Contact our project leads for more information about these highlighted projects and the other work we do within this node.
Blue-water aquaculture
We are developing environmentally sustainable novel floating concrete platforms, new technology for fish cages and innovative anti-biofouling systems.
Project leads: Chien Ming Wang, Tom Baldock, David Callaghan
Aquaculture vaccines
We are designing, building and deploying vaccines for use in Australia's tropical, subtropical and temperate aquaculture industries, including grouper, kingfish, barramundi and salmon.
Project lead: Andrew Barnes
Nutrition and health in aquaculture
We are using immunogenomics to find the most efficient and sustainable nutrients to fuel a fully functioning immune response in fish and prawns under farm conditions.
Project lead: Andrew Barnes
Diagnosing pathogens with genomics
Our lab-in-a-backpack project brings whole genome sequencing to smallholder aquaculture farmers to answer questions about fish health in real time via a smartphone app.
Project lead: Andrew Barnes
Seaweed farming and rural livelihoods in Indonesia
We are currently undertaking a large project with range of topics which involve social, economic and/or technological assessments of the impact of seaweed farming on rural livelihoods and coastal environments.
Project leads: Scott Waldron, Zannie Langford