Dr Philip Thomas

Contact Details

Key Responsibilities

• Senior Researcher/Project Leader - Aquafin CRC - Tuna Quality Project
• Co-Investigator - FRDC - Prawn trawl by-catch stress and survival
• Member of the marine/aquaculture cluster within the School

Teaching

• Guest Lecturer - Biodiversity

Research

see Current Research Opportunities
 

My primary research focus is on the relationship between husbandry, (including nutrition, physiological and oxidative stress) and production performance and flesh quality, in aquaculture marine animals.  I am also involved in research on capture stress and survival in wild and cultured marine species (invertebrates and finfish).  My research is multidisciplinary by nature and has involved working closely with fishermen, fish farmers and scientists, in collaborative R&D involving several international partners. 

Honours Students 1999-2006

• Alistair Douglas – Quality aspects of farmed southern bluefin tuna Thunnus maccoyii

• Nicholas Rudzinkas – Adenylate energy charge: application to measuring stress in blue mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis

• Wendy Thorn – Southern bluefin tuna Thunnus maccoyii quality: Muscle enzymatic systems

• Kate Miller - Muscle tissue histology of southern bluefin tuna Thunnus maccoyii

• Chay Haldane - Measuring stress in greenlip abalone Haliotis laevigata using biochemical indicators

PhD Students 2003-2006

• Alistair Douglas – Current PhD candidate - Flesh Quality, Supply Chain Management and Traceability of Farmed Southern Bluefin Tuna

• Trent D’Antignana – Current PhD candidate - The effect of pre-and post mortem handling on the flesh quality of Southern Bluefin Tuna

• Janene Thompson - Current PhD candidate - Investigation into the enzymatic mechanisms of protection against oxidative stress in farmed southern bluefin tuna

• Alexandra Korte - Current PhD candidate - Dietary and cellular antioxidants and antioxidant enzymes

Professional associations

• World Aquaculture Society

• Scientific Advisory Committee – Clean Seas Aquaculture – Southern bluefin tuna propagation

See Publication List

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