My main interests are the pathogenesis of bacterial diseases that affect the fish farming industry (fresh and seawater in cold and warm water environments) and the development of inactivated vaccines to control them in the field. My current research focuses on 1) The isolation, identification and characterisation of emerging bacterial pathogens that affect farmed fish. 2) The formulation of inactivated autogenous vaccines on the basis of genomics and proteomics. 3) The in vivo assessment of their efficacy under controlled conditions. I also have a particular interest on in the systematics and taxonomy of aquaculture related bacterial pathogens.