Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Development of salmon lice viral vectors as a tool to regulate sea lice biology Programme National Programme
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 Coordinator Are Nylund Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
UiB - University of Bergen (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2016 End year 2019 Funding (€) € 947,367 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/254710?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=150&ProgAkt.3=BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi+for+verdiskaping Summary Salmon sea lice (L. salmonis) represent a socioeconomic burden and to date no effective or environmentally friendly cure is available. They are able to infect both wild and farmed Salmon in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. At present several international pharmaceutical companies have undertaken the challenge to control sea lice including Pharmaq, Novartis, and MSD. A current and common strategy employed by these companies is the use of chemical treatments of farmed salmon and vaccine development. These strategies are expensive and not effective and can account for at least 10% of the cost of salmon and has a 1.5BNOK market value. The research team described here has identified and characterized novel viruses that are able to infect sea lice and related viruses that are possibly present in all members of the Caligidae. Uniquely, this project will manipulate the genome of these recently identified viruses to make gene transfer components. The overall deliverable is to provide gene transfer vehicles to understand and regulate sea lice biology which will lead to salmon lice management. This issue has been and remains the bottleneck of the entire issue of salmon lice control, since a great deal of information and genes of interest have been compiled and are waiting for a suitable delivery system. Thus, this successful execution of this project will enable many studies and trials to combat the salmon sea lice. We envision a business model where viral vectors are developed and sold as a commercial kit.
Keywords
Engineering;
Salmon;
Genetic;
Fish;
Genomic sequencing;
Parasite;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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