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FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Developing the next generation of oral vaccines for salmonids using plastids in plants

The following programme will develop a new concept of oral vaccines for fish using plastids as bio-factories in plants. The technology will allow the insertion of any gene or combination of genes into a plant plastid genome, resulting in a high level prot ein expression (approx 20% of total cellu...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Tidally-induced turbulent mixing in a silled fjord

Essential regions of the marine ecosystems along the coast of Norway are situated inside fjords. Further, a large number of aquaculture facilities are found in fjords, and fjords make up a recreational area for millions of Norwegians. With a few exceptio ns, Norwegian fjords include a sill near ...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Norwegian Proteomics Consortium - Bergen

PROBE, the Norwegian proteomic platform, was established in 2002 by the Norwegian Research Council under the Functional Genomics Initiative (FUGE) to provide the Norwegian scientific community access to the best in proteomic technologies and competence. Located within the Institute of Biomedicine...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Quantitative and population genetic models for the effect of escaped farmed salmon on genetic variation and fitness in wild population

The overall aim of the project is to advance the understanding of evolutionary and demographic effects of escaped farmed Atlantic salmon on wild salmon populations using and extending existing mathematical models. Artificial selection for increased gro wth performance in farmed salmon have led...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Low-frequency acoustics - potentials and dangers for marine ecosystem application

Low frequency acoustics from hundreds of Hz to 10 kHz includes the range for Navy sonars and have recently been tested assessing the distribution, density, and behaviour of pelagic fish. These frequencies are within the hearing range of fish and marine ma mmals. Operation at these frequencies may...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Development of genetic markers for population biology studies of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus L)

The Northeast Atlantic Mackerel supports one of the most valuable European fisheries producing up to 700000 tonnes per year. Historically the Northeast Atlantic mackerel stock has been split into three spawning components, a western, a southern and a Nort h Sea component. Prior studies have demo...

Awarded: NOK 0.78 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The potential use of recombinant Salmonid alphavirus in development of prophylactic and therapeutic measures against viral fish diseases

Recently, the University of Bergen (UB) engaged a PhD student in a 4-year position (project start Mars 1st 2007), aiming at developing a full-length recombinant salmonid alphavirus 3 (SAV3). This subtype of SAV is the etiologic agent of pancreas disease ( PD) in farmed Atlantic salmon in Norway. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Coordinated action: Lice international (Canada (USA), Scotland, Ireland and Norway)

Increased levels of farmed salmonid hosts for parasitic sea lice have raised the question of transfer between farmed and wild sources. The study of distribution and dispersal of sea lice has thus become more important over the last years and key institute s from several countries are currently do...

Awarded: NOK 0.98 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Increasing basic knowledge on muscle abnormalities in intensive production systems

Abnormalities in fish muscle represent not only an ethical and welfare issue, but may also have a negative impact on economy and market acceptance due to growth impairment in affected fish, elevated mortality and reduced fillet quality. Alertness and know ledge on this field is also important for...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The effect of dietary carbohydrates on muscle metabolism, connective tissue composition and fillet quality in cod (Gadus morhua L).

Post mortem softening of fish muscle and occurrence of gaping are major problems for the fish industry. Muscular connective tissue provides mechanical integrity, rigidity, and elasticity to skeletal muscles. Extracellular matrix (ECM) represents an import ant part of the connective tissue, and ch...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

TRACKING SOURCES OF MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION ALONG THE FOOD CHAIN BY FTIR SPECTROSCOPY

The food chain is becoming more and more complex since various products, materials, different processing steps etc. are involved, with the consequence that possible sources for microbial contamination are various. This complexity makes it difficult to tra ce microbial safety problems that occur i...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Akershus

SIP-FKD-SIP finansiert av Fiskeri- og Kystdepartementet

Innovative and Safe Seafood - Processing, Hygiene, Spectroscopy

The proportion of meals that are prepared outside of the home is increasing. Meeting the three consumer mega-trends convenience, health and sensory enjoyment, are vital for a products' success in the marketplace. For fish products, convenience is the lack ing area, and hence one that is in need o...

Awarded: NOK 24.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIPHINIFES-SIP ved HI

Seafood and mental health: Uptake and effects of marine nutrients and contaminants alone or in combination on neurological function.

Seafood as part of a balanced diet is thought to play a central role in the battle against the increasing occurrence of lifestyle diseases with neurological disorders being pinpointed as one of the greatest threats to public health worldwide. However, sea food may in addition to contributing with...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

SIP-FKD-SIP finansiert av Fiskeri- og Kystdepartementet

Fish welfare and performance in recirculating aquaculture systems

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), in which fish tank water is recycled with the aid of biological filters, is little used in Norway. RAS may offer advantages over traditional flow-through (FT) systems, regarding sustainability and fish welfare, but these aspects have been little studied f...

Awarded: NOK 18.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Antibiotics from the sea - a MabCent project

The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance in human pathogenic bacteria has fuelled the need for new antimicrobial compounds and new antibacterial strategies. Marine invertebrates represent a vast resource for discovering novel pharmaceutical co mpounds. Animals living in the Arctic Sea...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Marine omega-3 fatty acids and health - use of systems biology in controlled dietary intervention studies

Intake of fatty fish and cod liver oil has been part of a healthy diet in Norway for many years due to the high availability of fish. Omega-3 fatty acids from cod liver oil are used by the Norwegian food industry to develop new healthy food for the consum ers. To understand the beneficial health ...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Paleoecological reconstructions of marine soft-bottom Ecologic Status and in situ reference conditions

The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires that assessments of aquatic ecological status are based on comparison with reference (background) conditions. Soft-bottom invertebrates represent one of the biological quality elements on which the ass essments will be based. To date, no monit...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Nutrient requirements of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) larvae at first-feeding

Intensively cultured cod larvae, which are fed rotifers and formulated feed, grow slower and develop more deformities than larvae cultured semi-extensively with the natural diet, copepods. This shows that the present knowledge is insufficient for optimal intensive juvenile production. Suboptimal ...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CARBON-HEAT- CARBON uptake and fluxes of water and HEAT in the North Atlantic Current

CARBON-HEAT is a three year project that will study a potential feedback between the ocean carbon cycle and climate change, relating to the flow speed and heat and carbon flux of the Atlantic water en route to the Arctic Ocean We intend to -Assess the de gree to which the Atlantic Water (AW) is ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Marine Ecosystem Response to a Changing Climate

The climate of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans will undergo rapid changes over the next century. Climate influences many important ecosystem drivers which will change marine biogeochemical and ecological processes, ecosystem functioning and biodivers ity. MERCLIM will provide critical new un...

Awarded: NOK 15.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Technology for grading and sorting of fish - focus on gutted salmon, herring and mackerel

The Norwegian fisheries and aquaculture industry presently faces a challenge in competing with countries with low labour cost and thus low production costs such as Chile and Poland. In order to create an economical robust business environment, the Norwegi an fish industry should focus on optimizi...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Fjord ecosystems - Sami communities: Local ecological knowledge and socio-ecological history

The project will bring forth management-relevant knowledge about a largely neglected part of Norway's marine/coastal environment; the northern fjords. This will be achieved through cross-disciplinary partnership, including marine scientists from Institute for Marine Research, international co-op...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Improving scallop (Pecten maximus L.) spat production: Metamorphosis-inducing cues enhancing settling success.

In Europe an aquaculture production of scallops must rely on an intensive production of spat in hatcheries since the collection of spat from nature has been unreliable. Spat supply is still one of the major limiting factors in the development of a commerc ial scallop industry. Previous research ...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Tracing viral disease dissemination in aquaculture: an interdiciplinary approach between molecular virology and dispersal modelling

Viral diseases are a large problem in Norwegian salmon farming imposing economic as well as welfare-related challenges to the industry. In order to control viral disease dispersal, knowledge on the dispersal pathways of the disease agents and key factors affecting the interaction between the dise...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Utvikling av multivariate statistisk/genetiske metoder og modeller for økt avlsframgang på husdyr og fisk

For å møte markedets krav til avslmaterialet både på husdyr og fisk må stadig nye egenskaper av økonomisk betydning inkluderes i avlsmålene. Etter hvert som avslarbeidet har utviklet seg teknologisk har det blitt meget effektivt. Stor framgang for enkelte genskaper kan, på grunn av ugunstige gene...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Innlandet

SIP-FKD-SIP finansiert av Fiskeri- og Kystdepartementet

Modern tools for the study of host-agent interactions of emerging fish diseases

The sustained success of aquaculture is largely dependent on the ability to counter emerging diseases. Human pathogens may possibly also find their niche in new production forms, and give rise to potential seafood safety problems. The research programme i s aiming at the implementation of modern ...

Awarded: NOK 15.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Renset olje, fôring med dekontaminert fiskeolje

Det er en økt inntresse for oppdrettslaks som inneholder lavere nivå av miljøgifter enn det vi har idag. Marine råvarer, spesielt fiskeolje, er hovedkilden for de fettløslige organiske miljøgiftene som har vært relatert til matvaretrygghet i oppdrettslaks . Produsenter av fôr og fôringredienser h...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Handel med oppdrettsfisk - hva er suksesskriteriene?

Prosjektet forkuserer på tre overordnede spørsmål.: 1) Hvilke grep har man gjort i eksporten av oppdrettsartene laks, pangasius og tilapia i det internasjonale markedet som har gjort at man har lykkes i å ekspandere eksporten både med hensyn til volum og marked? 2) Hvorfor har man ikke lykkes å f...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Detection of gene products in cells; An advanced imaging FUGE2 platform node

We here propose the establishment of a FUGE node in Imaging. This node is based on the imaging expertise in the research groups at the Department of Molecular Biosciences (IMBV), the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences (IMB), and the Department of Biochem istry, the Radium Hospital, DNR/RH at the...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

The CIGENE node of the Norwegian Sequencing and Genotyping Service Platform

CIGENE's mandate in the FUGE I period has been to: A. Establish and maintain a national core facility providing: (i) - a high-throughput SNP-typing service for human, animal, plant and microbial materials, (ii) - key competence concerning identification a nd methodological integration of experime...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus