Opportunities
Do you want to join the lab? Presently, there are no funded opportunities but if you are interested in applying for funding to join the lab, please feel free to contact Paul via email.
Current Members


Freed Ahmad
PhD student, Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland
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, University of Helsinki, Finland
Andrew is investigating the role of lipids in sexual maturation in Atlantic salmon. He ventures down paths to investigate lipid metabolism and storage patterns and test whether these are associated with selected genotypes.
Co-supervised by Paul.
Main supervisor: Craig R Primmer, University of Helsinki, Finland
Past Members

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