Dr Alyssa Joyce

Alyssa Joyce has worked internationally in a wide range of research and industrial facilities on projects aimed at addressing challenges in aquaculture production, specifically raising, harvesting and handling seafood safely and profitably. Her group currently focuses on a wide range of production issues including:

• Marine technologies for offshore, intertidal and recirculating aquaculture
• Live-feed production and hatchery technology
• Developmental physiology of fish and molluscs
• Antibacterial resistance and targeted drug delivery for pathogen control in aquaculture
• Re-utilization of sludge waste in aquaponics

Current PhD students and postdocs in Dr. Joyce’s lab are working on:
• Physiology and selective breeding in shellfish hatchery production
• Probiotics and reducing use of antibiotics (antimicrobial resistance) in fish farming
• Microalgal-bacterial exopolymers in hatchery production, and algal quality for optimizing live larval feeds
• Neuroendocrine control of settlement and metamorphosis in bivalves for hatchery applications
• Fish recirculating aquaculture systems with hydroponic plant production (aquaponics)
• Role of vitamins in bivalve metabolism

Alyssa and her team have long-term collaborations with labs in the UK, Europe, Canada, USA and Australia. With funding from VR-SIDA, they are also working in South East Asia, South America and the South Pacific. If you are interested in joining our group, please visit the page subsections for more information about our team, research interests and publications.