Coordinatore | GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: VASAPARKEN contact info |
Nazionalità Coordinatore | Sweden [SE] |
Sito del progetto | http://www.lifecycle-fp7.eu/ |
Totale costo | 8˙753˙000 € |
EC contributo | 5˙995˙801 € |
Programma | FP7-KBBE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology |
Code Call | FP7-KBBE-2007-2A |
Funding Scheme | CP-IP |
Anno di inizio | 2009 |
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-02-01 - 2013-07-31 |
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1 |
GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: VASAPARKEN contact info |
SE (GOETEBORG) | coordinator | 994˙546.00 |
2 |
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE
Organization address
address: Rue De L'Universite 147 contact info |
FR (PARIS CEDEX 07) | participant | 800˙611.00 |
3 |
HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET
Organization address
address: NORDNESGATEN 50 contact info |
NO (BERGEN) | participant | 582˙645.00 |
4 |
UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Organization address
address: Heidelberglaan 8 contact info |
NL (UTRECHT) | participant | 422˙180.00 |
5 |
UNIVERSITE DE RENNES I
Organization address
address: RUE DU THABOR 2 contact info |
FR (RENNES CEDEX) | participant | 407˙627.00 |
6 |
UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN
Organization address
address: Museplassen 1 contact info |
NO (BERGEN) | participant | 406˙620.00 |
7 |
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Organization address
address: CALLE SERRANO 117 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 406˙241.00 |
8 |
THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
Organization address
address: NORTH STREET 66 COLLEGE GATE contact info |
UK (ST ANDREWS FIFE) | participant | 399˙999.60 |
9 |
THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Organization address
address: KING'S COLLEGE REGENT WALK contact info |
UK (ABERDEEN) | participant | 393˙505.60 |
10 |
CENTRO DE CIENCIAS DO MAR DO ALGARVE
Organization address
address: UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE contact info |
PT (FARO) | participant | 366˙303.60 |
11 |
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
Organization address
address: GRAN VIA DE LES CORTS CATALANES 585 contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | participant | 299˙947.20 |
12 |
MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.
Organization address
address: Hofgartenstrasse 8 contact info |
DE (MUENCHEN) | participant | 270˙000.00 |
13 |
INSTITUT DE RECERCA I TECNOLOGIA AGROALIMENTARIES.
Organization address
address: Passeig de Gracia, 44 3 planta contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | participant | 187˙000.50 |
14 |
FISKEY HF
Organization address
address: HJALTEYRI contact info |
IS (AKUREYRI) | participant | 58˙574.50 |
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'LIFECYCLE (14 partners, 9 countries) will deliver a knowledge-base to improve competitiveness and sustainability of European aquaculture, through a combination of question-problem driven approaches. The focus will be on early developmental events, growth and environmental adaptation throughout the lifecyle, and on the physiology and immunology of key life-stage transitions, such as metamorphosis, smoltification and puberty. To advance current knowledge on mechanisms governing essential biological functions in fish, state-of-the-art physiological research will be combined with functional genomics by leading European research groups. LIFECYCLE will focus on all major life stages of sea bass, sea bream, Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout. For these important aquaculture species, substantial resources and biological information exists which will be exploited and integrated to potentiate the overall impact. Two key conceptual approaches will be taken: 1. Changes in physiological systems at different points during the lifecycle will be studied to establish how early factors impact on later stages. 2. Cross-cutting experiments will address integration and crosstalk between physiological systems. LIFECYCLE is planned to direct research at current production bottlenecks. The knowledge generated about development and growth, adaptation and homeostasis, the immune system, sex differentiation and puberty will have a major impact on alleviating problems linked to abnormal larval development, skeletal deformities, poor growth and energy utilization, mortalities related to life stage transitions, poor environmental performance, and unwanted sexual maturation. The focused dissemination of such knowledge will make the EU aquaculture industry more efficient and stimulate its sustainable expansion. The knowledge-base established will pave way for future advances within fields of stress and disease control, breeding selection, environmental performance and species diversification.'
Central to European aquaculture is a thorough understanding of fish life cycles. Using the best available technologies, researchers have begun a monumental fact-finding mission to strengthen and sustain the industry.
Some of the top research groups in France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom have come together, through EU funding, to form the LIFECYCLE consortium. Their focus is on all major life stages of sea bass, sea bream, Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout, all prevalent in the European aquaculture industry.
A long list of discoveries relating to immune function, growth, sexual development and reproduction has already been achieved by this massive collaborative project. Several advancements were made in the characterisation of genes, hormone receptors and cellular transport proteins. The team is also using state-of-the-art technology to uncover skin, head, and muscle- and tissue-specific gene networks that are activated or repressed during normal metamorphosis.
Research is ongoing but LIFECYCLE results are set to boost the EU aquaculture industry in terms of efficiency, competitiveness and sustainability. It will also provide a foundation for future advances within the fields of stress and disease control, breeding selection, environmental performance and species diversification.
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