Past research projects

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.

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.