Jihoceska Univerzita v Ceskych Budejovicich

Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters Infrastructure:

wet-lab Guelph-RAS system for digestibility/ metabolizability/ retention, aquaponics grow-out facility, experimental pond systems and analytical laboratory having instruments for proximate composition (protein, fiber, lipid, ash, dry matter), fibretec fibre analyser, gas chromatography and liquid chromatography (amino acids), and atomic absorption or UV-Vis spectrophotometry, elemental analyser, MALDI-TOF, molecular biology lab. Water quality analyser. Plankton, microbiology, cell culture laboratory. Proteins and amino acids. Lipids, lipid classes, fatty acids. Nucleotides. Carbohydrate profiling. Eicosanoids. Toxins. Minerals. Finfish and shellfish breeding and rearing. Life cycle assessment. Dietitics and food system assessment. Aquaculture Environment Interactions assessment. Limnology lab

Research themes:

(fish processing, preservation, shelf-life, human nutrition and dietics).

(nutrition and bioenergetics, aquaculture environment interaction, ponds, nutritional ecology).

(aquaponics, integrated multitrophic aquaculture).

(analytics, instrumentation, biochemistry).

kroy@frov.jcu.cz We can offer uniquely experimental pond station or aquaponic greenhouse as aquatic living labs to explore project themes on ecology, environment, nutrients, contaminants, circularity, and food system.