Loretta Lutackas

Bio

I am an aquatic biologist with a love for recirculating aquaculture systems that has found a perfect blend of the two at the Yates Mill Aquatic Conservation Lab researching and propagating freshwater mussels and snails. My focus is on improving captive propagation techniques through in vitro propagation research of mussels and optimizing captive rearing techniques of freshwater snails. Before working with freshwater invertebrates, I worked in hydroponics, biofuel engineering, and elasmobranch ecology.

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