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The Institute of Aquaculture

The Institute of Aquaculture is internationally recognized as one of the leading centres for research and academic training in aquaculture and fisheries science, with currently over 100 staff specialized in many facets of aquaculture research and development. Formed in 1972 as the Institute of Aquatic Pathobiology, it expanded in 1975 to become the Institute of Aquaculture which has five specific research areas:

Aquaculture Nutrition
Aquaculture and the Environment
Aquaculture Systems and Development
Aquaculture Genetics and Broodstock Management
Aquaculture Health Management and Welfare

The Institute of Aquaculture also has considerable training activities including eight MSc degree outcomes through face to face teaching, vocational training for continuing professional development and PhD research programmes. At present the Institute has 52 post-graduate students undertaking PhD research and approximately 330 alumni PhD researchers. The MSc programmes, which began in 1976, have over 590 alumni working in aquaculture all over the world. From September 2010 two MSc programme in Sustainable Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Development will be offered by distance learning.

The Institute of Aquaculture also has considerable commercial contract expertise in all aspects of aquaculture development all around the world through its consultancy group ‘Stirling Aquaculture (Staq)’.

Electronic versions of the PhD theses indicated below are available on the University of Stirling web-based STORRE system at https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/dspace/handle/1893/12

For more information on research, teaching, training and commercial activities at the Institute of Aquaculture, please see the website at www.aqua.stir.ac.uk.

PhD Defense Overview

Date of Defense	Author	Title
11/06/2009	Huu Ninh Nguyen	Communal or seprate rearing of families in selective breeding of common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.)
15/02/2009	Jorge Del Pozo Gonzalez	A study of the aetiology and control of rainbow trout gastroenteritis
January 2009	Matteo Minghetti	Characterisation and expression of copper homeostasis genes in sea bram
December 2008	Remi Mathieu Leon Gratacap	Characterisation of (Vibrio anguillarum) for the development of vaccine in cod (Gadus morhua)
December 2008	Nazael Madalla	Novel Feed Ingredients for Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.)
30/09/2008	Styliani Adamidou	Effect of extrusion on the nutritional value of peas (Pisum sativum), Chickpeas (Cicer arietinum) and faba beans (Vicia faba) and inclusion in feeds for european seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)
5/08/2008	Ruby Asmah	Development potential and financial viability of fish farming in Ghana
29/03/2008	Carlos Cristian Martinez Chavez	Photic Entrainment and Onset of Puberty in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus niloticus)
7/01/2008	Gareth Butterfield	Genetic variation for disease resistance in Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
5/12/2007	Mohammad Mahfujul Haque	Decentralised fish seed networks in Northwest Bangladesh: Impacts on rural livelihoods
October 2007	Sean Robert Kennedy	Bioactive fatty acids as dietary supplements for farmed fish: Effects on growth performance, lipid metabolism, gene expression and immune parameters
September 2007	Marine Herlin	Genetic management of Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua L.) hatchery populations
31/07/2007	Jose Gallardo Mota-Velasco	Physical and Linkage Mapping of Genetic Markers and Genes Associated with Sex Determination in Talapia (Oreochromis spp.)
22/06/2007	Ernesto Morales	Self recruiting species in farmer managed aquatic systems: their importance to the livelihoods of the rural poor in Southeast Asia
18/06/2007	Gavin Mckinley	The innate immune response of Atlantic salmon head kidney macrophages to Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV)
29/05/2007	Saravanane Poobalane	Aeromanas hydrophila Vaccine development using immunoproteomics
April 2007	Karen Frake	The genetics of a managed Atlantic Salmon stock and implications for conservation
April 2007	Vasileios Karalazos	Sustainable alternatives to fish meal and fish oil in fish nutrition: Effects on growth, tissue fatty acid composition and lipid metabolism
April 2007	Ajangale Nelly Isyagi	The Aquaculture Potential of Indigenous Catfish (Clarias gariepinus) in the Lake Victoria Basin, Uganda.
March 2007	Craig MacKenzie Macintyre	Water quality and welfare assessment on United Kingdom trout farms
December 2006	Carlos Yanes Roca	Husbandry and larval rearing of common snook (Centropomus undecimalis).
October 2006	James Patrick Neary	Use of physical habitat structure to assess stream suitability for Brown trout: A case study of three upland Scottish streams
October 2006	Matthew Sprague	Environmental influences on the physiological and behavioural growth responses in Salmonids; with reference to the growth-dip phenomenon
March 2006	Natasja Sheriff	Fisher Livelihoods in Souther Thailand: Sustainability and the role of Aquaculture
July 2005	Philip Mark Williams	Feeding Behaviour of Lumbriculus variegatus as an Ecological Indicator of in situ Sediment Contamination
October 2004	Francis Murray	Potential for Aquaculture in Community-Managed Irrigation Systems of the Dry-Zone, Sri Lanka: Impacts on Livelihoods of the Poor
March 2004	Cameron Brown	Genetic Management and Selective Breeding in Farmed Populations of Gilthead Seabream (Sparus aurata).
2008-2009	Sami Abdullah A Al-Khamees	Effects of handling and stocking density on indicator of stress in Clarias gariepinus and Oreochromis niloticus.
2008-2009	Alberto Asian Hoyos	Technology transfer for commercial aquaculture development in Vera Cruz, Mexico
2008-2009	Robert Louis Andrew Oliver	Quantifying and modelling of nitrogenous wastes associated with commercial culture of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.)
2008-2009	Salieu Kabba Sankoh	Traditional aquaculture systems in Seirra Leone: Potential for development of inland aquaculture
2008	Nelson Agbo	Oilseed meal as dietry protein sources for juvenile Nile talapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.)
2008	Andrew Saul Tildesley	Investigations into Ergasilus sieboldi (Nordmann 1832) (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida), in a large reservoir rainbow trout fishery in the UK
2008	Jose Pedro Ureta Schmidt	Selective improvement of rainbow trout: assessment of pontential in UL strains
2008	Adam Brooker	Aspects of the biology and behaviour of Lernaeocera branchialis (Linnaeus, 1767) (Copepoda: Pennellidae)
2008	Jutaporn Bundit	The nutrition and feeding of a native Thai species, The Marble Goby (Oxyeleotris marmoratus) involving on-farm and experimental studies
2007-2008	Patrick Reynolds	Investigation of the growth potential and ecosystem impact of intensively farmed Atlantic Salmon fed on Experimental diets
2007	Golam Faruque	An exploration of impacts of aquaculture production and marketing on rural livelihoods in three regions in Bangladesh
2007	Adrian Hartley Alcocer	Tilapia as a global commodity; a potential role for Mexico
2007	Fazel Pourahmad	Molecular detection and identification of aquatic Mycobacteria
2007	Chris Williams	Impact assessment of non-native parasites in Freshwater fisheries in England & Wales
2005	Andrew Davie	Effects of Photoperiod Manipulation on Growth and Reproduction in Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua).
2005	Angus Macniven	A strategy towards improved fish hatchery management in northeast Thailand
2004-2005	Chuta Boonphakdee	Isolation, Analysis and Chromosomal Mapping of Genes Related to Sex Determination in Tilapia
2004-2005	Stephen Cross	Marine finfish and Suspended Shellfish Aquaculture: Water Quality Interaction and the Potential for Polycoulture in Coastal British Colombia
2004-2005	Danitzia Adriana Guerrero Tortolero	The hormonal transduction of photoperiod informative and it's effects on growth and reproduction in finfish
2004-2005	Ioannis Karapanagiotidis	The Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Content of Wild and Farmed Tilapias in Thailand - Aquaculture Practices and Implications for Human Nutrition
2004-2005	Una Mccarthy	Piscirickettsia salmonis: characterisation, infection and immune response in salmonid fish
2004-2005	Donald Charles Morris	Life Cycle and Diagnostic Studies of Tetracapsula bryosalmonae
2004-2005	Martin Louis Van Brakel	Targeting Aquaculture related development, poverty and needs in the Mekang basin: a spatial model
2003-2004	Antonio Campos Mendoza	The effect of photoperiod and melatonin in the Reproduction of the red Nile Tilapia.
2003-2004	Richard Corner	Implications for the environment of using adaptive feeding systems in the cage culture of Atlantic Salmon
2003-2004	Joanne Elizabeth Good	Replacement of Dietary Fish Oil with Vegetable Oils: Effects on Fish Health
2003-2004	Alastair Hamilton	DNA Relatedness and Antibiotic Resistance Amongst Motile Aeromonads
2003-2004	Luca Montorio	Assessment of Novel Filter System for Recirculating Aquaculture
2003-2004	Alison Lesley Morgan	The effect of seasonability on the Immune Response of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
2003-2004	Benjamin Paul North	Effects of stocking density on the welfare of farmed rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
2003-2004	Noe Sanchez-Perez	Dietary lipid quality in stored diets and effects on feed performance and feeding of juvenile Penaeus indicus
2003-2004	Rubina Sharif	Cloning and expression of CDNA's/genes encoding Salmonid cytokines (R.trout)
2003-2004	Gernot Von Hoegen	Potential effects of copper leaching from antifoulant coatings used on sea cage nets

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