Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 EAFP Student Award !

The listed EAFP student members will get free registration for the 17th EAFP conference in Las Palmas !

* Please note winner students are listed in alphabetical order.

Max J. Beckman

– Is stress in farmed salmon (Salmo salar) an important factor for saprolegniosis? (Oral Presentation)

– Prevalence of Saprolegnia species collected from fish farms in Scotland. (Poster Presentation)

Reka Borzak

– Molecular detection and genome analysis of Circoviruses of European eel (Anguilla anguilla) and sichel (Pelecus cultratus) from Lake Balaton, Hungary. (Oral Presentation)

Ivana Bušelić

– Risk factor analysis of human infection with Anisakis spp. in the European anchovy and sardine from the Eastern Adriatic Sea. (Oral Presentation)

Toni Erkinharju

– Temperature dependent immune response in Atlantic lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.). (Oral Presentation)

Sarah Harris

– What happens to the intestinal microbiota of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) when you combine oral application and injection of ß-glucan? (Oral Presentation)

– Penguin: an image analysis program to measure changes in colony size of fish associated bacteria. (Poster Presentation)

– In vitro analysis of the effect of ß-glucans on growth and survival of fish associated bacteria. (Poster Presentation)

– Using in silico sequence data to estimate the effectiveness of genus specific primers encoding for the 16S rDNA gene in bacteria typically found in fish. (Poster Presentation)

Mar Marcos Lopez

– Proteomics to study amoebic gill disease in farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar. (Oral Presentation)

– Cleaner fish: new species under the microscope. (Poster Presentation)

Kareem Nawroz:

– Adjuvant effect of a formulated carbohydrate (MSS1) in vaccines against Aeromonas hydrophila in common carp (Cyprinus carpio). (Oral Presentation)

Catarina Norte Dos Santos

– Cytokine expression within the interbranchial lymphoid tissue of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) during amoebic gill disease .(Oral Presentation)

Patricia Pereiro

– Study of the immune response after Aeromonas spp. challenge in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) and zebrafish (Danio rerio). (Oral Presentation)

– The first characterization of an IFN-gamma gene in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) reveals interesting questions about its immunomodulatory properties. (Poster Presentation)

– Transcriptome analysis of the main immune pathways after VHSV infection in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus). (Poster Presentation)

Jose Gustavo Ramirez Paredes

– The use of “Taxo-genomics” to clarify the taxonomical status of fish pathogenic Francisella spp.. (Oral Presentation)

Željka Trumbić

– Transcriptomic and ultrastructural changes of the Atlantic bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) gill epithelium infected with Didymosulcus katsuwonicola (Pozdnyakove, 1990). (Oral Presentation)