Associate Professor Parisa Norouzitallab from the Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare was invited by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to give a talk on Artemia, aquaculture and food security at the FAO headquarters in Rome.
Dr. Parisa gave a presentation on New Techniques for (epi) genotyping of Artemia species and strains at the workshop entitled Safeguarding Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Artemia Resources for Aquaculture.
The International Artemia Aquaculture Consortium (IAAC) is a consortium of 40 countries that is recognized by FAO. The Artemia Lab at SLU is the only lab from the Nordic region to be a member of this consortium. Dr. Parisa is one of the steering committee members of IAAC.
– It is a great honor, says Assoc. Prof. Kartik Baruah, head of SLU-Artemia lab, that my colleague Parisa was invited to present our research findings”. We are conducting cutting-edge research at, and I am pleased that FAO and IAAC recognize the significance of our research in addressing food security challenges.
– I am also happy that the Artemia Lab has started gaining global recognition as students and postdocs from Europe and the Global South are showing interest in conducting their research work here, Kartik Baruah continues.
– Thanks to my colleagues, Dr. Parisa and also our newly joined bioinformatician Dr. Stephanie De Vos for initiating all these new research lines. My gratitude goes to the SLU Aquaculture Platform and department for their support in establishing the Artemia lab at the VH faculty. Special thanks also go to the thesis students from SLU and abroad, as well as the researchers, and senior technical staff at THV, adds Kartik Baruah.
The workshop was organized by the FAO and the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA, Bangkok), with the financial support of the Alliance of National and International Science Organizations for the Belt and Road Regions (ANSO) and the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (RAOS), in cooperation with the International Artemia Aquaculture Consortium (IAAC).