19th EAFP – Porto 2019

The 19th EAFP Conference was held in Porto, Portugal from 8 to 12 September 2019

The conference program will remain available for consultation: Click here to download it

The conference proceeding book

is now available to EAFP members:

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Workshops held during the 19th EAFP Conference:

Fish Histopathology Workshop on Skin

Pre-conference event (Sunday 8 September) – Organisers: Dianne Elliott, Patricia Noguera, Barbara Nowak & Heike Schmidt-Posthaus

Workshop proceedings will remain available for EAFP members only, please click here.

Validation of diagnostic tests for infectious diseases of aquatic animals – tips and traps

Pre-conference event (Sunday 8 September) – Organiser: Ian Gardner & Peter Mohr

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Bottlenecks in diagnostics of Mediterranean fish diseases

Workshop held on Monday 9 September – Organiser: Snježana Zrnčić, Maria Letizia Fioravanti, Andrea Gustinelli, Francesc Padros, Oswaldo Palenzuela & Edgar Brun

Please visit the projects’ websites: MedAid and PerformFish

Vivaldi European Project: Exchange session on the VIVALDI project

Workshop held on Monday 9 September – Organiser: Isabelle Arzul

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Biosecurity Workshop – Developing a Biorisk Assessment System for Aquatic Pathogens

Workshop held on Tuesday 10 September – Organiser: Úna McCarthy

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Co-infections and multiple stressors in fish

Workshop held on Tuesday 10 September – Organisers: Bartolomeo Gorgoglione, Christyn Bailey, Laurent Bigarré & Olga Haenen

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ParaFishControl Workshop “Mediterranean fish parasite management strategies”

Workshop held on Tuesday 10 September – Organiser: Ariadna Sitja-Bobadilla, Emma Bello Gomez & Panos Christofilogiannis

Please visit the project’s website.

Preparing for an effective poster session: content, style and interactions

Student Workshop held on Thursday 12 September – Organisers: Barbara Nowak & Sarah Poynton

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Trans-national study to define epidemiological cut-off values (ECOFF) for Vibrio and other aquatic bacteria

Workshop held on Thursday 12 September – Organisers: Sandrine Baron & David Verner-Jeffreys

Pictures from the 19th EAFP Conference:

Post-conference study tour at Salinas de Aveiro

605 delegates from 49 countries gathered together at the 19th International EAFP Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, held from 8 to 12 September 2019, in Porto, Portugal.

Discussion during the EAFP Histopathology workshop in Porto, Portugal on 8th September 2019

Barbara Nowak and Olga Haenen becoming EAFP honourary members

General session at the 19th International EAFP Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, in September 2019 in Porto, Portugal.

Start-up meeting EAFP Students/Early Career researcher’s group

Further images from this conference are available on the album in the EAFP-Facebook.