Research

RESEARCH AREAS

Research areas in the department:

1) Aquaculture Nutrition
2) Aquatic Ecology and Limnology
3) Fisheries Biology
4) Aquatic Biology
5) Genetic and Fish Reproduction
6) Fish Breeding and Larvae Culture
7) Fish Molecular Biology
8) Algae culture and Microbial Ecology
9) Shellfish Culture
10) Fish Disease and Management
11) Fish Population Genetics
12) Marine Shrimp
13) Immunology
14) Recreational Fisheries
15) Aquaculture Persistent
16) Molecular Endocrinology
17) Aquatic Plants


LIST OF RESEARCH PROJECTS

The current active research projects are as follows: 

Project leader	TItle	Funder
Prof. Dr. Mohd Salleh Kamarudin	Dietary carbohydrate requirements of Malaysian mahseers	ScienceFund
	Nutrition and feeding of broodstock, larval and juvenile Portunus pelagicus	PutraGrant-IPS
	Halal status of commercial and farm-made aquafeeds in Malaysia	PutraGrant-IBT
Prof. Dr. Fatimah Md. Yusoff	Breeding seed production culture and biochemical composition of the commercially important sea urchins in The Malaysian Coral reef	RUGS
	Optimization of high quality collagen  extraction from river jellyfish, Acromitus hardenbergi	RUGS
	Exploring the potentials of indigenous jellyfishes as a blooming source of high qualiy proteins	FRGS
	Phycobiliproteins from tropical cyanobacteria from antibacterial and antifungal applicatios	ERGS
Prof. Dr. Aziz Arshad	Assessment of Exploited Fisheries Stock in Marudu Bay for Sustainable Management	Sciencefund
	Reproductive Biology, Feeding Habits and Population Dynamics of Mantis Shrimps (Crustacea: Stomatopoda)	FRGS
	Biological and Ecological Aspects of Marine Baitworm Marphysa sanguinea (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Morib Mangroves in the Straits of Malacca	RUGS
Prof. Madya Dr. Che Roos Saad	Effects of Probiotics on Growth and Survival of Litopeneaus vannamei Culture and Their Protection Roles Against Vibriosis	RUGS
	Potential Benefits of Local Herbs Extract Incorporated in Diets on Juvenile Red Hybrid Tilapia (Oreochromis sp.)	RUGS
Prof. Madya Dr. Muta Harah Zakaria @ Ya	Utilization of Aquatic Macrophytes for Papermaking	Sciencefund
	Propagation of Seaweed Kappaphycus	FRGS
	Molecular Genetics and Bioprospecting of Marine Macrophytes for Natural Products	Matching Grant- KTP
Dr. Annie Christianus	Salinity and temperature influence on the eggs and larvae of horseshoe crab, Tachypleus gigas	FRGS
	Peri-vitelline fluid (PVF) of Asian horseshoe crabs effect on stem cells growth and proliferation	RUGS
Dr. Ina Salwany Md. Yasin	Development of recombinant bivalent vaccine against vibriosis in tiger grouper	ScienceFund
	Determining the antigenic cross-reaction among outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of Vibrio species isolated from tiger grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus)	FRGS
Dr. S.M Nurul Amin	Development of Breeding Protocol, larval Rearing and Culture Techniques of Endangered Temoleh, Probarbus jullieni (Sauvage)	FRGS
	Reproductive Biology of the Grey-eel Catfish, Plotosus canius Hamilton (1822)	RUGS
	Effect of Stocking Density and Diet on Survival and Growth of Endangered Snakehead (Channa striatus) in Tank Culture	RUGS
Dr. Natrah Fatin Mohd  Ikhsan	Modulation of synbiotic gastrointestinal persisters with quorum sensing interference properties in Tiger Grouper Epinephelus fuscoguttatus	Sciencefund
	Characterization of the role and growth promoting properties of bacteria symbiotically associated with red seaweed Gracilaria changii	FRGS
Dr. Murni Marlina Abd. Karim	Understanding the role of antibiotic on indigenous probiotic activities in protecting larval Asian seabass Later calcarifer Bloch against vibriosis	FRGS
	The role of probiotic in controlling diseases of marine shellfish	RUGS-IPM
Dr. Rozihan Mohamed	Molecular Ecological Identification of Malaysian Horseshoe Crab, Tachypleus gigas Using DNA Barcodes	FRGS

Updated:: 01/07/2015 [natrah]