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HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

NUTRINFECT: New in vitro assays of fish pathogen infection across the intestinal epithelium and effects of functional feed ingredients

In aquaculture, the link between nutrition, immune responses and infection diseases is unclear. Knowledge about how feed components may affect mucosal infections is still unknown, not at least due to lack of targeted research tools. In vitro models may be used as targeted tools to study cell and ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Akershus

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Interpreting the cortisol stress response in fish welfare research

Common aquaculture practices like transportation and vaccination can be stressful to farmed fish. Stressed fish grow more slowly and are more likely to get sick. A high level of fish welfare is important ethically, but will also improve productivity, profit and reputation of fish farms. To identi...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Towards the sustainable production of male Atlantic salmon: The balance between genetic and environmental control for age at maturity

Domestic salmon show a lot of variation in the age in which they enter puberty. Some begin when they are small and young whereas others will delay puberty until they are older and larger. In domestic fish there is a growing trend for males to enter puberty before harvest size, which is a problem ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Vestland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

From blue waste to green resource: Fish sludge as fertiliser in agriculture

Objective: Norwegian aquaculture loses large amounts of nutrients. Using uneaten feed and excreta (fish sludge) as fertiliser in agriculture could contribute to circular resource utilisation and reduce the need for mineral fertilisers. The goal of the FishBash project has therefore been to provid...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Nutrient-responsive epigenetic programming in Atlantic salmon and zebrafish muscle growth

The aquaculture industry has been replacing fishmeal as the main feed ingredient with plant-based alternatives due to both economic considerations and increased demand in general. Novel feeds in Atlantic salmon farming contain higher levels of plant-based compared to marine ingredients that chang...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Parasite- and host-driven characteristics of infestation success in salmon lice (Lice-IS)

Salmon lice are parasites that affect Atlantic salmon and other salmonid species. With the expansion of the salmon aquaculture industry, salmon lice abundance has risen in parallel. This has a negative impact on the sustainability of production systems, particularly on farmed salmon welfare, envi...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

The economic effects of escapees, mortality and regulations on the Norwegian salmon production

Salmon escapees are together with sea lice the most important environmental issue challenging the sustainability of Norwegian salmon farming, and high mortality rates maintain a potential animal welfare issue. In this project the main focus was not only to investigate the economic incentives rela...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Rogaland

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Serotonin as a welfare indicator in farmed salmon: Role in non-specific mortality

Non-specific mortality of salmon constitutes a significant economic and ethical problem in the aquaculture industry. In the current project we have studied a group of fish that contributes significantly to such mortality, the so-called runts. Runts constitute a highly variable (typically 2-20%) b...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Optimising dietary fatty acids and lipids of Atlantic salmon to secure their health and welfare through varying environmental conditions

This post-doc has been connected to the FHF funded project EPA-salmon (project number 901282) focusing on an important challenge in the Norwegian aquaculture sector; the lack of fish oil for aquafeeds for a sustainable growth in the production of healthy salmon. Since fat and specific fatty acids...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Deltamethrin resistance in the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis.

In this project, the goal is to find out how salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) can protect themselves from the effects of the antilouse compound deltamethrin (DMT), i.e. the mechanism(s) behind DMT resistance. Based on the results we had when the project started, a hypothesis on the resistanc...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Akershus

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Sámi Reindeer Herding Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Environmental Governance

The Arctic areas are undergoing major changes in climate, land-use and socio-economic conditions. The rate of change implies need for improved governance systems capable of navigating society through these changes, based on best available knowledge, including traditional knowledge. However, inte...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2023

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Optimising dietary fatty acids and lipids of Atlantic salmon to secure their health and welfare through varying environmental conditions

Fish oil (FO) and fishmeal are the major sources of omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in Atlantic salmon diets. When fish oils decrease in fish feed, the fatty acid (FA) composition of tissues and organs in Atlantic salmon changes. Since fats and speci...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

A study of potential health consequences of excessive fat deposition in Atlantic salmon

The shift in composition of traditional Atlantic salmon diets from low fat diets rich in marine ingredients to today's high fat diets rich in plant ingredients has resulted in increased fat depots. Although not known, excessive fat deposition in certain body depots may create a less robust fish a...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Nutrigenomic and nutriepigenomic effect of plant protein-based aquafeeds on fish

For the sustainable growth of Norwegian aquaculture industry, exploration of novel protein sources for fish feed is a necessity due to the limitation of marine fish meal resources. The last decade has seen a significant transition from fish meal to up to 70% plant ingredients in salmon feeds. Thi...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

BEHANDLING-God og treffsikker diagnostikk, behandling og rehabilitering

DNA methylation patterns and lung cancer risk prediction

1. Biomarkers and Lung Cancer Risk Reduction Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death world-wide. More than 1.6 million people die from lung cancer every year. The strongest risk factor for lung cancer is tobacco smoke exposure. The best way to prevent lung cancer is to reduce tobacco sm...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Safeguarding fish health - In situ water quality analysis in RAS aquaculture systems using living cell sensors and micro/nanotechnology

A microfluidics-based device as in-situ sensor for water quality in fish production was developed and tested in the project. The device incorporates living Aliivibrio fischeri organisms which causing reduced bioluminescent responses due exposure to stressors causing suboptimal water quality for f...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Sustainable Aquaculture: Controversy and uncertainty in Knowledge-based management

Aquaculture management Norway should be knowledge-based management. While knowledge, especially science, is considered key to generate social, economic and environmentally sustainable growth, knowledge is also questioned and can actually create, rather than resolve, conflicts. This project (Aqu...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Synthetic biology and rational virus attenuation - a study on Salmonid pancreas disease virus

For the salmon aquaculture industry to be sustainable and profitable, it is important that virus infections are reduced. Viruses such as Salmon alphavirus-3 (SAV3) impact the health of salmon by causing pancreas disease (PD). Unfortunately, existing vaccines against SAV3 are not effective enough,...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Pan-genome analysis of the fish pathogen Aeromonas salmonicida with focus on genetic determinants for host specificity.

Salmon lice are one of the most important threats in Norwegian salmonid aquaculture and cleaner-fish of several species are used for biological control of salmon lice. The health situation in cleaner fish species is both alarming and unsustainable, with almost total loss of cleaner-fish during th...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Akershus

IKTPLUSS-IKT og digital innovasjon

Modelling of Higher Order Flow Harmonics in Ultra Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

The modern day high-energy physics experiments are believed to reproduce the extreme conditions of the early universe, thus reproducing the conditions of hadron formation. Heavy ion collisions in the modern-day state-of-the-art accelerators are thus believed to provide means for the investigation...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Social sustainability in aquaculture governance - from general statements to practical politics

Salmon farming affects - and is affected by - a number of societal interests. Thus, sustainable salmon farming must take into consideration the societal and social impacts of the production. Sustainable growth is frequently emphasized as an essential premise in policy documents and regulations, a...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

Improved diagnosis of cryptosporidiosis: Evaluation of a low-cost point-of-care cryptosporidiosis test in children in Ethiopia

CRYPTO-POC is a University of Bergen-led PhD project that includes partners at Vestfold Hospital Trust (Norway), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Norway), Jimma University (Ethiopia) and Copenhagen university (Denmark). The protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium is a major cause of childhood...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Vestland

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

Negotiating girl power: empowering adolescent girls to build a sustainable development

As a sub-study of the larger GLOBVAC funded project 'NGOs and the transfer of global maternal health policies- NGOMA' this study seeks to investigate the transfer of global maternal health policy approaches through the actions of international NGOs. Through a multi-sited study on global policy le...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Characterisation of selenoproteins in fish feeds and in farmed salmon

Selenium is an essential, but also potential toxic mineral that is present in high natural levels in marine fish feed. The current practice in the aquaculture industry towards increased replacement of marine ingredients with plant ingredients affects both the natural levels and the chemical forms...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Validation of geographical influence of aquaculture

The numerical model that today is used to calculatethe dispersal of salmon lice, both for scientific and advisory purposes, has ben expanded to track organic waste from farm sites to evaluate the influenced area at the sea bed. Resuspension has ben included by assuming that particles it being tra...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Role of nutritional status for PD infection and recovery

Salmon farmers in Norway experience around 16% mortality during the seawater phase, and one of the major causes are viral diseases such as pancreas disease (PD). PD is caused by the salmonid alphavirus (SAV), and the infection causes loss of pancreatic tissue and damages the heart and muscle. Thi...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Develop an automatic on-line molecular monitoring and treatment system to secure healthy fish within closed containment aquaculture systems

The production potential of Atlantic salmon in Norway is influenced by a large number of variables that may best be controlled if it is possible to follow representative samples, collected randomly from fish that are still alive inside the production plant. The most optimal or objective way to fo...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

C*-Algebraic Facets of Irreversible Dynamical Systems

Surprisingly often, an elementary question triggers important development in search for sophisticated answers to it, for example: Why do we breathe? What happens inside a water stream? How can we model physical systems where the order of two successive measurements affects the outcome? The last...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Politics of Popular Music in a Changing Latin America: Brazil, Haiti Cuba

The aim of this project was to investigate how music shape politics in social and political movements in today's Brazil and examine how music contributes to nation-building and political critique in contemporary Cuba. The project has examined the political agency inherent in musical sounds in cul...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Stearoyl-CoA desaturase and energy metabolism in humans

According to estimates by the World Health Organization, 1.9 billion people were overweight and 650 million were obese in 2016. Overweight and obesity increase the risk of a number of chronic conditions like hypertension, diabetes type 2, dyslipidemia, stroke, heart disease, and some types of can...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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