Past research projects

TarGet - New targeting vaccines for sustainable aquaculture

Fish diseases represent one of the major risks to the continued growth of the aquaculture industry. This project will develop a flexible and versatile fish vaccine platform (TarGet) where vaccines can be easily tailored to any viral disease and fish species.

The Gill Health Platform

The Gill Health Platform (GHP) is a strategic concentration of research at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI), motivated by the vital importance of the gills to fish health and function.

Triploid salmon – susceptibility to infectious diseases

The goal for the project is to investigate the susceptibility for triploid salmon to infectious diseases of importance for the Norwegian aquaculture industry.

VIRRBC

Infectious salmon anaemia virus binds Atlantic salmon red blood cells, but we do not know the significance of this interaction. In this project we study how the virus’ ability to bind red blood cells influences the course of infection and development of disease in infectious salmon anaemia.

ViVaAct

ViVaACT aim to characterize the specific mechanisms that separate the host immune response triggered by attenuated or inactivated viruses and their protective potential, focusing primarily on salminid alphavirus (SAV) and Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV). This project may identify clues to protective vaccination against PD and HSMI and related viral diseases in fish.

WELFED

This project will investigate short- and long-term effects of supplementary feeding of semi-domesticated reindeer.

Yersiniosis in sea-farmed salmon

The project will focus on identification of the cause(s) behind the recent increase in number of yersiniosis outbreaks in mid-Norway.