Funding and Grants
2021 -2022
Artificial intelligence approaches to improve diagnosis of gill disease in Atlantic salmon (AIGD). SAIC & The DataLab, £44K.
Professor Sam Martin (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.
2020 - 2022
Spatial and temporal drivers of gill pathology in Atlantic Salmon. SAIC, £160K.
Professor Sam Martin (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.
2017 - 2020
Assessing harbour deepening on bottlenose dolphins in Charleston. South Carolina Aquarium, £80K.
Professor David Lusseau (DBT), Dr Alex Douglas, Dr Dorian Houser (National Marine Mammal Foundation, USA), Dr Patricia Fair (USDOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS, USA).
2017 - 2021
The role of hypothalmic neuropeptide network in regulating tissues sizes in response to diet energy content and composition. BBSRC, £550K.
Professor John Speakman (UoA and Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Dr Alex Douglas.
2017 - 2019
Clinical nutrition and the treatment of Atlantic salmon gill diseases. SAIC, £284K.
Professor Sam Martin (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.
2017 - 2018
A collaborative feasibility study of the use of eDNA for ecosystem monitoring. Scottish Government, £12K
Dr Alex Douglas and Dr Iveta Matejusova (MSS).
2016 - 2019
Piezophillic adaptationin deep sea amphipods. NERC. £421K.
Professor Stu Piertney (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.
2015 - 2018
The genomic landscape of adaptive radiation in the Jaera albifrons species complex . NERC. £340K.
Professor Stu Piertney (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.
2015 - 2017
Gut health and immune function: the emerging role of gut microbiota in sustainable aquaculture. BBSRC-NERC, £212K.
Professor Sam Martin (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas, Dr Petra Lewis (UoA), Dr Daniel Merrifield (University of Plymouth), Dr Rachel Lawrence (Royal Veterinary College), Professor Douglas Tocher (University of Stirling), Professor Simon Davies(University of Plymouth).
2015 - 2016
The health black box in PCOD. Understanding the onset of health impacts caused by disturbances. ONR, £260K.
Dr David Lusseau (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas, Professor John Speakman (UoA and Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dr Dorian Houser (National Marine Mammal Foundation, USA), Dr Patricia Fair (USDOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS, USA), Mark Styczynski (Georgia Institute of Technolofy, USA).
2015- 2018
Explaining niche separation in tropical forests: feedbacks between root-fungal symbioses and soil phosphorus partitioning . NERC. £521K.
Professor David Burslem (UoA), Professor David Johnson (UoA), Dr Andy Taylor (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas.
2013 - 2016
Genome-wide association mapping and landscape scale modelling of heritable ionomic diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana populations. BBSRC. £605K
Professor David Salt (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas, Professor Pete Smith (UoA).
2013 - 2016
The human fetal liver: development and response to maternal drug use. MRC, £600K,
Professor P. Fowler (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas (UoA), Dr David Hay (University of Edinburgh), Professor John Iredale (University of Edinburgh), Professor P.O’shaughnessy (University of Glasgow).
