Violet is now starting an MSc to further investigate the thermal stress responses of triploid blue mussels. So stay tuned for more exciting research to come from her!

This work provides important recommendations for hatcheries, as stable temperatures improve the survival of triploid larvae. Also, while our current pressure shock induction method works well for mussels from Prince Edward Island, the protocol could be optimized for mussels from other regions.

Incredibly proud of the first Honours student I co-supervised, Violet Chilvers, who published her thesis in Aquaculture Research! Her research explored how source, ploidy and thermal regime impact the growth and survival of blue mussel larvae.

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Strengthening salmon farming with better selection Benchmark Genetics has hired Eric Ignatz as a new senior geneticist at the company's office in Iceland.

Since moving to Iceland to start my career with Benchmark Genetics, LandbasedAQ wrote a nice piece on what my goals are to help advance salmon breeding! www.landbasedaq.com/atlantic-sal...

Very cool paper!

Very excited to be joining the team!

Fish embryos under the microscope

Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️

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No Free Lunch: Sustainable Aquaculture Requires Recognizing Past Science, Improvements, and Comparative Assessment - Froehlich - 2026 - Reviews in Aquaculture - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Celebrate the Jays #WorldSeries run and pass the time before tonight's first pitch with some blue jay science published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology!

Tired of manually landmarking hundreds of images? 📍🖼️😩 Our lab developed HusMorph, a free and open-source tool that automates morphometric landmarking using #MachineLearning — no coding required. Simply train the model on your images, and it quickly places landmarks with human-level accuracy. #AI

A good laugh to start with on Friday 😂

One week to apply for our fully funded PhD position in Norway! This is a really exciting project in collab. with University of Helsinki and Benchmark Genetics.

Samples are ready - you do (read: learn) everything - functional genomics, bioinformatics, genotype-phenotype associations 🤩

Please RT!

Very proud moment today! My first Honours student submitted her thesis for publication! A lot of hard work was put into this one and I’m very excited for her to get to share her achievements soon!

I am excited to have joined @canjzoology.bsky.social as an Early Career Researcher Associate Editor! I look forward to promoting high quality science and being more involved in the publishing world!

Faculty locked out Aug 20. We have heard nothing from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - we WANT to BARGAIN, our members WANT to WORK! Where is the Board? Students start move in Aug 28. Time for the Board to take this seriously and work with us #KeepDalStrong

If you cannot access the paper, use this link to download the article for free for the next 50 days!
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This research provides an excellent foundation as we develop tools to help identify mussels that will be more resilient to climate change-induced increases in ocean temperatures.

In work led by Shelby Clarke, we explored differences in thermal tolerance from two sources of mussels in Atlantic Canada at a physiological, behavioural and molecular level. Very excited to have this one out!
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✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

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#CSEE2025

Great to see support for the oyster industry!

The Filgueira lab had an amazing time earlier this week at Aquaculture Canada 2025! So proud of the students for giving such incredible talks, particularly Jasmine Talevi for taking home the best oral presentation award!

‘Minimize the damage’: Race to study MSX heats up as deadly disease hits Maritime oysters Researchers in Atlantic Canada are racing to try to solve a pressing problem — how to tackle a parasite that’s killing oysters and threatening the region’s multimillion-dollar industry.

@genomeatlantic.bsky.social is proud to be part of the collaborative push to protect Atlantic Canada's oyster industry from MSX. #MalletOysters #NewBrunswickRPC ‘Minimize the damage’: Race to study MSX heats up as deadly disease hits Maritime oysters www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

Invasive fish species reported in Nova Scotia for first time, DFO says | CBC News A single egg-bearing Oriental weatherfish, also known as pond loach, was discovered in Morgans Falls last month, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Another aquarium-trade species found in the wild.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Finished deploying our oyster cages across Cape Breton today with my Honours student, Elise! We will be assessing MSX-driven mortality throughout the summer and looking for genetic markers of disease resistance after!

P.E.I. hatchery says it's produced 1st MSX-resistant oyster seed in Canada  | CBC News A hatchery in western Prince Edward Island says it has produced the first batch of MSX-resistant oyster seed, but at least one expert says it's still too early to determine those results.

A hatchery on Prince Edward Island claims to have produced Canada's first MSX-resistant oyster seed. In an interview with CBC, I helped provide some context on how that might be hard to tell at this stage. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thanks so much for all of these updates! Looks like a great conference, I wish I could have gone!

New paper alert 🧬💻🐟
We finaly got our follow up study on fine mapping of QTL associated with spontaneous malness in XX-rainbow trout out in PlosOne!
Check it out: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
It's a much improved version of the preprint (thanks to reviewers and editors and to Florence Phocas (INRAe)

The biosecurity of bivalve seed transfers during different life stages with respect to their pathogens The expansion of molluscan aquaculture in the United States has induced a rising demand for molluscan seed to sustain it. Out-of-state transfers of se…

Our new paper highlighting the relative freedom from protozoan infection of hatchery shellfish seed, information foundational to shellfish health management in the US: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Photo of a freshwater lake

Looking for a PhD? There is an opening for a PhD-student in evolutionary ecology on phenotypic plasticity in aquatic organisms at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway – with two super-good supervisors (Sigurd Einum and Tim Burton) - highly recommended! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Application of genomic tools to study and potentially improve the upper thermal tolerance of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) - BMC Genomics Background The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) aquaculture industry must mitigate the impacts of rising ocean temperatures and the increased prevalence/severity of marine heat waves. Therefore, we inves...

Excited to share our latest work that studied how upper thermal tolerance is regulated in farmed Atlantic salmon! We combined RNA-sequencing and GWAS results to explore how gene expression and genetic architecture may influence this important trait.

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