Nick Robinson

Dr Robinson is also South-East Asia-Pacific contact at Nofima and a professor in aquaculture genetics at Deakin University. His work for Nofima, focuses on the application of genomic technologies for the genetic improvement of aquatic species.

What coho salmon can teach us about resistance to sea lice

Parasites Sea lice Salmonids

13 June 2025

September 2022

The Nofima notebook How are genetic technologies being applied to combat infectious diseases in aquaculture?

Genetics Genomics Atlantic Salmon

7 September 2022

A new paper argues that there’s an urgent need to improve understanding of the genetic mechanisms involved in host resistance to whitespot syndrome virus (WSSV) and sea lice – two of the greatest health challenges facing shrimp and salmon farming respectively.…

November 2020

The Nofima notebook A genetic solution for tackling white spot syndrome virus in shrimp

Viruses

25 November 2020

How genomic selection can rapidly increase the resistance of whiteleg shrimp to white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) – one of the most costly diseases in the global shrimp farming sector.