SCRC: Seafood CRC Visiting Expert and Master Classes - Dr Paw Dalgaard - SSSP and related food safety and quality software
SCRC: SCRC RTG: Research training at AAHL, Geelong (Vinh Dang)
SCRC: SCRC RTG: Study Tour to Norway (Richard Taylor)
Final report
The primary reason for this travel was to attend the Fish Breeders' Round Table in Stavanger, Norway. This is an international forum, where knowledge and experience is exchanged between fish breeding researchers and those involved in applied genetic improvement work on a commercial basis.
The forum included over 30 presentations on genomics, genetic models and commercial application of fish breeding. Following the meeting the author visited research institutions and Atlantic Salmon breeding installations.
SCRC: SCRC RTG: Laboratory Training, USA (Judith Fernandez-Piquer)
SCRC: SCRC Honours Scholarship: A novel method for producing sterile male fish and shellfish (Student - Andrew Schofield)
Final report
This study investigated the distribution of the expression of selected members of the peroxiredoxin (Prx) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) antioxidant enzyme families in YTK (Seriola lalandi), an important finfish aquaculture species in South Australia.
The purpose of investigating the expression of these enzymes was to determine if they played a role in male fertility in fish, as both these families play a role in male fertility in mammals and individual members of these protein families were shown to be highly conserved between mammals and fish.