The Fish Disease Prevention Lab focuses on researching the fish vaccines necessary to produce healthy fish by stimulating the immune system of fish while reducing the use of antibiotics. We are conducting research into the development of adjuvants that can boost the efficacy of vaccines, producing a large amount of antigenic proteins of pathogen through genetic engineering, and increasing the intestinal absorption after oral vaccines. The Fish Disease Prevention Lab is primarily focused on developing new vaccines, verifying the efficacy of trial vaccines, and evaluating vaccine working mechanisms by the immune gene expressions.
- Research Interests
- 1. Development of vaccine containing adjuvant against viral hemorrhagic septicemia
- 2. ESTs (expressed sequence tags) analysis of scuticociliates and development of recombination vaccine
- 3. Development of oral vaccine based on method for reinforcing the oral absorption of antigen