The Scottish Fish Immunology Research Centre (SFIRC) has secured over £1.7 million in research funding in 2024 to fund six research projects spanning an impressive range of topics in fish health and aquaculture. Check out the project summaries below:
Project 1. The Role of Photoperiod in Immune Development…
The Energetics Research Group has made a range of exciting discoveries this year. Highlighted below are two projects that span both applied and fundamental ecophysiology themes.
The behavioural and physiological response of dairy cows to regrouping practises
Catherine Hambly and her team worked with the dairy industry to tackle how…
Jo Kershaw, a lecturer from the School of Biological Sciences in the Ecophysiology research cluster, is currently doing fieldwork in South Georgia, a sub-Antarctic island, as part of a project led by the British Antarctic Survey. Whales are the largest krill-predators in South Georgia, yet their impacts on local krill…
Congratulations to multiple researchers in the Ecophysiology research cluster for their success in attracting research funding from UKRI BBSRC totalling £2.16million to the University of Aberdeen (100% cost, 80% from BBSRC) across two research projects.
Project 1: A multi-level exploration of biological nitrification inhibition in rice for improved sustainability of crop…
