projects & funding
live projects
BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) grant:"Reappraising the role of whole genome duplication and rediploidization in eukaryotic evolution".
Dates: April 2025 to March 2029.
Project leader: Prof. Dan Macqueen. Award value of £4,244,185.
UK consortium members: The University of Edinburgh, Royal Botanic
Gardens Kew, University of Bristol, University of Bath, University of
Oxford, and Wellcome Sanger Institute.
More details on this new project here.
See project website (in progress): rediploidisation.org
BBSRC Prosperity Partnership: “Drivers of Salmon Robustness”.
Dates: Oct 2024 - Sept 2029.
Project leader: Dr Nick Wade (The Roslin Institute). Macqueen = Project co-lead and Pillar Leader. BBSRC award value of £3,047,070, with match funding from industry. Collaboration between the Roslin Institute and Mowi Scotland
More details on this new project here
BBSRC Responsive grant (BB/W005859/1): "Immune cell dynamics predictive of vaccine protection in Atlantic salmon".
Dates: May 2022 to April 2025.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dan Macqueen. Award value of £500,839. Collaboration with Prof. Sam Martin (University of Aberdeen) and MSD Animal Health.
FHF – Norwegian Seafood Research Fund grant:
"The cellular origins of melanised focal spots in Atlantic salmon muscle."
Dates: Aug 2024 to Feb 2025.
Local Principal Investigator: Prof. Dan Macqueen. Award value of £82,002. Project led by Prof. Erling Olaf Koppang and Dr Håvard Bjørgen at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
BBSRC Institute Development Grant Pump Priming award: "Immune and metabolic impacts of ablating chaperone mediated autophagy by gene editing LAMP-2A paralogues in rainbow trout".
Dates: July 2024 to March 2025.
Principal Investigators: Prof. Dan Macqueen and Dr Kanchan Phadwal. Award value: £23,081. Collaboration with Dr Beth Cleveland (USDA) and Dr Iban Seiliez (INRAe).
Horizon Europe Infrastructure:"A European infrastructure for farmed animal genotype to phenotype research".
Dates: Jan 2023 to Dec 2025.
Led by Research Institute for Livestock Biology (FBN), with the Roslin Institute, INRAe, Wageningen University and Research, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and the European Forum of Farm Animal Breeders. Award value: Euros 2.65 million. Co-Investigator: Prof. Dan Macqueen.
Competitive PhD project funded jointly by Pharmaq (Zoetis) and the Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC). "Cross-national genomic surveillance of viral pathogens to support disease control in Atlantic salmon aquaculture"
Dates: Nov 2022 to April 2026.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dan Macqueen. Award value: £147,000
Research Council of Norway grant:
"COOLFISH: Improving Atlantic salmon health and welfare by metabolic programming”.
Dates: Dec 2021 to 2025.
Award of £215,000 (out of approx. £1M award) to Prof. Dan Macqueen as work package leader. Project led by Dr Erik Burgerhout (Nofima, Norway)