VISITORS

The School maintains extensive collaboration with both national and international institutions. This provides opportunities for students and researchers to visit and work within these laboratories. Recent visitors to our own School include:
	Dr Iva Dyková Dr Dyková, Czech Academy of Science, visited Australia from 12 February to 13 March. This was her second visit to Tasmania . Dr Dyková has been collaborating on the AGD Host-pathogen interaction project and is characterising clones of amoebae isolated from fish, sediment and netting. This time she also visited Port Lincoln to see tuna farming. Together with Dr Brian Jones from WA Fisheries, who was visiting Port Lincoln at the same time, she has contributed to the investigation of tuna parasites. Her visit to Australia was funded by DEST Innovation Access Programme, International Collaboration awarded to Dr Nowak.
Dr Praparsiri Barnette Dr Barnette from Burapha University , Thailand visited Tasmania for a week to discuss potential collaboration in the area of fish health and fish immunology. Dr Barnette has been working on fish bacteriology and immunology and teaching courses in aquaculture.
	Liu Xiaoling (Molly) Liu Xiaoling, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University , China has been working with the AGD research group since last September. In China she is studying for a PhD on stress response in Pelteobagrus fulvidraco and its effects on disease resistance. The main focus of her visit is to learn immune assays which she can adapt to the species she is working on and use in her future research.
Dr Ron Stagg Dr Stagg is deputy director of the Scottish Office Fisheries Research Service, Aberdeen, Scotland and heads their aquaculture section. He visited the School in September 2003 and spent several days teaching, giving seminars and in meetings with researchers and industry on European fish health monitoring and quarantine measures.
	Dr Alan Pike Dr Pike is a parasitologist from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and visited the School in October 2003 to teach and deliver a seminar on the treatment of sealice on farmed fish in Scotland. He also spoke with reserachers about publication of our work in the Journal of Fish Biology in his other capacity as assistant editor of the journal.
Dr Michele Nishiguchi Dr Nishiguchi and her PhD student Bryan Jones from New Mexico State University visited the School in March 2004. They came to Tasmania as part of a larger trip around Austrlia to collect speciemens of native squid. Their work aims to determine the relationship between the squid and symbiotic bacteria located in the animal's light producing organ.