Tag Archives: tilapia

posts concerning research on tilapia

Outbound TNA – Visit to Wageningen University for hempseed nutrition trial

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 »

The Tempscreen Project

In 2014 Marco Alexandre Cerqueira, a PhD student from the Centre of Marine Sciences of University of Algarve, successfully applied for a TNA project at the Institute of Aquaculture entitled “Using temperature choice in a dynamic environment to assess animal personality both within and between genetically distinct Tilapia populations”. Marco explained “This research is in… Read More »

AQUAEXCEL2020

AQUAEXCEL2020 ran from 2015 to 2020 and was funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme. Over this period the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling hosted ten TNA projects from nine organisations. The visitors came from Spain, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Turkey, Egypt and Israel. Research areas included nutritional physiology, viral identification methods, health… Read More »

AQUAEXCEL 1.0

AQUAEXCEL started in 2011 with funding under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme. It was a 4-year project during which the Institute of Aquaculture hosted nine TNA projects involving eight different research partner institutions from Portugal, Spain, Hungary and Ireland. The topics covered a range of disease and nutritional issues, through bioinformatics and behavioural studies… Read More »