Aquaculture Europe 2025

Our team will be actively participating at Aquaculture Europe 2025, where we will showcase our work and contributions to advancing sustainable aquaculture.

We warmly invite all participants to visit our booth, attend our presentations, and engage with our posters and sessions. This will be a great opportunity to exchange ideas and explore innovative approaches to foster sustainability, welfare, and resilience in aquaculture.

This is where you can find us:

  • Exhibition stand

We will be present with a dedicated booth, featuring the GRINNAQUA and IGNITION projects

  • Sessions

    • Round table – “Women in Aquaculture”: Benjamin will take part as a panelist

    • “Welfare” session: Co-chaired by Benjamin Costas and Rita Azeredo, together with Juan Miguel Mancera and Juan Antonio Sitcha (UCA)

 

  • Oral presentations

Nutrition – Functional ingredients (23rd Sep 10:30 to 17:30 – Aud1, VCC – floor 0)

    • Inês Carvalho – Combined effects of methionine supplementation and vaccination on rainbow trout health and disease resistance against Yersinia ruckeri

Molluscs & other shellfish (23rd Sep 10:30 to 17:30 – SC 1+2, VCC – Floor 1)

    • Sergio Fernández-Boo – Effects of Perkinsus olseni infection in microbiome community, gene expression response and overall prevalence in commercial clam species

Welfare (24th Sep 10:30 to 17:30 – SM 1C+D, VCC – Floor 1)

    • Diogo Peixoto – Modulatory effects of tryptophan supplementation on neuroendocrine and mucosal immune responses in vaccinated European seabass

    • Bruno Reis – Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) chronic stress responses induced by high rearing temperatures: a holistic approach

Integrating omics approach (24th Sep 14:00 to 17:30 – SC 1+2, VCC – Floor 1)

    • Tonka Buha – Skin transcriptomic analysis in Atlantic salmon, European seabass, and rainbow trout under transport-induced acute stress

Nutrition – Alternative ingredients (25th Sep 9:00 to 17:30 – Aud 2, VCC – Floor 0)

    • Miguel Cabano – Assessing the effects of taurine on stress and antioxidant responses in European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) fed low-fishmeal diets

 

  • Posters

Allocating space for aquaculture

    • Tânia Pereira – GRINNAQUA insights from stakeholder engagement: addressing challenges and opportunities in aquaculture

Education & capacity building

    • Tânia Pereira – GRINNAQUA Project: building capacity for a more sustainable aquaculture

Health management –  Biosecurity & prevention

    • Aminur Rashid – Bactericidal and bacteriostatic activities of halophyte-based bioactive compounds against bacterial pathogens

Integrating omics approaches

    • Gonçalo Themudo – Multiomics of European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) exposed to acute stress by transport

Nature based solutions & regenerative farming

    • Helena Barbosa – Evaluating the safety of nature-based antifouling solutions for sustainable bivalve farming

Nutrition – Functional ingredients

    • Benjamin Costas – Dietary inclusion of Euglena gracilis bioactive compounds can modulate the European seabass immune responses following two different infection models

Nutrition – Physiology & requirements

    • Manuel Monteiro – Early dry feed introduction improves growth performance of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) larvae

Welfare

    • André Cunha – Dietary microalgae extracts as functional ingredients in European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juvenile diets: effects on immunity and disease resistance

    • Diogo Peixoto – Dynamics of Yersinia ruckeri infection by cohabitation in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): influence of inoculation route and shedders-to-cohabitant ratios

    • Christopher Pimentel – Assessing how transport-induced acute stress in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) juveniles may reveal potential welfare biomarkers

    • Paulo Santos – Different combinations of marine algae biorefined extracts as boosting strategies to improve European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juvenile immunity