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Seafood Cooperative Research Centre PhD Students - Program 1 (Production Innovation)
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Kelli Anderson
Kelli graduated midyear in 2007 with first class Honours from the University of the Sunshine Coast where her research focus was two fold.
Firstly she developed a (molecular) method to detect endocrine disrupting chemicals in our waterways using the Sydney Rock Oyster as a bioindicator species. Secondly, she looked into developing (immunological)
methods for non-invasive sex determination in the Southern Bluefin Tuna.
During the rest of 2007, Kelli worked as a research assistant at the Bribie Island Aquaculture Research Centre and at Coral Sea Fishing Pty Ltd where she helped establish in house testing protocols for histamine. The testing system developed is now used for large-scale quality control monitoring within this company.
Since 2007 Kelli has worked as a cell biology
tutor and laboratory demonstrator for the university before embarking on her PhD!
Kelli's PhD research will investigate the effect of temperature on reproductive development in maiden and repeat spawning farmed Atlantic Salmon. Specifically, her research will focus on understanding the
molecular basis for improved egg quality and survival.
When Kelli gets a spare minute away from her PhD, she can be found surfing and rock climbing. Once she has finished her PhD she plans to surf, climb and work all over the world!
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Jenna Bowyer
Jenna graduated from Flinders University with first class Honours in Marine Biology in 2007. Her project investigated the abundance of the Mud Cockle (Katelysia scalarina) in Oyster cultivation sites in Port Douglas Bay, South Australia. She looked at biotic and abiotic variables that may affect the abundance of cockles found in sediments directly underneath Oyster cultivation sites and in sediments directly adjacent to cultivation sites.
After completing her Honours year, Jenna was then employed by the Spencer Gulf and West Coast Prawn Association to write a literature review on the effects of desalination plants on the marine environment. This review was to in relation to the proposed BHP Billiton desalination plant at Point Lowly on the Eyre Peninsula.
In 2008, she was employed by Flinders University as a research assistant at the Lincoln Marine Science Centre in Port Lincoln. Here she worked on a Southern Bluefin Tuna Product Quality and Value Adding project, which included analysing both Tuna and Sardine tissue samples for vitamins and some proximate composition analyses.
Jenna's PhD project is entitled “Nutritional factors influencing the performance of Yellowtail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi) cultured at low temperatures”. This project provides an exciting new challenge for her in the field of aquaculture nutrition, and she's looking forward to the journey it will take her on!
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Erin Bubner
Erin graduated with a Bachelor of Aquaculture at the University of Tasmania in 2004, and she completed her Honours degree in a Bachelor of Technology (Aquaculture) at Flinders University in 2005. Her research project investigated the live-transportation of the Australian Greenlip Abalone, Haliotis lavegata, which looked specifically at the combined effects of temperature regulation and of supplementary oxygen on the physiological condition and mortality rates of the abalone post transport.
Erin worked for a short period at Southern Australian Seafood before being employed by Flinders University and Aquafin CRC as a research assistant at the Lincoln Marine Science Centre in Port Lincoln. Here she worked on a Southern Bluefin Tuna Product Quality and Value Adding project whilst continuing to work with Southern Australian Seafood, managing a commercial Abalone trial and later assisting Clean Seas Tuna Ltd with some industry based research. Then Erin decided to embark on a PhD!
Erin's PhD project is titled ‘Reproductive dynamics and manipulation of captive reared southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii)’. The aim is to gain knowledge about the closing of the life-cycle of captive southern bluefin tuna, with an emphasis of reproduction.
Erin developed an interest in aquaculture through her love of the ocean, for animals and her intrigue into the relatively new and rapidly developing industry. The likelihood of working outdoors with a diverse range of species and at a variety of locations around the world appealed to her greatly. Erin's early interest has evolved into a career pathway which provides both immense challenges and amazing opportunities.
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COMPLETED STUDENT
Arani Chandrapavan
Arani commenced her PhD with the University of Tasmania and has recently submitted her thesis, 'Translocation of the Southern Roclobster, Jasus edwardsii to improve its yield and marketability.
Arani now works as a research scientist at the Department of Fisheries, Western Australia.
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Chris Chapman
Chris' PhD will tackle bacterial issues in Oysters hatcheries which he is conducting at the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research (TIAR). Chris brings a diverse range of skills to his PhD with training in agriculture and contaminated land regulation.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science at the University of Tasmania in 2000 and since that time worked for six years as an agricultural consultant with Hobart based company Rural Development Services. Here he worked on a variety of crop-related research and agricultural extension projects and then he spent 18 months working in contaminated land regulation with a London council.
Chris is passionate about building his research skills, broadening his skills base and to contribute to the development of the Tasmanian aquaculture industry.
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Vingh Dang
Vingh graduated from the University of Queensland, Brisbane in December 2008 with first class Honours in Aquaculture and Biotechnology. Throughout his Honours, he received great support from Professor Mark Ragan and Dr Karin Kassahn, Institute of Molecular Sciences, and this is where he acquired both bioinformatics and lab experimental skills (e.g. PCR, ISH, microarray) for his later research. Vingh already has two publications from his Honours work so we think that is a good start!!!
In 2009, Vingh started his Seafood CRC PhD on Abalone under the supervision of Dr Kirsten Benkendorff and Dr Peter Speck at Flinders University. He is already showing a lot of interest in his project with Vingh trying to find out antiviral activities within Abalone for AGV diseases. He says he now realises this project is very challenging but Vingh is always a positive thinker and is known for his motto of “We can do it”!
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Tim Emery
Tim began his PhD with the CRC is May and will tell us all about himself and his PhD project very soon!
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Abby Fisher
Abby has just commenced her PhD with the Seafood CRC so stay tuned and meet Abby very soon.
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Andrew Foote
Andrew completed a Bachelor of Science Degree in 2007 at The University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, majoring in Parasitology, Marine Biology, and Entomology. He also completed an Honours Degree in the field of Marine Biology though UQ and CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research at Cleveland (CMAR). His Honours project was entitled “Tetraploid inductions of Penaeus japonicus (Kuruma Prawn): A study on viability and development”. During this year, Andrew determined when and why tetraploid Prawns became non-viable using flow cytometry and confocal laser-scanning microscopy which created 3D images of the embryos stained with various fluorescent dyes.
In the past few years, while juggling university studies, Andrew worked as an Aquarist at Underwater World on the Sunshine Coast and also the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries to help collect data regarding recreational fishing catches and effort. Andrew has more recently worked at CMAR researching triploidy induction strategies and larval rearing of prawns.
Andrew's PhD project is entitled “Understanding penaeid Prawn sex determination and developing monosex induction strategies for commercial application”. This project leads on from his Honours project and has the same ultimate objective of producing all female Prawns to improve farming productivity.
Andrew has lived, worked and studied in Brisbane all his life, so once he finishes his PhD, he is keen to move to somewhere different to work for a few years.
In his spare time, Andrew likes to go SCUBA diving and maintain reef aquaria. His most recent SCUBA adventure involved diving with 4m bull sharks in Fiji while they were being fed!
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Pollyanna (Polly) Hilder
Polly's PhD subject is the visual development and feeding responses in Southern Bluefin Tuna which is a dream come true for our Ms Polly as her area of interest has always been in the early life history of marine fishes.
Polly has a lot of experience in the aquculture industry having worked for 23 years culturing species including Mahimahi, Barramundi, Greenback Flounder, Striped Trumpeter and a few other species. In addition, her work history has seen her employed in a number of sectors of the aquaculture industry including commercial, government and academic.
Polly completed her Honours at the University of Tasmania investigating the visual development and feeding responses of larval Striped Trumpeter.
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Celeste Knowles
Celeste is currently undertaking her PhD with Flinders
University and CSIRO and is based in Hobart. Her project is titled profiling host-parasite dynamics of amoebic gill disease (AGD) using molecular methods. The main focus of this project is to develop a real-time PCR assay and apply it to identification of the amoeba responsible for AGD. Her supervisors are Dr James Harris and Dr Mathew Cook.
Prior to commencing her PhD, Celeste completed her undergraduate studies in marine biology in 2006 and her Honours in 2008 both at Flinders University. Her Honours project looked at the impact of potentially contaminated sediment on Southern Rocklobster puerulus.
On a personal note, Celeste has a strong interest in aquatic animal health, and in her spare time likes to keep busy through participating in a variety of sports and surfing.
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Paula Lima
Paula, who is originally from Brasil, graduated from the Federal University of Parana with a Bachelor Degree in Oceanography. Two years later, she completed a Masters Degree in Fisheries Engineering, at the Federal University of Ceara. Her dissertation project investigated the effect of sulphated polysaccharides from marine macro algae on the resistance increase of Litopenaeus vannamei shrimp, under stressing conditions.
In 2009, Paula decided to come to Australia to study English for a period of 6 months. Whilst studying she undertook some volunteer work at Flinders University and the rest they say is history!
Paula's PhD is entitled “Examination of the immune response of Atlantic Salmon vaccinated with a DNA vaccine for amoebic gill disease (AGD). Despite being a Flinders University student, Paula is based at the facilities of CSIRO Livestock Industry (CLI), in Brisbane.
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Shannon Loughnan
Shannon has just started his PhD project with the Seafood CRC which will involve the capture and maintenance of genetic variation when initiating selective breeding programs for aquaculture. The
species of interest are Barramundi Lates calcarifer and Yellowtail Kingfish Seriola lalandi, with a focus on both quantitative and molecular genetic techniques.
Shannon graduated with Honours from Deakin University in Warrnambool in 2003, where he developed a library of genetic markers for Murray Cod Maccullochella peelii peelii, to assist in both conservation and aquaculture practices. Before embarking on his PhD he was employed with the Department of Primary Industries in Victoria, as part of the molecular genetics platform investigating green and black lip abalone (Haliotus laevigata and H. rubra). More specifically,
the examination of quantitative traits linked to growth under captive culture.
Shannon has been fortunate enough to have travelled extensively throughout Latin America, not only conducting personal research in reference to the
ornamental fish industry but also determining fish identification and correlating fish species to habitat structure.
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Zhenhua Ma
Zhenhua graduated from Dalian Fisheries University with a Masters in Aquaculture in 2007. Between 2006 and 2007 he also finished his Masters project at SARDI Aquatic Sciences. This project investigated the effect of temperature on the Green-Lip Abalone immune system and a morphologic study on Green-Lip Abalone haemocyte.
After Zhenhua completed his first Masters Degree, he started his second Masters Degree in Information
Technology in 2008 at Flinders University and he is almost finished! This project looked at merging components for MST segmentations of mammograms.
Zhenhua's PhDis entitled “Improvement of Yellowtail Kingfish fingerling production efficiency through
food and feeding management”. This project focuses on larvae rearing nutrition management.
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Vijay Mareddy
Vijay is looking forward to telling us more about him very soon. He has just joined the CRC PhD program.
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Penny Miller
Penny has just started her PhD with the CRC and looks forward to telling us all about herself and her PhD research very soon.
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Mark Oliver
Mark has come to the Seafood CRC with a wealth of aquaculture experience having worked in commercial aquaculture for ten years during the 90s and then moving in to aquaculture training for the last 10
years.
Mark completed his undergraduate science degree in 1999 at the University of the Sunshine Coast while working in industry and in 2000 completed his Honours year at the University of Queensland.Mark's Honours research investigated optimising larval rearing techniques of the Sea Mullet Mugil cephalus and the Rabbitfish Siganus nebulosis which had both a practical hatchery component and a molecular focus.
Mark is currently employed as an aquaculture trainer at the Sunshine Coast Institute of TAFE and has decided that more stress would be good so has signed up to undertake his PhD!
Mark's PhD is hrough the University of the Sunshine Coast and the thesis title is ‘Paving the Way for Sustainable Aquaculture Development in Queensland’s
Marine Environment Through Effective Policy Based Decision Making Processes’. The main aim of this project is to determine whether present state and federal marine protection area plans, coastal management
plans, regulatory frameworks, existing legislation and their subsequent polices permit sustainable development of commercial marine aquaculture in Queensland when compared with interstate and international norms.
Mark is passionate about aquaculture development within his home stateand loves all things aquatic as well as being a self-confessed travel junkie.
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Daniel Pountney
Daniel has just started his PhD with the Seafood CRC and looks forward to sharing some information about himself very soon.
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Victoria Valdenegro Vega
Victoria will commence her PhD in 2010 after she returns from her homeland in Chile, South America. Stay tuned to meet Victoria!
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Lindsey Woolley
Lindsey completed her Bachelor of Science Degree with first class Honours at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) in 2006 majoring in aquatic health. Her Honours project identified a new monogenean parasite species infecting the gills of freshwater Labeo.
During her undergraduate career Lindsey worked at a leading mariculture farm in South Africa, where she developed her passion for aquaculture research!
In 2008, she graduated with a Masters Degree in Fisheries Science from Rhodes University, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Her Masters research project
focused on aquaculture nutrition, developing a feed for the Mulloway industry in South Africa, specifically for use in inland recirculating systems and opensea
cages. The diet was formulated to utilise the local ingredients and the feed manufacturing techniques used in the already well established Abalone industry. The aim was to produce a diet that kept pollutant wastes to a minimum while still maintaining optimal growth and condition of the fish.
Lucky for the CRC, Lindsey moved to Adelaide to begin the next chapter of her academic career to begin her PhD with Flinders University. Her project is entitled “Body buoyancy and tank distribution of Yellowtail King-fish, Seriola lalandi, larvae: Exploring the mass mortality in commercial fingerling production,” which aims to improve the survival rate of Yellowtail Kingfish larvae in the critical stages of early development by increasing the rate of successful swimbladder inflation.
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This page was last updated: 28th June 2010
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