BES Travel Grant for PhD student Alex Kent

Dr Sonja Rueckert S.Rueckert@napier.ac.uk
Associate

Parasites in the deep Nov 1, 2014 - Jan 31, 2016
Parasites collected from different fish species (e.g. Barathrites iris) from the New Hebrides trench and the Kermadec trench will be identified on a morphological and molecular level.

Oral Infestation Challenge Jun 20, 2016 - Aug 5, 2016
Live Atlantic salmon will be experimentally infested with live anisakis simplex. The experiment will run for 35 days, and at certain sampling points, salmon will be euthanised and blood will be taken. This will then be used for cytometric analyses of... Read More about Oral Infestation Challenge.

Exploring the causes of Red Vent Syndrome in wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from coastal waters around Scotland Jul 1, 2016 - Jun 30, 2017
This research will make direct comparisons of ?13C and ?15N isotope values from muscle tissue between populations of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) returning to the North, East and West coasts of Scotland. This work will investigate whether returning... Read More about Exploring the causes of Red Vent Syndrome in wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from coastal waters around Scotland.

The juvenile fish fauna of a Kenyan mangrove forest: exploring new tools to understand growth and condition. Aug 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2019
The project will work with a new PhD student who is collecting regular samples of juvenile fish from the Vanga mangrove forest in southern Kenya. The work will focus on two areas:
1) Describing the metazoan parasite fauna of the mangrove fish... Read More about The juvenile fish fauna of a Kenyan mangrove forest: exploring new tools to understand growth and condition..

Linking surface ultrastructure & molecular phylogeny of marine gregarine apicomplexan parasites Mar 1, 2013 - Nov 30, 2013
The aim of this project is to assess the surface ultrastructure of marine apicomplexan gregarines and to evaluate if similar surface morphologies of different gregarine species are reflected in molecular phylogenetic trees by the formation of distinc... Read More about Linking surface ultrastructure & molecular phylogeny of marine gregarine apicomplexan parasites.