Nick Robinson

Dr Robinson is also South-East Asia-Pacific contact at Nofima and Melbourne Enterprise Fellow in Aquaculture with the University of Melbourne. He has worked for 18 years with Nofima, focusing on the application of genomic technologies for the genetic improvement of aquatic species.

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.