Schedule
DAY 1 — MONDAY, 4 MAY 2026 |
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Time |
Title |
Presenting author |
Institution |
08:30 |
REGISTRATION |
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09:15 |
GIA WELCOME — Opening speeches |
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09:45 |
PLENARY LECTURE — Gen Hua Yue (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore) |
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~10:30 |
Coffee break |
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Session 1: Immunity, stress & welfare I |
Chairs: Carlo Lazado, Jerko Hrabar |
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11:15 |
RNA SEQUENCING REVEALS MARKERS OF IMMUNITY IN ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR) VACCINATED AGAINST TENACIBACULUM FINNMARKENSE |
Alexandra Florea |
The Roslin Institute |
11:30 |
DISEASE RESISTANCE MECHANISMS AND INFECTIVITY ARE DIFFERENT BETWEEN COMMON CARP AND RELATED CYPRINIDS |
Lior David |
Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem |
11:45 |
INSIGHTS INTO THE GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF RESISTANCE TO VIRAL HEMORRHAGIC SEPTICEMIA VIRUS IN RAINBOW TROUT FROM GWAS AND FUNCTIONAL VALIDATION |
Valentin Thomas |
INRAE |
12:00 |
MICRORNA-MEDIATED REGULATION OF HOST RESPONSE TO VIRAL NERVOUS NECROSIS VIRUS IN EUROPEAN SEABASS |
Raquel Rodríguez-Vázquez |
Univ. Santiago de Compostela |
12:15 |
CRISPR-CAS9 EDITING AS A TOOL TO INTERROGATE GENE FUNCTION: ATLANTIC SALMON TRIM25 PARALOGS ANTI-VIRAL FUNCTION IN INFECTIOUS SALMON ANAEMIA VIRUS |
Robert Stewart |
The Roslin Institute |
12:30 |
Lunch break |
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Session 2: Immunity, stress & welfare II |
Chairs: Robert Stewart, Lior David |
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14:30 |
EARLY-LIFE CONDITIONING INFLUENCES LATER-LIFE STRESS RESPONSES IN RAINBOW TROUT: INSIGHTS FROM MULTI-OMICS ANALYSES |
Arun Shankregowda |
Swansea University |
14:45 |
THE EMBRYONIC ENVIRONMENT: KEY TO ROBUSTNESS IN ATLANTIC SALMON |
Erik Burgerhout |
Nofima |
15:00 |
IDENTIFICATION OF FISH EPIGENETIC BIOMARKERS OF DISEASE RESISTANCE DRIVEN BY EARLY REARING CONDITIONS |
Sofia Consuegra |
Swansea University / IIM-CSIC |
15:15 |
CHALLENGES AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR NANOPORE DNA METHYLATION SEQUENCING IN ATLANTIC SALMON |
Ethan Friis |
Swansea University |
15:30 |
GENOMIC EVIDENCE FOR CONSERVED ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING REGULATORS UNDERLYING DOMESTICATION AND BREEDING-RELATED DIVERGENCE IN GILTHEAD SEABREAM (SPARUS AURATA) |
Aristotelis Moulistanos |
Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki |
15:45 |
IDENTIFICATION OF NEW KEY STRESS RELATED GENES BY COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE GENE EXPRESSION PROFILE UNDER MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS IN GILTHEAD SEABREAM (SPARUS AURATA) |
Iris Silva |
S2AQUA |
16:00 |
CIRCADIAN REGULATION OF IMMUNE FUNCTIONS IN ATLANTIC SALMON LEUKOCYTES |
Carlo Lazado |
Nofima |
16:15 |
SEX-DEPENDENT REGULATION OF IMMUNE RESPONSES IN EUROPEAN SEA BASS GONADS |
Sandra López-Chillarón |
ICM-CSIC |
16:30 |
ICE BREAKER & POSTER SESSION |
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18:30 |
End of Day 1 |
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DAY 2 — TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2026 |
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Time |
Title |
Presenting author |
Institution |
09:45 |
PLENARY LECTURE — Kaja Helvik Skjærven (Institute of Marine Research, Norway) |
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~10:30 |
Coffee break |
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Session 3: Immunity, stress & welfare III |
Chairs: Sofia Consuegra, Tim Regan |
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11:00 |
DECODING THE GENETIC BASIS OF FISH IMMUNE RESPONSES USING KNOCKOUT CELL LINES |
Sara Veiga-Rúa |
Univ. Santiago de Compostela |
11:15 |
HOW COULD GENOMIC KNOWLEDGE HELP MAKE ATLANTIC SALMON MORE “COHO-LIKE” IN THEIR ABILITY TO RESIST SEA LICE? |
Nick Robinson |
Nofima / Deakin University |
11:30 |
LONG-READ GRAPH GENOME OF SEA BREAM HIGHLIGHTS STRUCTURAL VARIANT ENRICHMENT IN GENES DRIVING ADAPTIVE PLASTICITY |
Aldo Hernández-Juarez |
IATS-CSIC |
11:45 |
DIFFERENTIAL GILL TRANSCRIPTOME RESPONSES IN ATLANTIC SALMON TO CLONAL AND REISOLATED CULTURES OF NEOPARAMOEBA PERURANS, AGENT OF AMOEBIC GILL DISEASE |
Marianne Iversen |
Nofima |
12:00 |
CIRCULATING MICRORNAS AS EMERGING BIOMARKERS FOR STRESS MONITORING IN OCTOPUS VULGARIS AQUACULTURE |
Mariana Pereira |
IIM-CSIC |
12:15 |
UNCOVERING THE MICRORNA REGULATORY LANDSCAPE OF TURBOT |
Oscar Aramburu |
Univ. Santiago de Compostela / GENEAQUA |
12:30 |
Lunch break |
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Session 4: Nutrition & growth |
Chairs: Jorge Fernandes, Ivana Lepen Pleić |
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14:30 |
DIET SHAPES FUNCTIONAL HOST–MICROBIOTA ASSOCIATIONS IN GILTHEAD SEABREAM REVEALED BY INTEGRATED TRANSCRIPTOME AND MICROBIOTA PROFILES |
Carmen Navarro-Guillén |
ICMAN-CSIC |
14:45 |
TRANSCRIPTOMIC PROFILING OF FAST- AND SLOW-GROWING SPARUS AURATA REVEALS POTENTIAL GROWTH BIOMARKERS |
Cátia Lourenço-Marques |
S2AQUA |
15:00 |
PHYTOGENIC STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE GUT RESILIENCE IN SEABREAM |
Elena Sarropoulou |
HCMR |
15:15 |
MILD OXIDATIVE STRESS GUIDES DIETARY EPIGENETIC MODULATORS TO DIRECT DNA METHYLATION TOWARD STRESS-RESILIENCE PATHWAYS |
Erick Perera |
ICMAN-CSIC |
15:30 |
EPIGENETIC BASIS OF THE ONSET OF SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN TELEOSTS |
Gabriel Ecker-Eckhofen |
ICM-CSIC |
15:45 |
SINGLE-NUCLEUS TRANSCRIPTOMICS OF ATLANTIC SALMON MUSCLE CAPTURES MYOGENIC CELL STATES AND POST-DUPLICATION DIVERGENCE |
Ulduz Sobhiafshar |
The Roslin Institute |
16:00 |
Coffee break |
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Session 5: Microbial genomics |
Chairs: Kiron Viswanath, Dana Silva, Sandra López |
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16:30 |
FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM GENOMICS TO UNRAVEL EVOLUTION, VIRULENCE AND HOST ADAPTATION OF A MAJOR FISH PATHOGEN |
Eric Duchaud |
INRAE |
16:45 |
IDENTIFICATION OF AN ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE CLUSTER IN AEROMONAS SALMONICIDA SUBSP. SALMONICIDA ASSOCIATED WITH NEW PLASMIDS AND A-LAYER EXPRESSION |
Line Saidan |
INRAE |
17:00 |
PHOTOPERIOD-DRIVEN SEX-SPECIFIC SHIFTS IN BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL GUT COMMUNITIES IN ATLANTIC COD (GADUS MORHUA) |
Dana Silva |
ICM-CSIC |
17:15 |
THERMAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DRIVERS OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITY DYNAMICS IN GILL, INTESTINE AND SKIN OF GILTHEAD SEA BREAM AND EUROPEAN SEABASS DURING EARLY ONTOGENY |
Hamed Abdollahpour |
CCMAR |
17:30 |
EFFECTS OF A DIETARY BACTERIOPHAGE TARGETING FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM ON THE GUT MICROBIOME OF RAINBOW TROUT (ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS) |
Benjamin Overland |
Swansea University |
17:45 |
PRIMING THE FISH MICROBIOME IN EARLY LIFE TO IMPROVE STRESSOR RESILIENCE |
Tamsyn Uren Webster |
Swansea University |
18:00 |
End of Day 2 |
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DAY 3 — WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2026 |
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Time |
Title |
Presenting author |
Institution |
09:45 |
PLENARY LECTURE — Yann Guiguen (INRAE, France) |
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~10:30 |
Coffee break |
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Session 6: Integrative omics |
Chairs: Paulino Martinez, Arun Shankregowda |
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11:00 |
GENOME ARCHITECTURE SHAPES EPIGENETIC AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL DIVERGENCE IN EUROPEAN SEABASS POPULATIONS |
Francois Allal |
MARBEC Ifremer |
11:15 |
CELL-TYPE-SPECIFIC ENDOCRINE SIGNALS OF THE PITUITARY GLAND IN RESPONSE TO PHOTOPERIOD MANIPULATION |
Ioannis Konstantinidis |
Nord University |
11:30 |
PHOTOPERIOD EFFECT ON ATLANTIC COD GONADS AND PITUITARY REVEALS MODULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION AND METHYLATION |
Lorenzo Colonna |
Nord University |
11:45 |
INTEGRATIVE OMICS ANALYSES REVEAL GENOMIC DIFFERENTIATION AND DIVERGENT GENE EXPRESSION ACROSS BROWN TROUT LINEAGES |
Manuel Vera |
Univ. Santiago de Compostela |
12:00 |
METHODOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FOR STUDYING LNCRNAS IN FISH: BENCHMARKING TRANSCRIPTOME DEPTH AND EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE RNA PROFILING |
Deiene Rodriguez-Barreto |
Univ. de La Laguna |
12:15 |
SHELL-ULAR BIOLOGY: SINGLE NUCLEI-RESOLVED GENE EXPRESSION CHANGES IN THE EPITHELIAL TISSUE OF MOULTING LITOPENAEUS VANNAMEI |
Thomas Clark |
The Roslin Institute |
12:30 |
SKIN MUCUS AND TISSUE MULTIOMICS COMPARISON OF TRANSPORT-INDUCED ACUTE STRESS RESPONSES IN ATLANTIC SALMON, EUROPEAN SEABASS AND RAINBOW TROUT |
Tonka Buha |
CIIMAR ICBAS and SPAROS |
12:45 |
Lunch break |
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Session 7: Reproduction & improved breeding I |
Chairs: Dean Jerry, Renan Appel |
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14:30 |
PRECISION GENOMICS IN ARCTIC CHARR: CUSTOM SNP-CHIPS FOR BACTERIAL KIDNEY DISEASE RESISTANCE AND DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT |
Christos Palaiokostas |
Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences |
14:45 |
COMPLEXITIES OF SELECTIVE BREEDING WITHIN PEARL OYSTERS – A LONGDITUDINAL STUDY REVEALS MOLECULAR DRIVERS OF SHELL GROWTH AND COLOUR |
David Jones |
James Cook University |
15:00 |
THE SPERM RACE MATTERS: PHENOTYPIC AND GENOMIC EVIDENCE FOR WITHIN-EJACULATE HAPLOID SELECTION IN DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX |
Francois Allal |
MARBEC Ifremer |
15:15 |
TRANSCRIPTOMIC AND EPIGENETIC CHANGES IN THE OLFACTORY ORGANS OF SENEGALESE SOLE MAY UNDERLIE REPRODUCTIVE FAILURE IN CAPTIVE-BRED MALES |
Dorinda Torres-Sabino |
Univ. Santiago de Compostela |
15:30 |
OVULATION DEFINES FINAL MATERNAL RNA LANDSCAPE THROUGH EXTENSIVE TRANSCRIPTOMIC REMODELING IN PIKEPERCH EGGS |
Daniel Żarski |
InLife Institute |
15:45 |
TRANSCRIPTOMICS OF RAINBOW TROUT EGGS USED FOR GYNOGENESIS: PROTECTION FROM PHYSICAL STRESS VS. SENSITIVITY OF MICROTUBULES FOR HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE SHOCK |
Konrad Ocalewicz |
University of Gdansk |
16:00 |
Coffee break |
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Session 8: Reproduction & improved breeding II / Low trophic aquaculture |
Chairs: Elena Sarropoulou, Ivana Buselic |
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16:30 |
ROOTING THE FUTURE OF SPACE AQUACULTURE |
Laia Ribas |
ICM-CSIC |
16:45 |
SHARED GENETIC ARCHITECTURE REVEALS PLEIOTROPIC QTL(S) REGULATING GONADOSOMATIC INDEX AND SEXUAL MATURITY IN ATLANTIC COD |
Muhammad Luqman Aslam |
Nofima |
Low trophic aquaculture |
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17:00 |
EXPLORING GENETIC DIVERSITY AND HYBRIDISATION PATTERNS OF MUSSELS IN NORTHERN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND |
Ambre Chapuis |
The Roslin Institute |
17:15 |
LONG-READ SEQUENCING REVEALS EXTENSIVE STRUCTURAL VARIATION IN FARMED SCOTTISH MYTILUS MUSSELS |
Tim Regan |
The Roslin Institute |
17:30 |
FROM CHALLENGE TEST TO GWAS: UNCOVERING GENOMIC SIGNALS OF SALINITY TOLERANCE IN THE COMMON COCKLE |
Marialaura Gallo |
Univ. Santiago de Compostela |
19:00 |
Split Old Town Tour |
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20:30 |
GALA DINNER |
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