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PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-761
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SCRC: SCRC RTG: Laboratory Training, USA (Judith Fernandez-Piquer)

This project was a CRC travel grant and involved a series of training activities for improved knowledge of the Vibrio monitoring and risk management in oysters which were conducted in Ocean Springs-Biloxi, Mississippi and Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA in November 2010. The outcomes of this trip were...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-713
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SCRC: SCRC RTG 1.3 - Shrimp pathology course: Disease diagnosis and control, University of Arizona, USA + visit to Shrimp Biotechnology Business Unit, Thailand (Daniel Pountney, CRC PhD student, UTAS)

This research travel grant allowed Seafood CRC PhD student, Daniel Pountney to travel to Thailand and Arizona to investigate current research and industry practices in regards to prawn aquaculture. The initial travel involved a visit Bunjonk shrimp hatchery which is located in the Chachoengsao...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2012-751
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SCRC: RTG: “R” Basic and Design and Analysis of Experiments Workshop, The University of Western Australia, Perth

The research travel grant allowed a CRC PhD student to attend a training course on the introduction to the statistical software environment “R”, reading and handling data, graphic analysis and data output analysis, writing simple R-based functions, developing flow control structures, and...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-752
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SCRC: SCRC RTG: Collaboration with Dr Salina Parveen to discuss comparisons of Vibrio parahaemolyticus models for Australian Pacific, Sydney Rock, and American Oysters at the University of Maryland (for Mark Tamplin)

Vibrio spp. are bacteria that naturally occur in oysters. Some Vibrio spp. such as V. parahaemolyticus cause human disease when levels are high and oysters are eaten raw. Predictive tools can be used to estimate V. parahaemolyticus levels in oysters, and to monitor and design cold chains that...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-719
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SCRC: SCRC RTG: Dr Barbara Nowak "Research exchange to the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling"

The purpose of this travel grant was to conduct collaborative research to: Investigate gene expression in early amoebic gill disease (AGD), including gene expression in different cell types to investigate AGD pathogenesis using metabonomics and assess further applications of metabonomics to...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-718
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COMPLETED

SCRC: RTG:To learn practical skills in conducting viral disease challenge techniques in Penaeid prawn species using white-spot syndrome virus (WSSV) as a model virus to be conducted at Shrimp Biotechnology Business Unit (BIOTEC), Pathumthani, Thailand.

Due to the nature of commercial prawn farming, constraints within the industry such as disease management will always pose problems from managing endemic diseases; such as gill-associated virus in Australia, to exotic diseases including Yellow Head Virus and White Spot Syndrome Virus. The need to...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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