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Poverty alleviation through prevention and future control of the two major socioeconomically-important pathogens in Asian aquaculture

  • Lead researchers:
    Professor Chris Hauton
  • Research funder:
    Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
  • Status:
    Not active

Project overview

Our consortium of nine research institutes and universities in India, the UK and Bangladesh worked with farmers in India and Bangladesh to identify existing best practice.
Their experience was used to formulate new guidelines to disseminate throughout farming communities across Asia. This ultimately resulted in the development and launch of the Chingri mobile phone app – to support Bengali farmers in growing shrimp crops and identifying disease outbreaks pond side.
We also developed new understanding of host pathogen interactions, in the hope of developing novel intervention methods with which to tackle infection in the future.
Funding for this research was provided through the Newton Global Research Partnership in Aquaculture, representing the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) India, the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences and the Economic and Social Research Councils (BBSRC and ESRC), the Newton-Bhabha Fund and UK Aid.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Chris Hauton PhD, FRSB, FMBA

Head of School

Research interests

  • Hauton has worked extensively with colleagues in India and Bangladesh since 2015 and has developed an international profile in shrimp health research, including contributing to the development of a mobile phone app, the 'Chingri Shrimp App', to support shrimp farmer training in Bangladesh.
  • Research has also included quantifying the potential toxic risk of deep sea mining of mineral resources. He was part of the leading team of the EC FP7 MIDAS Project, exploring the ecological risk of deep-sea mining, outputs from which led to contributions to the Royal Society Foresight Future of the Sea report (2016/17), to presentations at the UN International Seabed Authority in Jamaica, and expert contributions to the UN ISA ISA Legal and Technical Commision ISBA/27/C/11 'Guidelines for the establishment of baseline environmental data.'
  • Other activity
Connect with Chris

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Transcriptome analysis reveals immune pathways underlying resistance in the common carp Cyprinus carpio against the oomycete Aphanomyces invadans
Dev Kumar Verma, Luca Peruzza, Franziska Trusch, Manoj Kumar Yadav, Ravindra, Sergei V. Shubin, Kenton L. Morgan, Vindhya Mohindra, Chris Hauton, Pieter Van West, P.K. Pradhan & Neeraj Sood, 2021, Genomics, 113(Issue 1, Part 2), 944-956
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.10.028
Type: article
Molecular insights into the mechanisms of susceptibility of Labeo rohita against oomycete Aphanomyces invadans
P. K. Pradhan, Dev Kumar Verma, Luca Peruzza, Shubham Gupta, Syed Assim Haq, Sergei V. Shubin, Kenton L. Morgan, Franziska Trusch, Vindhya Mohindra, Chris Hauton, Pieter Van West & Neeraj Sood, 2020, Scientific Reports, 10(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76278-w
Type: article
Silencing of prophenoloxidase (proPO) gene in freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, makes them susceptible to white spot syndrome virus (WSSV)
S. Thamizhvanan, A. Nafeez Ahmed, D. Vinoth Kumar, S. Vimal, S. Abdul Majeed, G. Taju, Chris Hauton & A.S. Sahul Hameed, 2020, Journal of Fish Diseases, 44(5), 573-584
DOI: 10.1111/jfd.13297
Type: article
A comparative synthesis of transcriptomic analyses reveals major differences between WSSV-susceptible Litopenaeus vannamei and WSSV-refractory Macrobrachium rosenbergii
L. Peruzza, S. Thamizhvanan, S. Vimal, K. Vinaya Kumar, M.s. Shekhar, V.j. Smith, C. Hauton, K.k. Vijayan & A.s. Sahul Hameed, 2020, Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 104
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2019.103564
Type: article
Comparative analysis of shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) miRNAs expression profiles during WSSV infection under experimental conditions and in pond culture
M. S. Shekhar, K. Karthic, K. Vinaya Kumar, J. Ashok Kumar, A. Swathi, C. Hauton, L. Peruzza & K.K. Vijayan, 2019, Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 93, 288-295
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2019.07.057
Type: article