The ShrimpENCODE session will recognize ten students and research associates who applied for ‘Jimmy Alcivar Arteaga Student Travel Awards’ from the FUCOBI Foundation of Ecuador (fucobi.org) to attend Aquaculture 2025. Applicants represented four countries: Mexico (5), United States (3), Brazil (1) and Ecuador (1). Four scientists will be recognized as winners of FUCOBI’s 2025 "Outstanding ONE HEALTH Researchers in Aquaculture and Fisheries” awards: Satoshi Kawato from Japan (1), Sonia Soto-Rodriguez and Bruno Gomez-Gil from Mexico (2) and Ximing Guo from the United States (1).
ShrimpENCODE speakers will address the following topics: Endogenous nimaviruses: inhabitants of crustacean repetitive DNA (Kawato), Shrimp shapes a resistance trait against Vibriosis by memorizing the colonization resistance of intestinal microbiota (Yuan), Repetitive elements from the first SPF Penaeus vannamei produced in the US: characterization of Outcast-1_Lva Non-LTR retrotransposon similar to retrotransposon putatively associated with ASDD of farmed P. vannamei (Alcivar-Warren), DNA transposons in the genome of the first SPF P. vannamei produced in the US (Alcivar-Warren), Putative endogenous viral elements (EVE) present in five whole genome shotgun databases available for P. vannamei (Alcivar-Warren), Development of a disease strategy manual for shrimp hepatopancreatic microsporidiosis (HPM) (Tang), First report of white muscle disease caused by Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae in P. japonicus (Langote Alolod), Sex determination and sex differentiation of P. vannamei (Guo), Penaeid shrimp genomics and epigenomics: whole reference genomes needed for the economically important Penaeus species (Alcivar-Warren), Vibrio campbellii strain M270210 can develop the characteristic clinical signs and mortality of AHPND disease of shrimp (Gonzalez-Benitez), Stepwise involvement of peptidases in the digestive process of P. vannamei (Estrella), Exploring the impact of domestication and breeding on the gut microbiota of P. vannamei (Cervantes-Echeverria), Application of Faecalibacterium genomics for human and shrimp gut health (Sousa), Endogenous virus elements (EVE) of IHHNV (IHHNV-EVE) in P. vannamei & P. monodon genomes: interactions with a transposable element - comments on issues related to the delisting of IHHN as a notifiable disease by the WOAH (Asuncion), WSSV genomes from Ecuador, Peru, China & Mexico are not integrated in the genome of five penaeid species, but EVE of WSSV (WSSV-EVE) are in the transcriptome of SPF P. vannamei domesticated in the US (Galindo), Characterization of bacteriophage-resistant strains from bacteriophages targeting AHPND-causing Vibrio sp. (Aguire Juarez), Dengue vectors co-infecting shrimp viruses: epidemiological control challenges in the context of climate change and contamination by insecticides (Rodriguez-Flores), and, Limitations of implementation of RNA interference (RNAi) in shrimp aquaculture (Rodulfo).