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Meet Shangrilla Seposo, IMAQUA’s PhD candidate under the Baekeland mandate, awarded by VLAIO (Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship). She is embarking on her research journey with the IMAQUA/Ghent University project titled “Establishment of Innovative Immunological Techniques to Support Commercial Shrimp Health Product Development.” This project seeks to develop standardized reference values of the key immune parameters in shrimp, providing essential baseline…

Hieu Trung Huynh – IMAQUA’s new PhD candidate under the prestigious Baekeland mandate, awarded by VLAIO (Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship). Hieu is embarking on a pioneering scientific journey in collaboration with IMAQUA and Ghent University through the project titled “Establishment of reproducible multifactorial challenge models for White Feces Disease (WFD) in shrimp.” This project aims to significantly…

Imaqua is attending the Larvi 2024 conference in Oostende. A lot of interesting research is being presented. Evelien De Swaef had an inspiring talk on “Finetuning Penaeus vannamei breeding to European indoor conditions and enhancing its potential to integrate in multispecies recirculation systems”. Presentation included the results of BlueMarine3.Com project from 4 research groups of…

At Copenhagen, European Aquaculture 2024 we presented several research updates of crucial Shrimp health topics. If you haven’t a chance to attend live presentations, here you can read the abstracts. João Dantas Lima presentation focused on “Infection models to test the efficacy of antiviral therapies and immunomodulators against WSSV”. In vivo white spot syndrome virus…

We are very proud to announce the publication of a fantastic review article “Experimental Infection Models and Their Usefulness for White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) Research in Shrimp” in the journal Viruses MDPI by our PhD student Natsja Cox. This article critically reviews in great detail laboratory models used in White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) research and describes the most important factors to be…

Two renowned Ghent University professors Dr. Hans Nauwynck and Dr. ir. Peter Bossier who have been providing support and scientific advice since creation of IMAQUA through partnerships, student collaborations and joint research projects, including Baekeland PhD mandates, have finally joined in a more formal role as IMAQUA’s Board of Scientific Advisors.   IMAQUA established Board of…

Introducing Anusha Dissanayake – IMAQUA’s new PhD candidate under Baekeland mandate, granted by VLAIO (Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship organisation), who is embarking on a new scientific journey with IMAQUA/Ghent University project “Hepatopancreatic microsporidiosis in shrimp: setup of new laboratory methods to allow study of pathogenesis and immune defense”.  This project aims at advancing our understanding of the pathogenesis…

The innovation breeze is floating in the air at a vibrant and full of action conference in Vienna. Natasja Cox’s presentation on Effect of salinity drop on susceptibility to WSSV infection in Litopenaeus vannamei shrimp using a per os challenge model yesterday was intriguing (to say the least) and today we are continuing with making…

We are very pleased to announce that the newest paper of our PhD Candidate, Natasja Cox, entitled “The Way of Water: Unravelling White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) Transmission Dynamics in Litopenaeus vannamei Shrimp” has now been published in Viruses MDPI. This study was the result of a collaboration between IMAQUA and the Laboratory of Virology and the Department of Morphology…