AquaIMPACT: Towards fish microbiome and epigenome in a new H2020 Project2018-11-30
AquaIMPACT (2019-2022)- Genomic and nutritional innovations for genetically superior farmed fish to improve efficiency in European aquaculture- is an Innovative Action funded under Horizon 2020. The Project (6.1 M€) is a major effort to integrate the fields of fish breeding and nutrition to increase the competiveness of EU's aquaculture.
AquaIMPACT is coordinated by Dr Antti Kause from Natural Resources Institute of Finland with the participation of 22 companies and research institutions from 9 EU countries.
CSIC participation in AquaIMPACT is led by Prof Jaume Pérez-Sánchez from the IATS Nutrigenomics group. The main IATS-CSIC goal in the Project is to determine how the intestinal microbial community is modulated by feed additives and genotype x nutrition interactions. Secondly, we aim to determine how nutritional programming is mediated by changes in specific epigenetic marks (DNA methylation patterns).
