Nutrition and Physiology of Fish and Shellfish

Dr. Vikas Kumar, assistant professor of fish nutrition and nutrigenomics at the University of Idaho (UofI).He has more than a decade of research in aquaculture and nutritional biochemistry, Fish Nutrition, Nutritional physiology, gut health, and Feed processing, formulation, and nutrigenomics. approach to enhance the aquaculture production. In the last 5 year, he has secured more than US$4 million projects for research from federal, state, and industrial funding agencies. He has collaborated research in several countries including Australia, Germany, China, India, Norway, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Malaysia, South Korea, Egypt, Nepal, Kenya, Brazil and Mexico. He currently serves as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports by the Nature Publishing Group, and as leading associate editor for the Animal Feed Science and Technology (Elsevier Publisher) and Journal of the World Aquaculture Society (Wiley Publisher). He has authored more than 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 18 book chapters and 30 magazine articles.

Section 1: Introductory remarks1. Basic Concepts in Nutrition2. Nutritional basis for fish and fish and crustaceans3. Physiological and Biochemical basis of fish and crustaceans nutrition

Section 2: Chemistry of nutrients4. Chemistry and sources of Protein and Amino Acids 5. Chemistry and sources of Lipids6. Chemistry and sources of Carbohydrates

Section 3: Metabolism7. Metabolism of protein and amino acids8. Metabolism of lipids9. Metabolism of carbohydrates10. Bioenergetics11. Nutrition and Metabolism of Vitamins12. Nutrition and Metabolism of Minerals

Section 4: Digestive organs and functions13. Digestive physiology of fish14. Digestive physiology of prawns and shrimp15. Digestive physiology of crayfish 16. Digestive physiology of crabs17. The physiology of taste in fish and crustaceans18. Regulation of Food Intake by fish and crustaceans 19. Gut health: Importance fish-gut microbe in fish nutrition20. Ion transport and nitrogen excretion

Section 5: Nutrient requirements21. Nutrients and energy requirements for fin fish22. Nutrients and energy requirements for prawn and shrimp23. Nutrients and energy requirements for crabs and crayfish

Section 6: Feed ingredients and feeding practices24. Feed ingredients for aquafeed25. Antinutritional factors and adventitious toxins26. Additives in Aquafeed27. Enzymes in aqua feed28. Prebiotics in Finfish and Crustaceans29. Probiotic in Finfish and Crustaceans30. Methodologies and quality assessment of feed31. Feed formulation and production technology32. Feeding practices for fin fish33. Feeding practices for crustaceans

Section 7: Nutritional deficiency diseases and aquatic environment34. The Pathology of Nutritional disease35. Impacts of feeding practices on aquatic environment

Section 8: Integrated sciences with nutrition36. Nutrition and the Immune System37. Nutrition and Reproduction38. Nutrigenomics approaches in Fish Nutrition39. Feed to food: current status and prospective40. Aquafeed roles in global food security