Reporttopic: Industry Relevant R&D: Crossing boundaries betweennutrition and genetics

Reporter: Doctor Nicholas Michael Wade

Report time: 13:00-15:30, April 24, 2018

Report venue: A101, College of Fisheriesand Life Science

About the reporter:

Doctor Nicholas Michael Wade is currently aresearcher at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization(CSIRO) of Australia. After having received his Doctoral degree at theUniversity of Queensland in 2005, he successively workedat the University of Queensland, the Aquaculture Research Center of Brisbane,the University of Lausanne and the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute ofCSIRO, and was devoted to improving the quality and nutrients of aquaticanimals according to the methods of molecular biology and biochemistry. He hasextensive research experience, and his researches touch upon many aquaculturalspecies. He has successively led scientific research projects on the scale ofabove 20 million AUD, and his research priorities are concerned with thegenomic breeding, nutritional quality formation mechanism and molecularnutriology of Penaeus monodon. He has made prominent scientific attainments inthe color formation mechanism of crustaceans and the metabolism of carotenoids,as one of the first batch of scholars to have proposed the concept ofnutritional genomics and conduct lots of explorations. So far, he has publishedmore than 40 SCI academic papers, mainly on MBE, JEB, BJN, Aquaculture, Lipidsand other journals. Currently he serves as the editor of JEB. In 2014, hereceived the Award for Best Research Contribution from CSIRO. In addition, hehas been repeatedly invited to give special reports and oral reports at manyinternational academic conferences.