Professor Amaya Albalat

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Institute of Aquaculture Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Amaya Albalat

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About me

I am a fish and crustacean physiologist. My research interests are focused in three main areas:

1) A better understanding on how fishing and aquaculture practices impact the physiology of fish and decapod crustaceans from a health and welfare perspective.

2) Development of new strategies and processing methods to ensure fish and crustacean quality is maintained throughout the food chain. This is a topic that aims at linking animal's physiological condition when alive (linked to animal welfare), the conditions around how animals are harvested (peri-slaughter stress) and the effects that all these processes have on seafood quality. Currently, working on a number of projects aimed at optimising harvesting and stunning protocols for decapod species.

3) And finally, expand the approaches we use for assessing physiological changes by proteomic profiling. This approach can then be used to map out, for example, early responses to infection or stress mechanisms in aquatic organisms.