Our colleague Dr. Robert Mukiibi showing strong proof that he's about to solve the VNN problem in seabass with a candidate gene detected in a major QTL with expression results and soon gene editing to back it all up! Go Dr Mukiibi 💪🐟

Clémence Fraslin from The Roslin Institute reveals the loci in Atlantic Salmon associated with resistance to 2 sea lice species European Aquaculture Society (EAS). Her impressive dataset of 3 year classes and 1000s of fish uncovered few common QTL, suggesting a polygenic basis to sea lice resistance! 🐟🧬

Saving the best for last, the final talk of the day in the selective breeding session of European Aquaculture Society (EAS) was presented by Christina Kriaridou from The Roslin Institute. She demonstrated the utility of Bayesian statistics for modeling disease susceptibility traits in turbot! 🐟🧬

Interested in #aquaculture and #ImageAnalysis for 🐟 identification and phenotyping? Have a look at this 4 years PhD position at the Roslin with Diego Robledo and Ross Houston findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

We've been seeing this figure by Christina Kriaridou et al. 2020 pop up again and again today on the final day of the AQUA-FAANG conference! 🐟🐠🦪🧬 The Roslin Institute #aquaculture

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/

Our new paper on the genetic characterisation of farmed and wild Uganda Nile tilapia populations NATIONAL ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES CENTRE &DATABANK The Roslin Institute @IUK_KTN Diego Robledo Ross Houston Sarah Salisbury Clémence Fraslin Joel Ogwang Peter Beine, PhD Byakora Ezra sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Ruiz-Daniels et al. characterised mesenchymal stromal cells in detail for the first time in healthy Atlantic salmon tissue and during the wound healing process by single-nucleus sequencing and spatial transcriptomics. ➡️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #singlecell #spatialomics

How did we lose our tail? A simple question.. but it wasn't really asked before! We discovered a plausible scenario for the genetic mechanism that led to tail loss. Amazing that such a big change may have been caused by such a small genetic event. nature.com/articles/s4158… Bo Xia

New book about Aquatic Food Security, is now published and available from 5m Books. It was great to contribute to this, and discuss in Chapter 3 the importance of nutrition and selective breeding in aquaculture production, 🤩🐟🧬 5mbooks.com/product/aquati…

Sterility in aquaculture salmon can be achieved through triploidy, albeit with some fitness costs. @KleppeLene reveals a more elegant way to sterility: targeting specific genes using a variety of techniques from gene editing to RNA vaccines. ICISB Conference #icisb2024 🐟🧬

Early maturation usually = less lifetime growth in Atlantic Salmon But anna.wargelius shows how this significant 💸 problem for the aquaculture industry could be solved by manipulating the gene fshr to limit early maturation in male Atlantic Salmon! ICISB Conference #icisb2024

📢Finally it is out!😁 X-ray feed intake in Atlantic salmon 🐟🍣 is heritable 🧬 and ranks families very well 🎯. Solid collaboration with Ashie from Mowi, Nofima in NewTechAqua 🐟🇪🇺 & AquaIMPACT projects👉sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Can't wait for this! Featuring topics like: 🧬Genomes, pan-genomes, functional annotation etc 🧫🐚Cells & Shells: e.g. scSeq and cell culture Non-Model Models 🦪🌊Genetics in the Wild: Application of genetics to study and improve shellfish 📊Industry Perspectives Register below👇

Nice report on our review paper; aquahoy.com/single-cell-ge… AquaHoy

Check out Honggang Zhao's latest research paper on the genetic changes associated with domestication in eastern oysters. 🦪🧬 Dive into the findings and learn more about sustainable aquaculture. #Research #Aquaculture #Genomics #Oysters 📚🔬 Check it out: hubs.ly/Q02J2XTK0

Our new paper on using AI models to predict functional regulatory variants in cattle (and humans) is now online. A thread of the key findings... 1\n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/7🌊🦪 New preprint alert! 🦪🌊 We’ve developed a quick, reliable method to detect Bonamia in native oysters – no dissection required! Dive into the details here ➡️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Tim Bean Jennifer N. Schulze The Roslin Institute

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…

#ISGA XV is underway. Join our first talk. Not in Cádiz? Contact us for the results of this study 👉 hubs.la/Q03m9bC70 #Genomics #Aquaculture #GeneticGain #Imputation #BreedingInnovation