Peter Bossier

PARTNER

The Lab of Aquaculture & Artemia reference Center has a long tradition in larviculture of commercially important aquatic organisms. The lab was a pioneer in developing Artemia into an efficient first feed in larviculture. Since 2000 an additional scientific focus has been introduced in the lab. In larviculture of aquatic organisms detrimental host microbial interaction are common and are responsible for large economic losses. The research has been focusing on the development of methods that could steer the microbial community composition and activity without making use of antibiotics. This has resulted in more than 190 international publications since 2002. At the personal level Peter Bossier has experience in research in microbial ecology, yeast molecular genetics and host microbial interaction in aquatic larviculture. The research on host microbial interactions has been based on the development of gnotobiotic models. In the last 15 years, gnotobiotic models for Artemia, sea bass and tilapia have been developed. The 15 years of experience with the gnotobiotic Artemia model, called GART, will be essential to this project. This approach has proven to be extremely useful to avoid experimental interference of the standing microbial community and has facilitated the unequivocal interpretation of results of experiments in host microbial interaction

Email: peter.bossier@ugent.be