Dr. Kaja Skjærven, Institute of Marine Research (IMR)
Dr. Kaja Skjærven, Project Leader in the Feed and Nutrition group at the Institute of Marine Research, will present: "Metabolic Programming for Aquaculture Production? Insights into Nutrition and Epigenetics, Broodstock and Offspring"
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Kaja Helvik Skjærven has a special interest in early embryonic development in fish and how development is affected by environmental conditions such as nutrition, temperature, or toxicants. The core focus is on how different environmental conditions change the potential for gene expression through nutrition-based epigenetic changes. The main theme of the work is how nutrients, temperature, or toxicants specifically regulate DNA methylation (epigenetics) intergenerationally (from parents to offspring) and how these changes in gene expression potential (epigenetics) are associated with more traditional biological procedures such as nutrition, physiology, and histological analyses.
