Nick Robinson | Contributor

Dr Robinson is also South-East Asia-Pacific contact at Nofima and a professor in aquaculture genetics at Deakin University. His work for Nofima, focuses on the application of genomic technologies for the genetic improvement of aquatic species.

Could molecular scissors cut out sea lice in the long term?

Atlantic Salmon Salmonids Biotechnology

12 January 2026

A new paper details how molecular tools such as CRISPR could be effectively used to increase the resistance of Atlantic salmon to sea lice – improving fish welfare and reducing costs for the salmon farming sector.

June 2025

What coho salmon can teach us about resistance to sea lice

Salmonids Health Parasites

13 June 2025

New research led by Nofima reveals that coho salmon mount a rapid and local immune response that helps them actively reject sea lice, offering insights that may guide breeding and treatment…

September 2022

How are genetic technologies being applied to combat infectious diseases in aquaculture?

The Nofima notebook Atlantic Salmon Crustaceans

7 September 2022

A new paper argues that there’s an urgent need to improve understanding of the genetic mechanisms involved in host resistance to whitespot syndrome virus (WSSV) and sea lice – two of the greatest…

November 2020

A genetic solution for tackling white spot syndrome virus in shrimp

The Nofima notebook Crustaceans Shrimp

25 November 2020

How genomic selection can rapidly increase the resistance of whiteleg shrimp to white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) – one of the most costly diseases in the global shrimp farming sector.