Symposium on Fish Immunology at ICAR-CIFRI, Barrackpore

摘要

Preventive and prophylactic measures to minimize losses due to diseases in aquaculture can be effectively carried out with the basic information on the onset of innate and acquired immunity of the fish species under consideration {Ref: Ellis, A. E. 1977. Developmental Immunobiology (Eds. J. B. Solomon and I. D. Horton), Academic Press, London, Vol. 61: 225-331pp}. Aiming at deliberations on recent advances in fish immunology, the 'Satellite Symposium on Fish Immunology' was organized at ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata on June 11, 2017. In the Symposium, the first 'Prof. Anthony Ellis Memorial Lecture' was delivered by Dr. S. C. Mukherjee, Former Joint Director, ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai on the topic 'Immune system in fishes'. Dr B. K. Das, Director, ICAR-CIFRI in his inaugural and introductory address explained that Prof. Anthony E. Ellis was a distinguished scientist in the discipline of fish immunology and vaccination. He worked at Fisheries Research Services of Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, Scotland, and died in 2012 due to colon cancer.