Faculty Profiles
David Marancik, DVM, PhD, DABVP, Certaqvet
Faculty, Infectious Disease
Education and Professional Certifications:
PhD in Aquatic Pathology
University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine
Diplomate
American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Fish Medicine)
Certified Aquatic Veterinarian (World Aquatic Veterinary Medical Association)
DVM
Iowa State University, College of Veterinary Medicine
B.A. in Biology, Minor in Health Care Management
Assumption College
Areas of Expertise:
Infectious Disease
Anatomic Pathology
Aquatic Animal Medicine
Select Publications:
Wiens GD, Chadwick CC, Osbourn K, Fu Q, Reid RM, Moreland T, Welch TJ, Leeds TD, Marancik DP. 2026. Immune divergence in rainbow trout lines selectively bred for F. psychrophilum resistance or susceptibility revealed by challenge with Weissella tructae. Fish and Shellfish Immunology. 174:111387.
Marancik D, Chadwick C, Fields P, Manire C, Norton T, Perrault J, Cray C. 2025. Evaluation of MRP-126, cardiac troponin C and serum amyloid A as potential plasma biomarkers of health and disease in sea turtles. Conservation Physiology. 13(1):coaf061;
Noor-Ul Huda, Duran M, Edwards J, Ware C, Harvey O, Griffin M, Marancik D. 2025. Pathologic description and integrated genomic characterization of Kudoa thunni from yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the Caribbean Sea. Journal of Fish Diseases. http://doi.org/10.1111/jfd.70094
Rubin B, Doucet M, Binning SA, Gara-Boivin C, Marancik D, Vergneau-Grosset C. 2024. Correlation between anthropic pressure scores, coral lesions and skin hyperpigmentation in French grunts (Haemulon Flavolineatum) and ocean surgeonfish (Canthurus bahianus) on the southwest coast of Grenada, West Indies. Caribbean Journal of Science. 54: 286–297.
Kucinick M, Charles K, Carter K, Edwards J, Costlow C, Wilkerson M, Seddon D, Marancik D. 2024. Comparative plasma biochemistry analyte data in nesting leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), foraging green (Chelonia mydas) and foraging and nesting hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) sea turtles in Grenada, West Indies, Conservation Physiology, Volume 12: coae028.
Schuster CJ, Marancik DP, Couch CE, Kaplan R, Kent M. 2024. A novel neurotropic microsporidium from the swamp guppy Micropoecilia picta from Grenada, West Indies. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 158:133-141.
Wiens GD, Marancik DP, Chadwick CC, Osbourn K, Reid RM, Leeds TD. 2023. Plasma proteomic profiling of bacterial cold-water disease resistant and susceptible rainbow trout lines and biomarker discovery. Frontiers in Immunology.14:1265386. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1265386
Charles KE, Morrall CE, Edwards JE, Carter KD, Afema JA, Butler BP, Marancik DP. 2023. Environmental variables affecting Atlantic leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) embryonic and hatching success rates in Grenada, West Indies. Animals (Basel). 13(4):685. doi:10.3390/ani13040685
Hewson I, Ritchie IT, Evans JS, Altera A, Behringer D, Bowman E, Brandt M, Budd KA, Camacho RA, Cornwell TO, Countway PD, Croquer A, Delgado GA, DeRito C, Duermit-Moreau E, Francis-Floyd R, Gittens S Jr, Henderson L, Hylkema A, Kellogg CA, Kiryu Y, Kitson-Walters KA, Kramer P, Lang JC, Lessios H, Liddy L, Marancik D, Nimrod S, Patterson JT, Pistor M, Romero IC, Sellares-Blasco R, Sevier MLB, Sharp WC, Souza M, Valdez-Trinidad A, van der Laan M, Vilanova-Cuevas B, Villalpando M, Von Hoene SD, Warham M, Wijers T, Williams SM, Work TM, Yanong RP, Zambrano S, Zimmermann A, Breitbart M. 2023. A scuticociliate causes mass mortality of Diadema antillarum in the Caribbean Sea. Scientific Advances. 9(16):eadg3200. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adg3200
Woodyard ET, Bierman AE, Edwards JJ, Finney JC, Rosser TG, Griffin MJ, Marancik DP. 2022. Kudoa hypoepicardialis and associated cardiac lesions in invasive red lionfish Pterois volitans in Grenada, West Indies. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.149:97-108. doi: 10.3354/dao03663.
