Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Professor Rod Wilson BSc, PhD

Professor Rod Wilson BSc, PhD

Professor of Integrative Animal Physiology

 r.w.wilson@exeter.ac.uk

 4652

 +44 (0) 1392 724652

 Geoffrey Pope 219

 

Geoffrey Pope Building, University of Exeter , Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK

Overview

I am a comparative physiologist and my research uses multi-disciplinary approaches, from transcriptomics to social behaviour to global modelling, to provide a more holistic understanding of how animals deal with environmental change, with a particular focus upon aquatic animals (fish and invertebrates). This includes studies of how variability both natural and anthropogenic (e.g. climate change, aquaculture, pollution) impacts upon physiology and behaviour, but also the reverse process - how animal physiology can influence the global environment, for example how marine fish affect ocean biogeochemical cyles. I am Academic Lead for the 15 academics and their teams within the Environmental Biology research theme in Biosciences.

Qualifications

1985-1989 PhD in Fish Physiology and Ecotoxicology, University of Birmingham
1982-1985 BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences, University of Birmingham

Career

2016-present Professor of Integrative Animal Physiology, Biosciences, CLES, University of Exeter

2009-2016 Associate Professor, Biosciences, CLES, University of Exeter

2000-2009 Senior Lecturer, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter

1993-1995 Wellcome Trust RA, School of Biosciences, University of Manchester

1990-1992 NSERC RA, Department of Biology, McMaster University, Canada

1989-1990 NERC RA, Department of Physiology, University of Birmingham

To help my university to address the declared climate and environment emergency I have committed to reduce my work based flights by at least 50% and I am working with my research group to reduce energy use in our offices and laboratories.

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Research

Research interests

My research area covers comparative and integrative physiology, specifically the mechanisms by which animals respond to environmental variation to maintain internal balance (homeostasis). In particular my focus is upon respiratory processes, ion, water and acid-base balance, waste excretion, and how the underlying mechanisms for each system are integrated with each other and with behaviour, and how they are disturbed under the influence of environmental deviations from the norm. I use fish and invertebrates as model organisms, and techniques ranging from molecular genetics to in vivo physiology, combined with behaviour in the lab and in the wild, and even modelling of how fish populations affect global biogeochemical cycles and ocean chemistry. My multi-disciplinary approach aims to provide a more holistic understanding of homeostasis in animals.

Research projects

My fundamental research centres on animal physiology, i.e. “how animals work”, from the molecular to the whole organism level, in aquatic animals, both fish and invertebrates. I study fundamental physiological processes because they are fascinating in themselves and tell us about how animals have evolved to thrive in very different, and often extreme, conditions. However, I also use this understanding of physiology to better understand environmental issues such as climate change, pollution, and global geochemical cylces, but also to help in optimising sustainable seafood production through aquaculture of fish and invertebrates (crustaceans, bivalves etc.), and even algae (seaweed and microalgae).  My current applied research can be roughtly divided into the following three areas.

1) The first area focuses upon how physiological processes and whole animal function are influenced by environmental change, often natural but also those linked to climate (temperature, CO2, O2, salinity) and anthropogenic contaminants (e.g. metals, nutrients, pharmaceuticals). This area is primarily funded through NERC, The Royal Society and AXA, and includes collaboration with Cefas, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Universities of Swansea, Strathclyde, Faro (Portugal), and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (San Diego, USA).  Papers on this topic include publications in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Biology Letters and Scientific Reports.

2) The second area aligns with BBSRC’s strategic priority on food security and sustainable agriculture, and sits centrally within our Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture Futures (SAF) which is a collaboration between Exeter and Cefas. This includes collaboration with industrial aquaculture partners (e.g. Skretting, Cargill, Biomar, Ridley Aqua-Feed, Ocean Matters Ltd., Mowi, Cooke Aquaculture, Scottish Sea Farms, Scottish Salmon Company, Grieg Seafood, the National Lobster Hatchery, FloGro Systems, 360 Aquaculture, Rastech etc.). I use novel approaches based on my fundamental physiology research programme, including gut digestive physiology, and how water chemistry in aquaculture settings impacts physiological performance, health and disease resistance of fish and invertebrates. This approach can be used to optimise conditions and improve the efficiency of converting animal feed into growth. This objective has the double advantage of simultaneously improving the sustainability of aquaculture and reducing its environmental impact. This research is equally applicable to marine and freshwater aquaculture. Several current BBSRC, EU and Royal Society funded projects involve collaboration with the Institute of Aquaculture at Stirling University, the University of Aberdeen, The Roslyn Institute (Edinburgh), The National Lobster Hatchery, the Yellowseas Fisheries Research Institute (China), and work on species such as Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, lumpfish, striped catfish (Pangasius), sea bass, sea bream, European lobster, spiny lobster, mussels, European lobster, Carribean spiny lobster and whiteleg shrimp (aka king prawn). In addition I have NC3Rs funding to investigate how water chemistry in the culture conditions of zebrafish (the 2nd most used vertebrate in research) influences their physiology, behaviour, and health and also the reproducibility of research studies. Papers on this topic include publications in journals such as Global Change Biology and Aquaculture. 

3) The third area turns around the viewpoint of animals being impacted by environmental change and instead examines how animals can influence the global environment, in this case fish playing a major role in the marine inorganic carbon cycle, carbonate sedimentology and the regulation of surface ocean chemistry (with papers in Science, PNAS, Limnology & Oceanography, and government policy-briefing reports for the IUCN, and funded largely by NERC). This work has major implications for our understanding of the factors regulating surface ocean chemistry and the absorption of atmospheric CO2, as well as for geology and the use of marine carbonates as proxies of paleo-climates. Several projects are producing outputs that will be used to re-evaluate carbon cycle models for the global oceans. This research area involves collaboration with multiple UK and international partners - UK (UEA, NOC-Southampton, Cefas), Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Gran Canaria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, USA.

Research networks

International collaborators

Dr. Garfield Kwan (Delta Science Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Davis, USA)

Dr. Martin Tresguerres (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, USA)

Dr. Cosima Porteus (Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada)

Prof. Craig Franklin (School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia)

Prof. Andrew Barnes (School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia)

Dr. Grace Saba (Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, USA)

Dr Xie Guosi (Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Qingdao, China)

Dr. Al Harborne (Florida International University, Miami, USA)

Dr. Mauricio Urbina (University of Concepcion, Chile)

Dr Jim Barry (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, California, USA)

Dr Jonathan Wilson (CIIMAR, Porto, Portugal)

Prof. Colin Brauner (Dept. Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)

Dr. Jeff Richards (Dept. Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)

Dr Menachem Goren (University of Tel-Aviv, Israel)

Dr Martin Grosell (Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. of Miami, Florida, USA)

Prof. Frank Millero (Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. of Miami, Florida, USA)

Prof. Rick Gonzalez (University of San Diego, California, USA)

Dr. Lei Chou (Univ. of Brussels, Belgium)

National collaborators

Prof. Callum Roberts (Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Universit of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall)

Prof. Simon MacKenzie (University of Stirling)

Prof. Steve Simpson (University of Bristol)

Dr. John Wilkinson (University of York)

Dr. Silvia Birchenough (Cefas, Weymouth)

Dr. Georg Engelhard (Cefas, Weymouth)

Prof. Pieter van West (University of Aberdeen)

Prof. Brett Glencross (University of Stirling)

Prof. Herve Migaud (University of Stirling)

Prof. Andrew Cossins (University of Liverpool)

Prof.  Simon Jennings (Cefas, Lowestoft)

Dr Stewart Owen (Astra Zeneca, Alderly Edge)

Prof. Chris Perry (Geography, University of Exeter)

Prof. Andy Watson FRS (Geography, University of Exeter)

Dr. Paul Halloran (Geography, Exeter)

Research grants

  • 2022 BBSRC Project Grant
    Transformational blueprint for a blue economy on UK terrestrial farms: integrating sustainable shrimp production in a changing agricultural landscape
  • 2022 Natural Environment Research Council
    Fish gut carbonates and the control of ocean alkalinity
  • 2021 Disney Conservation Fund
    Spiny Lobster-Community Driven Conservation
  • 2020 NERC
    Impact of CO2 and salinity in aquaculture on physiology, growth and health of coho salmon
  • 2020 The Royal Society
    Fish brains, otoliths, and their problems in a high CO2 world
  • 2019 BBSRC
    ProtoNutrition, Robustness, Oxygen and Omega-3 in Salmon (ProtoROOS)
  • 2018 National Centre for the Replacement Refinement
    The role of water chemistry in zebrafish welfare and reproducibility of research studies
  • 2018 BBSRC
    ROBUST-SMOLT: Impact of early life history in freshwater recirculation aquaculture systems on salmon robustness and susceptibility to disease at sea
  • 2018 BBSRC
    AquaLeap: Innovation in Genetics and Breeding to Advance UK Aquaculture Production
  • 2017 Leverhulme Trust
    Predicting the significance of fish carbonates to the marine carbonate cycle
  • 2016 BBSRC
    Optimising ammonia to improve sustainability in highly buffered recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)
  • 2015 BBSRC
    Using physiology to optimise water quality and the sustainability of intensive recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)
  • 2013 NERC
    UKOARP AVA Scheme C: To broadcast or brood; the impact of reproduction strategy on sensitivity to ocean acidification
  • 2013 NERC
    Carbonate sediment production by marine fish: quantifying production across carbonate provinces and applications to global marine carbonate modelling
  • 2012 NERC
    UKOARP AVA Scheme B: Impacts of OA on vertical flux of fish-derived carbonates
  • 2012 BBSRC
    Using integrative acid-base physiology to improve the efficiency and sustainability of fish production
  • 2012 Skretting Fish Feeds
    Using integrative acid-base physiology to improve the efficiency and sustainability of fish production (Industrial Partnership Award)
  • 2011 NERC
    Fish Carbonates - Their dissolution potential under elevated hydrostatic pressure
  • 2011 NERC
    SD4: Improved understanding of population, community and ecosystem impacts of ocean acidification for commercially important species
  • 2010 NERC
    Fish carbonates - their nature and fate within the marine inorganic carbon cycle
  • 2009 NERC
    The production and fate of fish-derived carbonate crystals in tropical shallow marine environments
  • 2009 BBSRC ISIS
    Evolutionary lessons from the physiology of teleosts fish in a 'Cretaceous' Sea
  • 2007 BBSRC
    Novel driving forces for water transport & osmoregulation: carbonate precipitation and osmotic coefficients
  • 2007 BBSRC
    Effects of pressure on gut carbonate precipitation in deep-sea teleost fish
  • 2005 BBSRC
    Novel integration of gas exchange, osmotic and acid-base regulation in hyper-salinities
  • 2004 NERC
    Osmoregulation in non-indigenous fish species - potential for invasion via estuaries
  • 2003 The Environment Agency
    Dartmoor acid rivers - water chemistry & salmonid populations
  • 2003 The Royal Society
    Novel mechanism of water transport in marine fish intestine.

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Publications

Journal articles

Yarlett R, Perry C, Wilson RW (In Press). Quantifying production rates and size fractions of parrotfish-derived sediment: a key functional role on Maldivian coral reefs. Ecology and Evolution
Salter MA, Perry CT, Stuart-Smith R, Edgar GJ, Wilson RW, Harborne AR (In Press). Reef fish carbonate production assessments highlight regional variation in sedimentary significance. Geology
Glencross BD, Berry A, Clokie B, Hevroy E, Huyben D, Martinez-Rubio L, Mathew CA, Munoz P, MacKenzie S, Wilson RW, et al (2024). Isolation of intake mediated effects demonstrate that the phenomic benefits of dietary omega-3 are nominal to Atlantic salmon when reared in a challenging (hypoxic) environment. Aquaculture, 581 Abstract.
Goodrich HR, Wood CM, Wilson RW, Clark TD, Last KB, Wang T (2024). Specific dynamic action: the energy cost of digestion or growth?. J Exp Biol, 227(7). Abstract.  Author URL.
Davison WG, Cooper CA, Sloman KA, Wilson RW (2023). A method for measuring meaningful physiological variables in fish blood without surgical cannulation. Sci Rep, 13(1). Abstract.  Author URL.
Ghilardi M, Salter MA, Parravicini V, Ferse SCA, Rixen T, Wild C, Birkicht M, Perry CT, Berry A, Wilson RW, et al (2023). Temperature, species identity and morphological traits predict carbonate excretion and mineralogy in tropical reef fishes. Nature Communications, 14(1). Abstract.
Goodrich HR, Wilson RW, Smullen R, Barnes AC, Franklin CE (2022). Acidified fish feeds reduce the energetic and physiological costs of digestion in juvenile barramundi (Lates calcarifer). Aquaculture, 546 Abstract.
Verberk WCEP, Sandker JF, van de Pol ILE, Urbina MA, Wilson RW, McKenzie DJ, Leiva FP (2022). Body mass and cell size shape the tolerance of fishes to low oxygen in a temperature-dependent manner. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 28(19), 5695-5707.  Author URL.
Goodrich HR, Berry AA, Montgomery DW, Davison WG, Wilson RW (2022). Fish feeds supplemented with calcium-based buffering minerals decrease stomach acidity, increase the blood alkaline tide and cost more to digest. Sci Rep, 12(1). Abstract.  Author URL.
Schvezov N, Wilson RW, Urbina MA (2022). Oxidative damages and antioxidant defences after feeding a single meal in rainbow trout. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology, 192(3-4), 459-471. Abstract.
Montgomery DW, Kwan GT, Davison WG, Finlay J, Berry A, Simpson SD, Engelhard GH, Birchenough SNR, Tresguerres M, Wilson RW, et al (2022). Rapid blood acid-base regulation by European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in response to sudden exposure to high environmental CO2. J Exp Biol, 225(2). Abstract.  Author URL.
Pinheiro JPS, Windsor FM, Wilson RW, Tyler CR (2021). Global variation in freshwater physico-chemistry and its influence on chemical toxicity in aquatic wildlife. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, 96(4), 1528-1546. Abstract.  Author URL.
Salmerón C, Harter TS, Kwan GT, Roa JN, Blair SD, Rummer JL, Shiels HA, Goss GG, Wilson RW, Tresguerres M, et al (2021). Molecular and biochemical characterization of the bicarbonate-sensing soluble adenylyl cyclase from a bony fish, the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. Interface Focus, 11(2). Abstract.
Saba GK, Burd AB, Dunne JP, Hernández-León S, Martin AH, Rose KA, Salisbury J, Steinberg DK, Trueman CN, Wilson RW, et al (2021). Toward a better understanding of fish-based contribution to ocean carbon flux. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(5), 1639-1664. Abstract.
Wilson-McNeal A, Hird C, Hobbs C, Nielson C, Smith KE, Wilson RW, Lewis C (2020). Fluctuating seawater pCO2/pH induces opposing interactions with copper toxicity for two intertidal invertebrates. Sci Total Environ, 748 Abstract.  Author URL.
Yarlett RT, Perry CT, Wilson RW, Harborne AR (2020). Inter-Habitat Variability in Parrotfish Bioerosion Rates and Grazing Pressure on an Indian Ocean Reef Platform. Diversity, 12(10), 381-381. Abstract.
Wilson RW (2020). The effects of CO<sub>2</sub> and related water chemistry on fish: climate change vs. aquaculture. BULLETIN OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF FISH PATHOLOGISTS, 40(2), 49-54.  Author URL.
Mangan S, Wilson R, Findlay H, Lewis CN (2019). Acid–base physiology over tidal periods in the mussel Mytilus edulis: size and temperature are more influential than seawater pH. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286
Montgomery DW, Simpson SD, Engelhard GH, Birchenough SNR, Wilson RW (2019). Rising CO2 enhances hypoxia tolerance in a marine fish. Scientific Reports, 9(1). Abstract.
Fitzgerald JA, Urbina MG, Rogers NJ, Bury NR, Katsiadaki I, Wilson RW, Santos EM (2019). Sublethal exposure to copper supresses the ability to acclimate to hypoxia in a model fish species. Aquatic Toxicology, 217 Abstract.
Yarlett RT, Perry CT, Wilson RW, Philpot KE (2018). Constraining species-size class variability in rates of parrotfish bioerosion on Maldivian coral reefs: implications for regional-scale bioerosion estimates. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 590, 155-169. Abstract.
Porteus CS, Hubbard PC, Uren Webster TM, van Aerle R, Canário AVM, Santos EM, Wilson RW (2018). Near-future CO<inf>2</inf> levels impair the olfactory system of a marine fish. Nature Climate Change, 8(8), 737-743. Abstract.
Ellis RP, Davison W, Queirós AM, Kroeker KJ, Calosi P, Dupont S, Spicer JI, Wilson RW, Widdicombe S, Urbina MA, et al (2017). Does sex really matter? Explaining intraspecies variation in ocean acidification responses. Biol Lett, 13(2). Abstract.  Author URL.
Mangan S, Urbina MA, Findlay HS, Wilson RW, Lewis C (2017). Fluctuating seawater pH/pCO2 regimes are more energetically expensive than static pH/pCO2 levels in the mussel Mytilus edulis. Proc Biol Sci, 284(1865). Abstract.  Author URL.
Ellis RP, Urbina MA, Wilson RW (2017). Lessons from two high CO2 worlds - future oceans and intensive aquaculture. Glob Chang Biol, 23(6), 2141-2148. Abstract.  Author URL.
Roberts CM, O'Leary BC, McCauley DJ, Cury PM, Duarte CM, Lubchenco J, Pauly D, Sáenz-Arroyo A, Sumaila UR, Wilson RW, et al (2017). Marine reserves can mitigate and promote adaptation to climate change. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 114(24), 6167-6175. Abstract.  Author URL.
Rogers NJ, Urbina MA, Reardon EE, McKenzie DJ, Wilson RW (2016). A new analysis of hypoxia tolerance in fishes using a database of critical oxygen level (P crit). Conserv Physiol, 4(1). Abstract.  Author URL.
McKenzie DJ, Axelsson M, Chabot D, Claireaux G, Cooke SJ, Corner RA, De Boeck G, Domenici P, Guerreiro PM, Hamer B, et al (2016). Conservation physiology of marine fishes: state of the art and prospects for policy. Conserv Physiol, 4(1). Abstract.  Author URL.
Middlemiss KL, Urbina MA, Wilson RW (2016). Effects of seawater alkalinity on calcium and acid-base regulation in juvenile European lobster (Homarus gammarus) during a moult cycle. Comp Biochem Physiol a Mol Integr Physiol, 193, 22-28. Abstract.  Author URL.
Whittamore JM, Genz J, Grosell M, Wilson RW (2016). Measuring intestinal fluid transport in vitro: Gravimetric method versus non-absorbable marker. Comp Biochem Physiol a Mol Integr Physiol, 194, 27-36. Abstract.  Author URL.
Eaton L, Sloman KA, Wilson RW, Gill AB, Harborne AR (2016). Non-consumptive effects of native and invasive predators on juvenile Caribbean parrotfish. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 99(5), 499-508. Abstract.
Lewis C, Ellis RP, Vernon E, Elliot K, Newbatt S, Wilson RW (2016). Ocean acidification increases copper toxicity differentially in two key marine invertebrates with distinct acid-base responses. Sci Rep, 6 Abstract.  Author URL.
Salter MA, Harborne AR, Perry CT, Wilson RW (2016). Phase heterogeneity in carbonate production by marine fish influences their roles in sediment generation and the inorganic carbon cycle. Scientific Reports
Middlemiss KL, Daniels CL, Urbina MA, Wilson RW (2015). Combined effects of UV irradiation, ozonation, and the probiotic Bacillus spp. on growth, survival, and general fitness in European lobster (Homarus gammarus). Aquaculture, 444, 99-107. Abstract.
Daniels CL, Wills B, Ruiz-Perez M, Miles E, Wilson RW, Boothroyd D (2015). Development of sea based container culture for rearing European lobster (Homarus gammarus) around South West England. Aquaculture, 448, 186-195. Abstract.
Middlemiss KL, Urbina MA, Wilson RW (2015). Microbial proliferation on gill structures of juvenile European lobster (Homarus gammarus) during a moult cycle. Helgoland Marine Research, 69(4), 401-410. Abstract.
Schmitz OJ, Raymond PA, Estes JA, Kurz WA, Holtgrieve GW, Ritchie ME, Schindler DE, Spivak AC, Wilson RW, Bradford MA, et al (2014). Animating the Carbon Cycle. ECOSYSTEMS, 17(2), 344-359.  Author URL.
Pope EC, Ellis RP, Scolamacchia M, Scolding JWS, Keay A, Chingombe P, Shields RJ, Wilcox R, Speirs DC, Wilson RW, et al (2014). European sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, in a changing ocean. Biogeosciences, 11(9), 2519-2530. Abstract.
Cooper CA, Regan MD, Brauner CJ, De Bastos ESR, Wilson RW (2014). Osmoregulatory bicarbonate secretion exploits H+-sensitive haemoglobins to autoregulate intestinal O2 delivery in euryhaline teleosts. Journal of Comparative Physiology B Abstract.
Cooper CA, Regan MD, Brauner CJ, De Bastos ESR, Wilson RW (2014). Osmoregulatory bicarbonate secretion exploits H<sup>+</sup>-sensitive haemoglobins to autoregulate intestinal O<inf>2</inf> delivery in euryhaline teleosts. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology, 184(7), 865-876. Abstract.
Salter MA, Perry CT, Wilson RW (2014). Size fraction analysis of fish-derived carbonates in shallow sub-tropical marine environments and a potentially unrecognised origin for peloidal carbonates. Sedimentary Geology, 314, 17-30. Abstract.
Schmitz OJ, Raymond PA, Estes JA, Kurz WA, Holtgrieve GW, Ritchie ME, Schindler DE, Spivak AC, Wilson RW, Bradford MA, et al (2013). Animating the Carbon Cycle. Ecosystems, 1-16.
Pope EC, Ellis RP, Scolamacchia M, Scolding JWS, Keay A, Chingombe P, Shields RJ, Wilcox R, Speirs DC, Wilson RW, et al (2013). Is the perceived resiliency of fish larvae to ocean acidification masking more subtle effects?. Abstract.
Wilkes L, Owen SF, Readman GD, Sloman KA, Wilson RW (2012). Does structural enrichment for toxicology studies improve zebrafish welfare?. Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Wilkes L, Owen SF, Readman GD, Sloman KA, Wilson RW (2012). Does structural enrichment for toxicology studies improve zebrafish welfare?. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 139(1-2), 143-150. Abstract.
Salter MA, Perry CT, Wilson RW (2012). Production of mud-grade carbonates by marine fish: Crystalline products and their sedimentary significance. Sedimentology
Al-Jandal NJ, Wilson RW (2011). A comparison of osmoregulatory responses in plasma and tissues of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) following acute salinity challenges. Comp Biochem Physiol a Mol Integr Physiol, 159(2), 175-181. Abstract.  Author URL.
Wilson RW, Reardon EE, Perry CT (2011). A fishy tale: a missing part of the inorganic ocean carbon cycle. The Biochemist(June), 30-34.  Author URL.
Perry CT, Salter MA, Harborne AR, Crowley SF, Jelks HL, Wilson RW (2011). Fish as major carbonate mud producers and missing components of the tropical carbonate factory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 108(10), 3865-3869. Abstract.  Author URL.
Wilson RW (2011). Role of the gut. , 2, 1419-1428. Abstract.
Al-Jandal NJ, Whittamore JM, Santos EM, Wilson RW (2011). The influence of 17β-estradiol on intestinal calcium carbonate precipitation and osmoregulation in seawater-acclimated rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). J Exp Biol, 214(Pt 16), 2791-2798. Abstract.  Author URL.
Cooper CA, Whittamore JM, Wilson RW (2010). Ca2+-driven intestinal HCO(3)(-) secretion and CaCO3 precipitation in the European flounder in vivo: influences on acid-base regulation and blood gas transport. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 298(4), R870-R876. Abstract.  Author URL.
Whittamore JM, Cooper CA, Wilson RW (2010). HCO (3)(-) secretion and CaCO3 precipitation play major roles in intestinal water absorption in marine teleost fish in vivo. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 298(4), R877-R886. Abstract.  Author URL.
Saxby A, Adams L, Snellgrove D, Wilson RW, Sloman KA (2010). The effect of group size on the behaviour and welfare of four fish species commonly kept in home aquaria. Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Saxby A, Adams L, Snellgrove D, Wilson RW, Sloman KA (2010). The effect of group size on the behaviour and welfare of four fish species commonly kept in home aquaria. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 125(3-4), 195-205. Abstract.
Wilson RW, Millero FJ, Taylor JR, Walsh PJ, Christensen V, Jennings S, Grosell M (2009). Contribution of Fish to the Marine Inorganic Carbon Cycle. SCIENCE, 323(5912), 359-362.  Author URL.
Jennings S, Wilson RW (2009). Fishing impacts on the marine inorganic carbon cycle. Journal of Applied Ecology, 46(5), 976-982. Abstract.
Ghosh J, Wilson RW, Kudoh T (2009). Normal development of the tomato clownfish Amphiprion frenatus: live imaging and in situ hybridization analyses of mesodermal and neurectodermal development. J. Fish Biol., 75, 2287-2298. Abstract.
Sloman KA, Baker D, Winberg S, Wilson RW (2008). Are there physiological correlates of dominance in natural trout populations?. Animal Behaviour, 76(4), 1279-1287. Abstract.
Scott DM, Rabineau J, Wilson RW, Hodgson DJ, Brown JA (2008). Can pikeperch colonise new freshwater systems via estuaries? Evidence from behavioural salinity tests. Marine and Freshwater Research, 59(8), 694-702. Abstract.
Mélin, F. Blanchard, J.L. Forster, R.M. (2008). Global-scale predictions of community and ecosystem properties from simple ecological theory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275, 1375-1383.
Scott DM, Wilson RW, Brown JA (2007). Can sunbleak Leucaspius delineatus or topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva disperse through saline waters?. Journal of Fish Biology, 71(SUPPL. D), 70-86. Abstract.
Wilson, R.W. (2007). Post-prandial alkaline tide in freshwater teleost fish: Effects of meal anticipation on physiological recovery from acid-base and ion regulatory disturbances of feeding.<em>Proofs of this manuscript are available from Chris Cooper C.A.Cooper@ex.ac.uk</em>. Journal of Experimental Biology
Taylor JR, Whittamore JM, Wilson RW, Grosell M (2007). Postprandial acid-base balance and ion regulation in freshwater and seawater-acclimated European flounder, Platichthys flesus. J Comp Physiol B, 177(6), 597-608. Abstract.  Author URL.
Whittamore, J.M. Wilson, R.W. Grosell, M. (2007). Postprandial acid-base balance in freshwater and seawater-acclimated European flounder. Integrative & Comparative Biology, 45(6), 1081-1081.
Brown, J.A. Wilson, R.W. (2007). The osmoregulatory ability of the European invasive species sunbleak Leucaspius delineatus and topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva at elevated salinities, and their likely dispersal via brackish waters. Journal of Fish Biology, 70, 1606-1614.
Wilson, R.W. (2007). Three species of fish from an eutrophic, seasonally alkaline lake are not more tolerant to acute high pH exposure in the laboratory. Journal of Fish Biology, 70, 551-566.
Gonzalez, R.J. Wilson, R.W. (2005). A pharmacological examination of Na+ and Cl- transport in two species of freshwater fish. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 78(2), 259-272.
Grosell M, Wood CM, Wilson RW, Bury NR, Hogstrand C, Rankin C, Jensen FB (2005). Bicarbonate secretion plays a role in chloride and water absorption of the European flounder intestine. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 288(4 57-4). Abstract.
Wilson RW, Wilson JM, Grosell M (2005). Erratum: Intestinal bicarbonate secretion by marine teleost fish - Why and how? (Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Biomembranes (2002) 1566 (182-193) PII: S0005-2736(02)00600-4 and DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(02)00600-4). Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, 1712(2).
Wilson RW, Wilson JM, Grosell M (2005). Intestinal bicarbonate secretion by marine teleost fish - Why and how? (vol 1566, pg 182, 2002). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES, 1712(2), 222-222.  Author URL.
Lucas, M.L. Wilson, R.W. (2005). The effect of chronic exposure to high pH on the sodium balance, nitrogen excretion and behaviour of fish from a freshwater eutrophic lake: a laboratory and field study. Aquatic Toxicology, 73(1), 31-43.
Scott DM, Lucas MC, Wilson RW (2005). The effect of high pH on ion balance, nitrogen excretion and behaviour in freshwater fish from an eutrophic lake: a laboratory and field study. Aquat Toxicol, 73(1), 31-43. Abstract.  Author URL.
Gilmour KM, Wilson RW, Sloman KA (2005). The integration of behaviour into comparative physiology. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 78(5), 609-678. Abstract.
Wilson RW, Bury NR, Grosell M, Wood CM (2004). Bicarbonate secretion plays a role in chloride and water absorption of the European flounder intestine. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 288(4), R936-R946.
Wilson RW, Grosell M (2003). Intestinal bicarbonate secretion in marine teleost fish - source of bicarbonate, pH sensitivity, and consequences for whole animal acid-base and calcium homeostasis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 1618(2), 163-174.
Matsuo, A. YO, R.W. Wilson, R.J. (2003). Protection by natural blackwater against disturbances in ion fluxes caused by low pH exposure in freshwater stingrays endemic to the Rio Negro. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 76, 12-27.
Wood, C.M. Bury, N.R. Wilson, R.W. (2002). Binding and movement of Ag in the intestinal epithelium of a marine teleost fish, European flounder. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology, 133, 125-135.
Wilson, R.W. Wood, C.M. Patrick, M.L. (2002). Diverse strategies for ion regulation in fish collected from the ion-poor, acidic Rio Negro. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 75, 37-47.
Wilson RW, Grosell M, Wilson JM (2002). Intestinal bicarbonate secretion by marine teleost fish - why and how?. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 1566(1-2), 182-193.
Ferreira, R.L. Gonzalez, R.J. Wood, C.M. (2002). Ion regulatory patterns of mosquito larvae collected from breeding sites in the Amazon rain forest. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 75, 215-222.
Matsuo, A.Y.O. Gonzalez, R.J. (2002). Mechanisms of ion transport in Potamotrygon, a stenohaline freshwater elasmobranch native to the ion-poor blackwaters of the Rio Negro. Journal of Experimental Biology, 205(19), 3039-3054.
Lecklin, T. Busk, M. Bury, N.R. (2002). Physiological impact of salinity at organism and red blood cell levels in the European flounder (P. flesus). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 274, 159-174.
Jensen FB, Lecklin T, Busk M, Bury NR, Wilson RW, Wood CM, Grosell M (2002). Physiological impact of salinity increase at organism and red blood cell levels in the European flounder (Platichthys flesus). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 274(2), 159-174. Abstract.
Gonzalez, R.J. Wood, C.M. Wilson, R.W. (2002). The characterization of ion regulation in Amazonian mosquito larvae: Evidence of phenotypic plasticity, population-based disparity, and novel mechanisms of ion uptake. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 75, 223-236.
Wilson RW, Bury NR, Grosell M, Wood CM (2001). Intestinal iron uptake in the European flounder (Platichthys flesus). Journal of Experimental Biology, 204(21), 3779-3787.
Wilson, R.W. (2001). Patterns of ion regulation in acidophilic fish native to the ion-poor, acidic Rio Negro. Journal of Fish Biology, 58, 1680-1690.
Allin CJ, Wilson RW (2000). Effects of pre-acclimation to aluminium on the physiology and swimming behaviour of juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) during a pulsed exposure. Aquat Toxicol, 51(2), 213-224. Abstract.  Author URL.
Allin CJ, Wilson RW (1999). Behavioural and metabolic effects of chronic exposure to sublethal aluminum in acidic soft water in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 56(4), 670-678. Abstract.
Wilson RW, Wood CM, Gonzalez RJ, Patrick ML, Bergman HL, Narahara A, Val AL (1999). Ion and acid-base balance in three species of Amazonian fish during gradual acidification of extremely soft water. Physiol Biochem Zool, 72(3), 277-285. Abstract.  Author URL.
Gonzalez RJ, Wood CM, Wilson RW, Patrick ML, Bergman HL, Narahara A, Val AL (1998). Effects of water pH and calcium concentration on ion balance in fish of the Rio Negro, Amazon. Physiological Zoology, 71(1), 15-22. Abstract.
Wilson RW, Wareing M, Kibble J, Green R (1998). Potassium permeability in the absence of fluid reabsorption in proximal tubule of the anesthetized rat. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-RENAL PHYSIOLOGY, 274(6), F1109-F1112.  Author URL.
Wilson RW, Wareing M, Kibble J, Green R (1998). Potassium permeability in the absence of fluid reabsorption in proximal tubule of the anesthetized rat. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology, 274(6 43-6). Abstract.
Wood CM, Wilson RW, Gonzalez RJ, Patrick ML, Bergman HL, Narahara A, Val AL (1998). Responses of an Amazonian teleost, the tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), to low pH in extremely soft water. Physiological Zoology, 71(6), 658-670. Abstract.
Wilson RW, Wareing M, Green R (1997). The role of active transport in potassium reabsorption in the proximal convoluted tubule of the anaesthetized rat. J Physiol, 500 ( Pt 1)(Pt 1), 155-164. Abstract.  Author URL.
Ishiguro H, Steward MC, Wilson RW, Case RM (1996). Bicarbonate secretion in interlobular ducts from guinea-pig pancreas. Journal of Physiology, 495(1), 179-191. Abstract.
Wilson RW, Wood CM, Houlihan DF (1996). Growth and protein turnover during acclimation to acid and aluminum in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 53(4), 802-811. Abstract.
Wilson RW, Gilmour KM, Henry RP, Wood CM (1996). Intestinal base excretion in the seawater-adapted rainbow trout: a role in acid-base balance?. Journal of Experimental Biology, 199(10), 2331-2343. Abstract.
Kibble JD, Wareing M, Wilson RW, Green R (1995). Effect of barium on potassium diffusion across the proximal convoluted tubule of the anesthetized rat. Am J Physiol, 268(4 Pt 2), F778-F783. Abstract.  Author URL.
Wareing M, Wilson RW, Kibble JD, Green R (1995). Estimated potassium reflection coefficient in perfused proximal convoluted tubules of the anaesthetized rat in vivo. J Physiol, 488 ( Pt 1)(Pt 1), 153-161. Abstract.  Author URL.

Chapters

Brauner CJ, Shartau RB, Damsgaard C, Esbaugh AJ, Wilson RW, Grosell M (2019). Acid-base physiology and CO<inf>2</inf> homeostasis: Regulation and compensation in response to elevated environmental CO<inf>2</inf>. In  (Ed) Fish Physiology, 69-132. Abstract.
Wilson RW (2014). Fish. In Laffoley D, Baxter J, Thevenon F, Oliver J (Eds.) The Significance and Management of Natural Carbon Stores in the Open Ocean, Switzerland: IUCN, 81-94.  Author URL.
Wilson RW (2011). ROLE OF THE GUT. In  (Ed) Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: from Genome to Environment: Volume 1-3, 1419-1428. Abstract.
Scott, D.M. Wilson, R.W. (2007). Do estuaries act as saline-bridges to allow invasion of new freshwater systems by non-indigenous fish species?. In Gherardi F (Ed) Biological Invaders in Inland Waters: Profiles, Distribution and Threats, Springer.
Wilson, R.W. (2005). Anthropogenic effects on behavioural physiology in fish. In Sloman, K, Wilson, RW, Balshine, S (Eds.) Behaviour - Interactions with Fish Physiology, Academic Press, 413-468.
Wilson, R.W. Wood, C.M. (2004). Environmental effects on ion regulation in tropical fish. In Val AL (Ed) Physiology of Tropical Fish, Academic Press, 397-442.
Wilson, R.W. Wood, C.M. (2004). Ion regulation in tropical fishes from ion-poor, acidic blackwaters. In Val AL (Ed) Physiology of Tropical Fish, Fish Physiology Vol. 21 - Academic Press pp. 397-442:.

Conferences

Wilkes L, Leaver L, Sloman K, Readman G, Williams T, Owen S, Wilson R (2009). Development of enrichment criteria for zebrafish(<i>Danio rerio</i>) used in laboratory studies.  Author URL.
Whittamore J, Wilson R, Grosell M (2009). The regulation of intestinal HCO<sub>3</sub><SUP>-</SUP> secretion by marine fish: Responding to changes in luminal osmotic pressure.  Author URL.
Saxby AL, Snellgrove D, Wilson RW, Sloman KA (2009). Welfare Implications of stocking density on two fish species (<i>Paracheirodon innesi</i> and <i>Tanichthys albonubes</i>) kept in home aquaria.  Author URL.
Landin J, Wilson R, Owen S, Williams T, Readman G, Sloman K, Leaver L (2009). Welfare and enrichment criteria for fish used in research.  Author URL.
Cooper C, Wilson J, Wilson R (2008). Acid-base and osmoregulatory adaptations by the fish gill and gut at hypersalinities: an immunohistochemical approach.  Author URL.
Wilson R, Cooper C, Goren M (2008). Anatomically separated acid-base regulation and respiratory gas exchange in a vertebrate salinity-extremophile.  Author URL.
Cooper C, Wilson R (2008). Breathing in through the gill and out through the gut - Unusual gas exchange in fish at hypersallinities.  Author URL.
Murua J, Wilson R, Winberg S, Mayer I (2008). Social interactions between mature and immature parr of Atlantic salmon (<i>Salmo salar</i>) coexisting in artificial stream tanks.  Author URL.
Gilmour KM, Wilson RW, Sloman KA (2005). The integration of behaviour into comparative physiology. Abstract.  Author URL.

Reports

Wilson RW (2014). Chapter 3.6 Fish. IUCN,  Switzerland, Gland. 13 pages.  Author URL.

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External Engagement and Impact

Awards/Honorary fellowships

29th Annual Rosenstiel Award for "Outstanding Achievement and Distinction in Marine Biology, Biological Oceanographic and Fisheries Science" ($10k prize presented at Miami University in April 2005) www.rsmas.miami.edu/rosenstiel_award/award3a.html


Committee/panel activities

NERC Peer Review College

Norwegian Research Council - Grant Review Panel member for Physiology & Ecotoxicology (2007 – 2010 – Chair of this panel in 2009)

Invited Member of the NERC Strategy Panel for "Ocean Acidification" - September 2007

Expert Witness UK Environment Agency


Editorial responsibilities

Journal Editor

Assistant Editor for the Journal of Fish Biology (2000 - 2007)

Journal Reviewing (62 journals in total, as of Jan 2023)

Acta Physiologica

American Journal of Physiology

Animal Behaviour

Applied Science

Aquaculture

Aquaculture and Fisheries

Aquaculture Research

Aquatic Toxicology

Biogeosciences

Biological Reviews

Biology

Biology Letters

BMC Genomics

Biochimica Biophysica Acta

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

British Journal of Nutrition

Bulletin of Marine Science

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Chemosphere

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology

Conservation Physiology

Continental Shelf Research

Current Biology

Deep Sea Research

Environmental Science and Technology

Environmental Pollution

Fish Physiology (Book Series)

Fish Physiology and Biochemistry

Fishes

Frontiers in Marine Science

Frontiers in Physiology

G3 – Genes, Genomes & Genetics

Global Change Biology

Hormones and Behaviour

Hydrobiologia

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Journal of Biological Systems

Journal of Comparative Physiology

Journal of Experimental Biology

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Journal of Fish Biology

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Nature

Nature Climate Change

Neotropical Ichthyology

Nitric Oxide

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Physiological Genomics

Physiology and Behaviour

PLoS One

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Reviews in Aquaculture

Royal Society Open Science

Science of the Total Environment

Science

Scientific Reports

Sustainability

Toxins

Zoological Science


Invited lectures

Institutional Seminars

Gothenburg University, Sweden. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences (Feb 2017)

Aarhus University, Denmark. Department of Bioscience, Zoophysiology (Nov 2016).

University of Stirling, Institute of Aquaculture, Scotland (September, 2016)

Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK (November 2012)

University of Washington, USA - The Bevan Series on Sustainable Fisheries: Ocean Acidification (March 2011)

University of British Columbia, Canada (March 2011)

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, California, USA (May 2009)

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), California, USA (April 2009)

University of British Columbia, Canada (March 2009)

University of San Diego, California, USA (February 2009)

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (September 2008)

University of East Anglia, UK (September 2008)

McMaster University, Canada (August 2008)

Plymouth University, UK - (November 2007)

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Sciences, Lowestoft, UK - (January 2006)

Plymouth Marine Laboratories, Plymouth, UK - (November 2005)

Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, Florida, USA - (Apr 2005)

School of Biosciences, University of Miami, USA - (Apr 2003)

Durham University, UK - Dept. of Biological Sciences (Nov 2002)

University of Copenhagen, Denmark - August Krogh Institute, (April 2002)

Conference invited presentations

RSPCA “Focus on Fish” Meeting – 23rd February 2023

“The role of water chemistry in zebrafish welfare and reproducibility of research studies”

British Trout Association Southern Regional Meeting, Cefas Weymouth – 7th February 2023

“Optimising Water Chemistry for Rainbow trout”

PHARMAQademy 2022 – Virtual Conference – 21st January 2022

Invited Plenary Talk “Optimal water chemistry for salmonids in RAS”

2021 Workshop on Fish Nutrition, Aquaculture Systems and Water Quality

18th-21st October 2021, Wageningen.

Keynote Talk: “Physiological impacts of carbon dioxide in fish“

WIAS Annual Conference (25th Anniversary) – “Frontiers in Animal Science: Lessons from the past, challenges for the present, and aspirations for the future”, Wageningen, The Netherlands – 13-14 February 2020.

Keynote Talk: “The effects of water chemistry and feeding on physiology and aquaculture”.

Event Risk Management for the Scottish Salmon Company, “Recirculation Aquaculture Systems”, SAMS, Oban, Scotland - 11 Feb 2020.

Keynote Talk: “How water chemistry and feeding profoundly influence fish physiology”

European Association of Fish Pathologists (EAFP), “19th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish”, Porto, Portugal - 9-12 Sept 2019.  

Keynote Talk: “The effects of CO2 and related water chemistry on fish: climate change v. aquaculture”.

https://eafp.org/19-eafp-porto-2019/

GW4 3Rs Symposium, Cardiff - 6th Dec 2018

University Showcase Talk: “The role of water chemistry in zebrafish health, welfare and the reproducibility of research studies”

RSPCA Salmon Standards Technical Advisory Group Meeting; Inverness - 21st November 2018

Keynote Talk: “Implications of water chemistry (especially CO2) in aquaculture for fish welfare”

Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) Animal Symposium “Lessons from two high CO2 worlds – future oceans and intensive aquaculture” – Sao Miguel, Azores - 10-12 April 2018.

Plenary Talk: Using fundamental physiology to tackle high CO2 -associated problems in aquaculture

Fish Vet Society Conference, Edinburgh, 20-21st March 2018

Keynote Talk: “The role of water chemistry in zebrafish health, welfare and the reproducibility of research studies”

Scottish Salmon Producers Conference (SSPO), Inverness, 21-22 Nov 2016.

Keynote Talk: “Water chemistry in aquaculture - potential influence on physiology, behaviour, growth and disease”.

PHARMAQademy Conference, Inverness, Scotland, UK -  31st Oct - 1st Nov 2016.

Plenary Talk: “Two high CO2 worlds – future oceans and aquaculture”.

Marine Science and Technology Scotland (MASTS) Annual Science Meeting, Glasgow, UK - 19-20th October 2016.

Plenary Talk: “The Surprising Role of Marine fish in Global Ocean Biogeochemistry”.

European Association of Fish Pathologists (EAFP) Conference on ‘Aquaculture health in a changing world’ Stirling, UK - 15-16 Sept 2016.

Plenary Talk: “Lessons from two high CO2 worlds – future oceans and intensive aquaculture”.

Fish Veterinary Society Conference, Edinburgh, UK - 22-23 March 2016.

Keynote Talk: “How water chemistry within recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) can influence the physiology, growth and welfare of fishWater quality in recirculating aquaculture systems”

“Conservation Physiology of Marine Fishes: Current Status and Future Prospects” Conference in Montpellier, France – 19-20 May 2015.

Plenary Talk: “The contribution of fishes to global carbon cycles: implications for a changing world”.

Society for Experimental Biology, “Science with Impact” Symposium, Salzburg, Austria. Plenary Speaker “Can fish influence Earth’s climate control? The surprising role of marine fish in the global carbon cycle” (June 2012).

Yale Climate & Energy Institute 2012 Conference on "Managing Species for Regulating the Carbon Cycle"

Wilson, R.W., Landin, J., Wilkes, L., Leaver, L. Owen, S.F., Sloman, K. (2012) To enrich or not to enrich? Evidence for cold and warm water laboratory fish. ASAB/SEB/NC3Rs Symposium, London, UK (July 2012).

*Wilson, R.W. (2012). The marine teleost intestine: a very multi-functional organ. Society for Experimental Biology, Salzburg, Austria (June 2012).

*Wilson, R.W. (2012). The marine teleost intestine: Key roles in ion, water, acid–base and respiratory gas transfers. SEB Woodstock 2012, Tuscany, Italy (24-26 June, 2012).

*Wilson, R.W. (2012). The nature and fate of carbonate production by marine fish. Yale Climate & Energy Institute 2012 Conference on "Managing Species for Regulating the Carbon Cycle". Yale University, New Haven, USA (April 2012).

Yale University, New Haven, USA (April 2012).

*Wilson, R.W. (2011). How physiology & behaviour integrate to provide homeostasis in fish. 1st Conference on the Conservation Physiology of Marine Fishes. CIMAR, Porto, Portugal, (26-28 September, 2011).

*Wilson, R.W., Cobb, C.S., Whittamore, J.M., Perry, C.T., Salter, M. (2010). Carbonate Formation in Fish Guts: Roles and Consequences. American Physiological Society Intersociety Meeting: Global Change and Global Science: Comparative Physiology in a Changing World Conference. Colorado, USA (4-7 August, 2010).

*Wilson, R.W., Cobb, C.S., Whittamore, J.M., Perry, C.T., Salter, M., Jennings, S. (2010). The implications of fishing and climate change for gut carbonate production by marine teleost fish and the global inorganic carbon cycle. Society for Experimental Biology, Prague, Czech Republic (30 June – 3 July, 2010).

*Wilson, R.W., Landin, J., Wilkes, L., Leaver, L. Owen, S.F., Winberg, S., Sloman, K. (2009). Not all fish are the same: Enrichment and welfare criteria must be species-specific and objectively qualified. International Conference on Environmental Enrichment (ICEE), Torquay, UK (July 2009).

*Wilson, R.W., Cooper, C.A., Goren, M. (2008). Acid-base regulation in a vertebrate salinity extremophile. Symposium on  Ion and Acid-base Regulation, International Congress on the Biology of Fishes, Portland, USA (28 July – 1 Aug, 2008).

*Wilson, R.W., Cooper, C.A., Goren, M. (2008). Anatomically separated acid-base regulation and respiratory gas exchange in a vertebrate salinity-extremophile. Society for Experimental Biology, Marseille, France (30 June – 3 July, 2010).

Wilson, R.W. (2006) Teleost adaptations to salinity extremes - the importance of integrative physiology. European Society of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry (ESCPB) - Stress in Systems Biology, Antwerp, Belgium (September 2006)

Wilson, R.W. (2006) Calcium carbonate production by fish - a novel role in the marine carbon cycle? - A tribute to Rick Playle. Canadian Society for Zoologists, Edmonton, Canada (May 2006)

Wilson, R.W. (2005) Drinking and precipitation by the sea - osmotic, ion and acid-base homeostasis in marine fish. Society for Experimental Biology, Barcelona, Spain (July 2005)

Wilson, R.W. & Gude, A (2004) Social hierarchy and gender-related behavioural physiology - response to endocrine disruptors in freshwater fish. International Congress on the Biology of Fishes, Manaus, Brazil (Aug 2004)

Wilson, R.W. & Grosell, M (2003) Seawater calcium, bicarbonate secretion and water absorption in the marine teleost intestine. SEB, Southampton, (April 2003)

Wilson, R.W. & Grosell, M (2002). The critical role of carbonic anhydrase in calcium homeostasis and water absorption in marine teleost fish. IUPS, San Diego, USA (August 2002)

Wilson, R.W., C.M. Wood, N.R.Bury, C. Hogstrand, F.B. Jensen, J.C. Rankin, M. Busk, T. Lecklin, M. Grosell. (2001) Salinity, bicarbonate and drinking: facilitating gut water absorption in marine teleosts. Drink or Die Symposium, ICCE meeting, Sorrento, Italy (May 2001)


Workshops/Conferences organised

Conferences organised

Chief Organiser for Conference “Lessons from two high CO2 worlds – future oceans and intensive aquaculture”; Society for Experimental Biology & BBSRC International Workshop, Azores, (March 2018)

'Non-native fishes: Integrated biology of establishment success and dispersal' for the Fisheries Society of the British Isles, at Exeter, UK (July 2007) - (150 delegates; co-organised with J.A. Brown & D.M. Scott).

Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology at Exeter, UK (March 2000) – (960 delegates)

Symposia/Workshops organised:

"Zebrafish Welfare & Reproducibility", RSPCA, Exeter (April 2024) 

“Lesson from two high CO2 worlds: future oceans and intensive aquaculture”; SEB, Azores (April 2018)

“Life in a warmer and higher CO2 world”; Society for Experimental Biology, Valencia, Spain (July 2013)

“Physiology of the multi-functional gut”; Society for Experimental Biology, Salzburg, Austria (July 2012)

“The multi-functional gut”; Society for Experimental Biology, Marseilles, France (July 2012)
 

“Ion sensing and Ion Regulation”; Society for Experimental Biology, Cantebury, UK (April 2006)

'Integrating behaviour and physiology' Society for Experimental Biology, Heriot-Watt, UK (March 2004) - co-organised with K. Sloman & K. Gilmour

'Dogmas and Controversies in the Handling of Nitrogenous Wastes' Society for Experimental Biology, Southampton, UK (March 2003)

'Epithelial Ion Transport - Tribute to Hans Ussing' Society for Experimental Biology, Swansea, UK (March 2002) - co-organised with M. Grosell

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Teaching

From 2007-08 I coordinated and taught the following undergraduate modules: BIO1324 Fundamental Skills for Biosciences; BIO1320 Animal and Plant Physiology; and BIO2082 Animal Ecophysiology. I also co-taught the following undergraduate modules: BIO1327 Diversity of Animal Plants and Protists; BIO2071 Research Skills and Bioethics; BIO2080 Cornwall Biodiversity Field Course; BIO3067 Ecotoxicology

This included coordinating and teaching on the following Masters modules: BIOM509 Professional Skills; BIOM520 Fisheries Science; BIOM521 Marine Fisheries Science - Practical Field Skills; BIOM522 - Freshwater and Estuarine Environments - Practical Field Skills; BIOM523 Aquatic Environmental Perturbations; BIOM524 Aquatic Conservation and Management; BIOM526 Masters Research Project in Aquatic Biology and Resource Management.

Modules

2023/24


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Supervision / Group

Postdoctoral researchers

  • Dr Chris Cooper (BBSRC) 2005-2008 'Novel integration of gas exchange, osmotic and acid-base regulation in hyper-salinities'
  • Robert Ellis (BBSRC 2015-16): Using physiology to optimise water quality and the sustainability of intensive recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)
  • Jennifer Finlay (NC3Rs 2018-2023): The role of water chemistry in zebrafish welfare and reproducibility of research studies
  • Owaen Guppy (BBSRC 2022-25): The UK Sustainable King Prawn Project (Chemical Sensors)
  • Dr Ali Kerridge (URF) 2005
  • Dr Stewart Owen (NERC) 1998-2001 'Integrated behavioural, metabolic and physiological approach to metal toxicity in fish'
  • Dr Cosima Porteus (Newton International Post-Doctoral Fellow)
  • Erin Reardon (NERC 2010-2015): Fish Carbonates - their nature and fate within the marine inorganic carbon cycle
  • Michael Salter (NERC 2022-2024): Fish gut carbonates and control of ocean alkalinity
  • Trystan Sanders (BBSRC 2022-25): The UK Sustainable King Prawn Project - UKSKPP (Physiology)
  • Dr Dawn Scott (NERC) 2004-2007 'Osmoregulation in non-indigenous fish species - potential for invasion via estuaries'
  • Dr Jon Whittamore (BBSRC) 2008-11 'Novel driving forces for water transport & osmoregulation: carbonate precipitation and osmotic coefficients'

Postgraduate researchers

  • Noura Al-Jandal (Kuwait Research Institute) 2006-2010 'Endocrine disruption of osmoregulation and reproduction in euryhaline fish'
  • Alex Berry Calcium carbonate production by teleost fish: an investigation into the effects of temperature and dietary calcium intake
  • Frances Cary (NERC Industrial CASE - Astra Zeneca
  • William Davison (BBSRC SWBio DTP) 2017 - . "Using physiology to improve the sustainability of fish in aquaculture".
  • Issie Dinnis (2022-24): The influence of breathing air versus water in acid-base regulation in feeding fish
  • Jennifer Finlay (BBSRC SWBio DTP CASE with Ocean Matters Ltd.) 2018 - . "Using physiology to improve the health and sustainability of cleanerfish (lumpfish) production"
  • Harriet Goodrich (QUEX) 2018 - . "Using integrative physiology to reassess optimal foraging theory and optimise diets in aquaculture"
  • Jack Jarvis (BBSRC 2022-26): Optimising water chemistry for intensive production of rainbow trout in RAS
  • Jenny Landin (Great Western Research - Astra Zeneca Brixham Environmental Laboratory) 2007-2011. "Using fish behaviour and physiology to determine welfare and enrichment criteria for aquatic environmental protection research - cold water species".
  • Francesca Molinari (NERC 2022-26): Using ecophysiology to better predict the uptake of chemicals into fish
  • Daniel Montgomery (NERC GW4 CASE with Cefas) 2016-2020. "Impact of combined climate change stressors on marine fish and fisheries"
  • Jefferson Murua (BBSRC CASE - Westcountry Rivers Trust) 2005-2009 "Role of social rank in development, physiology and reproductive strategy in Salmonids"
  • Dawn Scott (Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, South West Water, Environment Agency, English Nature) 1999-2003 'Physiology and behaviour of fish in eutrophic freshwaters'
  • Jon Whittamore (BBSRC Committee Studentship) 2004-2008 'Multiple whole organism roles of calcium-sensing receptors in marine teleost fish'
  • Luanne Wilkes (BBSRC CASE - Astra Zeneca Brixham Environmental Laboratory) 2007-2011 'Using fish behaviour and physiology to determine welfare and enrichment criteria for aquatic environmental protection research - warm water species'
  • Robert Yarlett (NERC) 2014-2018. "Quantifying contributions of fish to coral reef carbonate cycling" (Co-supervisor with Prof. Chris Perry in Geography)

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