Fourth annual meeting of AQUAEXCEL2020: Advances on AEFishBIT2019-11-07
Researchers of IATS Nutrigenomics group participated in the fourth annual meeting of AQUAEXCEL2020 that took place from 29 to 31 October in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain).
Professor Jaume Pérez-Sánchez, as leader of WP8 "Biosensors for remote fish monitoring" presented the main recent advances conducted in the validation of AEFishBIT device in marine fish species (gilthead sea bream and European sea bass) under different challenge scenarios.
In the WP8 session, researchers from CSIC (Manuel Lozano, IMB-CNM) and University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Miguel Ángel Ferrer, iDeTIC) provided novel insights in operculum and tail movements and informed about the audit of the energetic efficiency of AEFishBIT.
The energy evaluation will be conducted at Tyndall National Institute (Cork, Ireland) in the framework of a Transnational Access (TNA) within the EnABLES European Project. The goal of this TNA is to determine AEFishBIT power consumption and consider design improvements in order to extend the battery life.
Forthcoming tests in rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon were also discussed to complete the functional validation of the biosensor in a wide range of farmed fish.
