Project description:Gills of teleost fish represent a vital multifunctional organ; however, they are subjected to environmental stressors, causing gill damage. Gill damage is associated with significant losses in the Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry. Gill disorders due to environmental stressors are exacerbated by global environmental changes, especially with open-net pen aquaculture (as farmed fish lack the ability to escape those events). The local and systemic response to gill damage, concurrent with several environmental insults, are not well investigated. We performed field sampling to collect gill and liver tissue after several environmental insults. Using a 44K salmonid microarray platform, we aimed to compare the transcriptomes of pristine and moderately damaged gill tissue. The gill damage-associated biomarker genes and associated qPCR assays arising from this study will be valuable in future research aimed at developing therapeutic diets to improve farmed salmon gill health.
Project description:Piscirickettsiosis or salmonid rickettsial septicemia (SRS) caused by intracellular Gram-negative bacterial pathogen, Piscirickettsia salmonis, constitutes one of the main infectious diseases in salmonid aquaculture. In the present study, we aimed to explore the transcriptomic responses in the Atlantic salmon kidney following a low dose of EM-90-like P. salmonis infection using the consortium for Genomic Research on All Salmonids Project (cGRASP)-designed Agilent 44K salmonid oligonucleotide microarray. Two infection level phenotypes [low (L-SRS) and high (H-SRS) infection level] were revealed in infected individuals at 21 days post-injection (DPI) based on multivariate analyses of expression of four antibacterial biomarker transcripts (campb, hampa, il8a, tlr5a) and pathogen level measured by qPCR. Five fish from each group (Control, L-SRS, and H-SRS) were selected for transcriptome profiling. We identified 1636 and 3076 differentially expressed probes (DEPs) in the L-SRS and H-SRS groups, respectively (FDR = 0.01).
Project description:Custom made functional gene micoarray (E-FGA) consisting of 13,056 mRNA-enriched anonymus microbial clones from dirverse microbial communities to profile microbial gene transcript in agricultural soils with low and high flux of N2O. A total of 96 genes displayed expression that differed significantly between low and high N2O emitting soils. Creation and validation of an cDNA microarray from environmental microbial mRNA, to use as a monitoring tool for microbial gene expression
Project description:Custom made functional gene micoarray (E-FGA) consisting of 13,056 mRNA-enriched anonymus microbial clones from dirverse microbial communities to profile microbial gene transcript in agricultural soils with low and high flux of N2O. A total of 96 genes displayed expression that differed significantly between low and high N2O emitting soils. Creation and validation of an cDNA microarray from environmental microbial mRNA, to use as a monitoring tool for microbial gene expression Microbial expression profiles comparing two high N2O-emitting sites (3 soil replicates and microarrays each) and two low N2O-emitting sites (3 soil replicates and microarray each) from sugarcane site in Mackay, Australia
Project description:gnp06-01_agriarray - nitrogen starvation - Several factors affect today a more extended use of microarrays for research and as a diagnosis tool. These factors are the experimental cost, the reproducibility of the measurements and the format of the analyses. This project aims at bringing solutions in these three domains by optimizing multiplexed analyses in order to reduce cost and enhance the number of samples treated simultaneously; by proposing new couples flurophores / slide surface in order to increase the signal precision and by developing new applications such as Comparative Genomic Hybridization (GGH) or Promoter Arrays to bring the plant microarray beyond transcriptome analyses. Altogether, these approaches will allow us to construct an optimized diagnostic tool based on 96 well microplate microarrays. This multidisciplinary project bring together biologists, chemists, physicists and mathematicians to develop innovative solutions for future application of DNA microarrays. - Dual-target hybridization microarray experiment. 2 dye-swap - time course,tissue comparison
Project description:In a context of fast development of aquaculture, infections by Flavobacterium psychrophilum, a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae, are a major sanitary concern for the salmonid farming industry worldwide. Several phenotypic traits related to pathogenesis have been documented for this bacterium, but molecular factors involved remain poorly characterized. Here, we conducted a global study of adaptation to outside- and within-host environments using a combination of in vitro transcriptomic and computational approaches. The repertoire of transcription start sites and transcriptional units was established using 5’-end and global RNA-Seq. Responses to environmental conditions were explored by expression profiling across conditions, including host-related stresses, exposure to fish mucus and plasma, growth on blood, osmotic changes or freshwater. Analysis of these data allowed to identify many new regulatory elements including alternative sigma-factors promoters, 5’ cis-encoded and trans-acting RNAs. It also revealed interconnected regulations linked to specific environmental conditions for a wide range of biological processes: proteolytic activity, iron acquisition, fatty acids metabolism, respiration under low-oxygen concentration, protein secretion and folding, efflux pumps as well as adhesion and spreading. Results reported here constitute an important resource for guiding basic and applied research on this important pathogen, and a dedicated website is provided to facilitate their exploration.
Project description:In a context of fast development of aquaculture, infections by Flavobacterium psychrophilum, a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae, are a major sanitary concern for the salmonid farming industry worldwide. Several phenotypic traits related to pathogenesis have been documented for this bacterium, but molecular factors involved remain poorly characterized. Here, we conducted a global study of adaptation to outside- and within-host environments using a combination of in vitro transcriptomic and computational approaches. The repertoire of transcription start sites and transcriptional units was established using 5’-end and global RNA-Seq. Responses to environmental conditions were explored by expression profiling across conditions, including host-related stresses, exposure to fish mucus and plasma, growth on blood, osmotic changes or freshwater. Analysis of these data allowed to identify many new regulatory elements including alternative sigma-factors promoters, 5’ cis-encoded and trans-acting RNAs. It also revealed interconnected regulations linked to specific environmental conditions for a wide range of biological processes: proteolytic activity, iron acquisition, fatty acids metabolism, respiration under low-oxygen concentration, protein secretion and folding, efflux pumps as well as adhesion and spreading. Results reported here constitute an important resource for guiding basic and applied research on this important pathogen, and a dedicated website is provided to facilitate their exploration.
Project description:In a context of fast development of aquaculture, infections by Flavobacterium psychrophilum, a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae, are a major sanitary concern for the salmonid farming industry worldwide. Several phenotypic traits related to pathogenesis have been documented for this bacterium, but molecular factors involved remain poorly characterized. Here, we conducted a global study of adaptation to outside- and within-host environments using a combination of in vitro transcriptomic and computational approaches. The repertoire of transcription start sites and transcriptional units was established using 5’-end and global RNA-Seq. Responses to environmental conditions were explored by expression profiling across conditions, including host-related stresses, exposure to fish mucus and plasma, growth on blood, osmotic changes or freshwater. Analysis of these data allowed to identify many new regulatory elements including alternative sigma-factors promoters, 5’ cis-encoded and trans-acting RNAs. It also revealed interconnected regulations linked to specific environmental conditions for a wide range of biological processes: proteolytic activity, iron acquisition, fatty acids metabolism, respiration under low-oxygen concentration, protein secretion and folding, efflux pumps as well as adhesion and spreading. Results reported here constitute an important resource for guiding basic and applied research on this important pathogen, and a dedicated website is provided to facilitate their exploration.
Project description:In the present study we aimed to develop a custom made cDNA microarray, the CodStress array, for Atlantic cod to be used as a diagnostic tool in environmental monitoring of polluted waters. We wanted to investigate if the gene expression profiles would reflect environmental levels and composition of pollutants in two saltwater recipients, S?rfjorden and Store Lungeg?rdsvann.