Opportunities
Are you interested in research centring around a salmonid fish breeding programme? There are many research opportunities based on existing and new data recordings within a > 30-year-old pedigree-based large breeding programme of Arctic charr.
Presently, there are no funded opportunities but if you are interested in applying for funding in either your own country or in Iceland to join the lab at any career stage, please feel free to contact Paul via email. I will be happy to support your efforts.
Here are two links to collect information about and apply for Icelandic funding, ranging from 3-month summer student grants to multi-year research projects with master’s and doctoral students or postdoc salary grants; for the second link targeting more applied research it may be necessary to employ a translation tool if you do not speak Icelandic:
https://en.rannis.is/funding/research
https://www.stjornarradid.is/verkefni/atvinnuvegir/matvaeli-og-matvaelaoryggi/matvaelasjodur/
Current Members
Past Members
Freed Ahmad
PhD student, Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland
Graduated in 2023.
Thesis title: Host-parasite genomics and ecology: Linking genes and transcriptomes to disease and contemporary selection
Co-supervised by Paul.
Main supervisor: Anti Vasemägi, Department of Aquatic Resources, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Drottningholm, Sweden
Andrew H House
PhD student, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme | Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Graduated in 2023.
Thesis title: Factors affecting lipid profiles in juvenile Atlantic salmon
Co-supervised by Paul.
Main supervisor: Craig R Primmer, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme | Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Sabine BC Lobligeois
Summer project student, Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, France
Sabine was working in 2022 under an Icelandic Student Innovation Fund by RANNIS to collect, merge, curate and analyse existing breeding and industry data to investigate the level of determination for deformities in cultured Arctic charr.
Supervised by Paul.
Ibukunoluwa A Akintayo
UNESCO GRÓ-FTP fellow & chief research officer, Aquaculture Department, Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research
Graduated in 2022.
Project: Assessing Feasibility of a Selective Breeding Programme for African Catfish in Nigeria.
Supervised by Paul.
Ilkka Nousiainen
MSc student, University of Turku, Finland
Graduated in 2017.
Thesis title: “Heritability of Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae resistance, tolerance and proliferative kidney disease (PKD) symptoms in wild brown trout“.
Co-supervised by Paul.
Main supervisor: Anti Vasemägi, Department of Aquatic Resources, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Drottningholm, Sweden
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