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Andrew Trotter

Senior Research Fellow - Aquaculture Production

Fisheries and Aquaculture

  • Senior Research Fellow - Aquaculture Production
    Fisheries and Aquaculture
  • Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration, 104 IMAS Taroona, Off-Campus

BIO

Dr Andrew Trotter is a Senior Research Fellow with the Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre in the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies based at Taroona. He has a diverse scientific background as research biologist, manager and consultant working in aquaculture, fish and invertebrate biology, aquatic animal health, medical research, developmental biology, threaten species conservation and biosecurity. His current research focus is to improve the understanding of life history biology, behaviour, husbandry and culture technology of spiny and slipper lobsters, and Pacific oysters for food production, and the culture and breeding of threaten species for conservation.

Following a BAppSc (First Class) majoring in Aquaculture at the University of Tasmania, Andrew completed a PhD in larval fish development and culture (Latris lineata) based at the Marine Research Laboratories, Taroona. He then took a gap year from research to manage the zebrafish facility at the Ludwig Institute in Melbourne. Andrew then completed four years of postdoctoral research in the Heath Laboratory at the Ludwig Institute. These studies included phenotypic characterisation and positional cloning of zebrafish mutants with defects in intestinal development. He then moved into industry where he worked as a consultant biologist at Bennelongia Environmental in Perth, undertaking environmental impact assessments. During seven years at Bennelongia he became a Principal Biologist and Director/Partner in the firm and developed an interest in conservation biology, systematics and phylogeography. In 2016 he returned to aquaculture research and is currently the Program Leader for Aquaculture Production at IMAS.

SCHOOL AND PORTFOLIO

  • Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

FIELD OF RESEARCH