We are now hiring a core-funded PDRA position ***Please share!!*** Interested in #sustainable #invertebrate #aquaculture #immunology & molecular biology?? Enquiries welcome. Full details here 👇 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

My colleague Tim Regan Lab is starting his own lab 👨‍🔬 and he's hiring a Postdoc The Roslin Institute! I know nothing about #mussels or #host-microbiome interaction and very little about #immunology but I can tell you that Tim is a great colleague to work with!

New paper! We investigated the dynamics of ISAV infection in Atlantic salmon cells using single-cell RNAseq, finding evidence of paracrine signalling and more. Thanks to all co-authors!! Ophélie Gervais Remi Gratacap: Building a startup Athina Papadopoulou Ross Houston BMC bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Towards production of genome-edited aquaculture species 🧬 "..genome editing is a useful, complementary tool for breeders rather than a replacement for existing tools" #RAQresearch #genome #aquaculture #genomeediting ➡️doi.org/10.1111/raq.12… Ross Houston anna.wargelius

Job opportunity core scientist The Roslin Institute... We are looking for a new post doc to work with us studying shellfish aquaculture, disease and biology. Lots of exciting projects underway at the moment. Please get in touch for more info... tinyurl.com/23xc2ydn

📢 New paper alert! Our latest work on using LD-panel and imputation to improve rainbow trout resistance to columnaris disease from AquaIMPACT now published and available online 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.118…

🚨New Preprint!🚨 Sea lice threaten wild and farmed Atlantic Salmon worldwide! 🌎 But Coho Salmon are resistant to this parasite! 🐟💪 How can this be?🤔 We tackled this question with single nuclei RNA sequencing!🧬 A 🧵(1/7) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Join us tomorrow for this seminar on genomic prediction in rainbow trout 🧬🐟💻 by Andrei Kudinov presenting results form AquaIMPACT (email [email protected] for online access)

📚🐟 🧬Exciting opportunity alert! #PhD studentship available at The Roslin Institute Diego Robledo, Albert Tenesa, Dr. Robert Mukiibi on "A genotype-tissue expression atlas of Atlantic salmon". Deadline: 8th January 2024. Don't miss this chance! findaphd.com/phds/project/r…

The next Genomics in Aquaculture conference will take place 22-24 May 2024, join us in beautiful Thessaloniki!! Abstract submission deadline 15th January 2024, all details: websites.auth.gr/gia2024/

🎉 New year, new paper! A study led by Dr. Robert Mukiibi in which we characterized wild fish from lakes Victoria, Albert and Yoga and farmed fish from the country. We showed that Uganda's 🇺🇬 Nile tilapia population populations are highly diverse with minimal levels of inbreeding. 🐟🎣

The emerging role of tandem repeats in complex traits go.nature.com/3QC0X1z #Comment by Michael Lamkin & Melissa Gymrek UC San Diego UCSD CSE

Clémence Fraslin from The Roslin Institute The University of Edinburgh reveals the genomic underpinnings of growth rate in Fugu pufferfish at the GIA poster session! Aquaculture-reared Fugu aren't poisonous, meaning these insights could help make your next pufferfish meal risk-free. 🐡🧬

Integrated functional genomic analysis identifies the regulatory variants underlying a major QTL for disease resistance in European sea bass biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

New paper: Transcriptome Analysis Reveals the Immunosuppression in Tiger Pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes) under Cryptocaryon irritans Infection The Roslin Institute The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Diego Robledo Dr. Robert Mukiibi Yangzhen Li Read more here: doi.org/10.3390/ani141…

Challenges in the shellfish industry: Workshop for early career scientists and students. You are invited to join a free workshop organized by The Roslin Institute, following the ASSG annual conference Spaces are limited, so apply now!

🚨New 🧬 paper alert 🚨 When Yangzhen Li visited us The Roslin Institute last year we worked together on imputation and QTL detection in Fugu 🐡 with a new 20K SNP array they developed. Excited to see this first paper with Dr. Robert Mukiibi Diego Robledo published 👉🏻 authors.elsevier.com/c/1jq1vACeYJOU5

Happy to share our newly published paper, where Dr. Yangzhen Li explored the immune response mechanism against Mycobacterium marinum in farmed tongue sole (Cynoglossus semilaevis) using transcriptomics doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.… Diego Robledo The Roslin Institute #genomics #aquaculture

Major QTLs are rare..in our recently published paper, we utilised multi-omics tools to identify, refine and characterise the causal mechanisms for VNN resistance in European seabass Ross Houston Diego Robledo Costas Tsigenopoulos The Roslin Institute bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10…

🐠 The next big catch in aquaculture? Functional genomics. Share your latest research on genomics-driven solutions for sustainable, high-yield farming of aquatic species in our Special Issue, guest edited by Dr. Robert Mukiibi & Yangzhen Li 🔗mdpi.com/si/248106