'Shifting disease, building resilience' seminar

Last week, SAIC’s Aquaculture Development Lead, Lynsey Muir, was pleased to attend a Research Seminar at Easter Bush on ‘Shifting disease, building resilience’.

This was a timely session with two international speakers that explored how climate change is reshaping disease risk and resilience in aquaculture food systems. Afterwards, Lynsey was took part in a tour of the facilities on the campus including tank facilities where trials are taking place.

Chaired by Fernando Mardones, Senior Lecturer at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, the seminar featured two excellent talks:

• Marcela Delgado, CEO and Founder of Sudvet Corp (USA/Chile), who spoke on ‘Enhancing fish resilience in a changing climate: biotechnological approaches to address disease challenges’ and explored botanical tools for fish health and welfare.
• Krishna Thakur, Associate Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Atlantic Veterinary College, Prince Edward Island, who spoke about ‘Emerging infectious diseases and climate change impacts on aquatic food animal production’, that included epidemiological modelling of climate change impacts on Atlantic salmon and American lobster.

Both speakers brought global perspectives on the scientific and practical challenges facing aquaculture as environmental challenges intensify, and highlighted the importance of applied research, innovation, and cross‑sector collaboration.

SAIC is committed to supporting science‑led solutions that strengthen resilience across the aquaculture sector, and seminars like this that where we can attend, network and connect will help to connect us with these international expert scientists and researchers.

Many thanks to Fernando Mardones for helping to organise this seminar series and for the invitation to attend.