Professor Rod Wilson BSc, PhD
Professor of Integrative Animal Physiology
r.w.wilson@exeter.ac.uk
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+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.
Research group links
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.
Publications
Journal articles
Chapters
Conferences
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
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 EcotoxicologyThis 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
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)