater streams.  His doctoral research in the Fish Disease Laboratory at Auburn University investigated fish pathology associated with exposure to electric fields.  Prior to coming to UT Dr. Henry investigated the ecotoxicology of pharmaceutical products as a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Dr. Henry has taught courses in fish physiology, water pollution biology, and aquatic toxicology.  At UT he teaches a graduate course in aquatic toxicology and teaches toxicoses and fish disease components of courses in the Wildlife Health curriculum (WFS 101 and 301).  Dr. Henry also teaches short courses in specific areas of fish disease, aquatic toxicology, and principles of electrofishing including effects of electric fields on fish. 

Dr. Henry’s research interests are focused on the effects of environmental contaminants on fish physiology and pathology.  He established and directs the Zebrafish Research Facility at UT and uses zebrafish as a model to investigate effects of contaminants using molecular approaches and histopathology.  A primary objective of Dr. Henry’s research is to connect effects observed in the laboratory at the molecular level to effects in organisms and populations at mesocosm and field scales, and his research incorporates investigations in tank mesocosms at the UT Johnson Animal Research and Teaching Unit and field research in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.