Dr Stuart McMillan, Research Fellow at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, reports: The last days of October saw myself and Dr. Monica Betancor visit Wageningen University and Research (WUR) to observe the completion of our trial investigating hempseed inclusion in diets of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Industrial hempseed (Cannabis sativa) is an amazing… Read More »
Prof. Sonia Rey Planellas and Operations Officer, Sushee Dunn attended the AQUAEXCEL3.0 Annual Consortium Meeting which was held in Turin in early October 2024. This was an important meeting to review progress on the project and determine strategy for the final year of the AQUAEXCEL programme. It was also a very useful opportunity for Sushee… Read More »
On 25th September 2024, Professor Sonia Rey Planellas gave a presentation at a University of Stirling, Institute of Aquaculture meeting for staff and research students on the opportunities still available under the AQUAEXCEL programme, and especially the new opportunities for both inbound and outbound transnational collaborations with new infrastructures through the recent link with EMBRC… Read More »
In August 2024 we were very pleased to welcome Carina Mónico from CCMAR, Portugal, to the Institute of Aquaculture laboratories in Stirling. Carina works in the Microscopy Facility at CCMAR and came to the Institute of Aquaculture to learn about fish cell culture techniques and how to propagate and maintain established cell lines. In particular… Read More »
Please note this call is limited to technical staff of the AQUAEXCEL Partner Organisations – Deadline 13th September 2024. This is also the final call under AQUAEXCEL3.0. As highlighted in earlier posts, to promote capacity building and sharing best practices on how to improve the delivery of research services in an aquaculture research institute, AQUAEXCEL3.0 offers… Read More »
After three funding cycles, the AQUAEXCEL programme will come to an end in 2025. However, the good news is that a new even larger programme has been approved which brings AQUAEXCEL together with several other Infrastructure programmes including The European Marine Biological Resource Centre ERIC (EMBRC), the Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems ERIC, the Infrastructure… Read More »
The European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) has joined the Transnational Access programme of the AQUAEXCEL3.0 project and is announcing a joint call for access proposals. In May 2024, EMBRC joined AQUAEXCEL3.0’s Transnational Access (TNA) programme to widen access to aquaculture research facilities in Europe. 40 EMBRC marine stations and institutes from 8 countries will… Read More »
Please note this call is limited to technical staff of the AQUAEXCEL Partner Organisations – Deadline 31st May 2024. To promote capacity building and sharing best practices on how to improve the delivery of research services in an aquaculture research institute, AQUAEXCEL3.0 offers the possibility of a short-term staff exchange in which staff from one… Read More »
The Institute of Aquaculture facilitated the visit of Research Technician, Vasso Terzoglou, from 20th – 28th November 2023, via the AQUAEXCEL3.0 Technician Transnational Mobility Programme. She works in the Biotechnology and Aquaculture Division at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Heraklion, Crete, and came to the Institute to gain additional experience in Molecular Biology… Read More »
The AQUAEXCEL consortium met in Budapest from 16th-18th October 2023. Sonia Rey Planellas, John Bostock and Mauro Chivite Alcalde joined on behalf of the Institute of Aquaculture. The first day included a session run by Sonia and John to discuss issues arising from the recent evaluation of the TNA management system and on the second… Read More »