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Lindsay Laird

At the time of her early death from cancer in 2001, Lindsay Laird was a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Zoology Department at Aberdeen University. From the beginning of her career, Lindsay worked with the expanding Scottish aquaculture industry on different aspects of salmon farming. In 1998, she became the first Chairman of the Organic Fish Producers’ association. She served as Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Fisheries Executive Committee and on the Board of Directors of the European Aquaculture Society from 1994 to 2000, when she was obliged to retire for health reasons. Lindsay also carried out research and gave lectures in countries such as Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines, and Borneo, where a new species of moth (Dasychera lairdi) was named after her.

In 2008, AquaTT and Aqualex Multimedia Consortium (AMC) Ltd established an award in her honour for the most innovative poster (in English) submitted by a student, which concerns research in any one of the following areas:

Environmental Impacts in aquaculture
New species
Hatcheries/early life history
Stock production
Fish diseases
New technologies
Genetics/genomics

Lindsay Laird Award Winners
		2019 M. Nicola Rhyner Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland "Assessing microsatellite markers to assess post-stocking survival of hatchery-reared Atlantic trout (Salmo trutta) in tributaries of a pre-alpine lake”
		2018 Irene Brandts Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain "Do Differences in Coping Styles Influence Stress Response after Vaccination in Gilthead Sea Bream?”
		2017 Francisco Guardiola University of Porto (Portugal) and University of Murcia (Spain) "Generation of a brain-derived cell line from Fundulus heteroclitus and its use for antiviral immunity studies”
		2016 Cecília de Sousa Valente Federal University of Santa Catarina (FUSC), Brazil "Transcription profile of target genes in the Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) kept in biofloc and clear seawater and experimentally infected with White Spot Syndrome Virus”
		2015 Andrea Franke GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany "Does poly-ß-hydroxybutyrate stimulate the immune system of European sea bass larvae?"
		2014 Marina Machado Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), Universidade do Porto, Portugal “Dietary Methionine Supplementation but not Tryptophan Improve Cell Mediated Immunity of European Seabass Dicentrarchus labrax”
		2013 Giulia Micallef University of Aberdeen, Scotland “Proteomic Investigation on the Effect of Prebiotic Dietary Supplements on the Skin Mucus of Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar”
		2012 Jiri Kristan University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic "The alcalase enzyme treatment for elimination of egg stickiness in pikeperch Sandar lucioperca L."
		2011 Carolina de Haro University of Almeria, Spain “Nutritive Adaptation in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) to Tenebrio mollitor Meal as Protein Source Diet: Effect in Fish Growth and Performance”
		2010 Dalila Serpa Instituto de Investigação das Pescas e do Mar (IPIMAR), Portugal “Optimisation of stocking density and feed formulation in semi- intensive production systems: How it can minimise the environmental impacts of earth pond aquaculture”
		2009 Gonçalo Santos Wageningen University, the Netherlands “Effects of Dissolved Carbon Dioxide on Energy Metabolism and Stress Response in European Seabass Dicentrarchus Labrax”
		2008 Sabine Keuter University of Hamburg, Germany “Inhibitory effects of plastics and nitrate on nitrification in aquacultural biofilters”
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