Keynote Speakers
Dr. Constantinos (Dinos) Mylonas | IMBBC, Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR), Crete, Greece
Dinos Mylonas is director of the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology & Aquaculture and was the organizer of the 12th International Symposium on Reproductive Physiology of Fish in Crete. His research focuses on applied aspects related to (a) the study of fish reproductive biology and endocrinology, (b) the identification of the dysfunctions exhibited by broodstocks in aquaculture, and (c) the development of environmental and pharmacological methods for the control of reproduction, induction of spawning and improvement of sperm production in the aquaculture industry. In this framework, he has worked on more than 20 different fish species, and collaborated closely with the aquaculture industry in many countries. His achievements in this field include the control of maturation and spawning in captivity for the first time worldwide, of species such as the dusky grouper, the wreckfish, the greater amberjack and the Atlantic bluefin tuna.
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Professor Nguyen Thanh Phuong | Can Tho University, Viet Nam
Nguyen Thanh Phuong is a staff member of the Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, College of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Can Tho University. His research focuses on aquatic animal physiology, the farming of striped catfish and marine shrimp, as well as climate change adaptation and nature-based aquaculture practices in coastal areas. He is also interested in the domestication of euryhaline fish species. These studies aim to sustain aquaculture production in the Mekong River Delta under the impacts of climate change.
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Professor Marco Saroglia | University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Marco Saroglia was Full Professor of Aquaculture at the University of Insubria and served as Director of the WAS. Currently he is Lecturer at the University of Ghent (BE), and coordinator at University of Insubria of a national research project focused on the improvement of fish fillet quality through nutrition, with AI applications. His research activities deal with the role of nutrition on fish physiology and fillet quality, through the response of the gut microbiota. These studies aim at a nutritional manipulation of the gut microbial ecosystem to optimize the application of circular economies in fish nutrition.
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Professor Luis Tort | Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Luis Tort is leader of the Research group AQUAB-FISH focused on research on Health and welfare in fish, particularly on fish stress and immune responses related to aquaculture, and author of reference studies in this area such as the Academic Press book of "Biology of Stress in fish" and the most cited paper on “Stress and immunomodulation in fish" in Dev. Comp. Immunol. He is the current Scientific Coordinator of the EURCAW-Aqua, the European Research Center for Animal Welfare-Aquatic Animals and the Vice-President of the Professional College of Biologists of Spain.
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Dr Marc Vandeputte | INRAE, MARBEC, Palavas-les-Flots, France
Marc Vandeputte is a Senior research Scientist at the Marine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation unit of INRAE, the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food en Environment in France. He is a quantitative geneticist, working on selective breeding of fish for aquaculture. He is specially interested in the way natural selection shapes the traits of fish like growth, ressouce allocation or sex determination, and how these are modified by domestication and selective breeding, with the aim to make these more efficient. He has worked on a number of species, in connection with the industry, and especially common carp, rainbow trout, Siberian sturgeon, European seabass, gilthead seabream and shrimps.
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