Multi-omic profiling for cultivated seafood
2024 – 2026
This project will leverage multi-omic data to analyze several fish species in depth.
Production platform: Cultivated
Technology sector: Cell culture media, Cell line development, Computational modeling
Project aims
The aim of this project is to create novel cell lines and to develop ways to enhance existing ones, with the goal of improving proliferation rates, understanding differentiation, and reducing serum dependency in media. This will be done by developing a better understanding of the underlying biological processes relevant to cultivated seafood, including characterizing diverse cell types, developing a better understanding of proliferation/differentiation dynamics, and metabolic modeling.
Principal Investigator
Brian Dixon
Professor and CRC chair, Biology
University of Waterloo, Canada
Professor Brian Dixon’s research focuses on fish immune systems. He is an expert in the processes by which fish detect and respond to viruses and bacteria, the influence of environmental factors such as temperature on fish immunity and replacing antibiotics in aquaculture with probiotics and natural fish immune proteins. He has developed several cell lines and over 40 antibodies to fish immune and stress molecules.
Additional researchers
- Dr. Nguyen (Nathan) T. K. Vo, Coordinating Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
- Rikard Saqe, Research Co-Lead, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Kevin Shen, Research Co-Lead, University of Waterloo, Canada
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