Acronym ARENA
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Antibiotic REsistaNce and Pathogenic Signature in Marine and Freshwater Aquaculture Systems Programme International Cooperation
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National-European Coordinator Gian Marco Luna Coordinator email gianmarco.luna@cnr.it
Coordinator institution
CNR-IRBIM - National Research Council; Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (Italy)
Institutions involved
FH Aachen - Aachen University of Applied Science (Germany) ,
ICRA - Catalan Institute for Water Research (Spain) ,
NA - KU Leuven (Belgium) ,
CNR-IRSA - National Research Council; Water Research Institute (Italy) ,
Ulg - University of Liege (Belgium) ,
Start year 2021 End year 2024 Funding (€) € 1,101,910 Website https://www.jpi-arena.eu/en/ Summary In the last decade, the aquaculture industry has grown significantly, becoming one of the main sources of fish for human consumption. However, this growth has raised problems regarding public health and the marine environment and, in particular, regarding the contamination of the aquaculture production environment as well as the final food product with antibiotics and other emerging pollutants, such as antibiotic- resistant and other pathogenic bacteria.
The goal of the ARENA project is to understand the transmission pathways and fate of antibiotic residues, antibiotic resistance genes, antibiotic resistant bacteria and other pathogenic bacteria in aquaculture, including also possible contamination from environment (e.g., in open systems such as mariculture: freshwater discharges in the vicinity of the aquaculture cages, seawater, sediments, benthic organisms residing in the vicinity of the growing cages, feed; in RAS systems: water input, water inside the cages, water before and after the filtration processes, feed). Finally, the accumulation of contamination in the final food product (fish fillet) will be evaluated. To achieve this goal, the ARENA project will use several innovative approaches, including metagenomic molecular methods, or based on quantitative PCR and the more recent digital droplet PCR (ddPCR), and early-warning tools will be developed (including a cytometry-based assay flow, a system based on the use of the portable Nanopore DNA sequencing platform, and some biosensors).
Keywords
Bacteria;
Cage aquaculture;
Fish;
Fish products;
Open sea aquaculture;
Antibacterial;
Land-based aquaculture;
Recirculating systems;
Biosensors;
Monitoring;
Genetic;
Food safety;
Toxic substances;
Metagenomic;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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