Learn about new concepts in aquatic disease prevention and curative techniques

Get to know everything about sustainable strategies to handle aquatic health issues, in industry and research

Learn from the best and share knowledge with an international group of participants Join our international intensive three-month programme (Sept-Dec 2016), a combination of lectures, case studies, peer-to-peer teaching, wet lab experience and study visits!

Target audience: aquaculture farm managers, veterinarians or biologists active in the aquaculture business or research and aquaculturists active in higher education, policy making, outreach or dissemination.

• Ghent University residential professors: "Diseases in Aquaculture" by Prof. P. Bossier & Prof. A. Decostere; "Virology" by Prof. H. Nauwynck; "Microbial Community Management" by Dr. P. De Schryver and "Immunology" by Prof. D. Vanrompay
• Guest lectures by international authorities: Prof. Yoram Avnimelech (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Prof. Jorge Galindo-Villegas (University of Murcia) and Prof. Olav Vadstein (NTNU, Norway)

Organized by the UGent Aquaculture R&D consortium, coordinated by Faculty of Bioscience Engineering  (Lab Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center) at Ghent University, the home of ground-breaking developments in the fields of diseases in aquaculture, microbial community management, virology and immunology.

Interested? Find all information here and apply! Only 20 places!