Researching invertebrate aquaculture 🌿🐚🦪🦐 immunology and host-microbiome 🦠 interactions 🐘 @treegan@genomic.social
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined July 2010
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What’s great about this approach?
We skip the dissection and only need a few DNA extractions, making it possible to test hundreds of oysters right at the farm. Want to see the process in action? Check out this animation:
Excellent ideas from @ThinkUHI #Aquaculture Hub workshop in #Shetland featuring a productive day of discussions with industry and academic stakeholders.
We were also spoiled with both mussel & salmon farm site visits, stunning coastline & exceptional seafood!
Can't wait to return
Just back from the Association of Scottish #Shellfish Growers annual meeting!
@roslininstitute was represented by talks from @beatnim and myself.
I outlined our labs approach to support Scottish #mussel populations & shellfish #aquaculture through #immunology & #genomics research
ALT Prize winning shellfish growers displaying their awards
ALT Ana Corrochano presenting her work on mussel larval dispersion
ALT Tim Bean presenting his talk on the impact of marine microbiomes on disease outcome in shellfish.
ALT The aims for the Regan Lab to uncover mussel immunology.
Delighted to announce the launch of the Regan lab at @roslininstitute @EdinburghUni
Our group will research #immunology of #invertebrate #aquaculture species 🌱🦪🦐🐚
& molecular ecology🦠🧬of their growing environments #IMTA #microbiome
We also learned about diversifying LTA farming e.g. is tunicate (sea squirt) farming the future? pronofa.no/en/
All in all, it was a fantastic meeting. I learned about great projects which could have relevance for🏴, met amazing people, and I can't wait til the next one – at Tromsø, Norway
Elisa Ravagnan (@ASTRAL_H2020 Coordinator) led a panel on #IMTA bottlenecks & opportunities. We chatted pros & cons of combining larger monoculture farms in a single water basin vs smaller diversified farms.
Terms like "Circular Economy" can be used over "IMTA" to avoid jargon♻️ – at Tromsø, Norway
We had some great presentations including Harald Sveier from Lerøy/Ocean Forest demonstrating their seaweed farming efforts alongside finfish netpens - what worked, what didn't and what's next. – at Tromsø, Norway
I was lucky enough to attend the first annual workshop on Norwegian Lower Trophic #Aquaculture species (seaweeds, shellfish, urchins etc.) in Tromsø #NoLTANet joining ~50 🇳🇴growers and scientists from academia to industry.
Read about the official launch👉
nofima.com/press-release/est… – at Tromsø, Norway
Have had great discussions at #ISGA2022 around our upcoming @10xGenomics spatial transcriptomics on OsHV-1 infected juvenile oysters.
Can't wait to dissect all the #immune signatures and responses!
#aquaculture
Anyone arriving in Puerto Varas for #ISGA2022 today should know that a loud air raid siren plays here twice to get for emergency services 🚨
3 times is an evacuation ahead of volcanic eruption 🌋
Better to learn now than googling at 2 am because there's a fire in the city 😅
ALT Chilean flag by lake Llanquihue looking across to Osorno volcano 🌋
Very cool presentation by @Salisbury_Fish on genetic basis for anadramous Vs resident morphs in Arctic charr using 3 distinct populations in Newfoundland @gia2020. Symmetry with brown trout SNPs associated with these morphs 😯
Big candidates for improving #aquaculture 🐟
Excellent 2 days in Oban #AllAboutAlgae @SAMSoceannews
Dr. Adrian MacLeod and Dr. @kati_michalek showed us their experimental farm where they optimise practicality & affordability. Also, great talks from funding, investment & processing issues to success stories from @swmull_iona
