Sustainable aquaculture tops Glasgow agenda
Organised by the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), the three day event is taking place at The University of Strathclyde's Technology and Innovation Centre and will include talk from a number of eminent aquacultural experts.
On the morning of October 1 a Sustainable Aquaculture Forum is being held in the Main Auditorium and will feature the following talks:
Nabeil Salama (Marine Scotland Science) – Determining sea lice distributions in the marine environment.
Joanna Wilson (Stirling) – Genotyping of Scottish Mytilus mussel populations using SNP Assays.
Thitya Summathed (Stirling) – The effects of clinical nutrition on fish immune status and resistance to viral infection.
Christopher Crawford (University West of Scotland) – Chemical Adsorption of Hydrophobic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Marine Environment onto Microplastic Polymers and Subsequent Desorption in a Simulated Fish Gut.
Craig Sanderson (MASTS Visiting Fellow) – Investigation to maximise spore release and settlement success for the commercial red algal species: Palmaria palmata.
The next day will see a Sustainable Aquaculture Workshop take place with the following programme scheduled:
9.00-9.20 James Deverill, Director of Research and Innovation (SAIC) ‘Introducing the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre – Opportunities for Research Funding in 2016’
9.20-9.40 Dr David Telford, Knowledge Transfer Manager (Agriculture), KTN ‘The Knowledge Transfer Network and Funding Opportunities’
9.40-10.00 Dr Susie Ranford (4C Design) ‘Product Commercialisation – the importance of collaborative design’
10.00-10.20 Dave Ross (SRUC) ‘Technical Innovations in Agriculture – current status and future directions’
10.20-10.30 Will Leschens (IoA) MASTS new Website and Social engagement.
10.30-11.00 Coffee
MASTS Sustainable Aquaculture Technical Session
11.00 -11.20 Richard Newton, Prescott, S., Trevor Telfer, and Dave Little. (Stirling). ‘A risk benefit analysis of the sustainability of mariculture as a means to reducing impacts using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)’.
11.20-11.40 Abdullah Alzaid, Daniel Macqueen, Sam Martin (Aberdeen). ‘How disease response impacts on the insulin like growth factor genes during early stages of rainbow trout development.’
11.40-12.00 Benjamin Zerafa, Eric Le Clerq, Herve Migaud, John Taylor. (Stirling). ‘Insights into cleaner fish activity in commercial salmon net-pens using fine-scale 3D positioning’.
12.00-12.20 Carola Dehler, Chris Secombes and Sam Martin (Aberdeen). ‘Fish intestinal health- investigations into the microbiome.’
12.20-12.40 H. Stagg*, J Black, E Munro and U McCarthy (Marine Scotland Science,
Aberdeen). ‘Vibrio splendidus and Vibrio aestuarianus associated with mortality events in
shellfish in Scotland.’
12.40-13.00 Manfred Weidman (MASTS Stirling). ‘Is there a potential for Point-of care-diagnostics in Aquaculture?’
