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Projects

Ongoing projects

• “InNoVacc - Indo-Norway platform for developing candidate vaccines to invertebrate, piscine and avian species”.
• “InNoVacc - Indo-Norway platform for developing candidate vaccines to invertebrate, piscine and avian species”.
• “InNoVacc - Indo-Norway platform for developing candidate vaccines to invertebrate, piscine and avian species”.
• Aquaculture Protein Centre (APC), Centre of Excellency (2003-2013)
• Bacterial Challenges in aquaculture of marine fish species
• BENEFISH
• Cardiomyopathy (CMS) in Atlantic salmon: pathogenesis and experimental transmissibility
• Characterisation of the inflammatory response in cod
• COST 867 Welfare of fish in European aquaculture
• Detection, characterization and differentiation of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) strains in farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)
• Diagnosis and characterisation of intra-cellular Gram-negative pathogens of marine and salmonid fish
• Evaluation of the possible transmission of prions (Scrapie and BSE) to different fish species
• Experimental Atlantic salmon and cod resources
• Expression and function of disease related genes in Atlantic salmon
• GM and non-GM supply chains, their co-existence and traceability
• Harmful algae and algal toxins: Effects on fish
• Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) – molecular characterisation of the virus and vaccine development
• Immediate responses to pain in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) – novel study models and methods
• Immunisation strategies against viral pathogens of Atlantic salmon (NFR funded project)
• Immunity of aquacultured animals (IMAQUANIM) - EU funded project
• Indo-Norwegian platform on fish and shellfish vaccine development (VaccInAqua) - NFR funded project
• Interaction between infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) and target cells
• Isolation and characterization of primary cultures of salmon intestinal cells
• Isolation and characterization of primary cultures of salmon intestinal cells
• Knockout zebrafish (KO-ZFISH) model FUGE 2004-2007
• Marine algal toxins - source organisms, accumulation and depuration in mussels, expanding profiles, and toxicology
• Marker-assisted selection for IPN-resistance in Atlantic salmon
• Molecular mechanisms of viral disease in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)
• Molecular mechanisms of viral disease in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): Molecular characterization of genetic determinants of infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) pathogenicity
• Molecular typing of Aeromonas salmonicida - the cause of serious disease in farmed marine fish
• Neuroendocrine control of stress responses and aggression in salmonid fish
• New risk elements of Listeria as a result of fish processing and adaptation of fish products to current food trends.
• Novel strategies for immunisation against intracellular pathogens of Atlantic salmon - NRC funded project
• Pancreas disease in Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout; pathogenesis and risk factors
• Parasites on cod - CODPAR
• Predicting chronic effects in Fish from sublethal markers (PredFish)
• Proliferative gill inflammation in Atlantic salmon – identification of aetiology
• Rapid DNA-based prediction of mycotoxin levels in food and feed
• Resistance towards pyrethroids and emamectin in sea lice
• SVINN - Loss and Mortality in Norwegian Salmon Production
• The importance of bacterial interactions for winter ulcer
• The importance of bacterial interactions for winter ulcer and the potential use in control of fish diseases
• The use of rheotactic and optometry responses in order to slaughter salmon at a rested state
• Zebrafish as a model for effect studies of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in aquatic ecosystems (ZEBPOP)

Terminated projects

• A functional genomic approach to measuring stress in fish aquaculture (Stressgenes)
• Antibiotikaresistens i marine bakterier - samspillet mellom fiskens og miljøets bakterier
• Aquaculture Protein Centre (APC), et senter for fremragende forskning (2003-2013)
• Assessment of biological containment and gene flow in transgenic sterile fish EU BIOTECH (BioO4-CT97-0554 1997-2000)
• Bedøvelsesmiddel og bedøvelsesmetode(r) for torsk i oppdrett
• BIOTOX
• Bruk av ozon og UV-bestråling for kontroll av virus i marint miljø
• Can bivalves act as vectors of fish pathogenic bacteria and viruses
• Characterization of the immune response in Atlantic salmon vaccinated with DNA constructs encoding proteins from pathogenic fish viruses
• Characterization of virulence factors of importance for infectious salmon anaemia. Experimental trials
• Combined genetic and functional genomic approaches for stress and disease resistance marker assisted selection in fish and shellfish (Aquafirst)
• Construction of high efficiency expression vectors for use in DNA vaccination
• Development of a pathogen epitope prediction programme and evaluating its usefulness in designing fish vaccines
• Diagnoses, pathogeneses and epidemiologies of salmonid alphavirus diseases
• Early detection of Toxigenic Fusarium Species and Ochratoxigenic Fungi in Plant Products
• Epidemiologiske studier av pankreassjukdom (PD) hos laksefisk i oppdrett
• Estimating the risk of inter-river transmission of Gyrodactylus salaris by migrating Atlantic salmon smolts using Monte Carlo simulation
• EUROPA: Development of a European Resource on Pathogens of Aquaculture
• European network safety assessment of genetically modified food crops
• Evaluation of MHC genes as quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for disease resistance in fish
• Facilitated expression of viral genes that can induce acquired protective immunity to viruses pathogenic to salmon
• Fjord til bord (Farm-to-Table)
• Functional characterisation of the promoters of Atlantic salmon Major Histocompatibility Complex genes.
• Functional characterisation of the promoters of Atlantic salmon Major Histocompatibility Complex genes.
• Genetic studies of diplomonad flagellates from fish
• Genetic variation in Atlantic salmon resistance to salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infection
• Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in foods; Qualitative and quantitative detection
• Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation in Atlantic salmon
• Helsearbeid hos kveiteyngel
• Host selection and infection strategies in Caligus elongatus
• Humoral immunrespons hos kveite
• Husdyrkontroll laks
• Immunological and cellular responses to viral infections in Atlantic halibut
• Importance of dietary histidine, iron and zinc concentrations on cataract development in two strains of Atlantic salmon
• Improved diagnosis of Gyrodactylus parasites infecting aquacultured species
• Infection with Parvicapsula in farmed fish
• Infectious Salmon Anaemia - Development and standardisation of diagnostic methods and aspects of the epidemiology of ISA
• Infeksiøs lakseanemi - utvikling av en rekombinant markørvaksine
• Infeksiøs lakseanemi virus. Molekylær epidemiologi og karakterisering av virusets glykoproteiner
• Inflammation cells and inflammation reactions in Atlantic salmon
• Interaction between infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) and target cells
• Investigations of bone formation and homeostasis by genetic dissection and functional analysis of osteoprotegrin (OPG) in a transgenic fish model on earth and in microgravity environment ESA no. AO-LS-99-MAP-LSS-003; NFR 142193/432
• Kartlegge omfang og mulige årsaksfaktorer til sykdomsproblemet CMS og vurder den økonomiske betydningen av lidelsen
• Kartleggingsstudium av CMS
• Kompendium i forsøksdyrlære for fiskeforskere (Compendium in Laboratory Animal Science for Fish Researchers)
• Marine algal toxins, ecology, analysis and toxicology
• Marine Genomics, Network of excellence (NOE), EC 6th framework program, 2003-2008
• Molecular mechanisms of importance for development of DNA vaccines and gene therapy
  NFR Strategic Program 134426/140, 2000-2003
• Molecular mechanisms of viral disease in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): Interaction between ISAV and target cells
• Molecular typing of atypical Aeromonas salmonicida
• Nodavirus infection of farmed marine fish with emphasis on subclinical and persistent infection
• Nodavirusinfeksjoner hos fisk: akutte og persistente infeksjoner og virusstammens betydning for sykdomsutvikling
• Osmotisk katarakt hos villaks
• Overføring av IPN-virus fra stamfisk til avkom
• Overføring av patogene virus mellom marine oppdrettsarter
• Pigment depositions in muscle and organs in Atlantic salmon - FHF funded project
• Rapid multiplex phylogeny-based detection and identification of toxigenic Fusarium species
• Regulation of the infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) replication by viral gene products affecting the immune-innate-response of the host
• Research Scientist/Ph.D
• Research Scientist/Ph.D
• Resistance in sealice
• Risk assessment studies of pancreas disease (PD) and infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) - Epidemiology and transmission
• Ryggradsdeformiteter hos oppdrettslaks. Diagnostikk og risikofaktorer
• Sea lice as a population-regulating factor in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L.
• Seleksjon av stamfisk & kvalitetskontroll av egg i oppdrett av kveite og annen marin fisk
• Sequence and function of immune genes in marine species
• Serotyping av ILA-virus ved hjelp av monoklonale antistoffer (mAbs)
• Smittespredning mellom arter
• Stress coping strategies in rainbow trout
• Stress coping styles in brown trout: ecological significance and effects of sea-ranching
• Studies of immunophysiological reactions following vaccination in marine fisk - with emphasis on basic immune mechanisms in cod
• The genetic basis of Gyrodactylus salaris resistance in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
• Traceability and physiological effects of using genetically modified plant ingredients in feed for Atlantic salmon
• Use of MHC-genes in marker assisted selection for increased disease resistance in Atlantic salmon
• Vannbehandling og intensiv smoltproduksjon
• Vannkvalitet - smoltkvalitet