26 of November 2024, at As, Auditorium Hippocampus
Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway

08.30    Registration

09.00    Trond Kortner – Welcome

09.10     Fulvio Gandolfi – Fish-AI coordinator: Opening remarks

09.20    Ramon Fontanillas: Industrial strategies for evaluation of fish feed ingredients: how can in vitro trials help?

09.45    The development of the Fish-AI in vitro platform

Pedro Costa: Experimental devices and strategies for intestinal in vitro modelling

Nicole Verdile: Rainbow trout intestinal cell lines and their assembly into the working Fish-AI prototype

Amir Bitan: In vitro digestion of fish diets and the interaction with intestinal cells within the Fish-AI  platform

11.00    Coffee break

11.30   Testing the predictive power of the Fish-AI platform:

Guro Lokka: Research strategies for evaluating fish feed ingredients – Fish feeding trials as reference for in vitro studies

Fulvio Gandolfi: How does the Fish-AI platform performs in comparison with in vivo trials? Ranking diets, robustness among labs, open problems.

12.30    Lunch

13.30 – 16.00     Panel discussion “Which role for in vitro testing in modern aquaculture?”

Four invited panelists will briefly introduce their point of view on possible uses, advantages and limitations of in vitro models in aquaculture challenging the members of the consortium, stimulating a wider discussion with the rest of the public both in presence and from remote.

Consortium members and invited panelists will be on stage and will reply to questions and comments.

The 4 invited panelists representing different points of view will be:

• Francisco Moyano, Full Professor Universidad de Almería: In vitro digestibility assay, opportunities and limits.
• Luisa Valente, Full Professor ICBAS – Porto University: Circular economy: the principles, the goals, how can in vitro systems help.
• Jerome Schmeisser, Head of Biology lab in the R&D center at DSM-Firmenich: How can in vitro platforms be useful to develop and screen innovative feeds or/and additives.
• Olai Einen, Head of feed and fish health at Cermaq Global: is there a role for independent in vitro testing of feeds in the management of large farms?

16.00    Concluding remarks

Follows social gathering with food and wine for informal discussions