Acronym SLRC
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Sea Lice Research Centre - A Centre for Research-based Innovation on sea lice control Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source National Coordinator Frank Nilsen Coordinator email frank.nilsen@imr.no
Coordinator institution
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
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Start year 2011 End year 2019 Funding (€) € 7,752,770 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/203513?Kilde=EU&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=0&Organisasjon.3=WILH.+WILHELMSEN+HOLDING+ASA Summary Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus, Caligus) are the major pathogens affecting global salmon farming industry and have a significant impact in many areas. The annual loss has been estimated to 300 million Euros and the aquaculture industry relays heavily on a few chemotherapeutants for control. Emerging resistance development to these drugs increase the necessity to develop new treatment methods (biological, prophylactic and drugs) and tools to avoid increased loss due to lice and to ensure a sustainable salmon farming industry in the future.
The research will focus on methods and tools to facilitate development of new drugs, develop new tools for resistance monitoring, reduce attachment in infective stages, improve host response, identification and evaluation of new targets for a future sea lice vaccine and to explore the possibilities to utilize RNAi as a novel method in lice control. By using the salmon louse genome sequence as a starting point, functional genomics methods will be utilized to identify molecular markers for drug resistance to facilitate monitoring and prolong the life time for valuable anti sea lice drugs.
The SLRC consisting of the leading scientist within the field together with the major industrial players will represent a strong consortium to develop short and long term solutions for one of the most significant problems for the salmon farming industry world wide. This will be achieved through state of the art research in relevant fields (parasitology, molecular biology and genomics, pharmacol ogy, host parasite interactions) and establishment of an integrated database resource for the lice genome (WP 5, LiceBase) and state of the art wet-lab facilities for sea lice research (WP 6, LiceLab.)
Results from the SLRC will enable an integrated contr ol system to be established, based on key features in sea lice biology, so lice in salmon farming can be controlled by a set of tools and not relay equally heavy on medicine, which is the current situation.
Keywords
Genetic;
Genomic sequencing;
Fish;
Parasite;
Salmon;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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