🌊 Interested in shellfish health & food safety? 🦪 Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute! Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊 With fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas 📍Edinburgh 👉 https://t.co/PAbj4eZSYT

👀Hot on the heels of #FoodSecurity, Monday's @10Things_ToKnow About looks at what we'll be eating more of in the future, including the fantastic seafood that's right on our doorstep! 😋🦐🐟🦪🇮🇪 #10thingstoknowabout #feedingthefuture #mussels 📺Monday 25th Nov, 8.30pm @RTEOne

New preprint on Kumamoto oyster (C. sikamea) genomics🦪🧬 https://t.co/7HNaWMA1aq They show how transposable elements (TEs) may drive haplotype diversity, enabling rapid adaptations. More evidence for genome diversity’s role in bivalve resilience #genomics #bivalve #aquaculture

🐚 We loved connecting with so many ambitious young pros from the #shellfish sector at #ASSG! 🎉 Huge welcome to those who joined our growing YAS shoal 🦪 Excited to support your journey and build the future of #aquaculture together. Check out our new members at the YAS social ⬇️

YAS had a fantastic time at the #ASSG conference in Oban! Our reps @BivalveRapunzel, @AmbreChap, and @RhiannaRees explored the latest in #shellfish, networked with industry leaders, and enjoyed a great seafood social.🦪 Blog coming soon! #ScottishShellfish #ECR #Aquaculture

7/7 By enabling fast, farm-side Bonamia detection, we’re helping boost oyster health and sustainability for restoration efforts, aquaculture and beyond. #Preprint #Aquaculture #OysterHealth #Bonamia

6/7 Funded by @SeafoodFund, SAIC, @BBSRC , and @TheGlenmorangie’s DEEP project. UK Seafood Innovation Fund supports new ideas to deliver cutting-edge technology & innovation to UK fishing, aquaculture and seafood industries. Administered by @CefasGovUK on behalf of @DefraGovUK

5/7 We also have a video of the protocol here ⬇️ 🔗 https://t.co/VC7gEkw0QR

4/7 What’s great about this approach? We skip the dissection and only need a few DNA extractions, making it possible to test hundreds of oysters right at the farm. Want to see the process in action? Check out this animation:

3/7 Our method built on our observation that Bonamia DNA was found abundantly in the faeces (or pseudofaeces) of infected oysters. Just a brief quarantine in a seawater tank, and we have ideal PCR material! 🦪🧬🧪📊

2/7 A few years back, native oyster enthusiasts highlighted a big challenge: existing diagnostics for the highly destructive Bonamia parasite were time-consuming, costly and involved sacrificing many oysters. So we set out to change that..

1/7🌊🦪 New preprint alert! 🦪🌊 We’ve developed a quick, reliable method to detect Bonamia in native oysters – no dissection required! Dive into the details here ➡️ https://t.co/0PwVaenuw4 @beatnim @j_nschulze @roslininstitute

"Laboratory Replication of Ostreid Herpes Virus (OsHV-1) Using Pacific Oyster Tissue Explants" https://t.co/ldBOlmvrVW @rwap5 @roslininstitute @CefasGovUK

#Mussels are among the most sustainable & healthy forms of animal protein. Nice article on ways to boost mussel farming and clever innovations using byproducts like shells and byssal threads https://t.co/OG4liz0GnQ

Had a brilliant time at @roslininstitute's shellfish biotechnology workshop. It was great to see everyone, to meet some fantastic people and to get a huge inspirational boost! Thanks a million @beatnim @TimReganLab and Nick Wade for another great event :)

Final days to apply for the research assistent position in my group to work on host-microbe interactions in IBD. Closing deadline - 7th june @Pharmabiotic @UCCResearch #IBD #hiring

Nice presentation by Nicolas Beirne at @SeaUnicorn2020 #iMarCo2024 meeting in Montpellier, showing exciting results of blue mussel hybridisation and human-mediated interspecific introgression, vital work that @ExeterMarine’s @robedulis and @j_nschulze contributed to. 🦪🐚🌊🇫🇷🇬🇧🧑🏻‍🔬

Final warning... The last chance to register is Monday 27th May. Our jam packed programme includes graph genomes, functional annotations, novel diagnostics, cell culture, single cell sequeuncing, experimental evolution and genomics for breeding... https://t.co/aHdoHQ6YXh

Excited to share our recent work on annelid comparative genomics, led by @Tom_Lewin. Using @darwintreelife data, we assembled a dataset of 23 genomes and discovered lineage-specific chromosome scrambling. 1/3 https://t.co/WHxq4a3ZCZ