Improve your understanding of the main parasites of economic relevance affecting farmed fish in the Mediterranean area.
Update knowledge of the most important parasitic diseases, diagnostic methods, disease assessment and preventive and control measures.
Acquire diagnostic skills based on holistic evaluation and laboratory techniques.
Increase abilities and expertise in health management and food safety related to parasitic fish diseases.
Meet first-line international experts in this field and share professional experiences and concerns with them.
The course is designed for 25 participants with a university degree. It is intended for professionals within the aquaculture industry and public institutions involved in aquatic animal health management and inspection. The course is also open to technical consultants and researchers involved in fish parasite diagnosis and control in aquaculture production.
The course will be held at IAMZ-CIHEAM in Zaragoza from 21-25 October 2019, in morning and afternoon sessions.
Application deadlines:
8 July 2019 - The deadline may be extended for candidates not requiring a visa and not applying for a grant if there are free places available.
Apply here: www.admission.iamz.ciheam.org
Registration fees for the course amount to 500 euro. This sum covers tuition fees only.
Candidates from CIHEAM member countries (Albania, Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey) may apply for scholarships covering registration fees, and for scholarships covering the cost of travel and full board accommodation in the Hall of Residence on the Aula Dei Campus.
Candidates from other countries who require financial support should apply directly to other national or international institutions.
It is compulsory for participants to have medical insurance valid for Spain. Proof of insurance cover must be given at the beginning of the course. Those who so wish may participate in a collective insurance policy taken out by the Organisation, upon payment of the stipulated sum.
Paola Beraldo is Bachelor in Animal Production Science by University of Udine (Italy) and PhD in Aquaculture by the University of Florence (Italy). Currently she is a senior researcher and an aggregate professor at the University of Udine (Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Division of Animal and Veterinary Science) in Parasitology and parasitic diseases. Teacher on topics concerning parasitic diseases of aquatic animals, wildlife and domestic animals, fish pathology and fish histology in masters, seminars, workshops, training courses and post-graduate schools. Supervisor in several degrees, PhD and post-graduate schools theses on fish pathology, parasitology and parasitic diseases. Moreover, she manages a Diagnostic Service for fish farms, fish feed producers and privates. Her research activity concerns parasitic diseases of fish (during last years on Amyloodinium ocellatum within ParaFishControl Horizon2020 project) and domestic animals, wildlife ecoparasitology (wild cat, wolf and jackal), and fish histology (recently on European seabass and gilthead seabream histological semi-quantitative and quantitative evaluation within PerformFish Horizon202 project).
Monica Caffara (DVM PhD) is a researcher at Fish parasitology lab of the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy). She works since many years on parasitic diseases of animals, mainly fish, with particular reference to molecular studies focused on taxonomy and phylogenies of certain parasite taxa. From 2010, among others the main research topics concern taxonomic revision of clinostomids (Digenea) combining morphological description with molecular and phylogenetic analysis. Further research deal with molecular identification of Microspora in marine and freshwater fish and Anisakids in marine fish; molecular detection and identification of Cryptosporidium spp. in fish, molluscs and mammals; development of molecular tools for diagnosis of zoonotic food-borne parasite such as Opisthorchids and Diphyllobothridiis in fish product. She is involved in several research project both National and European. From 2004 up to now, she is a lecturer in several degree at University of Bologna.
Dr Ignacio de Blas is Bachelor in Veterinary Sciences and PhD in Animal Health by the Veterinary Faculty of the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). He is Senior Lecturer of the Department of Animal Pathology. Veterinary Faculty of the Universidad de Zaragoza and he is the responsible of the subject Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He is one of the developers of Win Episcope, WinEpi and other epidemiological software. He is coauthor of 90 papers in indexed journals and he has been coadvisor of 21 PhD thesis.
He is Diplomate of the European College of Aquatic Animal Health. He also works in the Laboratory of Fish Diseases of the Universidad de Zaragoza, that is an authorized laboratory for diagnosis of fish diseases in Aragón and other regions. The activity of the laboratory is related with epidemiological surveillance of fish populations, development and evaluation of antibiotics, probiotics and vaccines for fish, and epidemiological surveys of aquatic animal populations.
Dr Marialetizia Fioravanti is a veterinarian and PhD in Animal Parasitology from Italy. Currently she is professor of parasitology and parasitic diseases of animals at the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences (DIMEVET) of Bologna University, where she teaches veterinary parasitology and parasitic diseases of aquatic animals and is head of the Service of Transmissible Diseases and Veterinary Public Health and of the Fish Pathology Unit. She has a long research experience in aquatic animal health, with main reference to fish parasitic diseases, fish-borne zoonoses and diagnosis, prevention and control of transmissible disease of farmed fish. She is a former president of the Italian Society of Fish Pathology and has participated as UNIBO leader in several national and international projects, among which the ongoing ParaFishControl and PerformFISH H2020 projects.
Dr. Francesc Padrós is the technical manager of the Fish Disease Diagnostic Service (SDPP) and associate professor at the Veterinary School (Universitat Autòanoma de Barcelona). Hi has more than 25 years of experience in research, diagnostic and health and welfare management in fish and other aquatic animal diseases. He was member of Council of the EAFP (Meetings Secretary), Secretary of the SEA (Spanish Aquaculture Society) and is also member of the board of the ECAAH. He is currently workpackage leader (WP3, health) in PerformFISH and member of the external advisory board of the ParaFishControl H2020 projects.
Oswaldo Palenzuela studied B.Sc in Biology at University of Basque Country (UPV-EHU) and M.Sc in Marine Biology at University of La Laguna (ULL). He got Ph.D. degree at the University of Valencia (1996). Between 1997 and 1999 he was a Post-Doc fellow and Research Assistant at Oregon State University (USA). He currently works at the Institute of Aquaculture "Torre de la Sal" (IATS), of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). He is appointed Vice-director of the Institute and Director of the Fish Diagnostics Service. Along the scientific career, his activities have focused into the study of parasitic infections of fish, particularly on infections caused by protozoans and other microscopical endoparasites. The current research areas focus in diagnostics and identification of prophylactic and therapeutic targets for some of the major parasites affecting Spanish and European marine aquaculture. Since 2015 he is the diagnostics WP leader in Horizon 2020 -funded project ParaFishControl.
Dr. Ariadna Sitjà-Bobadilla is PhD in Biology by the University of Barcelona (Spain). She is the head of the Fish Pathology group at the Institute of Aquaculture Torre de la Sal, which belongs to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in Castellón (Spain). She has 30 years of research experience in aquaculture and has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. Her research focusses on marine parasites afecting farmed fish, mainly on fish immune response, pathology host-parasite relationships, and how they are modulated by dietary interventions and stress. She has a strong experience in EU projects, with continuous participation since 2000. She is currently the coordinator of the H2020 EU funded project ParaFishControl.
Senior Research Pathologist at the Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC) in Stavanger, Norway. DVM degree (1994) from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) He started his career as fish pathologist in the Fish Diagnostic Pathological Service of the UAB where he worked for seven years in fish pathological diagnosis and histopathology. In 2001 he joined Skretting Spain, where he worked as manager of the Fish Health Service, providing technical support to fish farmers in the Mediterranean Basin, and also as Speciality Feeds Product Manager, responsible of the functional and medicated feeds area. From 2012 to 2014 employed by Tassal Operations Ltd (Tasmania, Australia) as Senior Manager Fish Health. Since 2014 at Skretting ARC, providing diagnostics and health management advice to Operational Companies within Skretting, and also conducting fish health related research. His main research focus areas are the development of functional feeds for fish species and optimization of medicated feeds.
George Rigos is currently a Research Director in the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research. His MSc and PhD studies were carried out in the University of Guelph, Canada and University of Kingston, UK, respectively in the fields of Fish Pathology & Pharmacokinetics. He has long experience in fish pharmacology, various aspects of pathology and alternative therapeutic methods. George has been involved in research and consulting for more than 20 years undertaking as Institute scientific responsible EU projects and as coordinator, several National and industry-funded projects. He has participated centrally and remotely in the evaluation of EU projects and more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals are included in his scientific achievements.
Ivona defended her PhD thesis at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb in 2004, focusing on parasitic diseases in Mediterranean aquaculture fish species, such as sea bream, sea bass and the Atlantic bluefin tuna. She spent a year of her postdoc at the University of Stanford, CA as Fulbright scholar, focusing on the immune response of tuna to tissue trematodes. Since then she has been working in the Laboratory of Aquaculture, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split, Croatia, employing different molecular and visual techniques to asses the host-parasite interaction in the marine environment. Her scientific focus in the past 7 years has been on the zoonotic nematode Anisakis spp., more specifically on its pathogenicity and immunomodulatory effect on the different types of hosts, including seroepidemiological studies in Croatian population at risk.
Bernardo Basurco, (M), PhD in Veterinary Science. He is, since 1995, the coordinator of training activities of IAMZ in the area of Fisheries and Aquaculture. Technical Coordinator of H2020 Project MedAID (Mediterranean Aquaculture Integrated Development). President of the Spanish Aquaculture Society (2015-2017) and member of the Board of the European Aquaculture Society (2000-2004).
Miguel Peribañez is Graduate and Doctor in Veterinary Sciences by the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Currently he is Tenured Lecturer at the Veterinary Faculty of the Universidad de Zaragoza (Department of Animal Pathology) and teaches in the subjects of Parasitology, Fish Diseases and Exotic Pet Diseases. For more than 30 years his research activity has been focused on the pathology, diagnosis and prevention of parasitic diseases, especially in the fields of metaxenic diseases, fish diseases and aquatic invasive species.
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