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A joint academia-industry led forum to set priorities for PKD management

The workshop brings academia and industry representatives together to discuss the latest research developments in proliferative kidney disease (PKD). The forum will cover current European and American aquaculture industry and wild fisheries perspectives and the latest research and applications to disease management strategies.

Key Topics:

· Disease Monitoring & Genomic Insights – Understanding approaches to disease monitoring and genetic variation in European and American fish populations.

· Climate Change & Disease Dynamics – Examining its role in PKD emergence and spread.

· Vaccine Development Progress – Exploring breakthroughs in immunisation efforts.

· Virulence & Immune Evasion Mechanisms – Unveiling pathogen-host interactions.

Invited speakers will showcase the latest developments in PKD research. To be followed by a roundtable discussions o set research priorities and identify upcoming funding initiatives to spearhead future collaborative projects.

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Join us at the 22^nd EAFP Conference in Heraklion 2025 for an exciting Genomics of Fish Pathogens workshop tailored for early career researchers (ECRs) who are attending the EAFP main conference. This workshop is designed for those with little to no experience in bioinformatics, providing a hands-on opportunity to work with genomics data. Participants will learn basic command-line techniques and apply them to analyse bacterial pathogen data, building a foundation for tackling various types of genomics data.

• Participants must bring their own laptops (no high specification required). All analyses will be conducted on virtual machines (VMs), with preparation instructions provided prior to the workshop.

• Funded Places: The Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) is offering some funded places for students and early career researchers.

The fish histopathology workshop will be held on Sunday 31 August 2025, before the actual conference. The workshop will begin with our keynote speaker, Dr Jeff Wolf (Chief Pathologist, EPL, Virginia). The keynote presentation will be followed by invited speakers who will present different aspects of gill histology or a case study, including pathology and differential diagnoses.

All slides for the workshop will be digitalized, so participants will have the possibility to look at all slides on their laptops while they are being discussed, in the workshop. Discussions are highly welcomed. For participants exclusively, the slides will also be available shortly before and after the workshop.

In the last session we provide the opportunity for participants to present images of pathology of unknown origin or unidentified structures. These presentations should still include background information, but the focus should be on the unknown structure/feature and the talks are expected to be short (no longer than 5 minutes). They will not be included in the final workshop materials. If you would like to give one of these short presentations, please send a message to heike.schmidt@unibe.ch and B.Nowak@utas.edu.au, so that we can count you into the workshop structure and calculate the time needed.