IATS Nutrigenomics group at AQUA 2024 World Aquaculture Conference2024-09-09
IATS Nutrigroup has participated in the AQUA 2024 congress. The event, organized by the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) and the World Aquaculture Society (WAS), took place from August 26 to 30 at the Bella Center convention center in Copenhagen (Denmark).
The slogan of this edition has been Blue food, green solutions, a theme that emphasizes the importance of aquatic food for the future of the planet, highlighting the latest research on innovation in aquaculture with sessions that invite reflection on blue food as a way to mitigate climate impact, offering greater and better food security with great efficiency and environmental responsibility.
Professor Jaume Pérez-Sánchez, head of the Nutrigenomics group, accompanied by Professor Genciana Terova from the University of Insumbria, moderated the session on Microbiota and Animal Health. In this session, PhD student Domingo Ricardo-Bretón presented the paper “Re-thinking the gut core microbiota dynamics in gilthead seabream fed alternative diets across the production cycle”, and Dr. Federico Moroni presented “Beyond the microbial taxonomy with SAMBA. Disclosing the functionality and core gut microbiota of gilthead sea bream from a causal bayesian network perspective”.
The group also participated in the Behavior session with the presentation by Paul Holhorea on “Behavioral testing of stress habituation to high rearing stocking densities in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata)”, and with Dr. Fernando Naya-Català in the Genomics session, with the presentation “Towards a wide-genome tissue-specific epigenomic profiling for a tailored improvement of growth performance with global warming in gilthead sea bream”.
Two works derived from transnational accesses of the H2020 Project AQUAEXCEL3.0 were presented by PhD students from Portuguese institutions: Ibon García-Gallego (CCMAR) in the Microbiota session “Effects of butyrate and taurine supplementation on growth performance and gut microbiota composition in gilthead seabream Sparus aurata fed fishmeal free diets”, and Ricardo Matias (CIIMAR) in the Plastics and Nanoparticles session “Effects of dietary inclusion of viscose-rayon microfibers on European seabass performance and transcriptomic traits”.
At the event, which included other activities such as the trade exhibition, industry forums, workshops, events for students and official receptions, it has been announced internationally that the next venue for AQUA 2025 will be in the city of Valencia, with CSIC as the host of the congress.
More information on the conference website:
https://was.org/Meeting/Program/Sessions/AQUA24
