EAFP2021

Keynote Speakers

Michalis Pavlidis

Michalis Pavlidis, Biologist, is a Professor of “Biology-Physiology of Marine Organisms” at the Department of Biology, University of Crete, Greece. His current research is focusing on the molecular, neuro-endocrine and environmental interactions involved in the regulation of the stress response, in relation to individual differences in coping strategies, and on the development of non-invasive reliable welfare indicators in fish species. He has participated, as coordinator or principal investigator, in more than 30 European, bilateral and National RTD projects and networks and has more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Co-editor of the books “The Welfare of Fish” (Springer, 2020) and “Sparidae: Biology and aquaculture of gilthead sea bream and other species” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). Co-author of the HAPO study “Mediterranean Fish Welfare: Guide to good practices and assessment indicators” (2019). He coordinates the Erasmus Plus Joint Master Degree in “Aquaculture, Environment and Society”. He also coordinates the annual FELASA Accredited Course “Care and use of laboratory animals: mice, rats and zebrafish”. National Representative at the SCAR (Standing Committee on Agricultural Research) Fish Strategic Working Group (March 2017-today). Since September 2020, vice rector of Research and Development at the University of Crete.

Grant Stentiford

Grant is Healthy Seafood Theme lead at Cefas, Head of the OIE Collaborating Centre for Emerging Aquatic Animal Diseases and, co-Director of the Sustainable Aquaculture Futures Centre at the University of Exeter, UK. He was Director of the European Union Reference Laboratory (EURL) for Crustacean Diseases on behalf of DG SANCO of the European Commission between 2008 and 2018 and Science lead for Aquatic Animal Health at Cefas from 2016 to 2019. He has a BSc (first class) in Life Sciences from the University of Nottingham, UK (1993-1997) and a PhD in invertebrate pathology from the University of Glasgow (1997-2000). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Pathology in 2014 and a fellow of the Linnean Society in 2016. His work focuses on the identification and impact of aquatic animal diseases in farmed and wild environments. He has led the development of the One Health Aquaculture concept within Cefas, working with a diverse array of specialists in aquatic animal and human health hazards to build the concept into current UK and overseas programme work. He tweets on One Health Aquaculture at: @grantstentiford

Hynek Mazanec

Hynek Mazanec is a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences & University of South Bohemia. He started his Ph.D. in 2018 with a focus on extracellular vesicles (EVs) of parasitic helminths and the establishment of their life cycles in laboratory conditions. Together with his colleagues, he is trying to elucidate the role of EVs during the ontogeny of fish and mammalian helminths and their possible interplay with the surrounding host environment. Furthermore, through a combination of ultrastructural and proteomic studies he is exploring the mechanisms of biogenesis of EVs in helminths and their similarity to EVs of their hosts.

Ryan Carnegie

Ryan Carnegie is a marine biologist and a Research Professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, in Virginia, USA. He received his PhD from the University of Maine, USA, in 2000, and after postdoctoral appointments at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, and the Medical University of South Carolina, USA, began working at VIMS in 2002. Carnegie's research focuses on the diversity and distributions of marine pathogens, the evolutionary ecology of infectious diseases, and the management of aquatic animal health in the context of fisheries, aquaculture, and shellfish restoration. He is widely engaged in aquatic animal health science and management internationally, including in his work as a reference expert for haplosporidiosis and perkinsosis within the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and on the ICES Working Group on Pathology and Diseases of Marine Organisms.